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Quick ping to Pack Users. What are your main improvement requests now that we have added some features? We are still a long way off, but before we begin making any changes, it would be good to get any user feedback that has not yet been captured. I'll update the OP with a link to a changelog when I have some time.

I don't think my post was in any way antagonistic. It was a bit terse harsh and perhaps brash, but you and others reading it will be more likely to recall because of that. Ignoring rather obvious messaging is a bit frustrating for those of us trying to manage information. As I recall, you have had friendly and polite help delivered numerous times already on these forums. Lastly, your background may or may not be valiant and your experiences commendable; however, there are many others here that can claim similarly valiant and commendable actions and experiences, and we are all subject to the same rules and treatment. I think that you would do well to develop a slightly thinker skin ;) My apologies for having offended and for any future remarks I may be inclined to post in similar circumstances.

Agree that we should have a field for RAM. I have noticed that my RAM utilization has tripled with use of fixed ugrids by Artimor and enbboost. 8 gigs is good in my case (with 3 GB VRAM) Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

I forget why we did not add it. I do recall a reason, but s4n may remember.

Search mods and create a page for each mod that does not already exist. For those that do exist ... don't create a page. Lastly, don't create posts like this one, as it does not store information in any useful way. Read the posting guidelines .. they take up half the page!

Try posting your question (or a thread on the topic) in the Mod Author Consortium.

Another idea: contact the authors of STEP:Core mods that need patching for STEP:Core compatibility and ask them to integrate said changes or upload patched versions ourselves if the mod's permissions allow it. We could upload these patched versions to the STEP site as well. I do like the idea of providing one big patch for STEP:Core and another for STEP:Extended when we get there. All readers interested in this idea, please also read through this thread and post over there. These are different pieces of potentially the same project.

Yes, the US has been overrun by bankers and business colleges. Gone are the days of space exploration, advancing efficiencies in our infrastructure and the development of the world's largest particle accelerator. We are well on our way along the path of ignorance that history has starkly laid out for all to see ... and damn it, we will drag the entire world down with us! ... a bunch of ******s, indubitably. How can an intelligence ever evolve through its own self destruction? Impossible, I say. EDIT: Oh, and I have lttle doubt that our next president will be Hillary Clinton. I voted strongly for her last time and was VERY disappointed that she did not take the primaries. At the time, I thought that this was death to Dems, but the republicans have done such a marvelous job embracing the teabaggers and falling victim to their batshit that most people that aren't staunch supporters of bigotry and fear-mongering have developed a good amount of distrust and dissatisfaction for/with the Republican party. Americans have very short memories (due to their amazing penchant for following shiny things, denial and utter stupidity), but I am confident that the Republicans will continue to alienate the nation and drive independents to Hillary even so. Hillary-Care will assert itself next, and it is 20 years in the making.

It sounds like we have a small group of qualified individuals to get the ball rolling then ... (roots, tech and Nearox). It would be great if we could define a methodology and make the maintenance easily transferable down the road. As I always say: process is more important than product just as long as the product is useful.

Agree that the AMA/insurance complex is in bed with pharmaceuticals and that most healthcare should be for paying for the advice of nutritionists and proactive blood work. Insurance should cover this ... but again, this practice stifles transfer of dollars from the less healthy lower classes to the policy-lobbying elite. However, arguments about our poor job creators is just so much drivel. Net part-time employment has in fact fallen, whilst full-time has increased, so that argument is another good example of seeding the narrative with rare anecdotal fact. Proactive and rational cooperative movement forward by consensus is just not possible when there are a few powerful fear mongers out there protecting their own selfish, short-term interests. Anyone with sense and reason can see that benefiting the whole results in a net benefit to oneself, even if one is a Koch. EDIT: Regarding the debt, I totally agree with SRB. What a bunch of nonsense ... we live in a system driven by an economy based on a faux currency system with no real material backing. Most of our money is really legal counterfeit. The world's wealth is wrapped up in energy speculation in the form of oil, and that kind of energy is not sustainable, and it has no thermodynamic counterpart from which to derive future energy. Most life will have to die and re-convert to useable energy again after millennia for the next clown-intelligence to squander.

Costs will definitely increase for young, healthy types, but it will be relatively little pinch to most of them (but obviously, young people with children and families might take a hit). The fact is that most people don't really know how to purchase the right insurance or use it efficiently. *Financial ruin* is a bit assumptive and dramatic, given the early hour of this implementation, don't you think? Isn't that where we have been heading under the current mess? Let's wait two more years before we discuss the short-term impacts of this legislation. Long term impacts will not begin to be revealed until 2020+, and by then the real global crises will be rearing their ugly heads to give us all something tangible to be fearful of (i.e., oil and water).

And how do you arrive at that conclusion? Insurance already restricts many to within-network services, so only wealthy or lucky people get to do that anyway o_O ... and blame the republicans for the pressures against federalism as well as the insurance lobby for backing this restriction ... we wouldn't want to cut into their profits would we? Our mess of a healthcare system that is fine for the rich and bad for everyone else is so big and convoluted that notbody --and I do mean no body-- can understand how to change it to elicit the desired result. Hem-hawing around the edges with  healthcare reform is a ridiculous waste of time, as it has been for decades. Notice that the only *reform* that lasts is the kind that further costs the middle class and continues to benefit only the wealthy. No, this beast is so big that something big and drastic needed to be done. The AHCA has been weakened by fear mongering against *socialized* healthcare, which is really only *socialized* for those who cannot afford healthcare and wind up costing the middle class far more money than if we simply paid 100% of their primary care expenses! ... costing the middle class, not the upper class mind you. The reason for this fear mongering? Protection of the insurance industry and all those growing fat off of that: drug companies, corporate health systems, government and affiliates, etc. Without a single payer solution for those that will otherwise go without or go with the most expensive forms of healthcare at our expense, we will eventually tank. The AHCA at least kicks this sleeping giant in the side of the head with a lead boot. Cange will finally come, and it can only lead to better, not worse (unless you are a wealthy person with ties to big corporate interests). And yes, I happen to know quite a bit about healthcare policy and practices in the US and other countries ... it is a primary function of my job to understand and predict trends in healthcare using data from the US, Canada, and parts of Europe. Add in years of research related to my son's condition, I am pretty sure that your assumptions are misguided. Time will certainly be revealing the truth though, regardless.

... now the part that we always get snagged on ... WHO is going to take responsibility and manage this development and maintenance?? ;)

My guess is that the normals are parsed out differently in HQ LOD due to the mesh changes (imagine shrinking that partial ... smaller, it may have the same res as the vanilla). Terain texture creation and mapping are different than other textures. BTW, ask Sparrow about this and the snowy terrain. He has some relevant experience with both..

+1 to that (and I think that makes all of us).

I am 100% in favor of the ACA. I pay around $550/month for family health insurance through my job (and my employer pays around $750 I think), and am responsible for the first $4,000 each year. Then I reach max out-of-pocket and pay no more. My son has hemophilia, which costs about $12,000/mo, so I hit the max pretty much instantly. The US healthcare system sucks ass better than anyone, and we have figured out how to really make the corporate bastards running this country very rich indeed, whilst working class are ever-more demoralized and trigger happy to shoot up everyone they see. I am all for a single payer system (never going to happen) ... rather than counting sheep to fall asleep, I count decapitations of insurance executives and congressmen. I appreciate you healthy younger people putting a little more into the system, as it benefits everyone in the end (including yourselves later, theoretically). It is still half-assed without a single payer and forcing corporate insurance "protection-money collectors" to compete with the federal government, but it is better than being completely screwed I guess. Sorry to say that it is only going to get worse in the decades to come. Now it is the 99%, but it will soon be the 99.9% and so on. Turn your channels to HBO on Friday nights and watch Real Time with Bill Maher, and you will pretty much get most of my point of view :/ (oh, and George Carlin was my favorite comedian) EDIT: Oh, and Monty ... as usual, I couldn't agree more or disagree less to everything you have stated on this topic, and the words of most others around here are encouraging. Just remember that underlying all of this is "citizens united" ... it is the wave of the future, and the result of corporate interests buying up our judicial and legislative systems for their exclusive interests. We lose ... the world loses.

I still don't understand what is in the screens above ... do both of these have EDT2 or not? I think the second image is best, so those normals do add something in non snowy terrain.

I agree that the normals make the LOD snow too bright; however, I think EDT2 is slightly better. This is especially pronounced on non-snowy terrain. STEP recommendation should be hi meshes with EDT2 only, IMO.

Yep, let's do that ... same goes for a semi-automatic update patcher as Monty and MG et al have been discussing in the other thread.

agree.

No HQ LOD textures or meshes or both? the seams seem to be worse for the vanilla LOD terrain textures. Oh, and I just confirmed that these are not texture normals. They are diffuse only. Normals are all vanilla.

I think 2.3.0 is a good target for all of these reasons. Conflict res is mod specific, but only in combination with applicable mods (i.e., not all mods in the universe). We eventually want to record "universal" conflict resolution, but it is something that should apply to the mod and not in the context of the mod as it relates to a given Pack. Not easy to figure out right now. Main thing is the guide recommendations more so than the mod recommendations, General stuff like graphics, Skyrim options, troubleshooting, etc. and consistency with the ancillary guides.