Is there a complete sorted list?

[Elaura]

Is there a simple list of correctly sorted mods that should be in the plugin list if the Guide is followed perfectly? I can't rely on my ability to concentrate fully when following the guide and not missing anything or making mistakes.

[z929669]

1 hour ago, Elaura said:

Is there a simple list of correctly sorted mods that should be in the plugin list if the Guide is followed perfectly? I can't rely on my ability to concentrate fully when following the guide and not missing anything or making mistakes.

If you follow the guide and have all of the correct plugin versions installed as instructed --no more and no fewer-- LOOT will always sort them in an order consistent with the overall result (resulting winning records) being identical to anyone with the same list of plugins. The actual order of each plugin can vary whilst still providing an identical winning-conflict result. This is because most records have no conflicts. The sort order depends on only certain key plugins in relation to others with which they conflict.

Granted, it's easy to make one or two mistakes when following hundreds of different instructions, but there's really no easy method of verifying the final result other than validating that each plugin in your LO matches the expected list of plugins. I think some mods have > 1 plugin of identical name but with slightly different records, depending upon the options chosen during installation, so a list of plugin names possibly wouldn't necessarily guarantee an identical result either. This should not be the case, but I'll wager it happens. It certainly happens among different versions of the same mod (plugin name identical with variation among records).

That said, such variation is similar with respect to mod assets (files that are not plugins). All you can do is follow each instruction carefully.

That said, there's always the possibility that the guide itself has an overlooked mistake amongst those hundreds of instructions. Mods are always getting updated, and the final target is itself dynamic.

One quick, albeit imprecise, method is to compare the contents of your plugins.txt file with a reference plugins.txt (and loadorder.txt, modlist.txt, archives.txt) in the MO profile folder. This would be painstaking though, since the files will almost certainly be different. We don't provide those for these reasons.