Step Patch - Conflict Resolution : Why it's great and why I can't use it.

[Bushranger]

Step Modifications is excellent!

I definitely want to say that first because not following the guide may not be the right way to start a post.  Step has brought me back to putting together a collection of mods and reading the guides and the forum threads has helped me remember what I had done and taught me what to do next. Hopefully I'll have a nice modded Skyrim that I can play for a few years more. 

The Step Patch - Conflict Resolution has some really neat things that it solves. I really like that it fixes the conflict between the Cutting Room Floor and Savros Aren's Regret's Restore - Cut Content mod. There are many other things in the Conflict Resolution patch that I find attractive about Step's SkyrimSE v2.3 guide that I would love to use it. Unfortunately there is just too much I personally don't like to play with requiring the patch to cleaned of masters.

• I'm not a fan of having every creation piled into the game all at once and so remove most of them and just have the ones I would like for each playthrough just like any other mods.
• I prefer vanilla spells and perks so I don't want to play with Odin - Skyrim Magic Overhaul or Vokrii - Minimalistic Perks of Skyrim.
• Consistent Older People requires an AFK Mods account but I saw in the forum thread that it would be optional which I thought sounded great. (Thought I did end up downloading it.)
• At Your Own Pace - College of Winterhold has conflict with Improved College Entry - Questline Tweaks and then Obscure's College of Winterhold and I have been hoping to play with that mod.
• Atlas Map Markers SE is the complete opposite of a mod I would much prefer personally Undiscovered Means Unknown - Map Markers (by Brin_aSair) as I enjoy exploring!
• I also just start each Skyrim game in the wagon, I have used Alternate Start - Live Another Life back in Legendary Edition but it doesn't appeal to me. Starting in the wagon brings me back to 11/11/11 playing the first time with the Dragon Statue staring at me after installing the game.

I tried to clean the Step Patch - Conflict Resolution but the last time I did anything serious with xEdit was several years ago, before i had brain surgery, and I've forgotten a lot. Step Modifications forums has helped A LOT! Thank you! I read several threads and tried to detach all those masters a few times but it's just too much for me and I end up confused with a migraine. So I've removed everything and am starting with a fresh wipe. I'll follow the Step Guide but not closely as I won't be using Step's Conflict Resolution Patch

I would like to use all of these mods from Step's Guide but as they are all on the Conflict Resolution patch's list can you tell me which conflict with the other? That would help.

• USSEP
• Worldspace Transition Tweaks - Skyrim To Solstheim
• Cathedral Landscapes
• Better Dynamic Snow
• Book Covers
• Embers XD
• Realistic Water Two
• AI Overhaul
• Better Stealth AI for Followers
• Realistic AI Detection SE
• Hearthfire Extended

I've also never done anything to mod Skyrim's audio sounds before but looking over the list, reading the forums threads and the mod pages that are listed it is interesting. I would like to try them as well but they also have some conflicts.

Ah well, it's never been easy putting together a list like this when I don't follow it exactly.