Is MarketplaceTextures.bsa a required archive?

[Bushranger]

This post is one small question and then mostly Skyrim discussion.  Is MarketplaceTextures.bsa a required archive?

 

I'm asking this because I often, and easily, get confused. Yesterday I notice that MO2 is actively keeping MarketplaceTextures.bsa disabled but I assume it's a default asset like _ResourcePack.bsa so it should be used. I've come across textures in the past that were missing such as bench legs or end table sides that I've had to search Nexus for mods that replace them and that has made me nervous this may be causing that, or at least it could do that with other things so I've tried to get it enabled.

Search on the forums here has resulted in Unchecked BSAs and other results from google talk about accidentally updating Skyrim (but I'm not trying to remove it to play at a lower edition) or Automatic Archive Invalidation (but that's not applicable for Skyrim).  So overnight I deleted everything, cleared %appdata% and started with a fresh clean Skyrim installation and a fresh clean MO2 installation... and MarketplaceTextures.bsa was disabled from the very start.

It's been 2 months now that's I've worked on getting a mod installation working and I've had great support here, thankyou! I just think I get too easily confused to do this as I've worked on it every day and something like this always comes up that I might have taken the wrong idea with. I'm starting to think if I'll ever end up simply starting to actually play Skyrim.

[Greg]

This is most likely shown as "inactive" because Mod Organizer looks to determine whether a plugin of the same name exists (MarketplaceTextures.esm or MarketplaceTextures.esl or MarketplaceTextures.esp) or if MarketplaceTextures.bsa is listed in sResourceArchiveList or sResourceArchiveList2 in Skyrim.ini. Mod Organizer is not aware that MarketplaceTextures.bsa is loaded by the game engine so it doesn't need to be loaded by a plugin or the INI files.

Also note that nothing in MarketplaceTextures.bsa is used while playing the game either. This just contains assets when using the creations menu.