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Maybe STEP should just stick to Low' date=' medium' date='and Highend rigs. Arrange the mod list with those criteria. But have a "select" group of people make the determination of what is considered Low,Medium, or High.[/quote'']

That's already been done in the new STEP guide, which is complete btw and ready for testing as soon as we have procedures and volunteers in place.

 

Where exactly is this new STEP guide? Sorry if I missed a post somewhere about it, but I wouldn't mind testing it.

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LeetMiniWheat Guard

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  'frihyland said:
Its not available to the public yet' date=' we'll give testers access when we have some reliable procedures in place for testing.[/quote']

Well I know the install guide isn't done yet obviously, but is there a list of mods included? I'll be working on finalizing my own 1.7 install soon, so It would be nice to see what is coming so I don't have to redo everything to fit the latest STEP in.

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Actually the whole guide has been rewritten from scratch and the mod list is certainly ready for alpha testing with 1.7, obviously its not final because their has been very little testing and none at all with 1.7

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I'm just playing around with a potpourri of mods right now so I can restart with the new guide. Just let me know. I have a 1.6 install zipped away that I think is still good to test with, but why? 1.7. Is really is more stable.

frihyland High King

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All mods must be opened in the CK to verify that they are saved in the correct format and include a StartQuest and StopQuest event that encapsulates all scripts, failure to meet these basic requirements will lead to disqualification.

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All mods must be opened in the CK to verify that they are saved in the correct format and include a StartQuest and StopQuest event that encapsulates all scripts' date=' failure to meet these basic requirements will lead to disqualification.[/quote']

how about also including to send a note to the mod author recommending to adapt his/her mod to meet this criteria as it serves the community greatly?

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I like our system of allowing anyone to suggest any mod for inclusion but I think another layer to aid focus would be to watch all the releases of a score of authors and really fast track them for inclusion. This list would include authors that have released 3 or more very disparate mods of exceedingly high quality and are hopefully still active.

 

A preliminary foray at a Mod Masters list

 

Shademe

Arthmoor

Plutoman101

isoku

OpticShooter

Chesko

Xenius

fLokii

MGE

mitchalek

Laast

747823

nivea

AnOldFriend

LogRaam

mrLenski

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z929669 Akatosh

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Sooo.... I'm batch testing 4000 or so mods with TES5Edit it'll be a few hours before I get results. Trying to figure out how to organize and present them.

Sounds like a great filter you have going there if it is dependable.
frihyland High King

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Its only doing structural analysis of the file so it can't catch logic errors, version errors, or compatibility errors, but it's a solid first step to finding reliable mods.

 

I'm looking into creating a batch operation with the CK to update all mods to a 1.77 format with proper masters, at first glance it looks impossible but we shall see.

frihyland High King

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First the good news, out of 1763 mods (down from 4k after ditching the redundancies) only 342 mods contained structural errors. So that's about 1 in 5 mods with an issue, so it could certainly be better but its not as bad as I feared.  This is a pretty good cross section of mods, I been downloading anything at all that got on hot files for the last few months plus anything else I came across that had any potential at all.

 

Remember this test does not check logic, version, or compatibility!  Just that the file itself is a good foundation for those other things :D

 

Here are the worst offenders, #1 is the worst mod tested with 2735 errors and the rest are in order of structural errors.

This is the do not use list.

 

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Here are the 2nd tier of offenders, #1 has 32 errors and the rest are in order of structural errors.

This is the strong warning against use list.

 

 

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Here are the 3rd tier of offenders, #1 has 11 errors and the rest are in order of structural errors.

This is the not recommended until fixed list.

 

 

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Here are the winners in the pass fail test - no errors found in any of these.

This is the safe to use list.

 

 

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