Now, the nexus sites and planet elder scrolls have been a great source for mods, but I think it can be improved upon still. I'm putting my ideas here in hopes that maybe some of the modding community will like it and possibly put it into action... I'm no good with this sort of stuff otherwise I'd do it myself.

So basically, I'd kind of like a program like oblivion mod manager in which you can keep track of all your mods and install/uninstall them on the fly. But I'd also like for that program to work with the TES nexus/planet elder scrolls and deliver information to you. Such as updates for mods you currently have, or suggestions based on the type of mods you use. Also it would be great if you want to track a certain modder and be informed every time he/she uploads a new mod.

I know that you can find all this stuff on the website, but the tracking center in TES nexus always seemed really cluttered for me. The updates you would get would be minor things like "uploaded new pictures" or "changed short description". I'd be a chore to search for each individual mod to see if there were any updates. And myself, like many other Elder Scrolls fans use a ton of mods. It would at least be cool to press a single button and have it perform a search to see which of your mods have been updated.

I don't know, I'm just throwing out ideas now, but this is one thing that sort of bothered me. What do you guys think about this? What are some of your ideas to improve the modding community?

Can I have a built-in editor for the Xbox? Lol

im not sure about the oblivion one but the FOMM for new vegas lets you know about updates. thought that was kind of neat. as for suggesting mods that might be difficult because fo the sheer number of mods available. its probably over 500,000 mods for oblivion by now and i imagine that skyrim will be even more popular. maybe if it limited itself to the top ten mods in any given category it might work.

I personally don't like TESNexus for that reason, too cluttered. I've never managed to find anything.

An improved Mod Manager? I'd email the guy who made it for Oblivion suggesting stuff.
Personally I wouldn't use it, I don't mind finding my own updates or not updating it, but it probably wouldn't hurt.

I'd email the team at TESNexus too, asking them for better navigation. Its too disorganized for my liking.

Meh. I've never really had any problems with the Nexus sites. Good search engine, good display of mods & images, etc.


..and I'm not really a fan of too much automation - don't really use .omods & .fomods, I tend to do manual installs. So the idea of an extra "curse client"-type mod downloader? Really doesn't sound attractive.


(Of course, I also don't "update" mods in a current install - I do a fresh install of Oblivion or FO3 with the mods I want to use, and then stick with that install til I'm done with a character. Changing mods in the middle of a playthrough always seems like asking to screw stuff up.)

A update is available function might be pretty easy to make, if would require that the mod store version info, website and file id at website, SKMM would do a call to a web service and check if a higher version number is available, if so mark the file.
A reference to site and file id would also make it easier to track down files without notes.

And if you don't like automation, individual features could also be disabled

This sounds similar to the way Curse and the Curse Client works with addons for WoW. You can either browse all the addons on the Curse website, or browse them all via the Curse Client. A system like this for Skyrim would work fine.

Just going to say "hi friends" here, do a little :smug: smile, and leave you wondering why...