When you always have to save before entering/exiting a door, and I mean every door

Also True. At this point, I've set Streamline to 60 saves, and auto-save every 5 minutes.

....when you start a topic like this? :whistling:

When you feel like nothing but a glorified beta tester and not an actual player.

...when you have to upgrade computer because you know it's thinking about committing suicide...

... when your Mod Manager takes more than 15 minutes to close down. (guilty)

...When loading an exterior cell ingame, you fall asleep due to sheer boredom before the bar hits the halfway point.

... when you see more than 20 quests active before you quit the sewers and don't know where to start from.
At the moment WB shows 189/268 mods, bearing in mind I tunchecked 9 Sensual Walk esp (their daddy Surazal tipped me they don't have to be really active, only virtually with imported actor animations in Bashed Patch.)
So, this took me under 270 present and under 190 non-merged.
Of course, one should take into account I have 60 mods merged into 2 esps. Armor, clothes and weapons of course.

...When you got to keep reminding yourself that your playing Oblivion and NOT the next Elder Scrolls or something else.

I tend to surf the web on my phone during this time.

...when you download a mod only to realize that you aready have it.

Too many mods when it takes you 6 minutes to rebuild the bashed patch and 4 hours to load a new game by turning on the mods one by one (Thanks Blade of Mercy..NOT).

How many mods do I have installed, you ask? How about 254....I want to get the most I can out of Oblivion!

....When remote wilderness and alpine regions start getting crowded.

I have the usual load list inc merges that Oblivion mod addicts have, FCOM, Midas, most of the top 100 etc.

One place in my game in particular (just east of FrostCrag ) looks like a royal rumble for disgruntled monsters who are arguing over property rights to the mountain top. I have almost lost track of which mod spawns what monster.

I'm on the trail of something from the Werewolves of the north mod, passing just north of Frostcrag Spire. I see the tell tale flash of Balrog-fireballs and the red sky warning of an oblivion gate as I approach from the west. Going into sneak mode, I advance cautiously and see a huge melee of monsters and just wait and watch as they beat the crap out of each other.

After dispatching the last monster standing (Fenris Wolf from Ramys monster mod), I walked around and worked out the body count: 3 elder ogres, 6 werewolves, 8 misc daedra ( inc 2 minor balrogs) , a frost titan, a small to medium sized tribe of goblins, 3 arcane atronachs, the lycanthropus ( a 40 foot white werewolf ) and Fenris Wolf.

I amazed I didn't CTD with all that.

richardrocket009: You think 254 mods is a lot...hahahahaha...

PS. 2 years ago when I last played I had over 400 mods and I'm planning to play again soon and my mod list is way higher this time. My game will literally be like my previous post where almost every mod in my load order will be many mods merged together.