well I have to say, I am proud to see that my Oblivion hasn't choked and rolled over yet, nor has it even seemed like that...well...I still get the once in awhile (usually after about an hour or so of gameplay) crash, but to me, it doesn't really bother me, with all the autosaving and quicksaving, I don't worry about data lost.
Ofcourse, I find new mods every day that just ppek my interest, and recently I discovered this beautiful thing on TESGecko called .esp merging (that's not it's exact title). I took all those annoying .esps I have for clothing mods (for my character and my companions, and eyja of course!) and put them all into my never-ever-ever-he-eeevar going to be released mod where I have essentially made my own Overhaul changing many many (minor) things in the game (like my very own, personal version of the Unofficial Oblivion Patch), and I figured where else would be better than to shove all these .esps?
If you think that doing that messed things up, nah. Everything is still fine - if not better! since I got less .esps now. That's right, this isn't a topic about crashing. No need for an LO because I am just fine.

No, what I am more curious about is how limited or not limited I am on merging. I realize I can't just merge every mod into a single mod, but what CAN be merged and what can't?
One thing I would like to merge are my companions. I only have a few companions in my LO, but they are .esps and I want to avoid that 255 limit and I want to stay as far away from that limit as possible. I haven't even broken 100 mods yet, but I don't even want to get close to 150, and would much prefer to stay in double digits. So, just wondering; what can be merged? not like specfic mods but are there certain types of mods that can't be merged?
I remember catching on another topic posted sometime ago animation mods shouldn't ever be merged, so I got that one down. But what else?

thanks

Well I realize there is another topic talking about the 255 limit now floating at the top, but I don't want to hijack the guys thread to ask my question, and since this floated down to the third page, I suppose I get a chance to bump it now.