I know the point of these mods is to make the games more challenging, diverse, and interesting but I've always been a power gamer, stat maxing and crazy enchantment set-ups, when it comes to Elderscrolls. It's part of the meta-game that I end up enjoying after all. Does the game always feel challenging or can you still become a "god" at higher levels. I've played Oblivion to death over the past five years and was looking for a new change of pace before Skyrim.

iirc things remain difficult to I think around level 50 and by power leveling/gaming it maybe sooner. With the uncapper and stats going to about 200 maybe 255 each (max for hexcode) I'm sure the game becomes cakewalk in time even with max difficulty and heavily enchanted gear.

Yeah you can, eventually, but don't expect to become a god any time soon, and don't expect it to be an easy ride. You'll be less god like than in Vanilla, but you can still become fairly god-like.

I really enjoy the first few levels in FCOM (<10), when things are hard and you have to retreat or die.

To make it harder, I add mods like BEAR, Basic Primary Needs, Audacious Magery/Fizzle!, Useful Houses, Enhanced Economy (with realistic hard settings) and somehow counteract by magic mods like LAME. With nGCD+Progress, I don't watch how I level, I just play organically. I am always running short of money, scrounging and eking out a living in this bad and dangerous world - my weapons go unrepaired (short on money, as well as can't repair completely in field with useful houses) as I dungeon dive precariously, and I run when I see a mob of baddies. Vampires and Daedra are terrifying now, as they should be. I walk around or steal horses, as they are expensive. Never fast travel, as there is so much to discover! And I just relish this experience.

I understand that this is a diametrically opposite from your preferred approach of power-leveling, but if you have played Oblivion till death and want a new perspective on it (it is a game, not statistics), this approach might make your enjoyment last longer in this go-around.

PS: when you think you are God-like, FCOM humbles you by throwing a group of ancient gargoyles or a balrog at you. And those amazons...*shudder*

PPS: Try to see if Dynamic leveled lists is also to your liking. It can spawn epic monsters once in a while to keep things interesting.

Tweak Wrye Bash to let you wear all your rings and amulets and you'll feel like a god really fast. I tried it for a little bit and at level 30 I was mowing down things like they weren't even there. But with out the rings and amulets I was having a harder time.