In an effort to save plugin spots in a crowded load order, I am trying to make use of a merged SM Plugin SM Plugin Refurbished. The merged esp that is provided in the archive has the masters in a different order than BOSS. In testing, having these out of order prevented the refurbished DLC quests from ever beginning. Only two masters were in BOSS order, and they did function correctly.


I have previously tried to re-order the masters in TES4Edit, and failed miserably.


What is the correct technique for changing a plugins master order in TES4Edit?
Would it be better to simply use the individual plugins and use more (precious) slots in my load order?

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Do not use TES4Edit to reorder/sort masters, it doesn't handle it correctly. Use TES4Gecko instead.

Or open the mod in the http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/36370 and save it, all its masters will be sorted correctly.

Is it even needed? Do you have any evidence that the list of masters for an esp is dependent on sequence?

I'm still trying to grasp how it can matter, but your changing the list wouldn't break anything.