Like the title says, I have some questions about 3 mods I want to use. First, I'll start by saying that I just deleted all my old mods and saves, and re-installed Nexus Mod Manager, due to wanting a fresh start, because some of my saves were starting to get buggy for various reasons. Anyway, here goes;

1. Regarding Mighty Magick Skyrim; the author says you should load a save, strip your character and clear buffs with a console command before installing, but will that be needed when starting a new game/save?

2. UFO - Ultimate Followers Overhaul; is the "Fail-safe install procedure for beginners" that the author recommends, needed for when you start a new game/save? (considering I won't have a game to load, and no followers yet)

3. Sounds of Skyrim; I used the Wilderness and Dungeon one a while back, shortly before the bloat bug, and didn't update them when I heard of it and removed them shortly after. It seems now that the author says the bug is fixed, but I've seen 2-3 people still complaining about the bloat.. is it safe nowdays?

Thanks in advance.

Sounds Of Skyrim is very safe and very recommended to use. The save bloat manifested itself when the Civilization-plugin was disabled and then continuing using existing save. Actual usage of bugged SoS never caused any issues in more than 99.999999999999999..% cases, it was the disabling that caused the issues.

Heck, I used the bugged versions for very long time and never encoutered save bloat...

I suggest that you don't use UFO since there have been issues with other mods in the past.

I once had UFO installed and after a while I couldn't figure it out how to get it to work so uninstall it. Now I use http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/15524 and I've never encounter any issues with other mods and Dheuster is updating AFT on regular basis.

Yes you need to start a new game if you want to have a stable game. Of course you can install any mod in your current game, but be aware though once you do that you cannot uninstall the mod.

Alright, will download it then. ^^ EDIT: I installed all three SoS with Nexus Mod manager, and activated them by this order; The Wilds, The Dungeons, Civilization.. When I activated the second and third one they both wanted to overwrite something that was added in the previous one.. is this intended, or should I install them manually instead?

I used UFO in the past and I never had any problems with it. then again I use very few mods (10-15 or so). It worked perfectly fine for me and it worked well together with Convenient horses as well, which I also use(d).

I never paid attention to the "Fail-safe install procedure for beginners" when I start a new game with UFO. I use SKSE launcher, do my Live Another Life start and if I get lonely, grab a couple followers to keep me company.