On this play through I'm having fun using a party of NPCs along with my character. Of course that makes the game too easy since Skyrim was built around 1 or 2 people parties.

So I'm looking for a mod to increase spawns. A lot of the ones I see on Nexus are reported to cause CTDs so I'm leery of using them. Of course a lot of people on Nexus don't BOSS or LOOT, clean, bash, rtfm. etc ... So I'm wondering if those aren't just unintentional false reports.

Anyone here use a mod to increase spawn? And how do you like it?

Thanks,

EDIT: I'm really hoping http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18436/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fskyrim%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D18436%26preview%3D&pUp=1 is one worth using as I'm really liking the description.

You have your automatic ones, like ASIS or Skyrim Increased Spawns. The latter has more control allowing you to control exactly what gets more spawns and how much (you can chose to make skeletons and dragur spawn massive hordes, while bandits, giants, and other stuff don't get any increased spawns, for example), but ASIS also has some other useful features (NPC Potions, AI improvements, NPC Enchantment fix, Group spawns, etc)

Then there's scriptless ones like immersive patrols and the populated skyrim series.

Did you mean SkyrimMoreSpawns? I've done several searches (Nexus, Tes Alliance, Google) for Skyrim Increased Spawns and don't see it.