>.> are the nexus servers run on a potatoe?

[Guest endgameaddiction]

He's just trying to create a Walmart for his mods. Your #1 source for all your mods. Nexus is turning into the mainstream of game modding. Even Steam...

 

In a way I do like to see LL grow, but at the same time I like it the way it is. I hope that it will never bring in the worng wave of crowd. I can say that I'm content the way it is now.

[Rayblue]

He's just trying to create a Walmart for his mods. Your #1 source for all your mods. Nexus is turning into the mainstream of game modding. Even Steam...

 

Seems that this D0rkly Idi Amin hit a lot of junk before deciding on TESO as, uh, "moddable". Goddamn nuts.

[Guest Omega1084]

He's just trying to create a Walmart for his mods. Your #1 source for all your mods. Nexus is turning into the mainstream of game modding. Even Steam...

Makes sense to me.

Walmart, like the Nexus, also treats its customers and employees terribly*...

 

 

 

*-Speaking from experience.

[gvman3670]

 

He's just trying to create a Walmart for his mods. Your #1 source for all your mods. Nexus is turning into the mainstream of game modding. Even Steam...

 

Seems that this Idi Amin hit a lot of grass before deciding on TESO as, uh, "moddable". Goddamn nuts.

 

I take offense to that! I am an occasional cannabis user (used to daily for YEARS) and I'd never do anything like that, high or not!

[Guest endgameaddiction]

 

 

He's just trying to create a Walmart for his mods. Your #1 source for all your mods. Nexus is turning into the mainstream of game modding. Even Steam...

 

Seems that this Idi Amin hit a lot of grass before deciding on TESO as, uh, "moddable". Goddamn nuts.

 

I take offense to that! I am an occasional cannabis user (used to daily for YEARS) and I'd never do anything like that, high or not!

 

 

Oh geez... I couldn't agree more. Went with my ex one time and doing the usual shopping. My ex was checking out the cosmetic section and accidently put an eye liner in her hair bun. Without notice. I didn't even know until she remembered it was in her hair and the moment we stepped out the store they had her go back in. Took her to a room in the back and questioned her. Tried to explain to them that it was an honest accident. We both couldn't go back to that Walmart ever again unless we wanted to be arrested. Well I still go there. Screw them. I even offered to pay for the stupid pencil.

[Spartan 363]

 

 

 

He's just trying to create a Walmart for his mods. Your #1 source for all your mods. Nexus is turning into the mainstream of game modding. Even Steam...

 

Seems that this Idi Amin hit a lot of grass before deciding on TESO as, uh, "moddable". Goddamn nuts.

 

I take offense to that! I am an occasional cannabis user (used to daily for YEARS) and I'd never do anything like that, high or not!

 

 

Oh geez... I couldn't agree more. Went with my ex one time and doing the usual shopping. My ex was checking out the cosmetic section and accidently put an eye liner in her hair bun. Without notice. I didn't even know until she remembered it was in her hair and the moment we stepped out the store they had her go back in. Took her to a room in the back and questioned her. Tried to explain to them that it was an honest accident. We both couldn't go back to that Walmart ever again unless we wanted to be arrested. Well I still go there. Screw them. I even offered to pay for the stupid pencil.

 

 

I'm also noticing Nexus is starting to slow down and lose people, guess their Nazu polocies are doing no good.  I too like LL and the small, but dedicated community, you guys have been helpful whenever I needed help with something and I appreciate the love, lol.\

 

 

I hate Walmart period, I prefer to support the local small businesses in my area.  I'm lucky there is a small local PC shop that sells good gaming PC parts and I have bought many things from them throughout the years, the owner knows me well and gives me discounts such as buying an EVGA GTX 770 4GB Superclocked for $300, he told me the $100 discount was my Christmas gift for being a loyal longtime customer as I bought it a week or so before Christmas.  That's why I like small businesses, they can discount stuff without dealing with corporate crap

[Guest endgameaddiction]

Thanks. We do what we can. It's good to know that if someone can't answer your questions, someone will stumble through and will.

 

D0, He's very good at retaliating against anyone that objects to his way of thinking. Even if it's a good idea. If anything, the most touchiest subject I would never get into is trying to school him on maintaining a server. You'll probably instult his intelligence and have his infamous V to the motha fn' D ban you.

[Guest corespore]

I've also noticed that the flow of mods going into nexus has slowed to a trickle. I haven't seen a well known mod maker post anything there since last year. I think allot of it had to do with that christmas steam sale where steam sold the ultimate edition of Skyrim of five bucks, everyone bought a copy and stormed Nexus looking for mods. Out of sheer spite darkone posted some serious shit that would have best been left unsaid and he managed to burn a few of his best mod makers. I think he tends to forget that just because he has the most well known site doesn't mean he has the only modding website. Skyrim accounts for over 80% of the nexus traffic and if any number of veteran mod makers leave the site will be in serious jeopardy and i think that's what we're starting to see. Thankfully most of the people leaving nexus are going to places like steam and/or tesnexus so we can still enjoy their work without going to that void of despair formerly known as nexus. 

I feel lucky to have came across LL in my browsing, for the life of me i can't remember how i found this place but i'm damn happy i'm here.......come to think of it i probably found this site when i was looking for porn, which i do.......allot. 

[ToxicKetchup]

I've also noticed that the flow of mods going into nexus has slowed to a trickle. I haven't seen a well known mod maker post anything there since last year. I think allot of it had to do with that christmas steam sale where steam sold the ultimate edition of Skyrim of five bucks, everyone bought a copy and stormed Nexus looking for mods. Out of sheer spite darkone posted some serious shit that would have best been left unsaid and he managed to burn a few of his best mod makers. I think he tends to forget that just because he has the most well known site doesn't mean he has the only modding website. Skyrim accounts for over 80% of the nexus traffic and if any number of veteran mod makers leave the site will be in serious jeopardy and i think that's what we're starting to see. Thankfully most of the people leaving nexus are going to places like steam and/or tesnexus so we can still enjoy their work without going to that void of despair formerly known as nexus. 

I feel lucky to have came across LL in my browsing, for the life of me i can't remember how i found this place but i'm damn happy i'm here.......come to think of it i probably found this site when i was looking for porn, which i do.......allot. 

Wait, what did he post, exactly? Just curious, I'm always out of the loop on these things.

 

[Guest corespore]

 

I've also noticed that the flow of mods going into nexus has slowed to a trickle. I haven't seen a well known mod maker post anything there since last year. I think allot of it had to do with that christmas steam sale where steam sold the ultimate edition of Skyrim of five bucks, everyone bought a copy and stormed Nexus looking for mods. Out of sheer spite darkone posted some serious shit that would have best been left unsaid and he managed to burn a few of his best mod makers. I think he tends to forget that just because he has the most well known site doesn't mean he has the only modding website. Skyrim accounts for over 80% of the nexus traffic and if any number of veteran mod makers leave the site will be in serious jeopardy and i think that's what we're starting to see. Thankfully most of the people leaving nexus are going to places like steam and/or tesnexus so we can still enjoy their work without going to that void of despair formerly known as nexus. 

I feel lucky to have came across LL in my browsing, for the life of me i can't remember how i found this place but i'm damn happy i'm here.......come to think of it i probably found this site when i was looking for porn, which i do.......allot. 

Wait, what did he post, exactly? Just curious, I'm always out of the loop on these things.

 

 

"It's why when certain high-and-mighty users of other mod managers feel the need to come take a dump on the progress of NMM I dismiss the criticism for the ignorance it exudes"

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/news/12250/?

It could be my paranoia getting the better of me but only the files given "honorable mentions" by the fearless leader of nexus were affected, it makes me wonder. Considering he banned an entire country for a denial of service attack some time ago which was far less successful than this attack it makes me think that the reason he is so casually brushing this file infection is that it mayhaps have been planned.

 http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/395528-latvian-ip-range-is-banned-or-not/

Someone with an ego so bloated as his i sincerely doubt someone crapping on his site could walk away without the moderation staff atleast trying to track this person down, that or they are far more incompetent than i even think....... or perhaps the attack came from a country such as the UK or US and he doesn't have the balls to ban them like he did latvia ?

[Guest Omega1084]

Call me paranoid but I think he just wants to put down MO and make people stop downloading it.

He only mentions two files in the update concerning the "attack" when I'm sure everyone would've benefited from knowing all of the files that were compromised.

 

MO grew within months to the level that the NMM hasn't achieved in however long it's been in beta. I dunno, just seems fishy.

Especially after how harshly he reacted to things much smaller than this in the past.

 

Ehh.

[Guest endgameaddiction]

 

Major issue which prevents me from releasing Fo3 mods with more permissive license is possibility of mod being adapted for New Vegas. New Vegas is released only as DRM software which requires on-line access. I am opposed to that concept and can allow any of my work to be used in that way.

 

Game vendors earns extra money from mods, because they extend the product lifetime. The least thing I can do to hurt those DRM software vendors is to deny them that money. So, unless New Vegas gets released as non-DRM software, my mods will remain with strict license.

 

This is something that I've always wondered. askfor has made this case stand. There's a reason wny Steam opened up the workshop. So to those modders that upload stuff there, must feel good eh?

[blabba]

Full quote from Dark0ne pulled from corespore's neat link:

 

 

 

It's why when certain high-and-mighty users of other mod managers feel the need to come take a dump on the progress of NMM I dismiss the criticism for the ignorance it exudes. Thankfully, and much to the credit of Mod Organizer in particular, I know the author is actually a rather stand-up individual who's done everything in his coding power to ensure that the NMM services he uses aren't placing an undue burden on our servers. He hasn't caused a hassle at all (even when services have been changed or taken down) and has responded to any questions asked in great manner. So when such individuals come and act like self-righteous asses on the topic of NMM I'm able to form a clear dividing line between these minority users of MO and Mod Organizer itself, and its author, which are both great.

 

 

So yea, apparently Dark0ne and Tannin are good acquaintances at the least. I don't think Dark0ne has any issue with Mod Organizer but rather more the USERS of MO who unjustly put down the NMM effort and unnecessarily dishearten the team behind it.

 

Personally, I think he's right to be angry at users like that and people giving unrequited crap to the NMM team after they have used MO. If you think about it, without the effort of the NMM movement the website framework for getting automatic updates and mod managers doubling as a download manager wouldn't be possible because the site infrastructure wouldn't be put into place for it (I think).

 

Honestly, one of the (increasingly fewer) good points about the Nexus is THAT infrastructure for mods and automatic updates and whatnot. Otherwise it'd be MUCH easier to replace nexus as it would simply be the same as any other forum board/hosting site. I know I wouldn't give it a second glance as pretty much any and all the good mods there are also mirrored elsewhere. (Hell most good mods aren't even on their anymore)

 

That being said, I also think there's a good reason why Tannin probably wrote his own program from scratch instead of using/extending the NMM framework and getting the chance to earn some money from Dark0ne for his contributions, and I'm sure not all of it was because of concerns for his own fame

 

Now if only Dark0ne could open up a bit about needing some professional help on how to maintain the site's servers so there isn't a downtime ratio of 80%, I'd say he'd be well on his way to reforming himself and the site in a more positive image and maybe even undo some of the damage the site's reputation has earned in recent times (maybe even earn some forgiveness from the particularly spiteful members here even?)

[Guest corespore]

Actually darkone bluntly said he needed help fixing issues and that NMM was open source software free to anyone to fix. But to date nobody has laid a finger on it, and that's the point. There's over 6 million users there, there HAS to be atleast a hundred people by sheer defacto statistics that could fix all of NMM's woes in a matter of hours. 

Here's another way to look at it. How often do you post something here on LL and have not received a positive solution? i would bet all of us have been given useful answers far more often then left burned and how many people actually look at your posts before they supply a solution, 10, 50, certainly less than 100. And yet darkone posts an open invitation for 6 million people to see and not a single damn person will go near it, as if it was radioactive. The question in a sense supplies the answer, how could a website with 6 million users rather live with a two year old beta program that fails rather than lift a single finger to help? What would make 6 million people so bitter that they would rather live with a shitty product or at the very least not care enough to even notice when it does have issues? 

I get why people here tend to trash nexus, most if not all of us have been crapped on by the powers that be over there, so whats the excuse for the millions still over there whom have yet to be banned? Surely if the site had some tangible crumb of decency somebody (anybody) would volunteer their time to aid them.....and yet.

  

[Rayblue]

Anyone would fix it... if only the Nex wasn't a dictatorship in the first place.

[ToxicKetchup]

Call me paranoid but I think he just wants to put down MO and make people stop downloading it.

He only mentions two files in the update concerning the "attack" when I'm sure everyone would've benefited from knowing all of the files that were compromised.

 

MO grew within months to the level that the NMM hasn't achieved in however long it's been in beta. I dunno, just seems fishy.

Especially after how harshly he reacted to things much smaller than this in the past.

 

Ehh.

I haven't used MO. Does it do a better job at installing OMODs and FOMODs than NMM? NMM has a tendency to break and misplace important files during activation.

 

I've wanted to switch to something better but I never got around to it.

[Rayblue]

Give yourself more time to study it --- at first I thought it would be very difficult to make the transition, but then it turned out that MO had real sorcery!

[gvman3670]

I haven't used MO. Does it do a better job at installing OMODs and FOMODs than NMM? NMM has a tendency to break and misplace important files during activation.

 

I've wanted to switch to something better but I never got around to it.

It does everything NMM does (only better), like automatic download and installs from Nexus and FOMOD/OMOD/BAIN installs, and does a hell of a lot more. And it never adds anything to the actual Skyrim directory (it keeps everything outside the folder in it's own virtual directory) so you will never have your game broken and need to reinstall it. It gives warnings on missing files, let's you know about load order issues, allows unpacking of bsa files if you want it to, let's you keep a load order of master and plugin files PLUS the ability to allow mod priorities to control what over "reads" what. And all this in a package that even allows multiple profiles and game saves with each game using it's own set of mods.

 

It does come with a slight learning curve, but it's operation is very, very similar to NMM. And there is plenty of support here and on the STEP forums. Plenty of tutorial vids, too.

[Guest Omega1084]

 

Call me paranoid but I think he just wants to put down MO and make people stop downloading it.

He only mentions two files in the update concerning the "attack" when I'm sure everyone would've benefited from knowing all of the files that were compromised.

 

MO grew within months to the level that the NMM hasn't achieved in however long it's been in beta. I dunno, just seems fishy.

Especially after how harshly he reacted to things much smaller than this in the past.

 

Ehh.

I haven't used MO. Does it do a better job at installing OMODs and FOMODs than NMM? NMM has a tendency to break and misplace important files during activation.

 

I've wanted to switch to something better but I never got around to it.

 

Takes a bit to get used to how it works but once you got it down it's great. You should give it a shot. 

And yes, it installs OMODs and FOMODs just like NMM but without the random crashes NMM gave me at times when I used it.

Like installing Immersive Armors would kill my PC for some reason with NMM but MO does it without any hassle.

[Rayblue]

 

I second that. The reason darkone has been so critical of MO is because it does everything a good mod manager does without all the game breaking crap NMM does. There can be some issues with nexus based fo-mod installation but Tannis (the maker of MO) supplies a patch that allows easy installation of nexus dependant fo-mods in the options section. However, due to the recent allegations of trogan virus infections of the main file section at nexus i'd hold off DLing it right now, or at the very least AV scan the file before you install it. 

All recent viral issues aside MO is a great program that is well worth the time it takes to install, honestly, i can't imagine why i hesitated to convert to it in hindsight. 

 

Given the way he reacted to MO's success, I think it's a matter of time that anything could happen. 

 

No surprise if a great mod is all of the sudden isn't there anymore but with a lame excuse.

[Guest corespore]

 

 

I second that. The reason darkone has been so critical of MO is because it does everything a good mod manager does without all the game breaking crap NMM does. There can be some issues with nexus based fo-mod installation but Tannis (the maker of MO) supplies a patch that allows easy installation of nexus dependant fo-mods in the options section. However, due to the recent allegations of trogan virus infections of the main file section at nexus i'd hold off DLing it right now, or at the very least AV scan the file before you install it. 

All recent viral issues aside MO is a great program that is well worth the time it takes to install, honestly, i can't imagine why i hesitated to convert to it in hindsight. 

 

Given the way he reacted to MO's success, I think it's a matter of time that anything could happen. 

 

No surprise if a great mod is all of the sudden isn't there anymore but with a lame excuse.

 

OR, it becomes the main point of some random virus attack.  Guess there really is more than one way to skin a cat.

[TrebMarg]

Yeps, I'm also a premium user there and it's not really the traffic as much as each time they've made the site "better" it gets worse as far as it actually working. I suppose robin enjoys the improvements looks-wise though and I guess that's awesome for him. Since it's his site and all. Personally I think it works like crap and doesn't look any better than before it was new and improved.

 

They say "if it's not broken, don't fix it" and I've noticed that some of the not-so-wise think old adages are simply not applicable anymore and sadly many of them like to ~fix~ things until they're broken.

[Rayblue]

Yeps, I'm also a premium user there and it's not really the traffic as much as each time they've made the site "better" it gets worse as far as it actually working. I suppose robin enjoys the improvements looks-wise though and I guess that's awesome for him. Since it's his site and all. Personally I think it works like crap and doesn't look any better than before it was new and improved.

 

They say "if it's not broken, don't fix it" and I've noticed that some of the not-so-wise think old adages are simply not applicable anymore and sadly many of them like to ~fix~ things until they're broken.

 

It's also completely wrong that he and sysadmins conduct experiments on live servers, instead of a separate test environment on a small scale.

[Guest Grestorn]

It's easy to complain but it's hard to actually do a better job. Especially if you have limited money and people. 

[ratrace]

 

It's easy to complain but it's hard to actually do a better job. Especially if you have limited money and people.

One thing they could change from now on - which they won't - is their behaviour towards people. If that would really change towards a more, let's say, positive approach, all other flaws like bad site availability, dDoS-attacks and its consequences and malware probs would not so much be talked about. On the contrary, people would totally side with the Nexus.

 

You just can't expect people to take any shit that is thrown at them. I totally agree with you on the point that setting up a big site with a traffic heavy download area is a huge task, but even if you can accomplish that, you should in any case watch what that success does to your head, so to speak.

 

And besides that, criticism is not about having done a better job. For example literature criticism spared me a lot of time reading crappy books. But I would not expect a literature critic to have written a book by himself. I expect that he has read them (and many more) to be competent to criticise.