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helpmerememberme · 04-17-12, 11:40 AM

Thanks for the welcome U570

I'm a returning user so I'm familar with JSGME and very basics of pouring mods on top of my GWX.

Perhaps knowing what I want is a curse of sorts in this case even. For example, I know I want the mod family that evolved from DD's OpenHatch way back then. I want OLC or Maggui, I want DBSM, I want.. well, list goes on;p
It leads to rather complex situation where I'm facing good 4-8 rather large mods and pretty difficult task of testing and figuring out which version of which mod is most compatible with others in the soup.

....For a brand new player, suppose things are bit easier. "Install GWX and you are set. "It is a route trhat served me well enough when I was an utter newbie.
That's the thing though. I somehow have the feeling SH3 won't have that many brand new players flooding in anymore but instead, tons and tons of people keeping coming back and forth. People who really like the game, are still pretty wet behind the ears but have learned enough of the game to know what they want. These people have been spoiled by awesome mods made by an awesome community. These people can be overwhelmed when trying to build a tasty enough soup from the scratch. Installing, testing, playing, installing some more.. if you begin from scratch it is a process that can take a very, very long time. Since you already have a pretty good idea of what you want, have done something similar once or twicebefore and are merely trying to get all working again it is rather..tedious unlike when you were brand new and actually discovering stuff.

Hope this clarifies the...issue and motivations further, rather than being just a mere ramble!

And yeah indeed, " a good mod I totally neeed! " is a very subjective thing. However, I'd guess most people more or less new to SH3 will, in certain stage of the " newbie career", be interested of more or less the same mods. People want to be able to see the engine room, walk around in their sub, have flashy and more authentic user interface(MagGui,OLc)

Last time I tried to re-install a modded SH3 on my new computer, I ended up copying more or less 1:1 the modlist of a very established modder upon noticing mods he keeps running are very close to ones I'd like anyway. Some of the mods in his list had been changed, patched and updated since the list was compiled and I was often unable to find the exact versions of the mods he had listed. Despite all my best efforts, I never managed to cake up a working mixture, my savegames would keep getting corrupted, CTDs would persist. That's where I initially thought of how great it would be to have such .rar:p

Edit,

Thanks alot for the list above, TorpLos! Up to date and detailed listings of mods people use are always extremely welcome to those trying to reinstall it all once again

04-17-12, 11:40 AM	#8
helpmerememberme Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 5 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the welcome U570 I'm a returning user so I'm familar with JSGME and very basics of pouring mods on top of my GWX. Perhaps knowing what I want is a curse of sorts in this case even. For example, I know I want the mod family that evolved from DD's OpenHatch way back then. I want OLC or Maggui, I want DBSM, I want.. well, list goes on;p It leads to rather complex situation where I'm facing good 4-8 rather large mods and pretty difficult task of testing and figuring out which version of which mod is most compatible with others in the soup. ....For a brand new player, suppose things are bit easier. "Install GWX and you are set. "It is a route trhat served me well enough when I was an utter newbie. That's the thing though. I somehow have the feeling SH3 won't have that many brand new players flooding in anymore but instead, tons and tons of people keeping coming back and forth. People who really like the game, are still pretty wet behind the ears but have learned enough of the game to know what they want. These people have been spoiled by awesome mods made by an awesome community. These people can be overwhelmed when trying to build a tasty enough soup from the scratch. Installing, testing, playing, installing some more.. if you begin from scratch it is a process that can take a very, very long time. Since you already have a pretty good idea of what you want, have done something similar once or twicebefore and are merely trying to get all working again it is rather..tedious unlike when you were brand new and actually discovering stuff. Hope this clarifies the...issue and motivations further, rather than being just a mere ramble! And yeah indeed, " a good mod I totally neeed! " is a very subjective thing. However, I'd guess most people more or less new to SH3 will, in certain stage of the " newbie career", be interested of more or less the same mods. People want to be able to see the engine room, walk around in their sub, have flashy and more authentic user interface(MagGui,OLc) Last time I tried to re-install a modded SH3 on my new computer, I ended up copying more or less 1:1 the modlist of a very established modder upon noticing mods he keeps running are very close to ones I'd like anyway. Some of the mods in his list had been changed, patched and updated since the list was compiled and I was often unable to find the exact versions of the mods he had listed. Despite all my best efforts, I never managed to cake up a working mixture, my savegames would keep getting corrupted, CTDs would persist. That's where I initially thought of how great it would be to have such .rar:p Edit, Thanks alot for the list above, TorpLos! Up to date and detailed listings of mods people use are always extremely welcome to those trying to reinstall it all once again Last edited by helpmerememberme; 04-17-12 at 12:05 PM.