There is no such thing as "a best solution" on mods, since it all depends on the player.n However some essentials include:
Applications
- SH3 Commander
- SH3 Gen
- Random Weather Generator
Modpacks
- RuB
- IuB
Mods
- Harbour Traffic
- Advanced Holywood Damage
- Addidional ships by Sergbuto (plus all other mods from the same person)
- FLB's enhancements (several mods)
Graphics Enhancements
- Fubar's skins
- Tankeriv's seafloor
- Marhk's super smoke
- Merchant ship skins
This is just a taste. It need a lot of testing and tweaking to finalize to your liking. And wonce you do that, there comes the next set of Mods (NYGM series, Grey Wolves Modpack)