Eye candy vs Reality mods...

[DeepIron]

I was reading the Run Silent, Run Deep campaign thread http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=123467
and jdkbph posted this:

I want to load this up so bad... but I don't want to give up all the fixes and what-not in TM!

It strikes me that this is becoming a more demanding problem as more and better mods are released/re-released. To complicate matters further, some of the "super mods" incorporate smaller "stand alone" mods...

BTW, I realize that the imaging mods are also "reality enhancers", I'm just making a distinction between mods that change graphics and those that modify configuration files.

I'm more into realism so I personally like running RFB and Sobers RFB mods, but I also wish to run the RDRD mod as well... Throw in ROW (some of which is Sobers compilation) and some of the other mods, like LBO and NSM and the "mod soup" starts to boil a bit.. Even using JSGME doesn't alleviate mod compatibility issues in all cases... I had to wipe SH4 and re-install today due to some files not being restored by JSGME (I'm sure it was a loading sequence fault of mine, not JSGME).

I find myself swapping mods in and out, someimes playing but mostly testing. I'm not sure what, if any, solution might be had...:hmm:

Any thoughts? :hmm: