My list of mods for those who may be interested...Yap?  Ernest?

My FO3 mod list as of July4.  All dl'd, none installed yet.

1.    A Note Easily Missed
2.    An Evening With Mr. Manchester
3.    To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
4.    In the Shadow of the Swamp
5.    The Mantis Imperative

These 1st five are all by Puce Moose and are story/quest/adventure mods.

6.    The DC Interiors Project      A huge list of new interiors,  incl. laundromat, funeral home, bus company, pharmacy, etc.
7.    DC Interiors Collectibles     same devs, adds stuff to DC Interiors Project
8.    Essential Caravan Merchants   they don't die
9.    Underground Hideout v4-4     adds a Vault on the SE end of the Wasteland near Rivet City. The vault includes all the amenities....
10.  Scarabaeus   Vault under Megaton incl. infirmary, cola machine, workbench and other assorted goodies
11.  Adams Trade 01    new trader near Andale.  Shack on roof.   Find note....
12.  A ItemRoom-Every-Item     Springvale. its located right behind the Megaton sign. there is also a bio hazard sign beside the man hole
13.  Mazas Pillar House    Beds, containers, great view, switchable lights.  near Broadcast Station LP8, you get a map marker
14.  Metal Tower        A raider occupied metal tower south east of Megaton
15.  New Dawn Research Complex     An abandoned research complex deep underground at Jury Street Metro.
16.  Rivet City Underworks 1.1         It adds a sewer and cave system underneath the Rivet City dock area.
17.  Shopping Spree             Mainly consists of grocery stores but also includes gun shops, drug stores and bars. Some empty, others not.
18.  The Clubhouse v1_3     ON 2ND READ I THINK I'M GONNA SKIP THIS ONE.  SEEMS TOO BUGGY.
19.  The Fairfax Vault     SE of Fairfax Ruins and has some special features
20.  Underground Hideout v5-0 DLC Redux     This mod adds a small compound and a guard tower at the entrance of
                                                                 Danthegeek's Underground Hideout v5.0 DLC.  See Underground Hideout v4-4above
21.  ENCLAVEHIDDENBASE          adds small undeground base to your game. It includes a few soldiers, scientists, and some loot
22.  Excalibr Munitions Shop & Ammo Pack          Adds a new vendor to Megaton.
23.  Fall In 3         Mall, armory, Federal Trade Bureau, etc.
24.  Firefly Ranch Scary Quest Edition                 There is a quest to earn the ranch house, designed to scare and test the player.
25.  CEI Caesar Rulez Excessive Interiors           New houses and  an interactive bank
26.  Desolate Peak                 new area, quests, items:  you can find the new area to the north of Old Olney and Vault 92 through a tunnel
27.  Rockville Commons        town near Germantown/paradise contains: 60+ Custom NPC's, 400 + voiced dialogues, 6  textures,12 quests
28.  Vault 34 Final or Revisited     a Vault in the northen part of the map  accessed through MDPL - 21 power station
29.  A Little Mutant Problem              7 new quests, new apparel, characters, creatures, YOUR OWN MAILBOX!

Oh, gee, thanks for the Quarter to Three info, Yapette.  I found a terrific mod:  Color Hi-Detailed Map and Icons which adds more terrain textures to the PipBoy map and adds color-coded icons to pinpoint potentially dangerous places, metro stations, populated places, pre-war structures, sewer and land places, and undiscovered places if you have such.

Of course I also found a couple of load order lists which is what I went there for, and which I've copied.  Now on to Arwen's for more info.  I'll probably get around to playing this modded game along about Labor Day.   [Image Can Not Be Found]  Either that or I'll get so impatient that I'll start loading mods and just see what happens.

Also going after the Unofficial Patch since the concensus is that it fixed a bunch of glitches/errors in the pre-modded game.  That would be good.

Toger said:

Your first 5 mods are by someone named Puce Moose? Wonder if it's the same guy that posts at GamerswithJobs from time to time. I think he even posted here once. It's not a name I'm likely to forget.

Other than that, the entire modding thing makes my head spin. That's all I had to offer. [Image Can Not Be Found]

I know.  When I saw the name I remembered it from somewhere, and since this is my only online home-away-from-home, I assume I saw him here.  His mods sound really interesting and many others like them.  If they work well I will PM him and thank him and suggest he come back here from time to time.  Everybody should have a Puce Moose.

Other than that, the entire modding thing makes my head spin. That's all

I had to offer. [Image Can Not Be Found]

Some time ago when I first started reading about the modding adventures of Yap and I think a couple of others, I wondered why they were taking so much time fussing with the game – reading, modding, tweaking, and so little time playing.  Now I get it and I owe them all an apology for thinking of them as procrastinators.  Mind you, they might BE procrastinators, but I'm just sayin'.  Sorry people.

As for me, there comes a time when I have to quit reading-learning and start doing-learning.  I thought that would be tonight, but I found myself reading yet more pages about the process and finding a handful of new mods to download as well as a few new utilities.    I swear, there have been many times in the last week when I thought:  "Screw it.  I'm just gonna install them all and let the chips fall where they may."  My smarter half didn't let me do that, but I'm still tempted.   Tomorrow, tomorrow…. barf.

This is a 4-part video modding tutorial.  About 40 minutes total.  The clearest info I've found yet.  I'll post the link to each of the 4 parts in a separately to avoid the Overseer.  I didn't have time to watch more than a few minutes last night, but will do later.  Watch it in full-screen so you can see just what he's doing.

Part 1:

Part 3:  http://www.youtube.com/user/ac.....eEh38BUP2w

Steerpike said:

I can probably fix that, sorry Spike - it's likely an anti-spam effort.

 

I distinctly recall a moose that was puce visiting us once back when we were FFC. I can't remember what the thread was about, but as Toger pointed out, puce mooses are so rare these days that you tend to remember the ones you encounter.

 

You're making me want to reinstall Fallout 3 and get all these mods!

I had no idea there would be so many - thousands.  The Nexus site is fantastic.  Thankfully, they list mods by category, otherwise I'd be slogging through all those thousands looking for what I want.  And that's only on the Nexus site.  Other sites have 'em too.  There is a mod for anything you can think of that you'd like different in the game.  Too, lots of story/quest mods.  Lots of something for everyone.  Fire up that game, Steerpike.  Why should I (and Yap when she finally recovers from her "Analysis Paralysis") have all the fun, and some of the hair-pulling joy, playing a modded FO3?

Yapette said:

"…a couple of hours actually installing…" [Image Can Not Be Found] The process took me days! Install, works great, install, crash, back-up, reinstall & reorder, works great, install….

 

But, but…I'm choosing to be optimistic!  I watched the series twice, pausing to take notes, pausing to look at what he was selecting/clicking.  I'm just keeping my fingers crossed, is all.  [Image Can Not Be Found]

Pokey, I'll give the URL again, this time either typing the whole thing or cutting and pasting, which is not what I did the first time.  I'll have to do one in each post since the forum gods don't like multiple links.  Let me know if this works.

Here's #1:

Ok, so that didn't work.  Will try again.