Turns out I was trying to install a FO3 mod because the FO3 and FNV Nexuses are separate sites
I think I prefer playing FO3/NV more as a FPS than an RPG. Same problems as with Oblivion, either you don't match your enemies or they don't match you. VATS just results in exploded heads 90% of the time, so playing it like a FPS, and crit head shotting something at ranges your VATS gives you 0% on, makes me feel like I did something.
Need to get the NSE installed, so I can try the sprint mod at least (bullet time seems like overkill, particularly since the game already has turbo. It sounds like a neat implementation though.)
Wrestling with the decision to either finish the game with my current character and then install all the wasteland life/enemy mods....or to just do it now. If I let myself, I'll play 90% of the game through on this character, extra areas and all, and that's not conducive to a second playthrough, even with mods. I'm Lvl 14 and I haven't even discovered New Vegas >.>
One thing I want someone to suggest is a good mod for scarcity. Do higher difficulties result in more scarcity? Because on normal hardcore, ammo seems only slightly too common.....but food and aids are way too common. I mean, I want food and ammo to be so scarce that I have to eat half of what I find just to stay alive, and taking all those perks actually means something. I know time scaling would accomplish this sort of, but it seems like trying to swat a fly with a missile launcher. And time scalers can introduce a lot of conflicts.