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[SOLDIER First]

Enjoy the State House.

[BFEL]

Well after the inexplicable failures I had with manual modding (the plugins.txt document seems to have kept resetting to have none of the mods in it anytime I booted the game, don't know why) I finally caved and downloaded the Nexus Mod Manager.

Nexus Mod Manager: It Just Works

Nice to finally have the mods take, but REALLY annoying that I had to resort to this.

[Sergius]

RRRAAAGH! I CAN'T FIND THE LAST 5 PROVISIONERS!

I've managed to hunt down and kill most of the damn morons, but the remaining few are never at the settlements when I arrive at them so I'm having to try and hunt them down on the roads between their home settlements and Sanctuary. 

The Castle is a bustling fortress of mechanical warriors, but there's still too many meatbag settlers out there for my tastes.

This is a somewhat decent trick, doesn't work 100% but works about 95% of the time. For the remaining, I use the "provisioner markers" mod. Which, also, for some reason, not always works on all provisioners.

Take an unemployed settler (an ex-provisioner is preferable because they are renamed permanently, which is annoying if you plan to reuse him later), move it to the Source of a trade route (sometimes you have to try both settlements to find out which one was the source) and give him the same trade route (this will fire the old person, who will eventually return home) and immediately fire him, assign him to a scavenger station or whatever.

[nenjin]

Well after the inexplicable failures I had with manual modding (the plugins.txt document seems to have kept resetting to have none of the mods in it anytime I booted the game, don't know why) I finally caved and downloaded the Nexus Mod Manager.

Nexus Mod Manager: It Just Works

Nice to finally have the mods take, but REALLY annoying that I had to resort to this.

Why would you want to manually install mods? It just becomes a hassle with the potential for screwing things up by extracting to the wrong directory or overwriting the wrong file. I can get wanting total control over and it resenting having to use some site's big dumb software tool....but NMM is really slick at this point, and saved me hours and hours and hours of pain and heartache trying to mod Skyrim.

[JimboM12]

Well after the inexplicable failures I had with manual modding (the plugins.txt document seems to have kept resetting to have none of the mods in it anytime I booted the game, don't know why) I finally caved and downloaded the Nexus Mod Manager.

Nexus Mod Manager: It Just Works

Nice to finally have the mods take, but REALLY annoying that I had to resort to this.

Why would you want to manually install mods? It just becomes a hassle with the potential for screwing things up by extracting to the wrong directory or overwriting the wrong file. I can get wanting total control over and it resenting having to use some site's big dumb software tool....but NMM is really slick at this point, and saved me hours and hours and hours of pain and heartache trying to mod Skyrim.

I second this notion. NMM isn't that bad, it's just not as feature set as say Mod Organizer or Wyre's stuff but it works for simple drag and drop installs. Most mods on the nexus are compatible with drag and drops and the good ones have nice fomod installers. Combo with LOOT in the game's main directory and add Fallout 4 tool whenever that gets released and you're set, excepting some special mods that require tweaking and stuff, like animations or something.

[BFEL]

BUT I'M A STRONG INDEPENDENT WOMANMODDER WHO DOESN'T NEED YOUR PENISMANAGER TO BE HAPPY

[umiman]

INDEPENDENT

Spoiler: INDEPENDENT (click to show/hide)

Tried installing Elder Kings, but failed

First tried it manually, but the world never changed from CK2 to Tamriel.
Then I used the installer and it just fails to start at all.

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?

Did you revert the ck2 version?

Dammit.
I misread the numbers!
STUPID NUMBERS, HOW DO YOU WORK?!

Spoiler: INDEPENDENT (click to show/hide)

Bit late, but Virtual Boy Advance, as that was what was recommended.

No offense, but how on earth did you manage to fudge up VirtualBoyAdvance? It doesn't even install, it's a standalone exe ._.

http://xkcd.com/1316/

I remember there being one about computer issues randomly following him through computers, but couldn't find it, so have that one.

But yeah, this kinda thing happens to me ALL THE DAMN TIME.
Does the thing I'm installing have literally no way to fail? WELP, IT RANDOMLY FAILED. And it will continue to do so for all technology I touch.

 

[Flying Dice]

Well after the inexplicable failures I had with manual modding (the plugins.txt document seems to have kept resetting to have none of the mods in it anytime I booted the game, don't know why) I finally caved and downloaded the Nexus Mod Manager.

Nexus Mod Manager: It Just Works

Nice to finally have the mods take, but REALLY annoying that I had to resort to this.

Why would you want to manually install mods? It just becomes a hassle with the potential for screwing things up by extracting to the wrong directory or overwriting the wrong file. I can get wanting total control over and it resenting having to use some site's big dumb software tool....but NMM is really slick at this point, and saved me hours and hours and hours of pain and heartache trying to mod Skyrim.

Can't speak for anyone else, but I did it before MO2 alpha or NMM had reliable support for FO4.

[Grim Portent]

Eyebots finally make it practical to use the Broadsider. I've been getting about 35 cannoballs each time I send an eyebot out to find them.

[Flying Dice]

Is it really practical when it has lower DPS than possibly anything else in the game, junky rusted pipe guns included?

[Rolan7]

Damage Per Second may be low, but what about Deaths Per Shot?
(I haven't actually used the broadsider)

[umiman]

Damage Per Second may be low, but what about Deaths Per Shot?
(I haven't actually used the broadsider)

When I used it it seemed pretty crappy. Didn't feel like a cannon at all, more like a... bowling ball launcher.

[SOLDIER First]

High DPS can't always beat pure overwhelming of armor. Splattering enemies with one attack > plinking away at their armor for five hours.

[Flying Dice]

It doesn't splatter. When I said low DPS I meant both components: the base damage is shit, and the rate of fire is shit. I used it a bit while I was running through the Silver Shroud quests, and it was actually easier to kill random human thugs with an unmodded tommy gun than it was with the Broadsider. It took multiple shots to kill weak, scripted-encounter goons who were deliberately designed to die like chumps.

[SOLDIER First]

_{the mooks I fought didn't die like chumps, especially since I was trying to use the silver smg instead of my laser shit ;-;}
Then it might be a lack of Heavy Weapons specialty, wrong enemies, [desperately searches for third reason that isn't admitting it sucks]