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[Blaze]

Also, Skyrim Apple mod for just twenty quid:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=430955234

Have you ever walked into the Bannered Mare and thought to yourself: "Man, this place could use an extra apple."? Well, worry no longer! "Extra Apple" adds another apple to the counter in the Bannered Mare.

Win!

Apples are for Skyrim Plebians

GOLDEN POTATO MOD!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=430945230&searchtext=

This downloadable expansion for the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim adds a unique and extraordinary item to the game: the Golden Potato.

Found sitting upon the well in the heart of Whiterun, the Golden Potato adds a unique experience to the Skyrim gameplay. It's a collectible, a food item, a potato, and golden! The Golden Potato mod is the true Elder Scrolls experience you've never had! Join the elite club of Golden Potato owners today.

It's only 1/3 of the price of the apple mod!

[umiman]

In the time that Valve launched it, here's what they've done:

1. Removed the dislike button (so you can only rate things positive)
2. Banned dissenters
3. Removed reviews
4. Shut down front page comments
5. Banned groups opposed to the idea

I guess Valve's support team sure is responsive when it comes to protecting their self interest. That's probably where they put all their budget. The remaining $10 is for helping people with actual issues.

Sure glad I only bought one game from Steam in the past year. Probably going to stop alltogether.

[Ozyton]

Here's the short list.

SkyUI = Vital
iHUD = Vital
Even Better Quest Objectives: Important
A Quality World Map - With Roads: Vital
Unofficial Patches: Vital
RaceMenu: Vital
Alternate Start - Live Another Life: Vital, but you should use the vanilla start for your first character.

Combat mods depend on your preference. My personal combo is Duel - Combat Realism, Enhanced Enemy AI, VioLens (now superior in every way to other killmove mods), Combat Evolved. Those all mesh together very well. Toss in Dragon Combat Overhaul and Deadly Dragons.

Magic mods... the Apocalypse spell package is without question the deepest, most balanced, and most interesting. Most of the overhauls handle perk trees in one way or another, and the overhauls are in many respects preference-based.

Excellent.
Next thing: DLCs. Some input from you guys would be nice, preferably before the 27th or so when the sale for the DLCs end. From the sounds of it Dragonborn is the "best" and Hearthstone is (currently) only 2.50 dollars. Vampires never really interested me so I dunno about Dawnguard unless it adds something other than vampires.

[Blaze]

Dragonborn is decent. It's essentially what Bloodmoon was for Morrowind.
I only play Dawnguard for the crossbows honestly, but now I use flintlock rifles so I just keep it around for compatability. I prefer werewolves and "Better Vampires" is superior to the one in Dawnguard anyway.
Hearthfire is ehhh... It's if you want to build a house and adopt children. A lot of fanmade homes do use Hearthfire, but I just want a place to store stuff and there are more convenient mods for that.

[NullForceOmega]

Actually, Dawnguard adds several interesting things other than the infuriating vampire attacks and storyline (there is a mod that makes these less irritating, and another that removes them completely), crossbows, a rather nice artifact bow (downside, you have to complete the story to get it), some okay armor with a unique look (heavy and light), and of course Serana.  It also will thoroughly scratch that itch you have to kill infinite Falmer, don't lie, we all have it.

[forsaken1111]

Serana is listed as a pro?

The vampire who wears a hood in the daylight to avoid the sun, but has armor with a big boob window exposing her flesh?

[NullForceOmega]

I put her in rather different (and more concealing) armor, I'm just referring to her actually being kind of cool to travel with (after the asinine escort quest).

[forsaken1111]

I put her in rather different (and more concealing) armor, I'm just referring to her actually being kind of cool to travel with (after the asinine escort quest).

Different Strokes I supposed. I dumped her as soon as I could.

[Oneir]

In the time that Valve launched it, here's what they've done:

1. Removed the dislike button (so you can only rate things positive)
2. Banned dissenters
3. Removed reviews
4. Shut down front page comments
5. Banned groups opposed to the idea

Wow, seriously? I'm reserving judgement on paid mods for the moment, but this is about the worst possible way to handle it from a PR perspective. For a platform that relies on community and word of mouth, these sure are terrible ways to maintain goodwill. I mean, Streisand Effect much?

[Shadowlord]

Personally, I don't have dragonborn and haven't seen anything saying that it adds anything meaningful to the game in terms of new capabilities for mods (dawnguard adds some which a lot of mods take advantage of). Some mods still require all the DLCs though, but I assume that's because the modder just doesn't want to deal with the hassle of making it for vanilla and then making patches for the DLC.

The legendary edition is cheaper than getting both dawnguard and dragonborn. (But I don't know if you can get the legendary edition if you already have Skyrim)

[miauw62]

Hm, where is the mod to balance dawnguard vampire attacks?

[NullForceOmega]

I don't know about balancing, but 'Run for your lives' helps to avoid civilian casualties caused by ambushes (helps with random dragon attacks too.)

[Rolan7]

In the time that Valve launched it, here's what they've done:

1. Removed the dislike button (so you can only rate things positive)
2. Banned dissenters
3. Removed reviews
4. Shut down front page comments
5. Banned groups opposed to the idea

Wow, seriously? I'm reserving judgement on paid mods for the moment, but this is about the worst possible way to handle it from a PR perspective. For a platform that relies on community and word of mouth, these sure are terrible ways to maintain goodwill. I mean, Streisand Effect much?

For context, there were groups dedicated to downvoting any mod with a pricetag.  Which is abuse of the voting system, arguably.  I don't know whether Steam overreacted or not, I haven't been watching that closely.

[Ozyton]

It looks like if you buy legendary with Skyrim already purchased you will get all the DLCs but won't get an extra copy of Skyrim itself to gift people.
Even so, it's still cheaper than buying the DLCs individually

[miauw62]

I don't know about balancing, but 'Run for your lives' helps to avoid civilian casualties caused by ambushes (helps with random dragon attacks too.)

Ah, but the fun part is getting a vampire attack INSIDE Whiterun when you're level 3.