Guys, I've been reading through this forum for several days. I have been reading through the Big World Project v15 for the last couple of weeks. Every night I've been manually looking up and downloading the various mods I wanted while manually reading up on what I wanted to choose. In the back of my mind I was worried about what I needed to do to learn to edit the bat file and to create new folders, and how to create a backup.
I didn't realize that the Big World Setup Program did what it did. OH MY DEAR LORD! THIS THING IS AWESOME!
1. It downloads programs for me
2. It creates backups for me
3. It allows me to create alternative loading points
4. It tells me about conflicts and warns me about potentially troublesome installs.
5. It installs programs for me!
6. It seems to work!
A sincere thank you to everyone who has contributed to this program. I have a few thoughts.
1. Most of the Stickied Threads here are a little outdated to what people should really do: Use Big World Setup. This program seems the easiest way to avoid conflicts and problems for people and would probably cut down on people asking for help.
2. We should probably rename this Forum to Big World Setup or have a new forum for this program. Mega Mod help is good, but really this program goes beyond that in that it prevents a lot of problems to begin with and makes people want to use mods a lot more!
3. Does the average pers on really only want to install just one or two mods? I see links to downloading mods At SHS, G3, PPG, and elsewhere, but do the type of people who want to mod, really only want just one mod? I see this post and it just makes me sad. Don't go through all that work! Just use Big World Setup and install just a few mods if you want? Even for a minimalist, why would you want to go through all that work of looking up and downloading and installing, when you can just load up this program for you?
4. Shouldn't Big World Setup be very prominently displayed on the Website and Elsewhere? Take a look at the SHS main website or this picture. Shouldn't we have a new category called Mod Downloader and Installer Program? I mean, Big World Setup is extremely useful! It really deserves prominence methinks.
5. Shouldn't Big World Setup and Big World Project be released concurrently? It's really confusing to have a Big World Project with a manual BAT version and instructions and have a Big World Setup that's not current with Big World Project. Shouldn't these two things be combined or at least concurrent and complementing? Perhaps have the Big World Project installation and method be somewhat deferring to the easier Big World Setup?
These are just my thoughts. They may not all make sense or be good. I'm just a regular guy who'd like to help. Thanks for reading.