Why do so few people use MO with New vegas/TTW?

[TsurudaHimeko]

If anyone tries to follow EssArrBee's F n L in new vegas, ignore mod cleaning part unless you are mod author or know really what to do!

[KeltecRFB]

[quote=TJ]

@Paragon

1. 
   Nuke Everything.


2. 
   Install New Vegas


3. 
   Google "Fear & Loathing In New Vegas"


4. 
   Follow instructions

Once this is done create a TTW profile. You should be good enough to pull that off by this point.

[/quote]

I created the following Profiles;

GECK - For converting and making new mods.  Although, I am currently on converting.

TEST -  This is to test out mods, usually duplicated with one of the games already running.

<Character Name>  This is for each character I have

[Alexcroww]

The profile options from MO is a blessing indeed.

Gopher made great tutorials for MO 

It is a great way to start using MO

If you have a stable install with FOMM or NMM and don't want to change anything, stick with it.

If you want to add mods and do frequent modifications go to MO you won't regret it.

[paragonskeep]

@TJ

Thank you again sir. 

Yep I know on some things I shouldn't be so "slow", not as confident as should be. 

[EnderDragonFire]

The main reason I hated MO at first was that the interface was annoying and it often crashed. Nut then I realized I could run FOMM through Mo and use it's interface for managing my load order and for BSA browsing. That is when I started using it. I rarely even have to launch MO itself, I just use shortcuts to other MO linked apps. Only for mod installing, and that's it.

[TJ]

How do you manage your data folder?

[Zetman]

I stick with Wrye Flash because Wrye is what I know.  I started using it for Oblivion  and then kept using it for everything else afterward, because it works, and because I was already familiar with it, Morrowind, Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim. 

For all I know Mod Organizer could be better, I've never felt the inclination to learn anything about it.  But Wrye works well enough for my needs, so why bother trying anything else?  Even if it is better it is easier to just stick with what I know. 

[TJ]

@luthien I was talking to the guy that runs FOMM through MO exclusively instead of just running FOMM.

@butt3rbr03tchen: It's really easier to just disable MO's AI and use one of the external programs. I never found out what was wrong with it either, though it worked alot better a few updates back.

[KeltecRFB]

The only thing now that I don't like about MO, is adding Textures/Meshes, I like how FOMM asked us what you want to do with the old texture with the new texture you are installing.  MO does not do this, it just seems to replace the last modification you install.  You either need FOMM to do this for you or you need manually manipulate your textures/meshes yourself like you should do with NMC and then load it in.  In addition, Archive Invalidation can get a little "wonky" at times.  Another thing that MO falls short is creating FOMODs.  Lastly, I have bug with the configuration that I already opened a bug report on.  As a temporary fix, I am using the configuration python plugin from version 14 which seems to be working and I have NVConfigator installed as a backup but the problem with that is I have to make sure to change the settings to the individual profile ini files before making changes.

I run both the Python for Wrye Flash (Python Win 2.7.8) and the latest 64 bit 3.x.x version thinking this is what MO needed for the configuration plugin.

[TJ]

[quote=KeltecRFB]MO does not do this, it just seems to replace the last modification you install.[/quote]

Mod Organizer doesn't overwrite anything unless you did an in place upgrade from another mod manager. With MO whatever's lower in your data list is what you see, but the lightning bolts with + or - shows you that things are being overrode and gives you the opportunity to hide things you don't want to override other things. The built in MO tutorial explains all of this to you, as well as how to do these things.

tl;dr: you aren't using MO right.