balmora expansion mod

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Would this be a good mod to install? I have just started this game
and I decided to install a bunch of the improvement mods (better
heads, better bodies, etc) and I wondered if this just adds more to do
or if it messes up anything for a first-time play-through?

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hamster king wrote:
>
> Would this be a good mod to install? I have just started this game
> and I decided to install a bunch of the improvement mods (better
> heads, better bodies, etc) and I wondered if this just adds more to do
> or if it messes up anything for a first-time play-through?

I wouldn't unless you have a monster PC, this one is a real frame-rate
killer. If you're just starting the game you won't be short of things to
do for a long time anyway!

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> > Would this be a good mod to install? I have just started this game
> > and I decided to install a bunch of the improvement mods (better
> > heads, better bodies, etc) and I wondered if this just adds more to do
> > or if it messes up anything for a first-time play-through?
>
> I wouldn't if it's your first time through. In fact, apart from texture
> replacers, I'd play a "vanilla" game for a few hours with a throwaway
> character so you can figure out what bothers you and what doesn't. Then
> you'll know what type of mods to look for.

I'd also make exceptions for any game-improvement mods, such as those that
fix deficiencies in the original game. Mods that add content, I'd leave for
later, but there are some just general improvement mods that I can't live
without now, and they won't spoil your game if you use them from the
beginning.

Might as well throw in a plug here, as it just so happens that all of the
mods I've made myself fall under this category. I don't want to mess around
with the balance of the game, just fix it so things work or look better.
The four mods I've released are:

-Key Namer - Makes the keys have more descriptive names.
-Scroll Icons - Gives different icons to all the scrolls so you can tell
them apart. Icons are color coded by school and bear the symbol for the
spell they cast.
-Left Gloves - Gives distinct models and icons to all the left and right
gloves/bracers/gauntlets/pauldrons so you can tell them apart.
-Improved Followers - Fixes several annoying AI bugs with all the escort
missions in the game. (This is in Beta, and there are known bugs that I
have to fix, so use at your own risk.)

All are available on www.tesmods.net, though I may be uploading them
somewhere else, as that site seems to be pretty slow lately.

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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:43:52 GMT, "Pope Emperor FrogMaN"
<uncle_toade@hotmail.com> wrote:

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>"Darrel Hoffman" <i.dont@think.so> wrote in message
>news:2LSdnaukn9hEWarfRVn-pQ@giganews.com...
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>> -Scroll Icons - Gives different icons to all the scrolls so you can tell
>> them apart. Icons are color coded by school and bear the symbol for the
>> spell they cast.
>
>Is there one for potions, also? Because it's always bothered me that in
>most games, you can tell what potion it is by just looking at the bottle.
>But, in Morrowind you cannot -- all the standards look the same, all the
>exclusives look the same, etc. The only thing that are unique are the
>various liquors -- Sujamma, Skooma, Mead, etc.
>
The mod I use for this is Erasmus' Potion and Scroll Icons. Srikandi's
Potion Sorter is another alternative, though it doesn't do quite what
you're asking for.

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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:28:38 -0500, "Darrel Hoffman" <i.dont@think.so>
wrote:

>I like Srikandi's Potion Sorter. I didn't realize there was already a
>Scroll Icons plugin out there, though. I'll have to take a look at it. I
>just basically took the original scroll icon, color coded them by school,
>and added the icon for the spells they cast. It looks pretty decent, and I
>personally can't live without it now. Didn't see the competition on this
>one, though.
>
That's pretty much what his are; I wouldn't be surprised if they're
quite similar.