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  1. That's pretty much on point and nothing a site owner can do about it, unless enough users tell their eMail provider to treat MH emails not as spam. If enough people do it, then it'll be added to the list of trusted sources.
  2. You can join the AAF Discord as we have a guide for MO2 and Vortex, with a link to GamerPoets MO2 video as it's basically the best out there.
  3. Either way works but if you encounter problems then not many will be able to help you, if you install manually. Vortex or MO2 is recommended.
  4. interessting how the initial statement, that started this thread, was spun out of context. This whole discussion leads nowhere. So one last time from me: AAF works with every mod manager except for FOMM. Period. The used mod manager does not determine if AAF works or not. if AAF doesn't work using any mod manager, except for FOMM, then because of user error. it's that simple.
  5. Anytime again. Because it is actually a serious issue and not just a small problem. Newcomers expect a lot from the ability to mod their game and many, if not most, of them want to change their mod loadout mid-playthrough (what isn't a thing anyway) so file overwrites pose a major problem. Explaining the file system to newcomers is close to impossible so we ofc prefer to suggest methods that avoid this major issue that every mod manager prior to MO and Vortex has. And a visualisation of file overwrites, as Vortex and MO have them, does help a lot in understanding this "issue". With MO2 still reigning superior as it uses the "filesystem as a database". Vortex and mainly NMM suffer from database corruptions from rollbacks, mixed mode installs and plain ageing due to way to many mod installs and uninstalls, causing NMM to fail at file rollbacks.
  6. That's not the point. AAF can be easily installed and get working via Wrye (as its folder structure follows the Bain standard), NMM, Vortex and MO2. it even works in MO1. Kortex is fully untested but i can't recommended it as it's VFS is a Kernel-Ring X mode driver what comes with many risks. The support team exists because of the messy XML situation and people having problems making sure the skeleton wasn't overwritten and morphs are generated or else body parts will behave unexpectedly. Another case is a swarm of users shipping over from console so those need help from scratch, not even having a grasp on how files and folders work. Then this initial statement is plain wrong. if a mod isn't working then it's in 99% of all cases user error and usually based on "not reading", as you already stated yourself. We try to help those but we usually have to give up until those understand at least the very basics so we don't waste hours on a questionable result. The other 1% are usually OS based like missing libraries, runtimes or permissions. P.s.: inexpereinced users have to use Vortex or MO2 due to this as we wasted enough time on them just to be insulted or ghosted after hours of trying to help such users. We have our limits and need no one to make a hobby of ours a negative experience.
  7. As a final note: The guide, that Saya gracefully provided, is in all it's detail geared towards newcomers, hence the recommended mod manager section. For experiences users it's a list of available mods and suggestions.
  8. P.s.: We will help people who use NMM if we see they know how to use it. Else we won't bother because of the rats tail that giving support to people, who don't know its intricacies, has. P.p.s.: People who know how to use NMM won't need any support so there's that too. We didn't have a single experienced NMM user asking for support. Only newcomers who tried using it.
  9. Yes, you did. Questioning our decission you suggest your way of doing it and arguing it you try to enforce your way as the right way. Aside from that: Suggesting that a mod is bad because the support team only gives support for a limited range of options is just bad and another try of you enforcing your bias. First of all: Yes, i went a bit overboard calling you a "moron" which seems to have a more negative meaning than i thought. So please accept my appology. What i tried to convey is that your assessment was not the smartest as it lacks investigating to make any such statement. So to explain the case to you: We did support FOMM and NMM until we had plain to many users not managing using them, so i cut FOMM support from the installer. NMM support is still in it, which i thought of cutting, because there are still some experienced users who use it. But aside from "because i'm used to it" no one managed to present a sounding argument for NMM. Aside from that: New users would have to learn NMM so they might as well learn Vortex or MO2 and in case of those two, we don't have to explain or establish a fixed installation order as this can be established at any time later on, what cuts down on problems a damn lot. So after over a year we plain decided to not offer any support for FOMM or NMM because whenever we did not specifically state that we can't support NMM, we had newcomers use it instead of Vortex or MO2 what resulted in hour long support sessions, some spanning over 2 or 3 days. i never claimed NMM doesn't work, i only talk about support here and i took the time to explain our stand on this above. We did not decide out of the blue, we did it for valid reasons because unless you gave support for a single mod for a longer period of time, then you can't even imagine what you face in troubleshooting sessions. i still get surprised to this day, having never thought some of this is even possible.
  10. So we instead send users completely new to modding to the likes of you? Yeah... that's a no as you'll just cause them misery. And so far you presented no opinion but a bias. Feel free to look up the difference. Our choice, not yours. Users using other means are free to look up how to use them. i'm sure you can at least understand this as i fail to find simpler words to say it. That's what you get caught up on? You have my condolences.
  11. You're a moron. The guide is not written by AAF's author. So not only do you not understand how mod managers work, you neither understand who you're talking to and what you're talking about. You stick with your mod manager and we stick to what we want to support, what excludes NMM, FOMM and Kortex. Deal with it.
  12. Wow... so much wisdom. Try again and maybe add an explanation so you can be taken serious. You have no clue what you're talking about, as you have proven three times by now. NMM, FOMM and the like are basically like installing manually but i can understand if you fail to see that. We all started somewhere but most listen to others to progress. You may want to try that approach. You can call it what you want and based on your behaviour there's no need to explain it to you because as you have proven with this post, you'll just twist words and facts and not provide any explanation while demanding one. You're not the end-of-all, not all-knowing and neither the most experienced user around. Aside from that: We can choose what we want to provide support for but unlike you we can actually provide a reason, but as stated: Not in case of you. But if my post struck a nerve, what it obviously did seeing that you tried to mirror something i said back, then maybe think about your posts some more before you post.
  13. Let me be perfectly clear here: Everything aside from Vortex and MO2 can't be supported because other methods allow for to many user-based errors, what makes offering support close to impossible. if you think you're good enough for fully manual installations or using outdated mod managers then more power to you, even though going fully manual is pretty arse-backwards. Before you now tell me your lifes story about how experienced you are because you started modding who-knows-when, doing who-knows-what: Many are perfectly capable of doing things old-school but they don't because it makes no sense as it doesn't offer any additional control. So please stop advertising anything aside from the officially supported methods to new users unless you want to give support to those. Feel free to join the AAF Discord so we can assign you to those users.
  14. So your knowledge about what's possible is not in the same level as your fears regarding security. This explains a bit of your statements. The many given statements still hold true, though. if you let privacy concerns drive you towards a strict fear then you're possibilities are limited and nothing anyone could do would change anything about that.
  15. Yesn't. Once you have a URL or the direct iP, you can do a bit of tracing. if security is your concern above anything else, then "some asembly is required".
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