New advanced search filter to sort by usable assets

I have added a new filter to the Advanced Search on the site to allow you to search by files that have their permissions set to "Yes, but you must credit me for all the files you use" or "Yes, no credit or permission needed" under "Users can use assets contained in my files in their own files". This should allow mod authors who are looking for usable assets to quickly find files that have been made open for others to use under certain conditions....

Bug fix category

There is now a bug fix category available for mod authors to upload their files to. I started moving over some fixes already on the site to the new category but my time has been cut short....

Site statistics

I've been working recently on tallying up all the various "interesting" statistics this site records in to one grand total to get an overall view of the popularity of the sites within the gaming community. I thought it would nice to see just how big this community is and how popular it is to mod the games. I was hoping to use sales figures from the various Bethesda games to come up with a ball-park figure of PC owners who have downloaded and modded their games through the Nexus. Unfortunately...

Multipart upload functionality for large file authors

One of the issues with the Nexus sites has always been the 300mb file size limit for files. It meant that authors with files larger than this amount would have to split the files up in to multiple parts before they could be uploaded to the site. To make matters worse the part names were renamed by the file upload process that screwed up the multipart functionality meaning the end user would have to manually rename the files once they were all downloaded. There was no way of grouping up the parts...

Seattle and Dallas file server down-time

The Seattle and Dallas file servers will be taken down in-turn over the next couple of days while the hard drives are re-jiggled (that's the technical term for it) to double the capacity on the servers. In non-technical terms the RAID on the servers is just being changed from RAID 1 to RAID 0. Redundancy is already provided by the five file servers the sites have so best to make use of all available space. The final 10% of the file server space was taken up quicker than I expected by New Veg...

Washington file server added

There is now a fourth file server available to download from located in Washington DC, USA. This brings the overall network connectivity for the Nexus sites up to some 3.2 Gbits. Having trouble downloading from the other file servers? Try the Washington one and spread out the load a bit. The Seattle and Dallas file servers will be taken off-line at separate times in the course of next week, for 24 hours at a time, while the hard-drive space is upgraded to accommodate the increasing number of ...

New distribution permissions options for all files

The recent launch of New Vegas and the gold rush style race there's been to get a lot of the great mods from Fallout 3 converted over to New Vegas has raised the growing concern the staff have had recently regarding the use and/or redistribution of other author's work by members of this community and how difficult it is to ascertain a mod author's wishes. Before I go on I'd like to remind everyone that converting other author's work from Fallout 3 to New Vegas is strictly forbidden right now ...

Uploading converted Fallout 3 mods without permission

I would like to remind all users that you cannot convert and reupload mods that you did not create yourself from Fallout 3 for New Vegas without permission from the original author of the Fallout 3 modification. This is in line with our rules on using other people's work without permission. Most authors provide information on how they would like their files to be used and distributed in their ReadMe's or file descriptions. If the author has not provided this information then you must request ...

New Vegas released in Europe

Fallout New Vegas has now been released in the UK and the rest of Europe and this rounds up the launch of New Vegas to the masses. New Vegas Nexus is already up to 212 files as of writing, which is a great start, and adding the European's to the mix should increase the rate at which this number increases. Demand for mods is particularly high with some 100,000 individuals visiting the site yesterday looking at 1.17 million pages on the site. This figure is already on course to be smashed to...

Do not upload the GECK or preorder DLC

Please do not upload the GECK or any of the preorder content for New Vegas Nexus to the site. They are not your property and they are not Nexus property; they belong to Bethesda and Obsidian accordingly. As such you should treat these files in the same way you would be expected to treat anyone elses work on this site. No permission? No upload. Continue to upload these files at your own peril. On a side note resident staff member Vagrant0 has released a mod titled Preorder Alternative that ...

New Vegas, meet mods, mods, meet New Vegas

The Fallout: New Vegas GECK has now been released on the Bethesda website that officially launches the modding scene for New Vegas. Irrespective of the similarities of the New Vegas GECK with the Fallout 3 GECK a big thank you is in order to Bethesda and Obsidian for releasing the GECK on launch day for everyone to use. Remember modding using an official SDK from the developers isn't a right, it's a priviledge handed down from the developers. They don't have to do it and they take time out of th...

New Vegas Nexus launched

It is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of the 4th Nexus site on the internet; New Vegas Nexus (NVNexus). NVNexus will be covering the files for Fallout: New Vegas that is being developed by Obsidian and published by Bethesda. New Vegas is due to launch on Steam and through video game retailers on the 19th of October 2010 in the US and select other countries and the 22nd in the UK and other countries. Not bought the game yet? Consider buying the game through our affiliate store t...

Email validation issues

It has come to my attention that some people trying to register new accounts on the site aren't receiving the email the forums automatically send out so you can validate your email address. This is obviously an issue as you need to validate your email address in order to use most of the site and forums. I have several test accounts across many different ISPs and ISPs such as Google Mail and Hotmail don't seem to have any issues, some others do, such as GMX. I've done lots of searches across m...

[Updated] Nexus Trojan/Virus alert

Over the past 18 hours or so the Nexus sites have been sporadically serving a trojan file through the ads on the site. Thanks to the logs of a few astute members on the forums I was able to identify the source of the trojan attack and have hopefully now nullified it. The Nexus sites should, touch wood, no longer be serving these compromised ads any more. Such attacks have become natural on the internet and the fix is often reactive to an attack rather than preemptive. Indeed the patch to fix ...

New moderators on the prowl

It is with great pleasure that I introduce two new members in to the fold of the Nexus moderation team on a probationary period. DarkeWolf and HugePinball have both generously answered my invite to help moderate the Nexus sites and keep them clean and tidy for everybody. Both will be great additions to the team here as they both have great histories of helping countless individuals within the community. Please welcome them to the moderation team as without them, and the others, these sites...

Changes to commenting

The commenting system on files and images in the database has been changed. You should no longer receive a pop-up form to fill-in but instead a form will become available on the same page for you to submit. Upon submitting your comments they should become visible without the need to refresh the page yourself. In a similar vein the "Vote for this file" and "Track this file" links on all sites have now been ajax'ified and should now pop-up in their own little notification windows. These chan...

New Forum Section Available - Software Programs

I would like to extend my thanks to Dark0ne and give him kudos for allowing us to try out a new idea and carve out a section of his forums as a dedicated area for modders and the tools they use. We open today a new set of doors to the Nexus Forums. An entire section of the forums dedicated to the tools used for modding various games. Whether you are new to the tools or an old hat, take a look and see if you find something new or interesting. If you know of a tutorial or site that is partic...

UK file server back online

The UK file server is now back online after being properly upgraded to handle the load from all the EU members of the site. You can now choose the UK server as one of the file servers available when downloading files larger than 2mb on all the Nexus sites....

The Nexus chat room

As part of the server move and upgrade performed today on the forums I have added a new Chatroom application to the forums. Unlike the old chat room that was linked to the member bar that used to reside at the bottom of the screen the chatroom is a part of the forums themselves. You'll need to be logged in to the forum to use them and they can be accessed here. You can also see how many users are online while on the forums in the top right corner of the page. The chat rooms aren't meant fo...

Scheduled server upgrade complete

The server move was completed at 15:45 GMT without a hitch and all the sites are now back online. The forums have also been upgraded to the latest version with a few bug fixes. Thank you for your patience during this time. All the Nexus sites and forums will be taken offline tomorrow from 12pm GMT for up to 8 hours while a server move is performed. The forums will be moving to a new, more powerful server that will help to relieve load and improve the speed of the sites for the coming yea...