Mod articles

• On Script Heavy Mods and Engine Overload

  15 Mar 2020

  Myst42

  PART I: Concepts.
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  Much has been said about "script heavy" mods and how the can break your game. But over the years, the notion that scripts can break your game has become less and less of an understood phenomenon, and more of a creepy boogeyman to scare children away from using scripted mods.
  
  I'm here to shed some light on this matter, not because I'm an expert nor because "I know it all", but instead, because I've investigated this phenomenon, I've witnessed how it works with my own eyes, and I've learnt to take measures on how to solve it most of the times.
  This article may be of beginner level to some, but I intend it both, to help beginner modders learn something, and to attempt to make normal users undersand a bit more about why th...

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