End of year network review

At the start of the year I outlined my plans for 2013 with our focus this year on improving the stability and reliability of the service on offer. Now, quite clearly, this hasn't exactly gone to plan. We've hit snag after snag along the way that has caused massive delays, dampened spirits and made for a rather sorry year for us. We're having our most fun when we're coding exciting new features and updates to the sites that you can actually use. We do not have fun working on behin...

More fixes: NMM Alpha hotfix, Wiki, download history, favourites games, profiles

Before I get into the fixes we've implemented today on the sites I wanted to add a clarification to my previous news post regarding requiring users update to 0.46.0 of NMM in order to gain online access to NMM and our legacy support. In the post I said, "At this time I'm unsure if we'll ever open up legacy support for the previous versions again". I want to clarify that this doesn't mean we won't continue to provide legacy support at all (e.g. every time we release a ...

[Updated] New NMM version out, help us out and update to it (also, X Rebirth support!)

Clarification update:

I feel some people felt when I asked people to update to version 0.46.0 that this implied that version 0.46.0 was going to fix all the problems for you. When I said "Downloads might work sporadically or just not at all and service might be intermittent but it'll be fixed eventually" this meant "this new version of NMM is going to help out the situation immensely but we've still got work to do to actually fix all the issues, and there will st...

Update on NMM status, more site fixes implemented

It's been a few days now since I originally said NMM would hopefully be up by the end of Wednesday and it's the end of Friday now. We continue to work hard to try and resolve the issues with NMM crashing our web servers but are yet to find a definitive solution (indeed, the times we have tried have resulted in the servers going back down again). Simply put now, unless you hear something different from me personally, we're still working on it and NMM will be back as soon as we've ...

Day 1 patches, fixes, cure for the slowness and NMM temporarily down

First of all I want to thank the majority of you for your patience over the past 36 hours. I know that you know that we’re working extra freaking hard right now (9am-5am yesterday, 10am-10pm so far today) to get things not just back to where they were, but better.

Today has been plagued with bugs and, most of all, slowness. You see, I can deal with being logged out, downloads not working, Premium memberships failing and so on but what I can’t deal with, what really frustrates me...

Nexus Mods centralisation complete, we now support mods for all games

Well hello there. Before we get into the main meat of this news post I’d like to list a few things happening right now on the sites that we are aware of, that we don’t need you to tell us about or confirm, or reconfirm, that will be fixed soon. I say soon, we’ve been working 14 hours straight, from 9am to 11pm and while the main conversion is complete there’s still work to do which will be pushed into Tuesday day (i.e. we’re going to bed soon!). Anyway, here’s the list, and if yo...

OpenMW v0.27.0 released!

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.27.0! Grab it from our Downloads Page for all operating systems. This release brings the first official release of OpenCS, the OpenMW team's efforts to bring an open source solution for editing content for OpenMW. OpenCS is in an early Alpha state, please take that into consideration when testing! See the full notes below.

Check out the release video by the indomitable WeirdSexy.

Known Issues:

Scheduled down-time on all sites Monday, 2nd December 2013

Heads up folks, we will be taking all the Nexus sites down one at a time starting on Monday the 2nd of December as we begin our conversion work over to our centralised network. I can’t give you exact times of when each site will be down and how long each site will be down for but you can safely assume that the larger sites (Skyrim, Oblivion, New Vegas, Fallout 3, Dragon Age) will be down for longer than the other sites. Depending on how long things take this might spill over into Tuesday, thou...

Registration issues today (hopefully) fixed

Naturally when problems occur on the Nexus they don’t occur at 9.30am just as we’ve showered, eaten and gotten to our desks. They always occur at 1am just as we’ve gone to bed, leaving a good 8 hours before we know there’s anything wrong.

In true Nexus fashion we hit a rather comical problem in the early hours of this morning whereby we’d reached the maximum number of registered accounts as set by the forum software we use, Invision Board. I’d never thought to check up o...

New mod author comment moderation features and updated terms of service

We’re so close to finishing our work on the centralisation we can almost see the light. We’re putting the final touches on the code and running mock runs of the merging work we’ll need to do to centralise the separate databases so that the down-time the centralisation will cause will be as minimal as possible.

As I mentioned way-back-when, one thing I wanted to add to the sites before we finalised any centralisation work was an update to the moderating tools available to mod a...

Skyrim At The Movies - THE AVENGERS: Age of Ultron

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An epic battle using lot's of great mods. Tyrannicon brings 'THE AVENGERS: Age of Ultron' to Skyrim.

I will try to add links for the mods later, but for now you will have to use the search function :)

Mods Used:
Skyrim Avengers by Doc117
Iron Man Marvels Avengers Mod UNOFFICIAL by burke228
Brhuce Hammar - Legacy by Team Brhuce
Spiderman Suit by Iceburg
Halls of Dovahndor by OKIIR
Dragonplate Helmet Fix by...

X Rebirth Nexus Launched

X Rebirth, the next iteration in Egosoft’s popular space pew pew series, came out on Friday. The X series has always been highly moddable and I’ve always been a big fan of it (indeed, I helped a friend to maintain a fansite for X2, X2 Source, for several years back in 2004-2006). I’ve had a lot of people ask me if I’d be willing to run a Nexus site for the game and while I know many of the modders in the community are quite set in their ways in using the official Egosoft forums there’s...

Fallout New Vegas Mod Clinic - Part 17 : Guns, Ammo and all that Junk

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Download Links:
Realistic Weapons Damages - New Vegas
Missing Ammo Recipes
Ammo Ingredients as Loot
Alternative Repairing...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 80 : Spybot, Paper World Map & Demonic Soultrap Sound

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Thumbnail is 'Cinemascope ENB Serpentie Dragons in Skyrim' courtesy of fiszi.

Mods covered in this video:
Spybot
Warburgs 3D Paper World Map
Demonic Soultrap Sound...

NMM 0.50.0.1 alpha test update released, bug fixes aplenty

Thanks to the bug reports from brave souls testing our alpha release of NMM 0.50 yesterday we have released an update today for people testing the alpha. You can find this latest version by clicking here. Here's the fix list:

1. Bugfix: NMM failing to create file links when the program wasn’t run as administrator with some Windows’ UAC settings.
2. Bugfix: File link overwrite prompt not showing the file owner.
3. Bugfix: Rare crash while migrating the install log...

NMM 0.50.0.0a now available for brave alpha testers

Ok, it’s ready for testing. I mentioned a couple of months back that we were putting the finishing touches on the next build of NMM that will become 0.50.0. This latest build features a new feature, mod profiling.

Profiling is the ability to create and manage multiple different playlists for each game we support so you can switch between your playlists before running the game.

What’s the point? Well, if you’re the type of person who likes to do multiple different ...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 79 : Jaggarsfeld

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I have not covered nearly enough player homes in my videos and so I am going to try and fix that starting with a great player home with a lot of very cool features.

Download links:
Jaggarsfeld ...

Fallout New Vegas Mod Clinic - Part 16 : ValkED-E, Mobile Truck, Cowboy Repeater and Better Smoke

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Here is a random selection of mods that grabbed my attention this week.

Download Links:
Flight of the ValkED-E
Mobile Truck Base
Cowboy Repeater without peep sight
Better Smoke and Ballistics...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 78 : Dawnbreaker, Torches and Concentrative Fire and Frost Shouts

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A few mods that came up on my radar recently.

Download Links
Daedric Dawnbreaker
Improved sneak detection
Double Torch Radius
Brighter Torches with Bigger Radius
Concentrative Fire and Frost Shouts for Player...

Fallout New Vegas Mod Clinic - Part 15: JIP Companion Command & Control and True Leaning

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Playing Fallout: New Vegas once again and I am amazed by all the great mods that have popped up whilst I was not looking. Shame on me for missing them. Time to make amends.

Download Links
JIP Companions Command and Control
True Leaning...