I know this can be a controversial topic but my exhaustion got to a point that I just got to say it. Over the last few months I thought of picking up the game again for a modded run in a few different occasions, and every time I did so I had to spend over 30 minutes to an hour going over mod pages, downloading files, replacing folders and updating my current mods. This takes like 5 minutes with other games like Terraria and Factorio (or any game with Steam Workshop support, though the aforementioned two use their own solutions). I understand that some of those can create extra burdens on modders and that auto updating is no good for Starsector, but at least a button to manually update the mods (instead of a forum link page as the Version Check mod does, which still requires you to launch the game) would be greatly appreciated. Not to mention that some very good mods get buried in Page 3/4 of the forum pages because of the way forum threads are sorted, even if it got updated recently, so you gotta go looking for them. And then on top of all that a lot of really good mods are restricted to Discord only, making it even more of a pain to find everything interesting before you start a new run.
I've given up starting modded runs multiple times just by how bothersome this whole process is. I'm not calling on Alex to handle this or any specific modder. If you don't like it that's fine. But if you ever felt similar frustrations and want to the game to appeal to more people, please consider this. Thank you.
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Topic: The game seriously needs a mod manager/downloader (Read 2138 times)