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[Samson]

Will there be any other alternatives aside from the official website and Nexus?

Personally I've been wanting to avoid Nexus as of late because they've become increasingly more political in their moderation and I'd like to support a more neutral website moving forward.

[Siffrin]

Will there be any other alternatives aside from the official website and Nexus?

Personally I've been wanting to avoid Nexus as of late because they've become increasingly more political in their moderation and I'd like to support a more neutral website moving forward.

https://starmodder2.pages.dev/
It's a database of basically every mod on the forum and from the USC Discord. Anything on Nexus that isn't on the forum as well is likely something dodgy by the way.

[Nettle]

Anything on Nexus that isn't on the forum as well is likely something dodgy by the way.

Dodgy in what manner?

[Siffrin]

Anything on Nexus that isn't on the forum as well is likely something dodgy by the way.

Dodgy in what manner?

Banned from the main forum.

[Popel]

meh, I like our Index for mods rather than some nexus big chickens breast mods

[Killer of Fate]

Anything on Nexus that isn't on the forum as well is likely something dodgy by the way.

Dodgy in what manner?

Banned from the main forum.

or it could have been lost to the forum, like not all modding makes it to mods i guess

but generally i dont like nexus mods, they feel predatory as a "company"

[TheJollyKraut]

but generally i dont like nexus mods, they feel predatory as a "company"

How so?

[Killer of Fate]

but generally i dont like nexus mods, they feel predatory as a "company"

How so?

forcing you to register to download if i remember correctly

[Wispborne]

Nexus Mods is fine, it takes a lot of money to provide downloads for e.g. massive texture packs to hundreds of thousands of people. They take reasonable steps to prevent abuse. The alternative would be to burn through cash to get more users, then sell to a supercorp who would milk it to death. We don't want them to turn into Fandom.

If you are a mod author, you can also earn Donation Points from people downloading your mod(s), which can be used to get free Lifetime Premium (fast, unlimited downloads).

Personally, I find that mod discovery is more of an annoyance with the site than anything else.

[Nettle]

Nexus Mods is fine, it takes a lot of money to provide downloads for e.g. massive texture packs to hundreds of thousands of people. They take reasonable steps to prevent abuse. The alternative would be to burn through cash to get more users, then sell to a supercorp who would milk it to death. We don't want them to turn into Fandom.

While what you are saying makes perfect sense, I can't help but notice that ModDB exists.

[Killer of Fate]

Nexus Mods is fine, it takes a lot of money to provide downloads for e.g. massive texture packs to hundreds of thousands of people. They take reasonable steps to prevent abuse. The alternative would be to burn through cash to get more users, then sell to a supercorp who would milk it to death. We don't want them to turn into Fandom.

While what you are saying makes perfect sense, I can't help but notice that ModDB exists.

i wonder how difficult would it be to coagulate Starsector mods on the Steam Workshop

[Wispborne]

I never really figured out the ModDB user interface and forget it exists. My overall impression is that they have far fewer users and a more optimized backend as well as almost no development costs due to never changing.


Steam Workshop doesn't make any sense for Starsector mods because it lacks any control over updates. You will open your game one day and a mod will have broken your save, with no way to go back. Starsector isn't designed to avoid save-breaking updates.

[Killer of Fate]

I never really figured out the ModDB user interface and forget it exists. My overall impression is that they have far fewer users and a more optimized backend as well as almost no development costs due to never changing.

that sounds like a good thing

edit:
but i can understand why it's not

I'm kind of a spooked guy. Who enjoys minimalism and emotional depth over baroque-esque endeavours of massive proportions. So I download a few mods at a time if at all. This is why I didn't mind the simplicity of Steam Workshop and ModDB

[Lawrence Master-blaster]

Nexus Mods is absolutely not fine. Having to register to download a mod is laughable in [CURRENT_YEAR], especially when their password requirements are this absurd. I don't have to do any of it on ModDB or mod.io.

And Steam does have version control.

[TheJollyKraut]

I don't see how registering to be able to use their service would be any kind of inconvenience. Especially since that might protect mod authors and their work.