Unfortunately, I think the catch would be that any mod manager you want to use would need to be modified to integrate with torrent/I2P/etc. Probably doable with something open source like Mod Organizer 2 though
Just download the mods however you would download them.
Organize them and ‘install’ them with the mod organizer, MO2, Limo, whatever.
Most torrent managers allow you to paste in a block of links to a bunch of torrents, all at once.
If you wanna release a mod collection… you just make a list that includes all the links to the mods, and then another smaller torrent that is just the load order file, or instructions for how to set up the mod manager with the load order.
Download managers for non torrents still exist.
Mega still exists.
You could set up an RSS system that does 90% of this.
I’ve been modding, making mods and shit since the 90s.
Its only fairly recently that people expect mod manager programs to handle downloading the mods and keep them up to date.
This is not necessary.
You are thinking of a mod manager as a thing that manages the downloading.
This is a fundamentally unnecessary concept, we’ve solved the problem of ‘how do i keep a bunch of files downloaded and up to date’ in a thousand different ways since dawn of the internet.
And its also a fundamentally bad idea with specifically mods, because one random change from a mod in either a collection or your own custom load order… well that can introduce cascading breakages… because almost no one who publishes a mod collection actually bothers to constantly keep sure that all updates all keep working together.
There’s no real, solid ‘maintainer’ thats constantly correctly auditing all of that, the way you have with say the curation of core linux libraries.
…this is only a catch if you want an easy button.
If you want an easy button, go pay Nexus for it.
It will break often, but it is ‘easy’, I guess.
Also I2P is an entire alternate internet standard sort of in the way Tor and onion sites are, except its basically ‘what if the entire internet was torrents, and also encrypted’.
There’s basically no way to download anything from I2P without it going through a million hops and coming from a million different people.
It solves the ‘how do we store and deliver all these files’ problem by… you set up the main site with the main copy of the file, but everyone else who also has the file can also contribute to helping anyone else download them, anyone else connected to the network helps route traffic for everyone else.
Its only fairly recently that people expect mod manager programs to handle downloading the mods and keep them up to date.
This is not necessary.
Nexus mods has had mod managers handling downloads for over 15 years. And good luck trying to get people on any mod service that can’t handle that nowadays.
And the rest of your comment is just you talking down like I’m a 5 year old. Fuck off with that noise. I’ve been modding for over a decade, both with and without mod managers.
If you can’t talk to someone without being a pretentious prick that insists that they’re smarter than everyone else, then just shut the fuck up.
And don’t bother responding, you’ve proven you’re not worth talking to and you’re getting blocked.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Now that’s a good fucking idea, imo.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Unfortunately, I think the catch would be that any mod manager you want to use would need to be modified to integrate with torrent/I2P/etc. Probably doable with something open source like Mod Organizer 2 though
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Uh no it wouldnt.
Just download the mods however you would download them.
Organize them and ‘install’ them with the mod organizer, MO2, Limo, whatever.
Most torrent managers allow you to paste in a block of links to a bunch of torrents, all at once.
If you wanna release a mod collection… you just make a list that includes all the links to the mods, and then another smaller torrent that is just the load order file, or instructions for how to set up the mod manager with the load order.
Download managers for non torrents still exist.
Mega still exists.
You could set up an RSS system that does 90% of this.
I’ve been modding, making mods and shit since the 90s.
Its only fairly recently that people expect mod manager programs to handle downloading the mods and keep them up to date.
This is not necessary.
You are thinking of a mod manager as a thing that manages the downloading.
This is a fundamentally unnecessary concept, we’ve solved the problem of ‘how do i keep a bunch of files downloaded and up to date’ in a thousand different ways since dawn of the internet.
And its also a fundamentally bad idea with specifically mods, because one random change from a mod in either a collection or your own custom load order… well that can introduce cascading breakages… because almost no one who publishes a mod collection actually bothers to constantly keep sure that all updates all keep working together.
There’s no real, solid ‘maintainer’ thats constantly correctly auditing all of that, the way you have with say the curation of core linux libraries.
…this is only a catch if you want an easy button.
If you want an easy button, go pay Nexus for it.
It will break often, but it is ‘easy’, I guess.
Also I2P is an entire alternate internet standard sort of in the way Tor and onion sites are, except its basically ‘what if the entire internet was torrents, and also encrypted’.
There’s basically no way to download anything from I2P without it going through a million hops and coming from a million different people.
It solves the ‘how do we store and deliver all these files’ problem by… you set up the main site with the main copy of the file, but everyone else who also has the file can also contribute to helping anyone else download them, anyone else connected to the network helps route traffic for everyone else.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Nexus mods has had mod managers handling downloads for over 15 years. And good luck trying to get people on any mod service that can’t handle that nowadays.
And the rest of your comment is just you talking down like I’m a 5 year old. Fuck off with that noise. I’ve been modding for over a decade, both with and without mod managers.
If you can’t talk to someone without being a pretentious prick that insists that they’re smarter than everyone else, then just shut the fuck up.
And don’t bother responding, you’ve proven you’re not worth talking to and you’re getting blocked.