One of the great little-known truths is that when you’re dealing with a large enough organization and you catch the right person at the right time in the right mood you can get practically anything. I learned this many years ago when dealing with a Fortune 500 company. After spending dozens (maybe even scores) of hours on the telephone talking to various people in the company, looking for some specific information nearly by chance I got ahold of that right person at the right time in the right mood. A few days later by mail I received an enormous dump of what was clearly company proprietary information. I think the person I spoke with was thrilled that I expressed interest in her work. As a result of that dump I became something of an authority on an obscure little subject—basically, the only person who didn’t actually work for the company who really knew anything about the subject.
It’s harder than it used to be now in this day of voicemail and auto-response systems but it’s still not impossible. It’s just harder to catch that right person than it used to be.
Hey, I used to be that one person with a job almost no one took an interest in!
There are thousands, maybe millions of them, Ellipsis.
I do not know if you keep up with modding on Skyrim, but Steam/Valve and Bethesda have agreed to allow paid mods on the Steam Workshop. The Skyrim modding community is going apeshit. Skyrim has picked-up about 10,000 negative on the Steam ratings system, but in the reviews, everybody loves the game and hate the paid mods.
I have over 100 mods, and I was planning on trying a few more. I have over 3,000 hrs., but I was taking a break.
Yes, I read that. I’m reserving judgment.
I’m not much into mods because I’m cautious about anything that slows down performance of already slow games.
Most mods should not slow you down, but when they are free, you get what you pay for. The graphics mods can be intensive, but while my machine should be able to handle them, I am not bothered by non-HD graphics.
The bigger problem is the dreaded crash-to-desktop (CTD). With the Creation Kit, you can fix some of the problems, but it is buggy as all hell. Of course, it is free.