skyrim special edition (WIP) Shalidor's Maze 1.0.1

You should mention the Dawnguard Center Floor Fix as an additional requirement. 

I have downloaded your mod and had some trouble figuring out what the additional requirement was, but Wrye Bash gave me the answer. Also reviewed the mod in the CK to prevent me from creating the same type of maze as you did. My mod, "Shalidor's Legacy" will be totally different, although with some minor similarities. I will place a short description of my mod on Modding on the Spectrum soon.

3 hours ago, Altbert said:

You should mention the Dawnguard Center Floor Fix as an additional requirement. 

I have downloaded your mod and had some trouble figuring out what the additional requirement was, but Wrye Bash gave me the answer. Also reviewed the mod in the CK to prevent me from creating the same type of maze as you did. My mod, "Shalidor's Legacy" will be totally different, although with some minor similarities. I will place a short description of my mod on Modding on the Spectrum soon.

Thanks for the feedback. 

The mod does not require the Dawnguard Center Floor Tile Fix.  I forgot to remove unused masters. 

My maze is unique, thus far.  I have seen nothing even close to it in the ES universe.  It is build on a concept which has never been successfully implemented before. 

EDIT, I have removed the unreferenced master and made the mod a ESL. 

 

I have some questions about this mod, is there a chance a fresh discord link could be uploaded?

First, you can ask your question here.  You don't have to go to discord. 

Second, where did you encounter an issue with the discord link?  I will need that location to verify/fix the link.  In my best Emily Litella (Gilda Radner) voice "Never mind". 

Holy cow.  Nice reward at the end.   Had to develop a scheme of room identification and then it took me a few hours (with 3 start-overs) but I sure knew it when I got to the exit.  Thank goodness I have Smart Harvest mod to pick all that stuff up.  Excellent work!

2 hours ago, cmd673 said:

Holy cow.  Nice reward at the end.   Had to develop a scheme of room identification and then it took me a few hours (with 3 start-overs) but I sure knew it when I got to the exit.  Thank goodness I have Smart Harvest mod to pick all that stuff up.  Excellent work!

Thank you.  I hope you had as much fun solving the maze as I did making it.  I know I chortled and giggle and rubbed my hands with glee several times.  . 

I have a problem with the mod deleting itself.  Every time I restart Vortex, it reports that the mod is gone giving me a choice to continue or quit vortex.  So I continue and then reinstall the mod to get back to where I was.  Any ideas?

Stop using Vortex, maybe?   

Silliness aside, you need to take this up with Vortex support.  This is their issue to fix. 

Oh I thought it might be something easy like "Vortex does that when the mod name starts with an underscore".   I was hoping there was a way to rename the mod to try out that theory.  In Vortex, the mod shows up as "__Shalidors_Maze.7z" and not as aname such as "Shalidor's Maze".

After restart:  

Look; I don't mean to be rude here, but you are wasting both our time.  I don't know squat about Vortex, and I care even less.  You are having an issue with Vortex so take it up with Vortex Support and stop pestering me. 

No worries.  I figured something in the message and the way the title shows might trigger an idea for you about maybe a missing file or something in your mod package since only your mod behaves like this among the hundreds I have used.   I won't bring this up again.

Suggestions for enhancements to mod:

1) I now know the path through the maze.  If I replay the mod, I don't have to resolve it again.  If you could somehow randomize the path, that cheat goes away.

2) Maybe provide some means of marking the room like leaving can of spray paint in the room or near the trap door leading to the first room.  I used my own method which is very handy taking advantage of a feature of Skyrim to identify each room but I won't post that spoiler here.

I thought about randomizing the solution, but the processing necessary to generate the maze got to be too much for most game PCs and wouldn't work on Xbox at all. 

To number two, that is a definite 'NO!'  Lore wise, Shalidor wasn't a fool, and he meant the maze to be a trap.  Shalidor wanted to catch interlopers unaware so the stupid or weak who intruded into his domain would die and have their remains turn to dust and ash. 

I figured a true randomizer would be a bit much to pull off.  My other idea for that was to have something like 10 different layouts, and you could randomly pick one of them upon entering.  Even if you knew all 10, which would take a lot of solving time, you would still need to figure out which one it was each time you played.

FYI: Folks over on the Vortex forums confirmed that Vortex does not like the double underscore at the start of the mod file name.  I removed the mod from Vortex, renamed the file to "Shalidors_Maze", and then re-installed with the new name.   I got a CTD when attempting to continue from my saved game, but the renamed mod works fine with a new game.  I suggest you take off the leading underscores from your mod file name to save future Vortex users from the same issue.

I suggest they fix Vortex, in as much as it is their software which is the only mod manager which has issues with the name of either the mod or its packaging.  Furthermore; given that the filenames contained within the mod are perfectly acceptable within the rules for file naming for Windows and Unix, I submit that Vortex is indeed broken. 

And did you not read the terms of use for this mod.  You uploaded the mod to NexusMods in this post https://forums.nexusmods.com/topic/13474412-mod-changed-on-disk-with-restart-of-vortex/, which violates the terms of use. 

Sorry, I thought they might need to reproduce the issue.  I see that they did delete it.

Nexus has fixed their Vortex issue: https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/Vortex/issues/15334

Edit: Vortex Closure data - https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/Vortex/pull/15349  It was closed as a BUG.