Threads swamped with "add RSS/RealFuels/my favourite planet pack support" requests.

[GavinZac]

These are mods which are verging on "total conversion" mods. There is no way they can be compatible with most other mods "out of the box". Yet every single thread - be it simply a parts pack, or a plugin, or something as dramatic as Interstellar - someone is requesting conversions to work with these mods which push the boundaries of "what is KSP".

I'd like to see one of two things:

1. These posts being put in Addon Requests as they should be;

2. A subforum where we can put these mods and not have to look at them. Planet packs are getting as commonplace as Flag packs these days.

[Talisar]

I see where you are coming from, and I do agree to a point, but it is just a minor annoyance for me.

1. These posts being put in Addon Requests as they should be;

The problem with this is that requests and suggestions put here may or may not even be seen by the authors of the mods that are being discussed. Suggestions and requests are more likely to be seen in the respective mod's thread.

2. A subforum where we can put these mods and not have to look at them. Planet packs are getting as commonplace as Flag packs these days.

This is a better solution, but I'll suggest one I think is a little better. Give the popular mods their own subforum inside the Addon release forum. Maybe once a particular mod reaches 100 pages. Then there could be multiple threads for different issues concerning the mod (Releases/Requests/Testing/Feedback, etc). This would also let the mod author(s) better organize their feedback if they wished.

For example, NathanKell could have a specific thread in his RealFuels subforum just for people people could suggest mods that they would like to have support for, and another for bug reports. I imagine something like this would make the maintainers of larger and more intricate mods lives easier

Edited March 4, 2014 by Talisar

[Lack]

I have to agree, especially with the mods that radically change the game. Those require you to actually use them to understand how the configuration works, so since the person asking likely understands the other mod better than yourself, since they're actually using it (perhaps that's the 'do it your damn self' attitude with breaking through). Thankfully any entitlement complexes are rare in the community, so it's never too much of a problem.

This is a better solution, but I'll suggest one I think is a little better. Give the popular mods their own subforum inside the Addon release forum. Maybe once a particular mod reaches 100 pages. Then there could be multiple threads for different issues concerning the mod (Releases/Requests/Testing/Feedback, etc). This would also let the mod author(s) better organize their feedback if they wished.

I like the concept, although there are quite a number of mods that may require this, finding a way to organise that number of sub-forums (in a way that the average user could actually find) without unduly cluttering the place up could be difficult.

A stickied mega-thread for requesting cross-compatibility configs might work as a stop-gap. The advantage being that 'do it yourself' guides for mods can be posted as well, and it would give us a thread to link people to.

[Talisar]

I like the concept, although there are quite a number of mods that may require this, finding a way to organise that number of sub-forums (in a way that the average user could actually find) without unduly cluttering the place up could be difficult.

This is true, but in my mind the mods that would get their own subforums would have to both be either very expansive (like B9, KW, and your own LLL pack) or make significant changes to the base game (Such as just about anything that NathanKell or Taniwha have their fingers in) as well as have mod authors/admins who are actively maintaining the mod pack. I think this would limit the amount of separate threads. A pack such as my own wouldn't necessarily qualify for it's own subforum, as it doesn't change the base game or have an extremely large number of parts to keep up with.

Additionally, the subforums could be under one main "Dedicated Mod Subforums", to keep from cluttering the general forum area.

[GavinZac]

This is true, but in my mind the mods that would get their own subforums would have to both be either very expansive (like B9, KW, and your own LLL pack) or make significant changes to the base game (Such as just about anything that NathanKell or Taniwha have their fingers in) as well as have mod authors/admins who are actively maintaining the mod pack. I think this would limit the amount of separate threads. A pack such as my own wouldn't necessarily qualify for it's own subforum, as it doesn't change the base game or have an extremely large number of parts to keep up with.

Additionally, the subforums could be under one main "Dedicated Mod Subforums", to keep from cluttering the general forum area.

I've seen it, nay, I've done it on other forums and it can sometimes be a disaster, nesting forums like that. It could work, but it would need the mod maintainer's commitment.

On the plus side, perhaps then "Add-on Releases" would be about Add-on releases.