F.A.Q.

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Q: Have you ever considered ESMifying the mod at some point? There is a limit of active references the game engine can handle. ESP files have persistent references that are always loaded at all times, ESM files on the other hand use temporary references that can load and then unload. It's especially noticeable with large cells and worldspaces in .esp files

A; It has been attempted by, yourenotsupposedtobeinhere, Halofarm, Alexander J. Velicky and Sharlikran, and teams of other, extremely knowledgeable mod authors. Each attempt has failed as it broke the mod. The mod author is open for assistance with ESMifying under the following conditions:

1. Whoever is requesting the mod be ESMified has attempted to do so themselves.
2. You have been successful. yourenotsupposedtobeinhere wants nothing more than to have an ESMified pluggin. Please report your success via PM.
3. If you have a team of people working on it, involve yourenotsupposedtobeinhere. As the mod is still beta, He needs to be able to ESMify it himself.
4. Don't be rude and cause misinformation on social media.

Q: How has ESMifying broken the mod?

A: In most cases, not all the quests fire as they should. Each ESMifying technique yields different results. If you are curious, I encourage you to try and ESMify yourself, perhaps you will pick up on that was overlooked.

Q: LOOT/TES5Edit/xEdit says "found 2857 ITM records", "Deleted Navmeshes, ITMs and UDR", "itm: 2925, etc, etc."

A: Summerset Isle has been cleaned, tested and optimized by the mod author and his team. If you are inclined to clean the mod, you do so at your own risk. Understand that the ITMs are safe and will be regenerated when the plugin is saved after cleaning. If you are interested in the development of Summerset isle, please consider becoming a beta testers. As Summerset Isle has been in development for nine plus years, literally no one knows it better than it's creator. That doesn't mean it is without flaws. It needs more and more testing every day as it is a very big mod, many things can go wrong. Please apply here.

Q: Where's the grass?

A: If you are using a grass mod, good chance it has broken the grass in Summerset Isle. Please contact the grass mod author and ask for a patch. This happens because many grass modders delete default grasses that come with the game. Summerset Isle uses grasses that come with the default game. The only way to fix this in Summerset Isle would be to do the grass all over again which would take years to do, where making a patch would take minutes.

Q: Your concept of Artaeum is wrong and doesn't match ESO!

A: The mod Summerset Isle was created before ESO. Artaeum's appearance in Summerset Isle is addressed by Othinil who is in the Study of the Psijic Order. If you have an issue lore/canon wise with this design choice, you should also be complaining about Sheogorath existing prior to Jyggalag in ESO, a cave structure of the Shivering Isles existing underneath Solitude and all the relics from Cyrodiil gravitating to Skyrim.

Q: Have you made any contact with the developers of Beyond Skyrim? With a project like this, it seems to me you'd be a massive contributor.

A: There are at least two philosophies when it comes to modding. Some people work better in a structured group. Carved Brink, Beyond Bruma, Skywind, where tasks are delegated through the members. The other philosophy is working solo, like Vigilant, Beyond Reach, Gray Cowl of Nocturnal, Moon Path to Elsweyr, Wheels of Lull. The solo modder is the director and gears of their machine. While both approaches work, the developer of Summerset Isles is a solo modder like many others. A few members of Beyond Skyrim have contacted yourenotsupposedtobeinhere for modding advice and one of the developers from Enderal requested asset use, which was granted.

Q: Why are there so few people in Alinor?

A: Alinor has a population of 55 people in the current version. Shimmerene has 89. In Skyrim, Whiterun has a population of 72. and Winterhold has 35.

Q: Why did you do a copyright strike on NovaJam's video of Summerset Isle?

A: This is an internet fairy tale. yourenotsupposedtobeinhere put a copyright strike on a coward pretending to be Novajam, who made a hate video. The strike was successful. There was only ever one video that had a strike.

Q: Why don't you want people reviewing your mod online?

A: I actually do.