I've had quite a few emails from folks in the Elder Scrolls community who have asked me whether I've thought about making another Nexus site, normally in relation to Fallout 3. I'm willing to admit that the thought had crossed my mind pursuant to a number of different factors.

Most noteably, and also most hindering, is the release of an SDK (aka Construction Set) for the game that Bethesda have refused to comment on. To me the idea of Bethesda not releasing an SDK with the game would be utterly perplexing, but it's important we don't take for granted the awesomeness of the two Construction Sets that Bethesda have released for Morrowind and Oblivion respectively. Irrespective of the (what I'd call) selfish whines of many community members that complained about a dumbed down Oblivion Construction Set, these two pieces of kit are still amazing pieces of software blasting the two games from 30 - 50 hour games to 200+ hour games. Isn't sensationalism great?

Almost just as important, however, is Bethesda's awesome decision to have the SDK's ready for release day. In my personal opinion there are many game communities out there (hello Dark Messiah) that could have been saved had an SDK been released soon enough. Instead many developers seem to play down the impact SDK's seem to have on the popularity of their games and make them a side project for future release. Unfortunately many modern releases seem to be as bug ridden as English hospitals so the SDK release gets thrown further into the future as the entire development team focuses on patching the game up to acceptable standards. Almost ironically, if the SDK is done right, the community itself can often come up with unofficial fixes for many "show-stopper" bugs in games that cause people to quit, uninstall the game and hold illwill against the developer in question from then on.

So with that out the way I'll say that if Bethesda announce Fallout 3 will contain a Construction Set-esque application, I could see a Fallout 3 Nexus site cropping up at release. However, at this time I cannot foresee launching a general news and information site for the game. There are already a few sites, like NMA, that do this very well, and why try and compete with them and attempt to split the community in this area? I like to think my skill lies in coding these behind the scenes systems that keep the site ticking and the people happy, but I'm not all to good at the real meat and veg of these great sites, like article writing and news posting.

Will you add a MWSE Tag?

This has also been suggested here.

Oops Didn't know

I am a casual gamer and came across this website when I learned players had update files...... I think this is a great website.

The only thing I'd say DarkOne is, (and I really don't want to sound patronising here) a new site is cool as long as it doesn't spread you too thin if you know what i mean.
I'm sure you have a lot to keep you busy already and being selfish I'd hate to think increased work from an altruistic desire to answer all demands might weigh on you eventually, producing the, ' There's more to life than this., Vegas! showgirls..' thoughts.
Anyway, I feel I'm turning into my dad now so I'll leave it on the showgirl note.

Off topic, but big problem:

It seems the database has crashed to Dec 03, 2007.

Please don't make off-topic posts here.

thank you

Hey mates.how is everyone?Im the new guy and hopefully soon as my tour is over i can help out with mods and stuff.can anyone email me a list of tools that will help in modding Oblivion?

Hope yall have a rock-on day

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