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The number is not unbounded, the more mods you have the more difficulty you will have upgrading, the more they conflict with each other, and consumer hardware c

The number is not unbounded, the more mods you have the more difficulty you will have upgrading, the more they conflict with each other, and consumer hardware cannot handle the load. Also, paid mods usually have a free version. You pay for early access for latest and greatest version, which only makes sense for specific important mods. You wouldn’t do it for all of the mods.

squigz 1y ago
> the more mods you have the more difficulty you will have upgrading, the more they conflict with each other, The point is you don't quickly reach this point these days. > consumer hardware cannot handle the load. My GPU is 10 years old, my CPU is 6 years old, and I only have 16GB of RAM. I'm not even sure I can name a game that is easily moddable that might overload even a middle-of-the-road system. > Also, paid mods usually have a free version. You pay for early access for latest and greatest version, which only makes sense for specific important mods. You wouldn’t do it for all of the mods. Interestingly, the vast, vast majority of mods I know of that offer a Patreon or similar don't offer much in the way of perks - it's mostly just a way of letting users support them if they choose. Sometimes there's early access, but that's actually fairly rare in my experience.
- strogonoff 1y ago
  > My GPU is 10 years old, my CPU is 6 years old, and I only have 16GB of RAM And a Minecraft server with 300+ mods? I doubt it. > I'm not even sure I can name a game that is easily moddable that might overload even a middle-of-the-road system. X-Plane, Cities: Skylines, Minecraft… Most big games will overload a machine of an average person, at least once you add a decent shader, high-poly models and high-res textures, and play on anything other than potato resolution.
  - squigz 1y ago
    The server isn't hosted on my computer silly.
    - strogonoff 1y ago
      Which tracks the experience of an average person how? If you think everybody these days runs a million mods and admins a rented server, you should really go out more.
      - squigz 1y ago
        Do you think the average person is hosting the Minecraft server(s) they play on on their home computer?
        strogonoff 1y ago
        Average person doesn’t host servers, full stop.

squigz 1y ago

> the more mods you have the more difficulty you will have upgrading, the more they conflict with each other, The point is you don't quickly reach this point these days. > consumer hardware cannot handle the load. My GPU is 10 years old, my CPU is 6 years old, and I only have 16GB of RAM. I'm not even sure I can name a game that is easily moddable that might overload even a middle-of-the-road system. > Also, paid mods usually have a free version. You pay for early access for latest and greatest version, which only makes sense for specific important mods. You wouldn’t do it for all of the mods. Interestingly, the vast, vast majority of mods I know of that offer a Patreon or similar don't offer much in the way of perks - it's mostly just a way of letting users support them if they choose. Sometimes there's early access, but that's actually fairly rare in my experience.

strogonoff 1y ago
> My GPU is 10 years old, my CPU is 6 years old, and I only have 16GB of RAM And a Minecraft server with 300+ mods? I doubt it. > I'm not even sure I can name a game that is easily moddable that might overload even a middle-of-the-road system. X-Plane, Cities: Skylines, Minecraft… Most big games will overload a machine of an average person, at least once you add a decent shader, high-poly models and high-res textures, and play on anything other than potato resolution.
- squigz 1y ago
  The server isn't hosted on my computer silly.
  - strogonoff 1y ago
    Which tracks the experience of an average person how? If you think everybody these days runs a million mods and admins a rented server, you should really go out more.
    - squigz 1y ago
      Do you think the average person is hosting the Minecraft server(s) they play on on their home computer?
      - strogonoff 1y ago
        Average person doesn’t host servers, full stop.