diff --git a/Thread-Management.md b/Thread-Management.md index 19d7b95..10a6b38 100644 --- a/Thread-Management.md +++ b/Thread-Management.md @@ -11,20 +11,18 @@ The opening posts for the BOSS threads are stored in two parts. The generic part ```Markdown [center][size=6]BOSS[/size] -A plugin load order optimiser for TES III: Morrowind, TES IV: Oblivion, Nehrim - At Fate's Edge, TES V: Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.[/center] +A load order optimisation tool for games using the Elder Scrolls Plugin/Master system.[/center] [size=5]Introduction[/size] -BOSS is designed to assist mod users in avoiding detrimental conflicts, by setting the correct load order for the plugins they have installed. +BOSS is a plugin load order optimiser for TES IV: Oblivion, TES V: Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. It is designed to assist mod users in avoiding detrimental conflicts, by automatically calculating a load order that satisfies all plugin dependencies and maximises each plugin's impact on the user's game. -BOSS also provides thousands of plugin-specific messages, including usage notes, Bash Tag suggestions, requirements, incompatibilities, bug warnings and installation mistake notifications. It supports the sorting of plugins ghosted by the Wrye *ash (Wrye Bash, Wrye Flash, Wrye Flash NV, Wrye Smash) utilities, is highly customisable, has been translated into multiple languages, and is simple to use. +BOSS also provides some load order error checking, including checks for requirements, incompatibilities and cyclic dependencies. In addition, it provides a large number of plugin-specific usage notes, bug wawrnings and Bash Tag suggestions. -Although BOSS recognises tens of thousands of plugins, it is not a complete solution to load ordering issues, as there are many more mods available. To properly place unrecognised plugins, a good working knowledge of mod load ordering is still necessary, for which some research and documentation reading will go a long way. See the Introduction To Load Orders section of BOSS's readme for an overview. +Although BOSS is able to calculate the correct load order positions for the vast majority of mods without any user input, some plugins are designed to load at certain positions in a load order, and BOSS may be unable to determine this from the plugins themselves. As such, BOSS provides a mechanism for supplying additional plugin metadata so that it may sort them correctly. -[b]While BOSS technically supports TES III: Morrowind, no mod plugins are recognised and no further support is planned.[/b] Morrowind users looking for an automated load order manager should consider using [url=http://code.google.com/p/mlox]mlox[/url] instead. - -BOSS also has an API that gives programmers access to almost all of BOSS's functionality, plus more general load order management functionality that greatly simplifies working with load orders across the supported games. See the BOSS API Readme for more information on that. +BOSS is intended to make using mods easier, and mod users should still possess a working knowledge of mod load ordering. [size=5]Downloads[/size] @@ -33,18 +31,11 @@ BOSS can be downloaded from its [url=http://boss-developers.github.io]website[/u [size=5]Contributions & Help[/size] -General discussion, and the submission of questions, suggestions and unrecognised or unclean mods, takes place in BOSS's official threads for [url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/?showtopic=1404766]Oblivion[/url], [url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/?showtopic=1132338]Nehrim[/url], [url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/?showtopic=1406341]Skyrim[/url], [url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/?showtopic=1282711]Fallout 3[/url] and [url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/?showtopic=1313081]Fallout: New Vegas[/url]. +General discussion and the submission of questions, suggestions and metadata takes place in BOSS's official threads for [url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/?showtopic=1404766]Oblivion[/url], [url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/?showtopic=1406341]Skyrim[/url], [url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/?showtopic=1282711]Fallout 3[/url] and [url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/?showtopic=1313081]Fallout: New Vegas[/url]. -User contribution of additions and corrections to the masterlist are vital to the upkeep of BOSS. Let us know what you know. +User contribution of additions and corrections to BOSS's masterlists are vital to the upkeep of BOSS. Please let us know what you know! -Lists of unrecognized mods are welcome but the only way we can include them in the database in a timely way is if we get: - -[list] -[*] The ESP/ESM file name(s). -[*] A link to where the description, download or readme can be found to read or download. -[*] A brief description of each mod will also help. Feel free to make load order suggestions. -[/list] -Lists of unclean mods are also very welcome, but for the report to be most useful we require: +Lists of dirty plugins are also very welcome, but for the report to be most useful we require: [list] [*] The ESP/ESM file name(s). @@ -54,15 +45,6 @@ Lists of unclean mods are also very welcome, but for the report to be most usefu [/list] -[size=5]License[/size] - -BOSS is distributed under the [url=http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html]GNU General Public License v3.0[/url], aside from the documentation, which is distributed under the [url=http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html]GNU Free Documentation License v1.3[/url]. For the full text of both licenses, see the included "Licenses.txt" file. - -While the GPL license allows anyone to make derivative works of BOSS, the BOSS Development Team encourages those thinking of doing so to first discuss their reasoning for such an endevour with the Team. It may be that what the derivative work would do differently from BOSS itself is already planned for a future version of BOSS or would be happily integrated into BOSS by the Team, thus avoiding any extra effort by others. - -The BOSS Team also appeals to the community to avoid the distribution and development of alternative masterlists, as this would only hamper the community effort to create one universally-optimised load order for all plugins available for download. Any issues with a masterlist are best brought to the attention of the BOSS Team so that we may remedy them ourselves. - - [i]See the ReadMe in the download for more information.[/i] ```