Thread Management

Introduction

This wiki page is aimed at anyone managing a BOSS thread, or anyone who finds themselves in the position of being the only person active when a thread reaches its 200 post limit.

The Opening Post

The opening posts for the BOSS threads are stored in two parts:

• The generic part is stored below.
• The game-specific part is stored in the Thread History.txt file in each game's repository.

When creating a BOSS thread, first copy/paste the contents of the generic part into the opening post text box, copy/paste the game-specific part below it.

Generic Opening Post

[center][size=6]BOSS[/size]

A plugin load order optimiser for TES IV: Oblivion, Nehrim - At Fate's Edge, TES V: Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.[/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 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.

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.

[size=5]Downloads[/size]

BOSS can be downloaded from its [url="http://boss-developers.github.io"]website[/url].

[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, which are linked to at the bottom of its [url="http://boss-developers.github.io"]website[/url].

User contribution of additions and corrections to the masterlist are vital to the upkeep of BOSS. 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:
[LIST]
[*]The ESP/ESM file name(s).[/*]
[*]The number of records removed (the ITM count) as shown by TES4Edit/FO3Edit/FNVEdit/TES5Edit (not the number of records processed).[/*]
[*]The number of records undeleted (the UDR count) as shown by TES4Edit/FO3Edit/FNVEdit/TES5Edit (not the number of records processed).[/*]
[*]The CRC(s) of the unlcean ESP/ESM file name(s). Make sure that the CRCs are of the uncleaned files, not the files after cleaning. The CRC(s) may be calculated using BOSS, Wrye *ash or 7-zip, with other sources being unverified as correct. In the case of 7-zip, the "CRC checksum for data" is the one required.[/*]
[/LIST]
[size=5]License[/size]

[i]See the ReadMe in the download for more information.[/i]

Updating the Thread History

The thread history is useful and so should be kept up to date whenever a thread is closed and a new one is opened. Be sure to check that the last thread it lists matches up with the last thread given in the opening post of the current BOSS thread. You can get the topic ID of a thread from its URL. The syntax is fairly obvious.