Hi all, sorry if my google fu has failed me horribly but I'm curious about reasons why installing mods with a mod manager is necessarily safer than installing them manually (drag from archive into data folder). For mods that have specific choices you need to make, I understand the obvious convenience of the mod manager. What about mods that are just dropping files into your data folder and don't even have a fomod folder (I'm assuming the xml file guides the installation?) in them though?
Two examples:
Project Valkyrie and Outcasts and Remnants both come as archives with loose files but no fomod folder. What are the benefits to installing through Vortex over dragging and dropping manually to my data folder from the zipped archives I downloaded from the Nexus?
Sim Settlements 2 DOES have a fomod folder in the archive. It's been a while since I installed it so I don't recall if there were things I needed to select when I installed. Do I need to install with Vortex or again is dragging and dropping an option?
What makes dragging and dropping 'dangerous' in general?
Two examples:
Project Valkyrie and Outcasts and Remnants both come as archives with loose files but no fomod folder. What are the benefits to installing through Vortex over dragging and dropping manually to my data folder from the zipped archives I downloaded from the Nexus?
Sim Settlements 2 DOES have a fomod folder in the archive. It's been a while since I installed it so I don't recall if there were things I needed to select when I installed. Do I need to install with Vortex or again is dragging and dropping an option?
What makes dragging and dropping 'dangerous' in general?