The task of installing these mods isn't made any easier by the apparent inabiity of most modders to properly store folders in zipfiles. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I've taken to simply installing them all in temp locations, then moved their contents. Where I'm offered the choice of whether to overwrite and one file is newer, of course I go with the newer one.
In a way, these mods bring on a mood of nostalgia. I worked for four years for a text-based for-pay MMORPG that's still doing pretty well, despite all the Evercracks and such. I was one of their key room and merchant builders, and loved to create stuff that was unique and incredibly detailed--with many objects in a room, and more than a dozen with individual descriptions and activities that could be performed. I always tried to add atmospheric and unique touches, like glow lights that chimed softly at dawn and sunset, or swords that responded to your level of expertise by doing everything from extraordinary feats of visual display to fumbles with slight injury.
It was hectic work, but loads of fun. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
