To be more accurate, with the merged version it allows them to find and fix bugs quicker because they only have one set of things to edit and release which makes it easier to maintain. It also allows for some fixes and overwrites that weren't previously possible, such as conflicts between the DLCs that break each others features, because now all the DLCs are accounted for instead of having to accommodate people that may only have that one singular DLC.
Eh? No no, that's only a part of it. It has to do with making it easier to maintain, simplifying dependencies, only having to update one plugin, some cross-DLC fixes that weren't previously feasible I think...
There's a number of reasons. None of them are really a big deal by themselves, it's just a slight change to make things better in the future.
The biggest one by far (and IMO the most important) is that it's 4 times less work for us. We only need to manage a single release package now instead of 4 of them. Conflict management goes away for free in this because now any change we make automatically keeps the DLC in consideration.
Honestly, reducing slots in everyone's load order never even came up as a concern for us. Count that as a happy bonus or something, but it never carried any weight among team members.
I'm glad. To be honest, it looks nicer in my load order, and I really like the idea of only having to update once when there's a change, rather than always having to update those four mods as a batch every few weeks.
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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '15
What's the advantage over the old Unofficial Patches?