What is ski_playerloadgamealias psc and is it okay to overwrite?

[Pronema]

I have a number of mods that use this and overwrite each other, can this cause problems?

 

Thunderchild shouts, Dangerous Nights, SkyUI, SkoomaWhore, Command Dragon, SexSlavesForBandits all use it, why is it required, and is it edited on an individual basis for each mod?

 

 

[Ashal]

It's the script that enables MCM menus for mods, making SkyUI the original owner.

 

If it's just the PSC file, it's harmless as Skyrim doesn't actually load those.

 

If it's the PEX file however, and assuming the mod overwriting it is overwriting it with the latest version also provided by SkyUI, it's harmless. If SkyUI ever updates the script however and the mod overwriting is still overwriting with an old version, you're going to have problems and an all around bad time.

 

Whether or not it's the PSC or PEX version of the file though, it's 100% sloppy packaging on the mod authors part. Mod authors including it with their download should remove it from the package since there is zero reason to include it and it will cause problems if the authors of SkyUI ever update the script.

 

Whenever ModOrganizer shows somebody overwriting the script I usually just delete it out of the mods folder, or if the script is in a bsa file (gross), extract the bsa to that mods MO folder, delete the bsa, and then delete the ski_ script that was unpacked from the bsa.

[Pronema]

Thanks, I had no clue what it was and it was disconcerting to have so many mods overwrite each other.