For the longest time modders have been quite happy to use the old launcher for the game so that we were actually able to use the creative kit to build start pos files but i guess that times is up.

for no apparent reason CA have decided to force an update on all of us to force us to use the new launcher that causes clear issues when creating mods and i dont see them addressing this for us considering the game has all but been abandoned apart from this seemingly desperate need to get modders off of the old launcher.

for clarification for anybody who does not use the creative kit to mod the game. with this new launcher if you have edited any start_pos related files and attempt to use the BoB tool to build you startpos.esf file and pack it will crash regardless of the workaround available online. and this has not been an issue for a long time because we have been able to use the old launcher to avoid this. but unless the tool or the launcher is fixed going forword you can say goodbye to modding the game with the official tools