When I exit the game, I know that it syncs everything with the server and to another backup location on the local HDD, but why does it copy every single thing in the game to the cloud? Any time I download the game it downloads all of the mod files that were placed in the file structure in addition to the game and then proceeds to download what mods it can from the workshop, screwing up virtually everything; most of the mods don't work, including anything that is a major system overhaul like ServerPerks or ScrN. This makes the entire game worthless since I would have to go through every single folder and manually delete anything that is not native and then fool the Cloud to update itself using the new file structure. And yes, I've tried the popular method of deleting and updating the Cloud files using the AppID, but the only folder that corresponds to the game is 'ugc'; I have also unsubbed from all of my mods to prevent any downloading and it has not changed anything.

My question is: is there any way to force the Steam server to disregard the Cloud files and download the native game instead of what you have synced? If there is no way around this, then the game is worthless despite it being a digital copy :p The answer probably is staring me in the face, but I'm at a loss.

Thanks in advance for any help.