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Legendary Edition, often called just "LE", is a collection including the base gameand DLC expansionsand. Legendary Edition includes the full collection in one buy. It does not grant any extra copies for content that was already owned by the account that activated it.The type of data record that Skyrim uses to spawn in certain elements of the world around you, including vendor inventories, quest item rewards, container contents and NPCs. As you level, information is drawn from different lists in order to keep the rewards and world around you appropriate to your level, maintaining difficulty and consistancy. Mods that edit these lists are incompatable without a Bashed Patch.See: Wrye BashLoad order determines the order how data in your Elder Scroll Master and Plugin files (ESM and ESP) is loaded in to your game. This is important, because all official Skyrim master files and third party mods require that data is included in proper order against files that would otherwise conflict with them. Load order can be set and managed manually from default launcher Data Files view, but it is recommended to use tool like LOOT instead. Load order manages only files with Elder Scrolls extensions (ESM and ESP). Other mods rely to the order of priority between them.See: Priority.A phrase covering files that come with mods that the author has not packaged into a BSA. This includes textures, meshes, sounds, scripts, interface files and more. Loose files are loaded into the game according to Installation Order and are overriden by other mods installing the same files.See: BSASee: Installation OrderLoot stands for "Load Order Optimization Tool." It has replaced the it's predecessor BOSS as a main load order sorting tool. LOOT does not rely to load order master list as much than BOSS did and is able to detect and sort all properly created load order items, without them being included to any downloadable lists. Not all mods follow the rules that are used by LOOT, so tool has a master file for it's own for exceptions and conflicting files. While LOOT is more accurate and considered up to date tool, the list containing exceptions may not be properly date with all mods out there, so reading about possible exceptions from mod description page is still recommended. LOOT was originally introduced as BOSS v3 beta. This is no longer the case and tool is a stable standalone, despite that BOSS v3 status still occasionally may still appear in old information - misleading new users about the state where the tool actually is.See: BOSS.See: Load order.