Streamlining a Mod

[A_Hamster]

My personal mod of BtS is becoming unwieldy and unstable and I was wondering how it could be streamlined to restore stability, and loading speed. Currently, it is based on Cultural Diversity [CD] (which in of itself is composed of three modules) plus seven custom civilization modules with flavor units. Part of CD's graphics are in a pak file, but lot of its flavor units are not. Similarly, none of the custom civs' art assets are in a pak file.

At this point, with ten modules, and more that I want to add, I am wondering if modular is really the best way to go. Would it be better to merge all the custom civs and separate art assets folders into one folder? Would that restore stability, and would it speed loading time? Is there a better way to assemble my mod?

 

[The_J]

Would definitely speed up loading time (from 5 minutes to a half minute, or so).
There's a tutorial how to pack your files in the tutorials section, where Kael mentions this as the only real reason to pack files.

 

[A_Hamster]

Thank you. For a total conversion mod, I should follow the file structure of BtS, yes?

 

[The_J]

For every mod , yes.

 

[A_Hamster]

Got it, thanks!