Reward Claims Agent request: Foundry rewards

hustin1

Once or twice a year or so I bring up this request to the devs. I know it's a low priority, but I post these little reminders either here or in livestream chat just to keep it from being forgotten. New players will have no idea what I'm talking about, but if you played before 2019 you might have some vague memories of the Foundry.

Foundry authors had a ranking ladder that they could climb. They were called Dungeon Master ranks, and reaching a particular rank gave certain rewards. Climbing ranks involved things like publishing a certain number of quests, receiving a certain number of stars in reviews, receiving a certain number of maximum tips, getting your quests featured by the devs, and so on. You could earn things like unique titles, cloaks, mounts, and companions.

In my personal case I reached rank 4, which translated to Foundry Stalwart. At rank 4 you have several titles, Foundry Neophyte, Foundry Apprentice, Foundry Graduate, and Foundry Stalwart. You also have two cloaks: Foundry Apprentice and Foundry Graduate. I literally earned it the night before the Foundry was brought down for good, and I had to spend all night in PE asking people to play and review my quests to get enough review stars.

In addition to the unique looks, Foundry cloaks were really great for new characters. They weren't merely transmutes -- they gave actual stats that were useful for new characters, and they were automatically dropped into your inventory when you first landed on the beach from the shipwreck.

The problem with Foundry rewards was that to get them on your characters you had to log onto them while the Foundry was still up. So before it was brought down at 6am EDT I logged onto only two characters, and those are the only two that have the Foundry Stalwart title. No other character created then or since has access to the rewards I had earned. So what I'm asking is to be able to claim them from the Reward Claims Agent. All Foundry rewards were account-wide, but we can't get them anymore.

There is probably more than one way to skin this cat from a technical standpoint. The point of this post is to get some people thinking about how to pull it off.

ksell

I would not grieve here over Foundry, as it will not come back in any form, but the "consolation" the player base got back then was a joke.

You point here an easy and viable solution and i hope it will be heard. What i could ad to that, there would be cape for those only exploring, not creating content.

A vanity pet for both categories would be nice also

percemer

Thanks for your suggestion @hustin1!