Suggestion for Foundry In Regards to Upcoming Strongholds

myrkolith

I was thinking, that with the upcoming release of Strongholds this gives an opportunity for Foundry to gain some beneficial rewards. There are 2 ways I would like to suggest, implement whichever you feel would be the best option for your game.

First option -- This would involve adding a daily quest to play Foundry Quests (They would have to qualify for daily rewards such as the current Foundry quest for diamonds daily missions) in the Stronghold. The number of Foundry required could increase as the structure or guild level increases, depending which npc or structure you decide to give the daily quest to.

This would allow people to gain Stronghold rewards, by enjoying a Foundry quest or 2 every day. Since you already have quests for all other content, adding a daily quest for Foundry as well, would not be that difficult. You have Dungeon, Heroic Encounter etc quests from Stronghold npc's so why not Foundry.

The second option -- This option would be tied directly to the Foundry themsleves. Since the end rewards chests don't really give anything useful (Only 1 green item) You could make it so once per day the end chest (Would also require the Foundry Quest count towards daily mission rewards) would give some type of Stronghold currency. Materials needed to build or upgrade within Strongholds. This would give each guild member a reason to play a Foundry each day. (If you also wanted to promote them playing many different Foundry, you could also implement a weekly timer per Foundry quest, so the same Foundry would only give rewards once a week. They would have to play 7 different quests each week for full rewards.)

Those are my 2 suggestions to help breath a little life and value into playing the Foundry quests, that directly ties into the new upcoming Module.

Thanks for reading...
@strumslinger

torontodave

^^^^ this is too much common sense.

@strumslinger @yetweallfalldown @commanderander @panderus @badbotlimit

valcontar73

There is a developer stream today:

Neverwinter: Strongholds Developer Stream 7/30 at 3pm PDT

You may try to ask them for it, but I'm pretty sure this will fall on deaf ears...

reiwulf

probably, but the more of us that participate, the better chances at getting a reply we'll have.

valcontar73

Well at least, for what I understand, Srumslinger will bring it up the First Option to the devs.

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease."

myrkolith

Well there is clearly no quest yet to do Foundry quests, so here is hoping once the Foundry start to come back, that maybe they will add one, it would make sense to add it to the Ranger as another daily quest for adventure shards...

@strumslinger

torontodave

I was thinking add a whole NPC - I'm always telling guildies to check out my foundry quests.

If we had an NPC questgiver who was able to list all the foundries aUTHORED by fellow guild members..

just compare the two databases, guild members/authors, and display the results.

The NPC could say stuff like "Here are some adventures that your fellow guild members have suggested:"

valcontar73

torontodave wrote: »

I was thinking add a whole NPC - I'm always telling guildies to check out my foundry quests.

If we had an NPC questgiver who was able to list all the foundries aUTHORED by fellow guild members..

just compare the two databases, guild members/authors, and display the results.

The NPC could say stuff like "Here are some adventures that your fellow guild members have suggested:"

100% agree!

myrkolith

That's a great idea, and they could give out the daily quest...

torontodave

I'm gonna start emailing R.A. Salvatore..

Maybe he can give the Foundry some love. I'm not sure Cryptic has any interest. =X

myrkolith

Yeah Bob can do anything...

reiwulf

not much can be done if cryptic/PWE don't want to do anything with the foundry, but let's hope there's stil chance.

myrkolith

Considering the Foundry singlehandely kept Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 alive for years, and that was basically a singleplayer rpg with co-op play, they are sitting on a goldmine. Then standing around and doing nothing about it...