Problems with the current review process

meysa

I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way, but I have a serious issue with the current review process and it's overall lack of user-friendliness

I just published my first Foundry Quest and asked some friends and guildee's to go review it and provide feedback. One of them spent over an hour going through the quests, that are currently there, and only got though half of the list. I gave him the short-code for my quest, but he can't search the list by author or short-code, like you can for all the other quests. There also doesn't seem to be any logic, I can discerns, to the order in which the quests show up. If I just published a quest and it says it's uploaded yet it doesn't appear at, or near, the top or bottom of the list.

So how on earth can you get your quest reviewed, if nobody can find it to play? Do quests roll off the current review list eventually if they don't reach the 5 review mark? Why can't we choose to roll them to New, if after days/weeks nobody has even looked at them? This system really takes the joy out of the whole Foundry setup, in my opinion, because it takes something that should be a good experience for an author and turns it into a completely frustrating experience.



My quest is called Storming Monte Hall (NW-DEH6FU5KB, so if you happen to see it I'd appreciate a review of it.

shorlong

You can search by the code. I don't see how they couldn't find it that way.

saerrael

shorlong wrote: »

You can search by the code. I don't see how they couldn't find it that way.

I've had it before that a quest isn't found by using the code. This, though, often takes place quite shortly after the quest is published. (Hour to two hours after publish.) It also doesn't happen all of the time.

meysa

Interesting, I'll have to try again. Or maybe I'm not being patient enough with their search engine. I did just try to search for a code that someone listed in a trade thread and could not find it

saerrael

meysa wrote: »

Interesting, I'll have to try again. Or maybe I'm not being patient enough with their search engine. I did just try to search for a code that someone listed in a trade thread and could not find it

The Foundry works in mysterious ways.
Good luck, though. I hope it works for you soon.

(Also, be sure you have the correct code, no spaces are used, etc, etc. Not meaning to sound rude, but a typo happens to all of us.)

shorlong

Also, make sure it's in caps when you do the search.

crok2

And also make sure you are using the code in the BEST tab not the NEW tab as you would think.

meysa

YEs, thank you. I just figured that out. So I'll amend my previous statements to be to make your interface make sense. There is no reason you can't logically separate the quests and give the For Review quests a search capability.