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I haven't seen a featured foundry in a week now, although it is marked on the calendar. When will we see this renewed?
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I believe Sominator was more or less in charge of doing this and he has left Cryptic/PWE and there is no replacement for him (they have introduced a PWE social manager, but he's focused on PWE as a whole, not specifically Neverwinter). So until a new replacement is found (if) - I don't expect to see any new "Featured" Foundry quests.
The spotlight is about the only thing we get these days, but it does happen frequently. If they are ignoring it here, well... they're probably ignoring the only thing that will get you very many plays.
So, ask your community manager why it's not being done. (Is it still storm shade?)
The difference is that there are no featured quests now. There have usually been quests up for feature.
Taking a look at the list again, you are right. I misread the dates or something and thought there was a gap between them. Now I am noticing there isn't, not sure what I was seeing before.
Ravenloft
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That is bad news. Sominator always seemed like the only person that was actually interested in the foundry. I guess that truly is the end of any interest I had in Neverwinter. I doubt he will be replaced. PWE are a joke. All there games are very poor and not looked after. I have no doubt that Neverwinter will go down the same route.
I feel sorry for the guys at Cryptic.
Remember guys, we had two community managers since last January or so even though Som was in the limelight a lot. Pinpointerror is working his rear end off but he is overworked and underpaid at the moment, haha. He has really been focussing on pushing a lot of bug reports and threads through to the developers as well as been getting a constant stream of things to relay as far as feedback and general questions.
It is not a matter of The Foundry not being cared about. In fact since I do see how much Pinpointerror is doing it actually is quite irritating to see those claims and I am resisting the urge to remove that nonsense. -angry face!-
For at least the mean time if you want to get spotlighted you can submit your foundry work here following the instructions provided.
And before you try to blame PWE for not hiring another CM, they are! Feel free to apply if you live or are willing to live in the San Francisco area.
Look at STO. While their devs have also abandoned Foundry, they regularly run Spotlights and do things like Foundry weekends, and heavily promote Foundry work.
NW Foundry is more feature-rich and has way more promise... and it gets much less support, which is a shame.
Wicks and Things: NW-DI4FMZRR4 : The Fenwick merchant family has lost a caravan! Can you help?
Beggar's Hollow: NW-DR6YG4J2L : Someone, or something, has stolen away many of the Fenwicks' children! Can you find out what happened to them?
Into the Fen Wood: NW-DL89DRG7B : Enter the heart of the forest. Can you discover the secret of the Fen Wood?
After years of being a foundry author whose only real encouragement comes from a community manager, while programmers and artists pretty much ignore the thing, I am resisting the urge to scream nonsense about the future of the toolset, even if there was active support from a community manager.
At least at STO, our community managers care about doing something more than moderating threads of negativity. Then again, this side of the fence has something called a foundry team that actually communicates with foundry authors... at least they used to do so. I've seen them post over here. It was interesting to learn their names for the first time.
That is, if they're still even working on this game's foundry.
Our devs are also policing the Foundry exploits and very slowly fixing some critical bugs. I'm assuming that all of you get bug fixes all the time, since you have a foundry team, allegedly.
In.
Point.
http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/star-trek-online/detail/3038393
Overworked and underpaid? Does that not back up what I said about PWE? Just so you know anything I say is not aimed at individual people within either cryptic or PWE. Just what I see as a money grabbing company that puts profit over providing a quality game. I have seen nothing that would make me think otherwise.
Delete what you like, but maybe we the authors should be included in the loop of knowledge that you seem to have, that way we may appreciate what is being done more and put an end our complaining.
Almost every post I read that is negative about the foundry is usually based around the lack of physical evidence of any improvement.
Last time I logged on I noticed that there is now a hide played quests function and a next page on each foundry tab. Fair play, it is a small step in the right direction. Usually when something is done well it gets as much praise here as could be expected.
I've never played STO so for all I know, those marks could be completely worthless, but I'm going to assume they're not and say that event looks pretty nice. I could comment further if I understood what they were talking about.
Not that anyone in my family is looking for work (knock wood) I am wondering why your company still does that "hire by city"? My hubby lives here in Michigan and runs contracts all over the place via his network. So there is no travel expense, I am not an IT widow at night, no need to relocate, and best of all both parties make tons of money. He mainly contracts programming for firmware. I don't know all the details but what I do understand is since he is a contractor the companies he works for don't pay out taxes, insurance, etc.. It just seems like all these tech companies are still working in the stone age.
Yabba Dabba Doo!
~~~Wendy Black
Marks are essentially the endgame 'stuff' currency. You have several currencies that are used to advance your reputation or buy cool gear in one of several groups. I THINK it's like Sharandar and Feywild campaign advancement, but I pretty much quit playing core NW stuff months ago so I'm not sure.
It's very useful. It's not the 'best' way to get marks, I'm sure, but it's pretty nice.
(There are also Fleet Marks which might also be given out by the event -- they are used to unlock projects in a Fleet, which doesn't really have an analogue in NW. Essentially, you unlock cool stuff your guild has access to)
Wicks and Things: NW-DI4FMZRR4 : The Fenwick merchant family has lost a caravan! Can you help?
Beggar's Hollow: NW-DR6YG4J2L : Someone, or something, has stolen away many of the Fenwicks' children! Can you find out what happened to them?
Into the Fen Wood: NW-DL89DRG7B : Enter the heart of the forest. Can you discover the secret of the Fen Wood?
STO is about filling buckets with marks. We need different kinds of marks to building our starbases and stuff, as well as get shinies. The marks are not worthless. Of course, playing Foundry missions may still not be the most efficient way to earn all the stuff we need to fill buckets.
Think "Boons", so it's kind of like STO "marks" = NW "Boons". But Marks can be used solo-based or group-based efforts. Either way, my point was that over at STO they are still ginning-up Foundry Play and actively encouraging players to play them.
Yeah, but they're not seemingly doing much with the UI so that players can find our missions. We have a pretty static list of the top 50, a hot list full of farms, and a new list that nobody plays. So, they're actively encouraging a weekend event, but I think I'd trade it for a programmer with a weekend to work on the UI.
That link is to a request for guest blogs. I don't really see how it is related to foundry spotlight?
I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused. I thought to submit my quest, I had to click the "Submit to Cryptic" button while in the foundry editor for the quest I am trying to submit.
It's not that we are trying to down play what pinpointerror is doing or even blaming him Ambi, keep in mind most of us (myself included) are unaware of what his role in all of this. All we see is non-communication (actually you have been the only one to really pop on and say something.) So thanks for informing us by the way
I think most of the community here would have been quite satisfied if there were notes, any notes, anything, listed in the module 3 patch notes but when they completely leave the foundry out of it, then there is no spotlight happening, the general impression is that no one cares and that is where you see dedicated authors become frustrated and hang up thier authoring hats.
Ravenloft
Look for@Apocrs1980 or visit the main page here or Ravenloft here
~~~Wendy Black
I better go work on that siggy now! I am getting lazy... I need a rubber stamp!!
As for it proving your point, as I said in my final line they are hiring another Community Manager. They are not really being cheap if they are actively looking for somebody to fill Sominator's position.
First of all let me clarify: I do not work for Perfect World Entertainment.
I am a volunteer with a day job and moderate the forums on my personal time.
As for why they still hire by city, most places still do. There are many companies which offer work from home days but typically even if the work is contracted out they still require you to show up to the physical office most days. That is the normal practice even now. I actually recently had a family member move halfway across the country and I promise you that if there were jobs that didn't require moving to a commuter distance he would have taken it.
Yes it is.
Pinpointerror told us that this can be used to get your work spotlighted/featured.
I'll ask for further information when I can but at the very least you can be sure that if you supply a quick find code and a short blog about the work it will act as a request to be spotlighted/featured. The blog part might not even be necessary but I can't say for sure at the moment.
My completely unofficial speculation is that what they want to do for the foundry is to big to get it out in a timely manner. The last official statement about the Foundry, granted that was a few months ago, was that they plan on making true trees instead of linear quest paths.
Also I had asked about The Foundry in one of the Adventure Hours when Terramak was on the show and he said that the Foundry will probably be getting some major focus in Module 4 or 5.
More pertinently, the lack of resources put into Foundry development is a much larger problem.
But, again, in STO, we have a similar lack of developer attention, but at least there's a LOT of community support.
Wicks and Things: NW-DI4FMZRR4 : The Fenwick merchant family has lost a caravan! Can you help?
Beggar's Hollow: NW-DR6YG4J2L : Someone, or something, has stolen away many of the Fenwicks' children! Can you find out what happened to them?
Into the Fen Wood: NW-DL89DRG7B : Enter the heart of the forest. Can you discover the secret of the Fen Wood?
Your unofficial speculation is at odds with the demonstrated history of the toolset and its devs. Look at the record, please, before offering reactionary defenses based on assumptions and hopes.
Source: Raptr Q&A
Two major changes to how the actual foundry functions. If you imagine it as a house it isn't like adding a room it is redoing the foundation. Major changes take time and that was stated to be their main focus.
I watched that podcast you posted. It was a wonder you didn't phaser the STO Foundry guy when he said basically 'you'll get nothing' and 'maybe I can get some devs to come in over their weekends for a few things'. Clearly you are a well trained Federation officer.
There are also a few things supposedly being ported from NW, like the ability to favorite an author. Nothing big, like the 3d nudger. I don't really want it, to be honest. Last time I messed with it here, it was a bug-filled mess of non-functionality. It would probably break more than it would fix.
So, yeah, many of us at the STO community have accepted the fact that nobody is left in charge of it. We're lucky if they "tag" new stuff added to game so we can use it in the foundry. And, we are in a perpetual state of Beta. Our tool actually says "Beta" after 3 years. Whoever is on your foundry team doesn't seem to give a **** about STO's foundry.
It was a predictable affair. But, it is disturbing to see all of it repeat here for NW. If you guys hope to have a NW Foundry community in 2 years, I'd really encourage you to become admins or authors for something like Tavern UGC.