New assets

reiwulf

when will we get the new module 6 assets?
there are several new stuff around the new maps. Also, new sky backgrounds and other stuff that would really give us more variety when building our quests.
If the devs don't plan on doing anything for the foundry, the least they could do is to keep it updated.
Also we STILL don't have the HR/OP/SW armor for costume creation!

kithlis

Yeah I was just wondering this the other day as I was fighting some of the new elemental enemies (Cloud Giants and other cool things).

gornonthecob

I want this...

mrgiggles651

reiwulf wrote: »

If the devs don't plan on doing anything for the foundry, the least they could do is to keep it updated.!

Keeping it updated would be doing something for the Foundry.

reiwulf

I meant something different for the foundry, like bettering rewards, or giving us bosses, or timers, or non linear quests, or bigger maps, etc...

torontodave

reiwulf wrote: »

I meant something different for the foundry, like bettering rewards, or giving us bosses, or timers, or non linear quests, or bigger maps, etc...

Foundry needs a whole mod dedicated to it.

- Give players an incentive to play foundry missions. (worthy, usable, rewards for playing unplayed ones)

- New assets from all the recent mods (including stuff that was left out)
- New catalog for detail assets (things are a mess. hire an OCD coder to rename and sort everything. searchable by tags?)

- Floors. Roads. Big basic tiles for building things. Give us lego blocks and we will build things.

- More sound FX (this stuff is public domain, should be easy to acquire)

and yknow. Eldarth's master list ;D

reiwulf

a whole mod dedicated to the foundry?
I really doubt it would ever happen, but we can always dream

valcontar73

A foundry campaign with boons? That will be interesting.

Isn't a pvp campaign? why not a foundry campaign for our characters.

eldarth

Yeah, I can't understand why "existing" assets that are already in the game can't be just basically dumped into the foundry. It's got to be a pretty simple database update.

Just dumping a bunch of new (existing) assets would keep foundry authors at least content for several months.
It's not like they have to worry about spelling or dimensional measurements or selector placement -- existing assets prove that.

torontodave

valcontar73 wrote: »

A foundry campaign with boons? That will be interesting.

Isn't a pvp campaign? why not a foundry campaign for our characters.

They could easily take the journal achievements (Get 25,000 Stars on all your Foundrys) and turn them into Campaign goals. The rewards could be fleshed out and displayed as an incentive to get people writing. ;D

Also I like the idea of an overpowered 3-artifact set that only drops from (15minute minimum)Foundry chests. It will get EVERYONE playing the foundry. ;D

reiwulf

we could get boons and/or items that only work in the foundry itself, just like the pvp campaign. So for completionists there is interest, and it doesn't risk to unbalance the rest of the game.
That being said we would also need a reason to keep playing the foundry once we've finished said campaign.
But that's for another topic, for now I just want them to actually add the new assets that we got with module 6 to the foundry, that's all.

torontodave

REALLYREALLYREALLY REALLY hoping that mod7 - Strongholds is the foundry update we've been waiting for. =D

reiwulf

I'd love to feel as optimistic as you, dave XD

mattachine

As far as the Star Trek Online devs told us the Foundry was developed for NWO. Yet they update the foundry regularly with new items and encounters as they release new expansions to the game. It's time NWO got the same treatment. I'd be happy if the sounds and items, costumes and encounters/npcs already available in the game was usable in the foundry. I would be exited if they included the C-store items. They could limit the access to those items to the stuff that the author have bout themselves in the game. So if I bought the wedding clothes I would be able to use it in my foundry quests as well. We also need to option to have barefoot npcs and regular clothes that aren't armor for peasants and city folk.

As for rewards, it should be in some way be tied in to how long and complex a quest is. One that is kill 1000 orcs in 15 minutes should not reward as much as someone actually making a quest with dialogue and story that lasts over 30 or even 60 minutes. Completing a campaign should should give a bonus of the same kind. The more and more real content they have the better the rewards should be.