let 10 of the best foundry makers create a new Dungeon,let them design rewards for said dungeon

juggalotus42000 · January 2016

just thought of this, why not let 10 of the best foundry makers make the next new dungeon for the game with a little imput from the dev team?The idea just popped in my head i think its a great idea.. thoughts?

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sockmunkey · January 2016

Honestly, I dont think Cryptic has the man power to make this work. They cant even handle simply featuring foundries. They have to pawn it off to Andy a PWE employee. And even then its hit and miss.

To think they can set aside people to police, judge, and oversee some kind of content contest, seems unreasonable.

reiwulf · January 2016

this has been said many times, and is still a great idea, it's a win win situation, but still, it looks like cryptic doesn't care about it, or about anything foundry related, for that matter.

kolatmaster · January 2016

Wonderful idea, has my support 100% and I'm not a Foundry maker...

iandarksword · January 2016

I'm not entirely certain there are 10 active authors with enough experience to create the dungeons you've been asking for. Not to mention, the editor itself is extremely limited. I've been carving out the beginning of a campaign that leads from the sewers to the Underdark, but real life has made that task a slow process. If it's a quick, story free, sprint-through dungeon then it could be pieced together rather quickly with existing assets, but if you desire depth, then that takes time. They need to fix some issues within the Foundry itself before this is truly possible.

solbergx · January 2016

I suggested they could do an event where players design by foundry a dungeon or skirmish, and the winner gets its instance added to the game, and this option its changed yearly!!
arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1208245/create-a-skimirhs-or-dungeon-event

dzaims · January 2016

Sure, I'd love to do it, but the current tools and current state of Foundry, I would daresay it won't happen. The least they could do is bring back AD for doing 'featured' Foundry content, and get someone to run foundry and 'feature' new stuff occasionally.

Please?

iandarksword · January 2016

Here's what I envision their direction when dungeons do return: Legendary Gear (chest, arms, helmet, legs) with similar drop rates to the +5 rings, and 3k dungeons for the "bored" endgame players. Cryptic burned a lot of bridges in the Foundry Community with the lack of support for the Foundry, so I'm not sure a contest would bring them running back, even if the reward was a Hero of the North package. There are so many things that need to be added to the editor, we don't even have Ranger outfits or gear options beyond the Sharandar campaign. It's a wonderful idea, it's just not a viable option for the time being.

torontodave · January 2016

a 0/100 Mainhand/Offhand would be enough to get players playing foundries.

unless I beg my friendslist to play mine, the only reviews I get are from level 20-30 noobs who are trying the foundry for the first time. Invariably, the comments are "thanks for the garbage reward, my class can't even use that! i gained a level though. 3 stars" etc etc.

=/ if people who played the game actually played the foundry, i might be more encouraged to go back to the foundry editor.

iandarksword · January 2016

It's sad, because there was such a push early in the game's life for good foundries. Players were even using quests as alternate leveling experience. Cryptic felt there was too much competition with their existing content and made playing Foundry quests trivial. The final nail was the elimination of the AD reward for running quests. It's a sad and cautionary tale that's been shared with other developers, who seem to be more receptive to suggestions from the UGC community.

oldbaldyone · January 2016

How about they restore the dungeons they removed first?

This is a great idea, but if they can't even spend the time to rebalance the existing dungeons that are closed (not sure why this is so hard - this could not possibly take someone more than a day to do), I doubt they have the time to do something like this. There are some good foundries in there that they could already leech off of if they wanted...

dzaims · January 2016

How about Foundry quest reward chests with motes, or vouchers for things people would have to grind the same content over and over to get? Run different Foundry quests, but get the same stuff that you'd have to grind one area over and over to get.

The endless grind is one thing that burns out players, be it for motes or Linus, or campaign zone fodder for stronghold coffers. I'm one of the folks tired of logging in and doing "SSDD" grinding. If that's all there will be to Neverwinter, my time and money are better spent elsewhere.

iandarksword · January 2016

In the 2+ years that the game has been active, the Foundry Community gave endless suggestions on ways to improve many facets of the Authoring process. There's even an entire thread in the Foundry section devoted to it. Not a single one of those suggestions has been implemented, nor has there been any further dialog from the development team. I guess their line of thinking is: "If you ignore something long enough, it'll just go away..." The Community Team has been, at least recently, doing a fair job of listening and communicating our concerns, it's just evident they aren't a priority to the development team.

rezuron · January 2016

@juggalotus42000
It's a dream for now.
Babysteps.
Do you want some change here? Start with small things.
One by one.
You have a good idea for sure, however there are something about 10,000 others.
Don't try to make this huge step. Think about something REAL, like bringing back AD reward. Then maybe, just maybe ALL of us (ALL!) will TRY (ONLY TRY) to spam about more assets. Just for it. Cryptik has shown that they can do it.
You see my point? Babysteps, nothing more. Your goal is too far away to talk about it now.

valcontar73 · January 2016

juggalotus42000 said:
just thought of this, why not let 10 of the best foundry makers make the next new dungeon for the game with a little imput from the dev team?The idea just popped in my head i think its a great idea.. thoughts?

That would be awesome! But... I don't think it gonna happen, ever.

For your info, we actually have a contest (but it's been delayed because of the interminable list of bugs that affect the Foundry)

Epic contest drowned shore foundry style

I think there are only 2 fondries ready for that contest, one from @zachariah92, one from @torontodave , and not many plays.

Take a look at them, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy them!!

We can do it, and we can do it better, yet, we don't have the right tools to do it.

mrgiggles651 · January 2016

valcontar73 said:

juggalotus42000 said:
just thought of this, why not let 10 of the best foundry makers make the next new dungeon for the game with a little imput from the dev team?The idea just popped in my head i think its a great idea.. thoughts?
That would be awesome! But... I don't think it gonna happen, ever.

For your info, we actually have a contest (but it's been delayed because of the interminable list of bugs that affect the Foundry)

Epic contest drowned shore foundry style

I think there are only 2 fondries ready for that contest, one from @zachariah92, one from @torontodave , and not many plays.

Take a look at them, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy them!!

We can do it, and we can do it better, yet, we don't have the right tools to do it.

Only two entries for a contest with a 1.5 million AD first prize, where third place is a quarter million AD.

torontodave · January 2016

and you can win an epic nightmare mount just for playing them and finding the easter eggs? dope.

iandarksword · January 2016

The contest was beset by the review bug, the editor being down for an extended time, and the sound placement bug. I'm surprised it's still going, it seemed for a bit that it was "dead in the water." No pun intended, ok, maybe it was intended...

eldarth · January 2016

iandarksword wrote: »

The contest was beset by the review bug, the editor being down for an extended time, and the sound placement bug. I'm surprised it's still going, it seemed for a bit that it was "dead in the water." No pun intended, ok, maybe it was intended...

It's pretty much in a comatose state at the moment - we couldn't find 5 (FIVE!) judges willing to play each entry (maybe 4 or 5 entries?). And I think reviews are still crippled, or sound, or something. I've been fiending away on Fallout4 waiting for the next "mod" from Cryptic which will absolutely put to rest the "we'll focus on foundry between mods 6 and 7." Yeah, and I've got a beautiful bridge to sell you real cheap.

"Infinite Content" -- one of the four pillars of Neverwinter.
...riiiiiiiiight.

hustin1 · January 2016

We definitely need a less crippled Foundry editor to make a dungeon that is truly engaging. I tried to create something of a dungeon atmosphere in the last map of my Foundry, but even then it's probably a cakewalk for a 5-man party even on the hard setting. There are lots of very talented people here who could create some stunning dungeons, but we need the devs to first take an interest in the Foundry editor!

let 10 of the best foundry makers create a new Dungeon,let them design rewards for said dungeon

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