when is the foundry getting back up?????

eldarth · October 2016

argrosch said:
Anyways, I´m glad they announced it this time.

That "announcement" as a bug.
The announcer didn't get the memo that they weren't spending ANY resources on Foundry.

sidhemage · November 2016

I noticed with the Sea of Moving Ice release the foundry was taken down. Any word as to when it is going to be available again?

sockmunkey · November 2016

The foundry always comes down after any major update. It has something to do with how they set up the catalogue. Big updates basically force the catalogue to be rebublished. This process can take days or, in some past cases, weeks to months.

draugul · November 2016

I can get in to the quest I am working on, But I cant place a thing. The list of all placeables is empty, as is the list of NPCs. Just my custom made characters are showing. Can someone give an update on whats going on? Will it be back later? Is it bugged? Or is it just being updated, and do we get more to play with in our custom quests?

dragonlorddrm · November 2016

Unfortunately it does seem like the Foundry is broken at the moment.

I cannot even get in to edit my module as it just gets stuck on the "loading resources" screen.

It was working just fine prior to the latest patch.

Hopefully they can fix it soon.

draugul · November 2016

I realy dont understand why they dont see the profit in using the foundry.
Players who are willing to spend days\years of work, on extra`s for your game. For free!
So every player who stays, because of the mass of extra storylines it could create, would be profit.

So why don`t they upgrade the foundry? Give us freedom in creating a part of their world. We have doors, but not always the doorframes it belongs to. I can make a door locked by "class", but then the system says, its undoable.
Being afraid for farmers? Well, keep your rewards! I dont need a epic armor at the end of my storyline. But oh man would I love to make some costume as reward for playing my story. The thing most roleplayers love the most. Being one of a kind. With a mass of costumes coming from the foundry, all players could have the looks they wanted. (or even just to cover up the to long dresses, for small characters....)
And all they have to do, is giving us a bit more freedom.

But reality is, that I am waiting for many a day now, just to continue working on some hopeless effort to create a storyline, were it realy matters what class you are, and how you want to play the story.

It makes me sad.

torontodave · November 2016

@draugul#5785 yep. if they just put one guy on the foundry, it'd make a world of difference. sadly.. =X

iandarksword · November 2016

We're nearing that 1 month benchmark once again. You'd think after the Thanksgiving holiday break they'd make some sort of progress. Unfortunately, the catalog still displays: "Playing Foundry content has been temporarily disabled." Realistically, I'm honestly beginning to wonder how much longer before the "temporarily" part is removed? It would be sad, because a lot of people put incredible amounts of passion and effort into creating their quests. It's really the core of the actual "Dungeons and Dragons experience" and it's been a shame to see something so fundamental to this game's premise become marginalized over the past few modules. Prior evidence shows that the Gateway was "temporarily disabled" then scrapped a week later for server stability and budgetary reasons, so the cause for concern isn't invalid.

2016 has been a pretty down year for UGC with Sword Coast Legends going essentially belly-up and Cryptic's actions (inaction really) basically saying they're unable to keep the lights on in the Foundry. Lately it's difficult to remain optimistic about the health of the game overall, let alone the status of the Foundry. Dungeons and Dragons is about "telling fantastic stories while playing a tabletop game with your friends." It just seems that somewhere in the process, that aspect has been forsaken, in favor of ever repeatable content while attempting to attain exponentially higher levels of refining materials. Anyway, maybe @mimicking#6533 can right the ship, maybe they'll wake up and start working on getting the Foundry back up, maybe they won't. Maybe they don't have the time or the budget necessary. There's plenty of fires to put out lately, and only so many hoses. I'm beginning to feel really bad for those college students @weehawk101 has, who can't finish their assignment because of this. As it always is, it's frustrating for probably both the players and development team. I guess we'll all have to wait and see.

sonji · December 2016

iandarksword said:
We're nearing that 1 month benchmark once again. You'd think after the Thanksgiving holiday break they'd make some sort of progress. Unfortunately, the catalog still displays: "Playing Foundry content has been temporarily disabled." Realistically, I'm honestly beginning to wonder how much longer before the "temporarily" part is removed? It would be sad, because a lot of people put incredible amounts of passion and effort into creating their quests. It's really the core of the actual "Dungeons and Dragons experience" and it's been a shame to see something so fundamental to this game's premise become marginalized over the past few modules. Prior evidence shows that the Gateway was "temporarily disabled" then scrapped a week later for server stability and budgetary reasons, so the cause for concern isn't invalid.

2016 has been a pretty down year for UGC with Sword Coast Legends going essentially belly-up and Cryptic's actions (inaction really) basically saying they're unable to keep the lights on in the Foundry. Lately it's difficult to remain optimistic about the health of the game overall, let alone the status of the Foundry. Dungeons and Dragons is about "telling fantastic stories while playing a tabletop game with your friends." It just seems that somewhere in the process, that aspect has been forsaken, in favor of ever repeatable content while attempting to attain exponentially higher levels of refining materials. Anyway, maybe @mimicking#6533 can right the ship, maybe they'll wake up and start working on getting the Foundry back up, maybe they won't. Maybe they don't have the time or the budget necessary. There's plenty of fires to put out lately, and only so many hoses. I'm beginning to feel really bad for those college students @weehawk101 has, who can't finish their assignment because of this. As it always is, it's frustrating for probably both the players and development team. I guess we'll all have to wait and see.

IDK about a lot of other foundry creators, publishers, testers, and players but if cryptic couldnt afford to put somebody behind the support for foundry i would learn their code, processing and publishing technique and do it for free for them. Foundry is basically the reason i still play. The SoMI release just made a decent game untouchable for me. 500 dollars, 20m AD and i still dont have a char that can use their fancy newdangled weapons, which means not getting into their fancy new dungeon, which means not getting the stuff to refine said weapons, which means guess what another left behind because i refuse to spend anymore in this game then i already have. If all they care about is money and endgame then they should have a 200 dollar dummy coin. make lvl 70 char with all r12's 5 mounts, 5 companions and everything ready to go. Honestly i have characters from level 13-70 some level only from killing the occasional mob when doing rp sessions with the guild, some never get played unless a group is on that we all started together so we could all hit 70 at the same time while we complete the story....not the game. one single quest line, exploring every map completely, getting every little crevice in every map....ya like you would do on tabletop.......some of us do that in game as well... but with foundry off and no idea when it will be back...Well if you need help ask...most of us foundry would be willing to help if we can..(P.S. im way tired while writing this, so if it doesn't make any sense someone please message me and ill reread it and try to fix it when i wake up thank you)

torontodave · December 2016

Hey @nitocris83 .. You ever play any Foundry Quests? Didja know the Foundry's been down for awhile now?

Any chance of it getting some Foundry Love?

draugul · December 2016

Why is Neverwinter always such a sad storyline in my life. I was helping a Moddingteam with the first NW. Oh man we had so mutch fun! I am not the one for big words and stuf, so I helped a friend, who was in a team, etc. I didnt care. I was happy making stuff others could use. And was proud to find it back in the game. Then there was NW2.... Ever seen a Adult man weep for days at end?... So depressed was I, for what they did with that game. All creative freedom we had, was gone. And even the game was unfinished.... I have seen the apologies from the creators on the fora, but it was to late for me. I was so depressed, I put the gamebox far away, so I didnt had to look at it, and tried to forget the game.
So I ignored this NWO game, for a long time. And why o why did I still had to try it!!! I play abouth one month now. Just to learn that there is even less freedom in NWO, then there was in NW2. I play a Ranger, and what do I get... A weird half axe/mace thingy, they call sometimes a blade. And every NEW weapon I did get, was always again that weird looking thing.... Not even the freedom to pick your own weapon! This game is again made for one reason. To make money... And they used the work of creative minds to do so. And the sad part is, that those Creative minds most of the time just wants to make a nice game/world for others to play in.
This is the new capitalistic system to the max. Make people unhappy, so they long for things that make them happy. And are willing to pay big for it. Cut down the creative minds, who just wants to make a better world. Enslave them, and just let them use their creativity when it makes profit.
The most sad part of it is, that most people believe this is normal. Nothing is for free... Well.... Life is free, and the most presious at the same time. As is nature, and all in it. I pray we will someday be free of these slavers, and their money-minds. And then, my creative friends. Then we make a Neverwinter as it should be. A place all players can dream, and play the role they want, the way they want it...

luvmore · December 2016

This is so silly, i created a discussion yesterday about foundry, and it wasn't in the correct topic so they moved the discussion but didn't answer my question. They saw, but just didn't care. We are all trying to understand what's going on and nobody is willing to help us in this case.

JUST TELL US.

Tell us, is it gone for good or is it going to be available again? If so, when?
Simple as that.

demonmonger · December 2016

Foundry is up..

vandignesca · December 2016

demonmonger said:
Foundry is up..

It has been "up" since the last maintenance, but no assets are loaded into it. We can publish, but we can't really create anything. I double-checked after reading your post, and still nothing available for me to use.

demonmonger · December 2016

Ah... I just saw my quests were ready and played them

zandarin · January 2017

It's only up in the sense that we can go into it and publish. We cannot create anything new right now though. I would REALLY love an update on the status from Cryptic.

mrgiggles651 · January 2017

Meh, I'm making new DnD computer game content all the time.

zandarin · January 2017

mrgiggles651 said:
Meh, I'm making new DnD computer game content all the time.

How?

tyfighter77 · January 2017

Well guys and gals, I'm flummoxed.

I first started playing NWO a few months after it went live. My first priority was getting to level 15 or whatever so I could start making quests in the Foundry. This is what brought me to the game and I was SO unbelievably excited about it. Man oh man.

I was about half way through an epic quest, a true masterpiece; a quest for the ages. Days and weeks I toiled. I tell you I had foundry fever... And then I got frustrated when I lost some work or something got bugged (don't remember). I was sad and took a 'break', that turned into like a year off. Oh I came back from time to time, playing the actual game, but never had the time to invest in my foundry quest. So it's been what, like 2 years?

Now, I'm getting divorced any day now (sad story) and you know what? I'm bored and desperate for something creative to do and I came back to my old mistress, the NWO Foundry. But she is empty and without substance. She has no assets. The outer shell is there but the Foundry does nothing for me. I need to create, but I can't. I have a gift, and it is wasted without the Foundry I used to know.

Look. I panicked and I found this thread and some of that pent up creativity leaked into this post. What I'm trying to say is (TL;DR): Where is the Foundry content? Is it coming back? What is happening? Does this happen every update? The wiki freaked me out because it uses the phrase 'abandoned'. Look my life is sad right now. Abandoned is a bad word. Bring it back okay? Whoever you are? You powers-that-be developer guys? Cmon seriously. You're killin me.

mrgiggles651 · January 2017

zandarin said:

mrgiggles651 said:
Meh, I'm making new DnD computer game content all the time.
How?

It sure isn't for Neverwinter Online, that's for sure.

tyfighter77 · January 2017

Clearly not a super active board. Can I at least assume the moderators read this? Am I totally wasting my proverbial breath?

iandarksword · January 2017

I'm glad to a least see that I'm not alone in screaming at this brick wall. The truth is that a large portion of active authors left early in 2016, after the announcement that there was no plan to devote time to the Foundry during that development year. There is still an active Facebook group, (search "Cryptic Foundry Authors" if interested, there are currently 48 members) however, the consensus over there has been that the devs have pretty much abandoned the Foundry community on these forums. People the devs once called their "most dedicated players," even receiving the endorsement of R.A. Salvatore himself, feel completely abandoned. Many still remain hopeful that eventually Cryptic will make an update, but realistically very few believe it will actually ever happen. Most have hinted that they would in fact return if updates to the Foundry did actually occur. Do the devs read these particular forums? That's debatable, but it seems they have been watching live streams, reading reddit, and searching fan sites in favor of feedback on their own forums. You aren't necessarily wasting your breath, but don't hold it in anticipation of any changes either.

hustin1 · January 2017

*sigh* I wanted to put in a couple of teleporters to cut down on the running around in my quest (and I finally know what I want to do story-wise for the sequel) and it's still broken.

Seriously? Devs, please tell us you're improving it. There's no excuse for a simple fix being delayed for this long.

tyfighter77 · January 2017

iandarksword said:
Many still remain hopeful that eventually Cryptic will make an update, but realistically very few believe it will actually ever happen.

I'd settle for them just re-enabling the content that used to be there at this point. Why even have it up if you can't do anything with it?

I'll give that FB group a look. Do you think some of those authors would come back if they at least made it functional?

iandarksword · January 2017

I have a few unfinished projects, obviously with the current state of the editor I can't proceed with them. I'm working on a 2-part Chasm quest for the Harper Chronicles series primarily. I do have some folks interested in learning to create their own personal spaces as well. So if the editor returns to functionality I'll be fiddling with it soon enough.

adinosii · January 2017

They basically said the foundry would not get any attention in 2016 (and indeed, it didn't). I really wonder what will happen in 2017. Will it get some much-needed love, or will they just kill it off ?

ambisinisterr · January 2017

I have no hope right now that the company will push UGC to where I want it...mainly because I view it as more important than anything else they could spend money on...

But @mimicking#6533 said he wants to get the game to feel more like D&D and IMO he has been keeping true to that promise. You can't talk about D&D without discussing customized quests. To this day the Foundry content still feels more D&D than anything the devs have made. Sorry Cryptic, you will never be able to match the players for content development.

UGC is passion driven with no deadlines or cost constraints. No developers can compete with it if the proper tools are given to the players. NWN's persistent worlds and other custom modules rank higher in my books than virtually all AAA games I have ever played.

We'll see what 2017 has in store. I'd love to be surprised but I do at least have faith it will not be as bad as 2016 for UGC.

vandignesca · January 2017

ambisinisterr said:

But @mimicking#6533 said he wants to get the game to feel more like D&D and IMO he has been keeping true to that promise. You can't talk about D&D without discussing customized quests. To this day the Foundry content still feels more D&D than anything the devs have made. Sorry Cryptic, you will never be able to match the players for content development.

UGC is passion driven with no deadlines or cost constraints. No developers can compete with it if the proper tools are given to the players. NWN's persistent worlds and other custom modules rank higher in my books than virtually all AAA games I have ever played.

I've always felt that the Maze Engine story quests felt quite well-done (my favorite campaign by far), even though they were small and focused. But yes, in most other content, you can see compromises due to time/budge constraints.

iandarksword · January 2017

I do want to point out that UGC shouldn't be seen as competition against the Dev team. We should be seen as a supplement to their work, telling the stories that aren't fully fleshed out or the Dev team simply didn't have the time or resources to tell. I often get a feeling of animosity from elsewhere in the community that somehow we're here to outshine the devs and that simply isn't the case. Let's face it if we're seen as competition, they'd simply eliminate our ability to create quests and thus eliminate the competition. Some might even argue this is exactly what is going on presently. I get the feeling from others in the community that the dev team has this sort of disdain for the Foundry community, and I would hope that isn't true. We should instead be able to communicate with the devs, not compete against them or be reviled by them. The point is, it shouldn't be: "us against them." If the previous statement were to be true, I think the game would be in a much better place in many aspects.

dread4moor · January 2017

@ambisinisterr
"You can't talk about D&D without discussing customized quests. To this day the Foundry content still feels more D&D than anything the devs have made. Sorry Cryptic, you will never be able to match the players for content development."
Well said.
Some foundry quests are very well written, feel much like tabletop DandD.
I would run foundry content every day if there was the slightest hint of support, Trivial loot, campaign "genie" token... anything. Make it all bind on character even.
As it stands, I have 30 min of daily grind on 4 toons. I can't afford to play on the foundry even though I want to.

when is the foundry getting back up?????

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