I just want my foundry back. *sniffles* "Don't make me put on the sad puppy eyes... Ill do it!"
Well, there's always Star Trek Online's Foundry. Fewer functions and flexibility (you can't make your own premade interior maps apparently), but it's something. Right? RIGHT?!?
*sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I have a Martian egg you might be interested in buying, well actually its free, you can have it for nothing, but its $15 every time you want to look at it, and $25 every time you want to touch it.
Well, there's always Star Trek Online's Foundry. Fewer functions and flexibility (you can't make your own premade interior maps apparently), but it's something. Right? RIGHT?!?
That's been down since they introduced their last expansion.
Now there's a headache. On to the next suggestion. Download Unity 3D Game Development system (don't remember the exact name) and dabble with that. Or you can do what I'm doing... watching Stuart Ashen's videos and wondering why the British guy hasn't gone insane from reviewing all that "tat" (whatever that means) yet...
Come to think of it... why exactly are BOTH Foundries down? And when will that superhero game get its own Foundry?
*sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
So... apparently people assumed by "boycott" I meant in response to the foundry being down. WTF? I was talking about them trying to make us pay for a bunch of Foundry features. Can you honestly say most of you would PAY for that? Cause I sure as hell wouldn't. THAT is what I would boycott.
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So... apparently people assumed by "boycott" I meant in response to the foundry being down. WTF? I was talking about them trying to make us pay for a bunch of Foundry features. Can you honestly say most of you would PAY for that? Cause I sure as hell wouldn't. THAT is what I would boycott.
But that hasn't happened yet. I sure as heck hope it doesn't happen, but if it does I will be out of here. For $20 I have a different game that plays online or offline, with free, full tools to create content and mods (very good tools that work offline) and doesn't try to micro-transaction me to death beyond the up front price.
I'd really like to see Cryptic keep the Foundry tools and updates to them free.
I'm sure they'll stay free. Especially if the quests created within are what attract customers to the game, giving the people running the Zstore more opportunities to pander their wares.
*sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
Now there's a headache. On to the next suggestion. Download Unity 3D Game Development system (don't remember the exact name) and dabble with that. Or you can do what I'm doing... watching Stuart Ashen's videos and wondering why the British guy hasn't gone insane from reviewing all that "tat" (whatever that means) yet...
Come to think of it... why exactly are BOTH Foundries down? And when will that superhero game get its own Foundry?
I've used the Unity SDK, as well as UDK and Cryengine. Of the three, Cryengine is the better bet, but UDK is more forgiving on ease of use. Unity comes with assets you can use and some that need to be purchased, the others are limited and you really need a good modeling proggy like Max, Maya, or Blender to make assets. The foundry is the easiest and most user friendly there is. Which makes it so much of a ***** because its down. If I wanted to make my own game, I would spend hours in Cry Engine and work on my own MMO style game.
Foundry Designs: Once a Dungeon Master, always a Dungeon Master.
I'd make my own as well. However, it'd be a combination of Neverwinter and Champions Online. The theme? Fantastic Super Robots, complete with Rocket Punches, combining teams, huge powerful Blazing Swords, transforming vehicles, etc... And it'd be freakishly customizable. Even better... If I could afford the extra service, players would be able to order toy versions of their ingame characters.
Okay... I should switch coffees. Yuban makes my imagination center go on overdrive.... O_O
*sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I've used the Unity SDK, as well as UDK and Cryengine. Of the three, Cryengine is the better bet, but UDK is more forgiving on ease of use. Unity comes with assets you can use and some that need to be purchased, the others are limited and you really need a good modeling proggy like Max, Maya, or Blender to make assets. The foundry is the easiest and most user friendly there is. Which makes it so much of a ***** because its down. If I wanted to make my own game, I would spend hours in Cry Engine and work on my own MMO style game.
I prefer CryEngine as well.
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cipher9nemoMember, Neverwinter Beta UsersPosts: 0Arc User
Yeah. I wouldn't play this game free without Foundry. As it is, Foundry (and ONLY Foundry) encouraged me to put $80 into this game so far. And while it's pretty much the only UGC game in town, long enough and I'll start finding my thrills elsewhere. I'm VERY happy that I gave up on STO Foundry a while back, because a month+ outage... Jeebus.
Same here, although I've only spent about $35 so far. I deleted STO about 2 weeks ago. Hopefully, I won't have to do that with NW too, because I'm really enjoying the Foundry, but...we'll see. I have a LoG mod about%80 finished that I could always go back to.
That reminds me.... how long has STO's Foundry been down?
*sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I've used the Unity SDK, as well as UDK and Cryengine. Of the three, Cryengine is the better bet, but UDK is more forgiving on ease of use. Unity comes with assets you can use and some that need to be purchased, the others are limited and you really need a good modeling proggy like Max, Maya, or Blender to make assets. The foundry is the easiest and most user friendly there is. Which makes it so much of a ***** because its down. If I wanted to make my own game, I would spend hours in Cry Engine and work on my own MMO style game.
Making MMO's is not easy in the slightest sense of the word. Try replicating just one major component of traditional (successful) MMOs and you'll understand. Any change that goes against the way it was originally designed can bring some major headaches (read instabilities and bugs). If I had to hazard a guess at what's going on with the Foundry(s) I'd say they might be revamping some of it to get some of the key elements that players have been crying for since the open beta out for the big release. And THAT is what is "Complex".
If a tree falls in a virtual forest, how big is the sound file?
Please review my "Finger of God" campaign: NWS-DPJMGYJGV
Quest #1: NW-DS24FX4BC - Cragsford
Quest #2: NW-DTPUNXUAB - Mine's Mine
Quest #3: NW-DIPZQ7CMS - Are We There Yeti?
Quest #4: NW-DSCFDT5WS - Finger of God
Making MMO's is not easy in the slightest sense of the word. Try replicating just one major component of traditional (successful) MMOs and you'll understand. Any change that goes against the way it was originally designed can bring some major headaches (read instabilities and bugs). If I had to hazard a guess at what's going on with the Foundry(s) I'd say they might be revamping some of it to get some of the key elements that players have been crying for since the open beta out for the big release. And THAT is what is "Complex".
I will be okay with the Foundry being offline for a week as long as when it is back online they have added new assets, and hopefully fixed the Goldilocks reward system.
Making MMO's is not easy in the slightest sense of the word. Try replicating just one major component of traditional (successful) MMOs and you'll understand. Any change that goes against the way it was originally designed can bring some major headaches (read instabilities and bugs). If I had to hazard a guess at what's going on with the Foundry(s) I'd say they might be revamping some of it to get some of the key elements that players have been crying for since the open beta out for the big release. And THAT is what is "Complex".
Agreed. The coding of an mmo is a delicate dance alone. Fix one thing you may end up with six more things wrong somewhere else. However, I am not a programmer, I work on level design and model designs.
Foundry Designs: Once a Dungeon Master, always a Dungeon Master.
If I had to hazard a guess at what's going on with the Foundry(s) I'd say they might be revamping some of it to get some of the key elements that players have been crying for since the open beta out for the big release. And THAT is what is "Complex".
Sorry, that won't wash. Why should any of their development work effect the LIVE foundry?
My best guess is that something in the last patch has done something nasty to the live database. Either that or some change was hammering the servers, so for performance reasons they've had to shut it down. But unless they tell us, we can only speculate. With this long a downtime, the least they could do is give us the facts.
Making MMO's is not easy in the slightest sense of the word. Try replicating just one major component of traditional (successful) MMOs and you'll understand. Any change that goes against the way it was originally designed can bring some major headaches (read instabilities and bugs). If I had to hazard a guess at what's going on with the Foundry(s) I'd say they might be revamping some of it to get some of the key elements that players have been crying for since the open beta out for the big release. And THAT is what is "Complex".
It's nice to see someone around here with a positive outlook.
Making MMO's is not easy in the slightest sense of the word. Try replicating just one major component of traditional (successful) MMOs and you'll understand. Any change that goes against the way it was originally designed can bring some major headaches (read instabilities and bugs). If I had to hazard a guess at what's going on with the Foundry(s) I'd say they might be revamping some of it to get some of the key elements that players have been crying for since the open beta out for the big release. And THAT is what is "Complex".
I know man... but every second that goes by makes me think more and more about that one conspiracy that someone posted a while ago. What if they don't want anyone to find a way to glitch out the double runes so they just brought the foundry down? I don't know. I just want to make quests. You probably have one of the most level-headed posts on here so far though. Props.
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Well, there's always Star Trek Online's Foundry. Fewer functions and flexibility (you can't make your own premade interior maps apparently), but it's something. Right? RIGHT?!?
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
Hold on!
Did I just see a...
Did you just see that...
Some fool rolled out the
excuse!!!!
HAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahaha!
ROFL.
I have a Martian egg you might be interested in buying, well actually its free, you can have it for nothing, but its $15 every time you want to look at it, and $25 every time you want to touch it.
LOL.
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Now there's a headache. On to the next suggestion. Download Unity 3D Game Development system (don't remember the exact name) and dabble with that. Or you can do what I'm doing... watching Stuart Ashen's videos and wondering why the British guy hasn't gone insane from reviewing all that "tat" (whatever that means) yet...
Come to think of it... why exactly are BOTH Foundries down? And when will that superhero game get its own Foundry?
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
As it is, Foundry (and ONLY Foundry) encouraged me to put $80 into this game so far.
And while it's pretty much the only UGC game in town, long enough and I'll start finding my thrills elsewhere.
I'm VERY happy that I gave up on STO Foundry a while back, because a month+ outage... Jeebus.
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?
But that hasn't happened yet. I sure as heck hope it doesn't happen, but if it does I will be out of here. For $20 I have a different game that plays online or offline, with free, full tools to create content and mods (very good tools that work offline) and doesn't try to micro-transaction me to death beyond the up front price.
I'd really like to see Cryptic keep the Foundry tools and updates to them free.
Hammerfist Clan. Jump into the Night: NW-DMXWRYTAD
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I've used the Unity SDK, as well as UDK and Cryengine. Of the three, Cryengine is the better bet, but UDK is more forgiving on ease of use. Unity comes with assets you can use and some that need to be purchased, the others are limited and you really need a good modeling proggy like Max, Maya, or Blender to make assets. The foundry is the easiest and most user friendly there is. Which makes it so much of a ***** because its down. If I wanted to make my own game, I would spend hours in Cry Engine and work on my own MMO style game.
Okay... I should switch coffees. Yuban makes my imagination center go on overdrive.... O_O
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I prefer CryEngine as well.
LOL! Plain old Folgers here... just enough to get me going every morning.
Hammerfist Clan. Jump into the Night: NW-DMXWRYTAD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6XRz2FR5Kw
Same here, although I've only spent about $35 so far. I deleted STO about 2 weeks ago. Hopefully, I won't have to do that with NW too, because I'm really enjoying the Foundry, but...we'll see. I have a LoG mod about%80 finished that I could always go back to.
Forrest, Grump (Part One of "The Legend of Nona Sequitur")
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I want to say around the 22 of May, but don't quote me. Somewhere around there, though.
Forrest, Grump (Part One of "The Legend of Nona Sequitur")
Making MMO's is not easy in the slightest sense of the word. Try replicating just one major component of traditional (successful) MMOs and you'll understand. Any change that goes against the way it was originally designed can bring some major headaches (read instabilities and bugs). If I had to hazard a guess at what's going on with the Foundry(s) I'd say they might be revamping some of it to get some of the key elements that players have been crying for since the open beta out for the big release. And THAT is what is "Complex".
Please review my "Finger of God" campaign: NWS-DPJMGYJGV
Quest #1: NW-DS24FX4BC - Cragsford
Quest #2: NW-DTPUNXUAB - Mine's Mine
Quest #3: NW-DIPZQ7CMS - Are We There Yeti?
Quest #4: NW-DSCFDT5WS - Finger of God
I will be okay with the Foundry being offline for a week as long as when it is back online they have added new assets, and hopefully fixed the Goldilocks reward system.
Agreed. The coding of an mmo is a delicate dance alone. Fix one thing you may end up with six more things wrong somewhere else. However, I am not a programmer, I work on level design and model designs.
Sorry, that won't wash. Why should any of their development work effect the LIVE foundry?
My best guess is that something in the last patch has done something nasty to the live database. Either that or some change was hammering the servers, so for performance reasons they've had to shut it down. But unless they tell us, we can only speculate. With this long a downtime, the least they could do is give us the facts.
It's nice to see someone around here with a positive outlook.
Forrest, Grump (Part One of "The Legend of Nona Sequitur")
I know man... but every second that goes by makes me think more and more about that one conspiracy that someone posted a while ago. What if they don't want anyone to find a way to glitch out the double runes so they just brought the foundry down? I don't know. I just want to make quests. You probably have one of the most level-headed posts on here so far though. Props.
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ROFL - far too funny
That's it. I'm calling Melf.
Foundry-screenshot-of-the-week
Hammerfist Clan. Jump into the Night: NW-DMXWRYTAD
Forum: http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?354061-Dark-Cathedral-Tibia-Remake
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