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Foundry Editor temporarily unavailable

sominatorsominator Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited June 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
Hi all,

We've brought the Foundry Editor offline temporarily and will bring it back up as soon as possible. Foundry quests are still playable, however!

Please check back here for updates as soon as we have them!

Thank you! :)

Update 4:20 PDT: It's up!
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  • kurre2kurre2 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Grr, how about a headsup before you kick us out?!
  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I can't save my Foundry quest. How do I save my progress with it down? Should I leave the Foundry open?

    And I think Cryptic decided to bring it down AFTER it was having problems, correct?
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  • gornonthecobgornonthecob Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 421 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    kurre2 wrote: »
    Grr, how about a headsup before you kick us out?!

    Yeah seriously. Then you just show up and act like we're friends? Pfft. Friends don't lock me out of my own house! :P
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  • conf3derateconf3derate Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    You guys do what you have to do.. we will be ok.. keep up the good work!


    sominator wrote: »
    Hi all,

    We've brought the Foundry Editor offline temporarily and will bring it back up as soon as possible. Foundry quests are still playable, however!

    Please check back here for updates as soon as we have them!

    Thank you! :)
  • redneckroninredneckronin Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    How about fixing the bug (reported over a week ago) whereby "3d Editor" mode carries over to live, and prevents skill use, npc and game-world interaction.

    Not only can I not use the Foundry, I can't even play the game (not that the non-Foundry stuff is worth playing).

    This really is getting to be a joke.

    Well done, you've managed to make Star Wars Online look good.

    All The Best
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  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    conf3derate wrote: »
    You guys do what you have to do.. we will be ok.. keep up the good work!

    I'm not. I can't save. I have no problem with being unable to work on the Foundry right now, but I can't save. I'd like an answer from Cryptic on what to do with my Foundry Editor open.
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  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    redneckronin wrote: »
    This really is getting to be a joke.

    Well done, you've managed to make Star Wars Online look good.

    You mean Star Trek Online.
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  • redneckroninredneckronin Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    No, I meant Star Wars The Old Republic.

    The biggest MMO fail in history, and Cryptic are making it look good.

    All The Best
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  • eskarineeskarine Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    My guess is that your editor is not really online anymore, so even if they bring it back up your session won't save.

    I couldn't even leave the editor normally, even though I pressed the 'leave and don't save' button - I had to crash the process from task manager.
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  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    eskarine wrote: »
    My guess is that your editor is not really online anymore, so even if they bring it back up your session won't save.

    I couldn't even leave the editor normally, even though I pressed the 'leave and don't save' button - I had to crash the process from task manager.

    Why wouldn't it just re-authenticate when the Foundry servers are back up? After all, you can dump your Internet connection, re-establish it, all while the Foundry editor is open and it will still be fine. The only way it wouldn't work is if it runs from a session as you mentioned, and that session is invalid when they restart servers.

    I'd like an official response from Cryptic instead of community guesswork.
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  • cyguard1cyguard1 Member Posts: 64 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    redneckronin wrote: »
    No, I meant Star Wars The Old Republic.

    The biggest MMO fail in history, and Cryptic are making it look good.

    All The Best

    This is because the developers and publishers of said games are more concerned with profit over entertainment. SWG was better than SW:TOR even with the NGE. I like Neverwinter for the setting and the foundry, the rest is kind of lack luster to me. I have yet to run a quest that has me saying OMG that was great. On the foundry side of that I have played thru plenty of them that was like Okay that was a blast.
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  • fauust01fauust01 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    New Content Off, Faundry Off

    what is going to be next ? Epic Dungs ?

    there is more or less nothing to do at 60 level atm.

    WELL DONE !
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  • bringholm1bringholm1 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    We should be able to get a temporary datafile of our work.So we can save it offline and update it, when the servers are online.
    Its sad about the work, but its not the worlds end. Anyways, i cant wait untill its back up i want to finish my foundry quest hehe ;)
  • pris23pris23 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 204 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2013
    sominator wrote: »
    Hi all,

    We've brought the Foundry Editor offline temporarily and will bring it back up as soon as possible. Foundry quests are still playable, however!

    Please check back here for updates as soon as we have them!

    Thank you! :)

    I completely understand needing to take the editor down for fixes and maintenance, but please...PLEASE do not take it down for several days again. The foundry is my favorite part of this game so far. :)
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  • jeffy40handsjeffy40hands Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    So I wanted to try out the Foundry, it then proceeded to crash my game and now I can't get the launcher to open fully...Not sure if this is an appropriate place to put this message, sorry in advance.
  • eskarineeskarine Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    cipher9nemo wrote: »
    Why wouldn't it just re-authenticate when the Foundry servers are back up? After all, you can dump your Internet connection, re-establish it, all while the Foundry editor is open and it will still be fine. The only way it wouldn't work is if it runs from a session as you mentioned, and that session is invalid when they restart servers.

    I'd like an official response from Cryptic instead of community guesswork.

    This is just speculation, of course, but I am betting on a login-timeout issue and that you might already be seen as 'offline' by servers, no matter if you can move your character ever 30 minutes (and if editor is down for longer then couple of hours you won't be able to stay online for couple of days anyways). I think the best we can count on is last auto-save before servers went fubar - but when Foundry went down last week, the couple of hours before crash were erased as well.

    As I said, my speculation. I am as angry at this as you are - I have spent hours today on my new map, shifting stuff on Y axis more than 100 feet up and I really, REALLY don't want to loose the progress.
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  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    bringholm1 wrote: »
    We should be able to get a temporary datafile of our work.So we can save it offline and update it, when the servers are online.
    Its sad about the work, but its not the worlds end. Anyways, i cant wait untill its back up i want to finish my foundry quest hehe ;)

    Indeed.

    They should let us import/export something like XML files of our work. I assume they're using a similar method to store our work, if not exactly that.

    Nothing proprietary in the things we change for our Foundry quests. Just values of what pre-made resource to use, its properties of where it's placed, when it's enabled, our dialogs, etc.

    Cryptic, these server issues are proof enough we need a way to locally save/backup our Foundry work.
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  • zorbanezorbane Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Doesn't the foundry auto-save for you, you won't have lost everything
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  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    eskarine wrote: »
    As I said, my speculation. I am as angry at this as you are - I have spent hours today on my new map, shifting stuff on Y axis more than 100 feet up and I really, REALLY don't want to loose the progress.

    Yup. I know that feeling. My quest is on a 2048x2048 map and the highest object I have is 800-something. I use a lot of height.
    zorbane wrote: »
    Doesn't the foundry auto-save for you, you won't have lost everything

    Auto save to where? The servers? They're down. They were down for saving long before they were taken offline. It doesn't store locally.
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  • eskarineeskarine Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    zorbane wrote: »
    Doesn't the foundry auto-save for you, you won't have lost everything

    Last time foundry went down, the last couple of hours went 'poof' as well.
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  • kurre2kurre2 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    *sigh* Hearing that kind of things makes me wish that we could co-operate on adventures. :) I love writing dialogue and telling stories but my maps feel terribly lackluster.
  • eskarineeskarine Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    cipher9nemo wrote: »
    Yup. I know that feeling. My quest is on a 2048x2048 map and the highest object I have is 800-something. I use a lot of height.

    Yep, same here. I've just build a lava dam with iron walkways hanging over it and if I have to rebuild it from scratch I will hurt someone.
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  • redneckroninredneckronin Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    cyguard1 wrote: »
    I like Neverwinter for the setting and the foundry, the rest is kind of lack luster to me. I have yet to run a quest that has me saying OMG that was great. On the foundry side of that I have played thru plenty of them that was like Okay that was a blast.


    Agree entirely.

    I have yet to see any "official" content that is as well crafted, balanced and as entertaining as the best the Foundry has to offer.

    Bonderleaf's is in a different league to any of the official content.

    And I am beginning to suspect that this is part of the reason the Foundry is constantly down, underperforming and bugged - if it was a tip-top tool set Foundry authors would be making the Devs look like amateurs.

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  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    kurre2 wrote: »
    *sigh* Hearing that kind of things makes me wish that we could co-operate on adventures. :) I love writing dialogue and telling stories but my maps feel terribly lackluster.

    That's what my guild is trying to do so far with a shared account for the Foundry. My specialization is in details and such with the 3D editing, etc. 1450 details in my first quest on one map, and most of those are 1 cost items to cram it all in, lol. I think it's about 1300 items so far.
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  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    *sigh* on Twitter the community rep apparently has no problem posting marketing updates, but won't answer questions.
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  • waldo79waldo79 Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Where is the best place to find the official word on the status?
  • dezstravusdezstravus Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    It's up! Now. :)
  • magic88255magic88255 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 56
    edited June 2013
    sominator wrote: »
    Hi all,

    We've brought the Foundry Editor offline temporarily and will bring it back up as soon as possible. Foundry quests are still playable, however!

    Please check back here for updates as soon as we have them!

    Thank you! :)

    Update 4:20 PDT: It's up!

    (retracted) all reconsider , nice stealthy 8 hours roll back guys. lost full day of work
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  • cipher9nemocipher9nemo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    dezstravus wrote: »
    It's up! Now. :)

    Thank you!
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  • yark013yark013 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I could use some help, I recently tried to publish a quest but it failed and I cant tell why. could anyone tell me where to look for this info?
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