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ellindar1
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So i've been absent obviously a very long while from the scene, but I keep logging back in looking for boss encounters, dragons, beholders etc all to be implemented. An overhaul to the whole rating system, best tab, etc.
Has any of this taken place at all? From what I could find there has been little to nothing added in since august. Are they completely abandoning the foundry ? Its such a shame.
Has any of this taken place at all? From what I could find there has been little to nothing added in since august. Are they completely abandoning the foundry ? Its such a shame.
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Still all the same old problems more or less, but they have been adding new things and they did try to fix the search functions. It still has some issues though.
"Mostly" fixed foundry search tabs -- still needs some work.
5 more quest slots.
Get in and browse around.
Encounter Matrix | Advanced Foundry Topics
Bosses, dragons, beholders, cubes? Lol no.
We do have probably 10-15 different currencies ingame though!
10-15?!? roflmao. I got up to 28 and that was without all the Event currencies!
Encounter Matrix | Advanced Foundry Topics
Or at least withholding a lot of the stuff we need to make better foundry quests.
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Ask for too much and we may see a small shopping cart in the foundry for additional content for your mod. Oops i should delete this.
I have many comments saying that my campaign story is better than the stories in game and I have read many comments on many quests saying the same thing.
I'd also have to agree with some of these comments, some of the campaigns and solo quests are far better than much of the content in game and that's without the extra's. I'd actually like to see something like the foundry without the attached game. Also it would be nice to be able to make hole maps. with many quests.
It just reminds me of when I was a kid and I wanted a fish tank. I got the fish tank with fish. Then I thought wouldn't it be nice to have the picture on the back of the fish tank. Dad went over to a calendar with a beach picture, tore it off and nailed it to the fish tank. Now I got everything I asked for, but the tank doesn't hold water, the fish are dead and my carpet is wet.
And there are people that think this and play for this reason.
However, most people don't care if the story is better or the quests are better. This has been talked about heavily since Alpha. The subset of players in a free MMO that even remotely care about the story is small...and we are all right here in the Foundry forums.
The rest of the players will avoid community quests regardless of their quality, and stick to the lower quality official content simply because it has the lootz and gearz OMGZ.
The truth of the matter is, the reason why I prefer dev-created content to Foundry stuff is because the devs attach, (for the most part), better rewards, to the content they add. You can create the most well-written and exciting story ever, but if the rewards are no better than a quick set of Dread Ring dailies, (not counting the instance), then I'm not going to bother with it.
It's not your guys' fault, either - I think the devs need to come up with a way of providing meaningful rewards for playing foundries - I hesitate to say so, but perhaps some sort of foundry token system, which rewards based upon player feedback, foundry length, intricacy of design, and several other factors. They key is to also weed out the farm missions which are just there to exploit the various daily tasks at the same time.
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And thus us the downfall of the modern RPG. Used to be D&D was about the stories and not the rewards. In fact, a true D&D game, you will generally stick with the same gear for most or several sessions, and in Turbine DDO, you do not upgrade items that often.
Just saying, the Foundry was a great idea, but they put it in a game that has FAR to much focus on gear in the official game that no one wants to worry about the story of community content, because foundry quests wont help you get into a higher tier dungeon.
Its both the the communities fault and Cryptic's fault.
Timers, Boss builder, foundry inventory and non objective text on Markers & portals are the main things I'm looking for.....as well as routine import of Event assets. Not interested in Foundry gear loot.....superchests imo should be for unlocking achievments, AD and Foundry 'event' rewards (cue another currency
It's just disheartening to see tons of quick achievement quests and mob farms jump ahead of the large amount of hard-worked story quests sitting in the review section. It's no fault other than the gear-centric nature of the MMORPG genre really.
I came here for the Roleplay and the Foundry. Above I am looking from a money maker perspective. It does seem to be a win win as is with the fun of building for free and playing for free. The ones paying to play hopefully keep playing because we keep building new things. It is a source of perpetual new content.
I have found it hard to role play though. In the traditional sense. If I were to speak the word Dungeon Siege in front of a D&D enthusiast, I would be scratching my axe hole for days. It seems here the never ending gauntlet to the next better item has been told to play nicely in this pool with D&D. Pools are usually rounded and a confined space. While they may have a shallow end and a deep end, it is still a confined space.
It's possible that that portion of the players is tiny and not worth pursuing.
But unless searching functionality is substantially improved, we'll never know.
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?
The sad truth is that Neverwinter could and almost was a really good MMO game, but everything that is good is somehow made bad like the epic combat system, on of the best in the mmo world but then to back it up with what they call PVP here. It seems they just didn't have a clue what people wanted. Then there is the foundry, my biggest reason for finding my way here. An amazing tool but then you need to put up with the effects that one, ah, this has no loot 1 star has on your foundry quest. The PVE is better than most but not up to the standard of games that are not mmo's.
but the biggest killer for me is the pay to win model, I'm not gonna put
Indeed, I mean whoever thought that adding a search function where the numbers counted for nothing and the players could rate but the authors can not should simply not have a job. The fact that it got through beta and the test servers.... you couldn't make it up.
At the VERY least there should be some way to set up some kind of 'critics' list, where you can check missions that are rated highly by people whose opinion you respect.
Basic infrastructure. Every time I look at the way things are set up, I wonder if Cryptic has met any gamers. Or people.
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?
Which is about 3-4 times faster then other MMO's where you upgrade someones twice in a single level. That is what I am getting at. NWO while leveling its not uncommon to go through several items for the same gear slot within a span of 3 levels.
And updates are akin to starting a new P&P session, where you take what you earned from the last on and work towards possibly something better.
The reason we have to wade through tons of <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> missions, is again, because of the player base. Notice how many of the top 30 quests or so are the same mindless XP farm speed run that is just long enough to qualify for the daily, but easy enough you can do it without any reading and just spamming your kill buttons. These quests then get hundreds of 5 star ratings simply because the majority of the player base survives on this mindless drivel. Of course, but that is the F2P community in a nutshell.
A lot of complaints that story driven quests are....too long, or too much reading....or the famous no lootz in chest! because the player just clicked through the text as fast as possible, shortened the overall quest time a lot for themselves and the box at the end gave them nothing.
Cryptic already had some issues but I expected them to be more active in fixing them, however Perfect World Entertainment, who bought brought Cryptic half way through development, typically does not care enough. Their mentality is to spit out as many half assed games as possible, milk them for all the money they can, and dump them when they start to lose profitability.
PWE, in my opinion, is the number one reason for NWO's problems. Even when STO when F2P, it kept things simple. PWE on the other hand loves to have absurd numbers of different currencies, and we see that plainly in Neverwinter.
Just hope that Cryptic's new "secret project" really does focus on consoles and not ugc. Maybe your team will stick around and try to address your concerns.
Might want to try things without the insults. I'm not 12 year old, I'm 33, but guess what, I don't like the foundry. There is almost zero character progression, zero loot (outside of fey blessing farms), and zero challenge. I'll put this out to the authors now. If you can kill me with something other than putting your entire encounter limit in the smallest room possible so no one has a way to move I will find a way to tip you 100,000 ad. You will not be able to do it and I will never pay this out.
This means I get no reward, while reading (mostly) badly done fan fiction level stories, while experiencing no challenge, what part of that is suppossed to be fun for me?
I'm sure authors would love to create more challenging encounters that don't involve stacking the most painful mobs we can think of in hilariously small spaces. We'd love the rewards from the Foundry to be more than blue items you instantly vendor for 30 silver. We'd like players to have equivalent progression from running the Foundry as from running campaign lairs. But we can't really do any of that, so here we are.
http://2p.com/3647950_1/Perfect-World-CEO-Confirmed-Neverwinter-Console-Version-by-JoeLW.htm