Reviving Foundry

letojarred1 · September 2014

I don't know if this idea is already proposed, but I think We need to spice our Foundry a bit.

What I propose is a foundry fee.

A fee of 2-5k AD per run half would go to the author of the foundry and other half dissolve to nothingness it would serve as a good permanent AD sink.

At the end chest of the foundry there's a small chance to get an epic item or any random rewards that reflects the difficulty of the Foundry.

With this we can give our foundry Authors a reward for their time and effort, and sink our overflowing ADs.

what do you think guys?

frishter · September 2014

It'd change it from casual friendly to casual unfriendly. Also those free review maps would make a killing.

eldarth · September 2014

The only reason many people even run foundries at all is to get the 2k AD daily.
Charging them would probably destroy 90% of the foundry runners.

I think most of the serious foundry authors definitely don't care about earning extra AD at all.

If you want to support some of the many proposed foundry suggestions, feel free to leave a "reply" to any of these that you agree should get some attention:

Requests/Suggestions
08-14-2013 Shifting a portion of normal loot drops to Final Chest & Encounter loot caches
08-22-2013 Foundry Doubloons - awarding experience/rewards for non-combat objectives
06-25-2013 Foundry Rewards and multiple Chests loot tables
10-12-2013 Reset Average Quest Duration when re-published
11-09-2013 Contact NPCs need Idle Dir. & Animation, Contact Dir. & Animation
11-10-2013 Ability to transition to previously visited maps
11-24-2013 [new] Request: Alternative Selection Boxes on Large Detail Assets
12-10-2013 Non exploitable author placed Skill Nodes
12-11-2013 Request: Individual actor encounters for each elite/solo
12-11-2013 Request Behavior: Spawn AT Encounter Complete
12-11-2013 Request: Zen Store assets for Foundry "Product Placement"
12-16-2013 Expose "leash" radius in encounter UI
01-01-2014 Request: Fight to Submission Behavior option on ALL Behaviors
01-17-2014 Request: Editing Quest Description of Featured Quests
01-17-2014 Request: Allow authors to reply to reviews
01-17-2014 Request: Version Release Notes for UGC Quests
01-28-2014 Component Complete on one-time Sound Effects
01-28-2014 Component Complete on one-time Animation Effects
02-20-2014 Request: Insert Dialog Before First Node
02-24-2014 Request: Replace Red X in Foundry editor with "DELETE" labeled button
04-03-2014 Request: Fix for foundry Rhix and daily rewards
05-03-2014 Request: Desert Terrain maps
06-09-2014 Request: Drop/Require/Consume multiple Quest Items
06-09-2014 Request: Allow Drop/Require/Consume Quest Items at Dialog Response Nodes
06-15-2014 Request: Ask user to Subscribe to author AFTER submitting 4-5 star review
06-18-2014 [new] Request: Visual Effects for Foundry
06-22-2014 [new] Request: Visual Outline of Volume Effects in edit mode
07-01-2014 [new] Request: Camera Zoom in 3-D editor and Increased Zoom Level in 2-D editor
08-10-2014 [new] Request: More Costume Options
09-02-2014 [new] Temporary Zen Store Item Rewards

charononus · September 2014

Wait you want to charge people to run the foundry? How would that do anything but drive off the last bit of interest the foundry has?

mrgiggles651 · September 2014

charononus wrote: »

Wait you want to charge people to run the foundry? How would that do anything but drive off the last bit of interest the foundry has?

That.
/10 char

bardaaron · September 2014

Yeah, this is a really terrible idea. It will kill the foundry. Even giving the chance at an epic item will not help, as there are ways to farm purples WITHOUT having to pay AD. This will not "Revive" the Foundry; it would be a bullet to the head.

It would also mean we have to grind and farm AD just to be able to keep playing foundries. As it is; I don't think I could keep playing foundries if they started charging for them; and the foundries are pretty much all that keeps me playing Neverwinter. I can't speak for others, but start charging for foundries and I leave the game altogether.

sprawlfx · September 2014

Do anything remotely like OP suggests and Foundry will no longer exist for me.

Also..

A couple of reasons the foundries may be perceived as needing revival:

Everyone is very busy grinding and regrinding things that are really necessary in order to stay afloat.
The foundries reward almost nothing beyond the dailies. (Apart from entertainment value, of course. But the reqs of the game damage that consideration.)
There are a lot of foundries that are .. not ready for prime-time. I don't want to see anyone discouraged, but I don't want to spend my time learning that something needs work, then being unable to help, or even inform properly. And to the extent that I can do either of those, usually get ignored or hit upside the ear with a hissy-fit. So I need a pretty strong recommendation to play one. I do the same ones for my dailies over and over, because I can make them take exactly as much time as I need them to take.

maegmaag · September 2014

I think that there are ever growing amounts of "things" beyond reviving.

redwoodtheelf · September 2014

here's a better idea: Give the Foundry author one ZEN for each star above 1 their adventure is rated by players. Not taken from the player rating it, but just a little "Ka-Ching!" for getting a rating other than "you stink" from the reviewing players.

bardaaron · September 2014

What if players RECEIVED some AD or Zen when they completed Community achievements? That would be one way to lure them into playing some more...

huajia2 · September 2014

bardaaron wrote: »

What if players RECEIVED some AD or Zen when they completed Community achievements? That would be one way to lure them into playing some more...

I seriously doubt PWE is ever going to allow free zen to be given out for any kind of achievement. AD, maybe though. Since the achievements include playing and reviewing different quests, it might encourage some people to stop replaying the same ones at least. From what I've read, though, not very many people seem to be motivated even by AD.
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bardaaron · September 2014

huajia2 wrote: »

I seriously doubt PWE is ever going to allow free zen to be given out for any kind of achievement. AD, maybe though. Since the achievements include playing and reviewing different quests, it might encourage some people to stop replaying the same ones at least. From what I've read, though, not very many people seem to be motivated even by AD.
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Yeah, I doubt they'll ever do either, but I'm not holding out high hopes for zen. AD has a MARGINALLY better chance, and if this happened, it would provide at least some motivation, albeit still fairly small, to at least at some point, play a variety of Foundry quests, including some that are still in the review tab, helping draw them out from the depths of deepest obscurity.

boudiccia · October 2014

As a foundry author I pay players to run my foundry EVERYDAY.

What the foundry needs is an ability to automate this process. Have a tab called PAID foundry runs. The Author pays say 1,000,000 AD to get on the premium PAID tab. The AD is then slowly paid out to the players who run the missions in 5k and 10k rewards. When the money in escrow is depleted the foundry disappears from the PAID tab and goes back to being a normal foundry and until the Author pays another 1,000,000 AD into escrow.

waryur · October 2014

As a player and author that grinds everything and chooses not to buy tons of zen and astrals, this would discourage me. Because then, the player/author with more astrals would naturally get more plays because they could afford it.

How about upping the value of running the foundry event? Chest drops what, 1000 extra astrals during the event? Make it more. Or, only during the event, all end chest loot has the chance to drop a purple piece of gear from any of the tiers. But make it so it's only foundries that are Daily elibible will drop it.

bardaaron · October 2014

waryur wrote: »

How about upping the value of running the foundry event? Chest drops what, 1000 extra astrals during the event? Make it more. Or, only during the event, all end chest loot has the chance to drop a purple piece of gear from any of the tiers. But make it so it's only foundries that are Daily elibible will drop it.

An interesting thought. I think I could get on board with this. Being tied to the foundry event and only functioning for Daily eligible quests would help it to not be so exploitable. The chance of purple gear would only apply to lvl 60s, but it might be good for the game all around. Even if it wasn't something they could use, a purple might make foundries more appealing to grind, since they could sell it on AH even if they couldn't use it. Granted I'm sure there are other ways to grind purples more efficiently, but anything that makes the foundry even a little bit more attractive to the player base is good.

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