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Foundry Disabled (August 15, 2011)

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edited August 2011 in Galactic News Network [PC]
We have temporarily disabled The Foundry on Holodeck. Thank you for your patience! ~The Star Trek Online Team
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    We have temporarily disabled The Foundry on Holodeck. Thank you for your patience! ~The Star Trek Online Team

    didn't it never stop being disabled from last time?

    (first :p)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    thanks for clearing that up :confused:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Well that information... isnt really.... new....???!?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Didn't know it had come back up...

    Oh well, thanks anyway
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    We have temporarily disabled The Foundry on Holodeck. Thank you for your patience! ~The Star Trek Online Team
    Cryptic's idea of "temporarily disabled" is starting to look undistinguishable from "permanently disabled". I have to admit that I missed Foundry even beeing available. May I ask how long it happened to work? :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Iceroid wrote: »
    didn't it never stop being disabled from last time?

    (first :p)

    They turned it on for 5 minute but it broke again.

    Foundry is turning into the enterprise - A of Final Frontier. :P Kidding devs.. ;-)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Timoteus wrote: »
    Cryptic's idea of "temporarily disabled" is starting to look undistinguishable from "permanently disabled". I have to admit that I missed Foundry even beeing available. May I ask how long it happened to work? :rolleyes:

    About a week after the last time they brought it up. It was an issue QA stated they know and posted about but QA thopught it onlty happened to some ground maps in the Foundry if you hit 'Return to Editor' after doing a ground map prieview mode. Unfortunately after the patch went Live, they discoivered it affected more than just the editor (although to be fair, it didn't affect as many missions nor was it as catastrophic a bug as the one that caused a 4 week Foundry shutdown and mission database rollback.

    It was a good full week of Foundry functionallity.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Just in case no one is aware, the front page "Read More" link on the maintenance announcement banner and the server status text in the nav bar both link to the Atari support page, which displays a list of FAQs and provides no information about the actual outage in progress.

    If the intention is to have these tools link somewhere that contains additional information about the outage, I'd suggest creating a status page on the support website that can be updated by the support team using an automated tool. Alternatively, change those links to point to this forum instead.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Armsman wrote: »
    About a week after the last time they brought it up. It was an issue QA stated they know and posted about but QA thopught it onlty happened to some ground maps in the Foundry if you hit 'Return to Editor' after doing a ground map prieview mode. Unfortunately after the patch went Live, they discoivered it affected more than just the editor (although to be fair, it didn't affect as many missions nor was it as catastrophic a bug as the one that caused a 4 week Foundry shutdown and mission database rollback.

    It was a good full week of Foundry functionallity.

    Its worth noting that they never announced it. This is just my speculation but I think the devs just weren't confident enough in its state to get lots of people back in it. I know it still had a bug that minimized STO anytime I would preview a map.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    the foundry is (almost) the only thing that keeps me interested in the game.
    STFs have become boring and there are (were) lot of foundry missions that blow away most cryptic ones.
    I really hope they commit the neccessary resources to get it back up asahp
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    It was funny, when it popped on they had all the original bugs. Many of the original holodeck launch bugs resurfaced. It was only a matter of time before they brought it back down.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    The content drought that was supposed to be 3-4 months is now what 7? Now the foundry is constantly broken.

    ...My interest in this game is seriously waning and that's sad. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    I misread at a glance - "we have temporarily disabled the Fun on Holodeck" :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    *plays "Down Again" by Chimaira*

    Thought the song was fitting, at least the title of it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Agentum wrote:
    the foundry is (almost) the only thing that keeps me interested in the game.
    STFs have become boring and there are (were) lot of foundry missions that blow away most cryptic ones.
    I really hope they commit the neccessary resources to get it back up asahp

    DStahl said they had a new build ready to go late Friday - they just needed the QA team to put it through its paces (to make sure it does what they intend and doesn't make things worse); and that it would prbably be ready to go Tuesday.

    I know a lot of folks (myself included) thought this Emergency Maintainenece might be to push that build, but oit appears it was not.

    The EM was probably to fix something that was negatively affecting their server (or even copuld be related to their 'cutover' to Refect World behind the scenes (IE they thought everything was working in conjusction with whatever systems/VPN setup they need toi be on for PWI - and they found something wasn't configured, or working right.) In oother words it was a real/needed emergency fix to maintain their server/system integrity. (It happens with MMOs - and after the first 6 months, hasn't happened all that much with the STO server farm.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Whenever we change messaging, some things run automatically.
    Such as this: The launcher announcement that the Foundry is brought down automatically starts this thread. It's part of the system so that it can't be forgotten by us.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    yay i r griplkechew
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Sad thing is that I honestly was expecting it to be down today and most of this week anyway. :(

    Oh well ... more time to become and "ambassador."
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    WishStone wrote:
    Whenever we change messaging, some things run automatically.
    Such as this: The launcher announcement that the Foundry is brought down automatically starts this thread. It's part of the system so that it can't be forgotten by us.
    *shock*

    So 2CrypticOps isn't a real person?!

    I always thought that somewhere there were two Cryptic Ops who shared a forum account :O
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    We have temporarily disabled The Foundry on Holodeck. Thank you for your patience! ~The Star Trek Online Team

    This statement assumes that we have any patience left. That is a big assumption.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Do we know when it will be back-up and running? I ask because I am on vacation this week and wanted to play some foundry.

    Also where is a good place to find summaries of foundry missions?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Do we know when it will be back-up and running? I ask because I am on vacation this week and wanted to play some foundry.

    Also where is a good place to find summaries of foundry missions?

    http://forums.startrekonline.com/forumdisplay.php?f=215 - foundry mission database subforum might be helpful.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Well to be perfectly honest, I hate waiting! At least theres The upside, when it,s finnished It will Be Stable, Although I hate waiting and all that Bull snuff,

    Q. how did you guys link the banners in your Posts, Im html impaired.

    :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    for cryptic web designer... copy and paste that to your home page please.

    <span>

    We have temporarily disabled The Foundry on Holodeck. Thank you ...

    <a href="http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=228303">Read More >></a>

    </span>
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    *Go host your element (banner) at a site like imageshack.us. get the html address to that picture. They will provide it after you host it.

    *Goto the top of THIS forum (STO/Cryptic) and hit “my account”
    Select “edit signature” (should be the first choice on your left nav bar, the vertical nav bar not upper horizontal one)

    *You can either paste the address you got from the hosting site (where your picture is), highlight it, then in the post edit options (right above the text area)hit the little yellow button that has a mountain and moon graphic on it
    or just edit it manually type in “your hosting address here example is

    *“[IMG]http:/www.digitaldelivery.net/sc/sigs/dev/dev-sig-1.jpg[/IMG]” stole it from a post here because I am to lazy to open an imageshack account , I have several web sites I own that I use to host it… is another option, though, if you are having issues with writing html and hosting I am assuming you don’t own a hosting service.

    Good luck
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Sivar wrote: »
    Didn't know it had come back up...

    Oh well, thanks anyway

    ^ This

    To me, the Foundry died when Season 4 messed it up :( :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Foundry....... Its dead Jim
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Didn't know it was up. That said, is it working on Tribble? I may as well play with it some while I wait.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Do we know when it will be back-up and running? I ask because I am on vacation this week and wanted to play some foundry.

    Also where is a good place to find summaries of foundry missions?

    Unfortunately it's still down, but another good place to find missions available and summaries
    is http://starbaseugc.com/ . You can find a lot of good missions,
    summaries, and links to alot of UGC content as well as great tutorials should you decide to give the
    authoring a go as well when it comes back up. Good Luck.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Unfortunately it's still down, but another good place to find missions available and summaries
    is http://starbaseugc.com/ . You can find a lot of good missions,
    summaries, and links to alot of UGC content as well as great tutorials should you decide to give the
    authoring a go as well when it comes back up. Good Luck.

    Still down! Damm !!!! i was sooooo hoping to play some foundry missions on my only day off this week......
    Oh well :(
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