Do you dig Jem Hadar attack ships? Not dig that whole chance box deal so much? Well if you listen to Podcast UGC, you'd know that we have a Jem Hadar attack ship and we're awarding it to the creator of the best Foundry mission themed around the recovery of one of these Jem Hadar vessels.
We've given authors several weeks to craft their finest, and we've gotten more entries than I ever expected we would! Here is our current working list of submitted Jem Hadar ship missions:
FederationMore Than Just Missing by Bazag
Final Judgement by Leviathan99
Victory is Q by AdmiralMurphy
Invasion by Gorilla-P
Re-emergence by DenizenVI
As the World Dies by Chooch99
Salvage Rights by CaptainBaldy
Gift of the Prophets by Azurian
Open Secrets by Zadama
Perilous Prize by Nagorak
Catharsis by RachelGarrett
Alexandria IncidentKlingonThe Fires of the Prometheus by Soriedem
That one little ship... by Rushe
Where Angels Fear to Tread by Alecto
The absolute deadline for missions is 11:59 PM PST on Tuesday evening, January 17th. You can continue working on your missions after the due date for publishing and submission, but don't expect us to have played those changes. We will play the missions between the due date and the next Tuesday evening January 24th, when we will announce the winner on TrekRadio.net during our regularly scheduled live recording of the podcast.
If you have any submissions for the contest that you would like to bring to our attention, you can email us at
podcastugc@starbaseugc.com , or simply reply to this post with the project title and author name of the mission you'd like to submit!
Again, thanks to Captain Gecko and the others at Cryptic Studios for the Jem Hadar Attack Ship reward! Now go out there and play and create with the Foundry!
Comments
My mission:"That one little ship..." is actually on the KDF side not Fed. Sorry about the confusion!
I apologize if I didn't make it perfectly clear previously, but "Where Angels Fear to Tread" is a Klingon faction mission and not yet published. I didn't start working on it until a number of days into January, and then work was postponed to save a mission I had on Tribble only to then find out Tribble wasn't being wiped.
I'm casually hard at work on the mission though and I hope it will be finished late on Jan 14th, could however be finished early 15th.
I will reply here when it's published.
I'll try and make one properly themed if i can make it by the day before the contest i'll re submit.
In fact I feel confident i can make one this weekend, I consider myself apt at quickly churning out a story.
A challenge!
At the very least, keep the submission for regular review purposes please as a request if able
Btw Hav..Helna is a RIGELLIAN?! All this time i never knew she was Rigelian (spelling?) lol oh my..
I do believe I'm gonna take a break from STF's tonight and run this one myself.
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Synopsis to chew on:
"As The World Dies"
Jem'Hadar fighters have begun randomly appearing across the quadrent, always abandoned and apparently Dominion War era designs.
Sent to investigate a sighting of a large number of these mystery ships, you find yourself caught in the middle of a salvage claim war between Ferengi and Orion starships.
And to make matters worse, strange temporal phenomena are begining to occur aboard your ship..
I was on target to finish my mission by the old deadline but I'm going to struggle to get it done by the new one. I feel this is very unfair to those who were going based off of your previous announcements.
I hope you seriously reconsider this new deadline, because this is not the way to run a contest. If you announce an original deadline, moving it up is really weak. If we'd know all along it was due on the 15th we would have acted differently.
Then if what Nagorok is saying is true in changing the deadline by 2 days, seems like a really cheap move by Starbase UGC. Gives the appearance of purposely rigging the contest.
I was thinking about it more and it occurred to me that many people don't check the forums or Starbase UGC everyday. If I hadn't just happened to check, I wouldn't even know it was now due early and I'd be happily working away after the ship was already given out. I hate to think that others out there might not end up getting to take part in the contest because they don't even know the deadline has been changed.
This seems like a really ill advised move to me.
So then don't submit a mission, problem solved for you
Apparently, its a problem. But this isn't the first time someone has told me to hold off on it a bit, so I think at the very least we ought to go back to our original due date of the 17th and then announce the winner the following week. Its a bit less triumphant, but it looks like people are still working and therefor its the only way to be fair.
That's cool, I am rushing to have "Where Angels Fear to Tread" ready to be published by the end of today. I'll continue to work through out the day to finish the work to get the mission into a working condition, but appreciate the original deadline being set once more.
I can use that extra day to check for bugs, dialog errors, maybe add a couple of special extra non-essential Easter eggs and just generally run as many QA passes on the mission as I possibly can, thank you.
I really appreciate that you guys are moving it back to the original date.
Honestly, the new deadline was going to kill me. I was going to try to finish my mission by the deadline, but it would mean staying up for probably 24-30 hours straight. It would not have been fun (I'm not sure if I could have pulled it off, to be honest).
I'll still try to get my mission finished as quickly as possible, but even having one more day is a huge help.
The thing that gets me, if Geko really was hosting this contest then Cryptic should've temporarily stickied this on the forum (or the Foundry forum) or mentioned the contest on the homepage like they do with other contests (like they are now with the party event). And the same should be said for Starbase UGC, there is really no posts regarding this contest.
I would've entered this contest if I knew about it, but even if it's extended to the 17th, 2 days is not enough to pull together a decent foundry mission.
I can understand you wanting to announce it on a grand date, but that should've been thought of on before the contest was announced. And the lack of advertisement isn't really fair either.
Just want to make sure you are aware that no person who works for Cryptic Studios is hosting this contest in any official capacity, the only involvement any official body has had in this contest, is in the act of gifting a Dominion Attack Fighter to StarbaseUGC.
Hav can correct me if I'm wrong...
In any case...I'll have it published pretty soon, but like some others said, I'd like to polish it and make it all sparkly and awesome.
'Re-emergence' by DenizenVI
ST-HIPXHZ9HS Federation levels 30+
The appearance of a Jem'Hadar ship has unexpected consequences in the Meshultar system. It's up to you to figure out the truth of what's really going on on Meshultar IV.
Never said Geko or Cryptic was running the contest, only that he was involved to some level.
Still, Cryptic did not advertise UGC's contest unlike they do for other websites. (For example the recent contest advertisement for Massively for F2P's launch). So the lack of advertisement is rather negligent to the community, especially with the number of entries being what 6 or 8 entires?
Be great if Starbase UGC would extended the contest and ended the contest on the second anniversary so the entire community gets a chance, at the same time it would be a boon as a foundry advertisement and get people involved.
Noted. Thanks for the clarification
It would be great if they had advertised it a bit more but Cryptic, apart from supplting the prize, have absolutely nothing to deal with it. As Hav had said elsewhere they were given the ship to do with 'as they wished.'
Unlike massively's event which is part of the Free2Play Launch which cryptic do have something to do with.
It's a shame and I wish they did but it is too late now to change anything as a contributor to the contest I would also like to wish everyone good luck.