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Where can I buy Foundry Slots

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited November 2012 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
** I DO NOT WANT TO USE DILITIUM ** PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU SAY "You have to have 7000 Dilithium"

Where in the store can I buy foundry slots as a silver member. I do not care to spend weeks getting 'dilithium' just to get foundry slots.

Cheers
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    simple answer, you cannot buy foundry slots with anything other than dilithium

    so you are basically out of luck for what what you want. I will point out however it will only take weeks to earn the 10k dilithium you need to unlock 4 slots if you dont play regularly. If you run the foundry daily, you can have enough in 8 days, and that is only if you run that one mission.

    *EDIT:* Thinking about it, TECHNICALLY, you can buy foundry slots with Cryptic Points. You will have to however use the dilithium exchange to convert those CP into DIL, however/
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    castmodean wrote: »
    simple answer, you cannot buy foundry slots with anything other than dilithium

    so you are basically out of luck for what what you want. I will point out however it will only take weeks to earn the 10k dilithium you need to unlock 4 slots if you dont play regularly. If you run the foundry daily, you can have enough in 8 days, and that is only if you run that one mission.

    *EDIT:* Thinking about it, TECHNICALLY, you can buy foundry slots with Cryptic Points. You will have to however use the dilithium exchange to convert those CP into DIL, however/

    Where is the Dil exchange?, in game at the normal exchange?
    You would think PW/Cryptic would put it in 'services', they do want to make money now that its F2P
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Captain_Starblazer wrote: »
    Where is the Dil exchange?, in game at the normal exchange?
    You would think PW/Cryptic would put it in 'services', they do want to make money now that its F2P

    You access it by the drop-down menu ( V arrow ) on the bottom right corner of your minimap, from where you access the bridge.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    For those that would like to know (Silver Account (or Golds that want more slots))

    I got 8 Foundry slots by selling 78cc for 279 Dilithium (Dil) each (21762 total gain) and 10000 for 4 slots twice.

    Since I sold at 4 below the going rate I got the Dil almost instantly. The whole process took about 2 minutes (of course then I had to wait for 2 hours for the slots to show up in my foundry account)

    Just incase you don't mind trading Cryptic Credits for Dil.

    Cheers
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    but you got the slots, which is good :)

    I was potentially the first person to try to buy slots on Tribble when F2P was in testing, it didnt go as well for me then... :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Where do you go to buy the foundry slots with dilithium? I've been trying to figure out how to buy slots for the better part of 4 hours. Someone in game told me you buy the slots with cryptic points on the login screen when you click over to the creation tab but I didn't see a way to do it. I haven't come across a foundry slot listed on a vendor anywhere in game yet.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    kyrlen wrote:
    Where do you go to buy the foundry slots with dilithium? I've been trying to figure out how to buy slots for the better part of 4 hours. Someone in game told me you buy the slots with cryptic points on the login screen when you click over to the creation tab but I didn't see a way to do it. I haven't come across a foundry slot listed on a vendor anywhere in game yet.

    You can buy foundry slots ONLY with Dilithium (DIL)
    7000 DL for 2 slots
    10000 DIL for 4 slots

    You can 'buy then with CP' buy buying DIL in the DIL Exchange

    But I think the purchasing is bugged at the moment

    http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=3968393#post3968393
    According to a Dev Post here
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Thanks for the response. I'll keep an eye on the patch notes for the fix. However, where do i go to buy the slots once it's fixed? I haven't found it on a vendor anywhere yet. I even double checked Stardock, Starfleet academy, K7 and DS9.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    kyrlen wrote:
    Thanks for the response. I'll keep an eye on the patch notes for the fix. However, where do i go to buy the slots once it's fixed? I haven't found it on a vendor anywhere yet. I even double checked Stardock, Starfleet academy, K7 and DS9.

    You will see them when you chose the 'Create Content' tab I believe.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    yes to my knowledge the only place the buy slots option exists is on foundry launch screen potion of the game
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    If I am not mistaken, if your are a brand new silver account (no previous accounts pre-F2P) you only get 1 Federation Character Slot and 1 Klingon Character Slot.

    Since creating the required Foundry Test Character requires you to use one of your character slots...
    If you want Foundry on a new Silver account you cant play the actual game with that faction, unless you attain extra character slots

    I dont know if you can see they 'Add Foundry Slots' button until you create your test character

    I could be wrong though..
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    AH! That explains why I was so mystified by this process. They really should make that clearer.

    Thanks
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Purchase foundry slots is currently broken for most players.

    I hope this is high on the fix it list.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Thank you so much for clarifying this! I really wish I knew that the foundry was completely broken before I bought additional character slots. I thought I was going crazy because every time I tried to buy the foundry slots it acted like it was going to do it and then it just had some unexplained error. I didn't know if this was my problem or not and most people in game didn't know. To me, it is absurd that they haven't fixed this yet but I suppose Cryptic has much bigger problems on their hands.
  • topakaktopakak Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Hey can any of you guys tell me where do I buy foundry slots? Someone in this thread said it's on the "create content" tab, but i can't access that tab, it's grey. I am a silver member. Please help!
  • zorbanezorbane Member Posts: 1,617 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Foundry editing is currently disabled to make sure all issues in the Season 6 upgrade have been resolved.

    Once its back up you should be able to buy your slots
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  • stasia124stasia124 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    is the foundry still univalible? because i cant even click on the create tab thingy......if so do you know when it will be working so i can buy my slots??????
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Yeah it's still down.
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