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Massively Focuses on the Foundry

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edited March 2012 in Galactic News Network [PC]
This week's Captain's Log column at Massively focuses on the Foundry.


Link to the news article.


*Screenshot from @Soriedem's Foundry mission "Risian Sunset"
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Sibnse when were we able to use shuttles on ground for props :confused:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    .... personally, I like when Terilyn focuses on anything.

    BTW, when are the Terilyn boots hitting the costume options?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    .... personally, I like when Terilyn focuses on anything.

    BTW, when are the Terilyn boots hitting the costume options?

    LOL, would look awesome on a Klingon Mistress
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Sibnse when were we able to use shuttles on ground for props :confused:

    Since a couple of months ago. I remember seeing them available for use.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Now Cryptic put a little focus on the Foundry, I want more stuff and things!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Since a couple of months ago. I remember seeing them available for use.

    They've been available for a long time. I use one in the first installment of my "Ghosts of War" series which I first published last September or so (and have been frequently fixing & upgrading ever since).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    NCC-89471 wrote: »
    They've been available for a long time. I use one in the first installment of my "Ghosts of War" series which I first published last September or so (and have been frequently fixing & upgrading ever since).

    I used them on Tribble before the Foundry went live on Holodeck.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Return to Terra Nova could never be made by Cryptic, and not because it's not a good mission. It's a great mission! But it doesn't have any combat. Nothing!

    I would like to add that Cryptic has tried its hand in diplomacy missions. With the exception of one or two, they were not very good stories. To make matters worse, the corresponding diplomacy system was an unimaginative grind.

    It's not that Cryptic can't do it. They just aren't very good at it, in my opinion. Although, I have always appreciated their rare attempts to give players something to do beside kill, kill, kill.

    They are simply not very good at telling engaging Star Trek stories that seem immersive through text alone. They touchstone best with ships, sets, and "prune juice" drops, while this 8 front war spirals far beyond the realm of reasonable story-telling and coherency.

    Yes, it's a video game. That doesn't really account for how bad and thoroughly unimaginative some of the stories are, a few FEs included. I'm not trying to knock any particular dev, but something is getting lost in the mix or never included.

    It would be nice to see the parts that they are good at (art, etc) work better with the folks who tell good stories, using those great assets. Otherwise, it would be more of the same, with a sustained continuation of "Wow, that looks cool" and "Wow, that's a major plot hole!" not to mention "Why am I killing civilians?"
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Kirkfat, I hear what you're saying, I totally do. And, as someone who plays half a dozen community-authored missions a day, I do appreciate your Foundry efforts.

    But on the brighter side, at least STO doesn't suck, like every other ST computer game that has ever been.

    Seriously. I'm 52. I remember watching STOS when it was new, and with every week's episode, next day at school, (1st grade, IIRC), the hot topic at first recess was what happened in Star Trek last night. Of course, we called it "Star Track" because the word "Trek" meaning a long journey, just wasn't in our 6-year-old vocabularies.

    The only good Star Trek game I had ever played before STO was Starfleet Battles, and that was a pencil and paper game, before the PC revolution took place.

    Prompted by my love of STO, I dug out my old copy of BOTF, (Birth Of The Federation), and gave it another spin. Nope, it still sucks.

    I would even go so far as to say that playing STO has disproved an axiom that I had previously taken to be gospel truth, namely that -

    Any MMO based upon a pre-existing game universe will suck, by definition. This is because the devs will inevitably be forced to choose between making the decision that makes a good game, and making the decision that remains true to canon.

    As I say, Star Trek Online has, (at least largely), defied that axiom, and I have never seen another exception, or even a partial exception. That, at the very least, is cause for at least a few hellelujahs :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    But on the brighter side, at least STO doesn't suck, like every other ST computer game that has ever been.

    Actually, there have been a number of good Trek games:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    I love the idea of the foundry, and read the article that this thread is about and have played some of the foundry created missions.

    Foundry Slots = 10,000 Dilithium

    Character slot required = 1

    A in-foundry tutorial or link to a really good or official one = PRICELESS!!

    I am by no means the village idiot, but I can't remember the last time WTF or HTF (What the %$@#, How to $%$#, Who the $%^^) has come out of my mouth so repeatably in a constant stream for a good hour straight. Maybe it's just my ADHD self not seeing the logical steps to take, but in this case an "idiots guide to the STO foundry" would be an amazing thing.

    I was really disappointed that the Foundry or even the STO wiki doesn't really have a solid step by step for beginners on how to go about creating something in the foundry. Even the article about the foundry posted in the OP doesn't touch on this at all, which I was really hoping it did.

    So if anyone knows of any really good solid, step by step, ADHD friendly tutorials on how to create foundry content could you please post them here for any of the people that would really like to give the foundry a try. And I'm sure there are other posts with tutorials linked in them, but since this article will more than likey attracted people that have used the foundry alot, I figured you would know the best of the best tutorials.


    Maybe even the person that wrote the Articled linked in the OP will see these and edit their article to include some of these as well?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    I love the idea of the foundry, and read the article that this thread is about and have played some of the foundry created missions.

    Foundry Slots = 10,000 Dilithium

    Character slot required = 1

    A in-foundry tutorial or link to a really good or official one = PRICELESS!!

    I am by no means the village idiot, but I can't remember the last time WTF or HTF (What the %$@#, How to $%$#, Who the $%^^) has come out of my mouth so repeatably in a constant stream for a good hour straight. Maybe it's just my ADHD self not seeing the logical steps to take, but in this case an "idiots guide to the STO foundry" would be an amazing thing.

    I was really disappointed that the Foundry or even the STO wiki doesn't really have a solid step by step for beginners on how to go about creating something in the foundry. Even the article about the foundry posted in the OP doesn't touch on this at all, which I was really hoping it did.

    So if anyone knows of any really good solid, step by step, ADHD friendly tutorials on how to create foundry content could you please post them here for any of the people that would really like to give the foundry a try. And I'm sure there are other posts with tutorials linked in them, but since this article will more than likey attracted people that have used the foundry alot, I figured you would know the best of the best tutorials.


    Maybe even the person that wrote the Articled linked in the OP will see these and edit their article to include some of these as well?

    http://www.startrekonline.com/foundry_video
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Well if I don't feel like the Village Idiot I claimed not to be lol

    Honestly never even thought to check in that pull down menu. I just googled the STOwiki originally and downloaded the game directly off the main page when FTP went live so had no clue that was there. Thank you VERY VERY much for showing me that was there.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    There's also @alimac30's "Foundry 101" blog. It's not an official walkthrough, but it's pretty helpful. http://foundry101.wordpress.com/
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    i HATED the armada series. My god I tried to like them.

    But the 25th aniversary, final unity, and SFC 1 and 2 were good.

    Elite force 1/2 was TOO GOOD. The only thing that would have made elite force 2 better is if they put a cstore in it.
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