a difficulty guide please?

miloguyaussie

Hi ,
I loved playing the foundry missions
but would love some sort of difficulty rating on them
ie for the casual gamer like me

oh and I'd also like some diplomatic stories/mission as well
rather than shooting all the time

please bring it back soon;)

bazag

Yeah - I think a difficulty rating would be nice. Though how wold it work. Would people vote on a difficulty?

Would it be the average of a -1 throgh 5 star system?

Also yeah -- the fondry needs better searching tools, esp the ability to tag missions.

There are a few non-combat missions out there.

And here are some that I know off the top of my head.

Starfleet Experimentation by Bazag
Hidden Intelligence by Bazag
We Will Not Wander More by TheCentipede
The Needs of the Few by Kirkfat

There are others as well but I can't put my finger on it.

drogyn1701

Whenever the Foundry is back up, you could try my mission "Somewhere in Time." I wouldn't call it diplomatic, but any combat is optional and is not what the story is about

As for a difficulty rating, well I think that's easier said than done. I've seen numerous examples of how widely varying the difficulty can be on a single mission. It can depend on what level you run it at, whether you run it on advanced or elite, how good your gear is, whether your boffs have their skills leveled, what ship and build you're using, whether you or the enemy get a lucky crit, whether you know how to best use your skills, etc, etc, you get the idea.

sameriker

It is up to the author to post certain details about the mission.

There is a level rating system for the enemies;
ANY
-These are where enemies are basic Klingon, Gorn, Orions, Nausicaan
16+
-Devidian, Hirogen, Reman, Romulans
31+
-Cardassians, Dominian, Fekihri, Mirror Federation
35+
-Breen
41+
-Borg
46+
-Species (Undine)

Two weeks has given me withdrawls... I never posted on the forum so much.

maziken

sameriker wrote: »

It is up to the author to post certain details about the mission.

There is a level rating system for the enemies;
ANY
-These are where enemies are basic Klingon, Gorn, Orions, Nausicaan
16+
-Devidian, Hirogen, Reman, Romulans
31+
-Cardassians, Dominian, Fekihri, Mirror Federation
35+
-Breen
41+
-Borg
46+
-Species (Undine)

Two weeks has given me withdrawls... I never posted on the forum so much.

But which of you is posting, Riker?

drogyn1701

sameriker wrote: »

It is up to the author to post certain details about the mission.

There is a level rating system for the enemies;
ANY
-These are where enemies are basic Klingon, Gorn, Orions, Nausicaan
16+
-Devidian, Hirogen, Reman, Romulans
31+
-Cardassians, Dominian, Fekihri, Mirror Federation
35+
-Breen
41+
-Borg
46+
-Species (Undine)

Two weeks has given me withdrawls... I never posted on the forum so much.

True but those enemies are more difficult when the player is a VA than when they are a LT. Case in point the Dahar Master. You can steamroll a mission at LT and die 20 times at VA on the same mission.

nrobbiec

drogyn1701 wrote: »

Whenever the Foundry is back up, you could try my mission "Somewhere in Time." I wouldn't call it diplomatic, but any combat is optional and is not what the story is about

Haha the Kamelot references continue.

drogyn1701

\m/ needs to be more metal in star trek \m/

Working on a mission now with the title "Attero Dominatus" name that band

nrobbiec

drogyn1701 wrote: »

\m/ needs to be more metal in star trek \m/

Working on a mission now with the title "Attero Dominatus" name that band

There does, I mean Edenbridge have quite a few Star Trek references so it should work both ways. I wonder what kind of story a Delain themed mission could have :P
Epica, Lacuna Coil, possibly even VoA and Lunatica could work quite well...

I didn't know that one, guess it was too obscure for me :P

drogyn1701

It's less of a "symphonic" metal band than my usual tastes, and I have to be in the right mood, but the title fits.

I tend not to actually base the mission off the song title I use for the title, except maybe tangentially, with some exceptions. "Raktajino in a Jar" is pretty much exactly the plot of "Whiskey in a Jar" except with 110 percent more Klingons. "Sink the Bismark!" is close, but I only took a little historical influence for that one, and the song is pure history. "Somewhere in Time" though I was definitely influenced by the theme of the song: loving someone because you think they are someone else. For the Dissent series, really none of those have anything to do with the song titles, they just sounded like they fit

nrobbiec

Oh, I thought your titles fit so well through the Dissent series, I just assumed it was thoroughly planned that way.

sameriker

maziken wrote:

But which of you is posting, Riker?

I could be the same Riker or I could be Sam E Riker?? :eek:

drogyn1701 wrote:

True but those enemies are more difficult when the player is a VA than when they are a LT. Case in point the Dahar Master. You can steamroll a mission at LT and die 20 times at VA on the same mission.

Well yes, but also since I think Milo is a new guy here? He should know this because otherwise you can get locked out of your own mission online. So the "trick" is if you want Borg in a low level mission you take an enemy and costume them as Borg keeping your mission low level. But so far, there is no way (without playing) to actually know how difficult the Foundry mission will be. Cryptic is having a hard enough time getting it repaired let alone adding more to it. I hope Milo and people like him will stick around.

miloguyaussie

id like to stick around, sometimes the bugs and things that go on in this
game drive me nuts, but i cant do anything about it..