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lecutestofborg
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First of all, hi everybody! I'm new here, and I'm really enjoying the game 
But I have a little dilemma I need some feedback on. I just recently became able to do the daily mission called "Investigate Officer Reports". Someone suggested that I search the missions by "hot" and then just do the ones that show up at the top of the search, which only involve clicking one a wall or something.
I dont want to get in any trouble for exploiting, so I was wondering are these kinds of missions okay to do? What do the devs think of them? Thanks for your help!
But I have a little dilemma I need some feedback on. I just recently became able to do the daily mission called "Investigate Officer Reports". Someone suggested that I search the missions by "hot" and then just do the ones that show up at the top of the search, which only involve clicking one a wall or something.
I dont want to get in any trouble for exploiting, so I was wondering are these kinds of missions okay to do? What do the devs think of them? Thanks for your help!
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The Devs have no issues with anyone doing any of the Foundry Missions. If you're looking for some good stories I'd suggest you start by doing the Spotlight Mission choices that Cryptic posts on its website here: http://sto.perfectworld.com/about/foundry/foundry-spotlight
Those are generally considered good choices by Cryptic.
There was a time Cryptic said 'no' but that was when Foundry was first launched - nowadays they seem far more relaxed.
False. We have been told to report exploit missions:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=3500006&postcount=68
While it is true that they do not enforce their own policy, they have never made any statement retracting it.
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Cryptic won't do anything to YOU for doing a mission that's exploitative; they'll do something to the author of that mission.
You can report the mission when you drop it, or you can silently go through and do it and then move on to the next one.
i find it highly unlikely you would get in trouble for playing one as you have not done anything wrong yourself but to be 100% safe and fair its best to avoid them. if you want a short mission for the daily there are several quick ones. the nagus dailies are often quick without being exploits.
although these hardly do the foundry justice. there are some amazing stories out there and while some can be long they are worth playing.
That's disappointing. Because these are exploit missions, abusing the Foundry system.
Maybe their Laissez-faire approach is that they are working on system that prevents exploit missions. I seem to recall something mentioned recently of rewards being time measured, the longer you are in a mission, the greater the reward. So with these exploit missions being completed instantly, the reward would be 0.
As I said:
While it is true that they do not enforce their own policy, they have never made any statement retracting it.
I don't even know that it's true that they don't enforce it. Since the stakes on the Foundry Daily have gone from "some stuff you could have gotten off the Exchange for pocket change" to "a fair chunk of Dilithium", it could be that fewer people are reporting missions.
A lot of Cryptic's community interaction has gotten reactive instead of proactive due to staffing; this is self-evident in the fact they changed their minds on community forum moderators.
If the state of affairs is "they stopped enforcing the policy on missions whose only exploit is time", we'll probably never hear it, because they'd not want to open the floodgates or cause themselves a problem with enforcement in the cases they DO enforce. I don't spend much time in the Foundry Discussion forum; how's the traffic lately from angry people who lost their Foundry access due to exploits? They used to be infrequent, but present.
When you grab three of those "click this and you're done" missions, click once, and get 1440 dilithium for doing no work whatsoever... yes. Technically, it is an exploit. If you want to do them, that's on you. I'd rather run the UFP dailies if I need a short one. At least they have a plot.
If you get it in a shorter amount of play time than the devs intended, yes. The fact that you get that same amount of dilithium for doing 3 star cluster missions suggests the amount of playtime they had in mind for that amount of reward.
5-10 mins? The clicker missions complete in literally 1 second once you click the console. If it takes you 5-10 mins you are not talking about the same missions as we are.
No, more like doing a daily in less than 3 seconds for 1440 Dilithum, with a mission that was intended to be at least 30 minutes.
Heaven forbid something is done quickly every 20hrs in "Labor Camp Online":rolleyes:
Of course I prefer the Distress Call mission: Go in, kill 2 ships, go out. I'd rather fight something for 1-2 minutes then just click a glowie.
What do you mean "zone in, zone out"? Also, people typically select all 3 at once and when you click the wall it completes all 3 at the same time.
You can do it quickly without using the one-click exploits. There are a number of Foundry missions that take only a few minutes to complete; some of them have plots, some are free-for-all combat, and some are just simple objectives. You don't need to do it in one click.
Oh that's fine and all, til everyone starts doing it and Cryptic nerfs it. I mean look at the DOFF contraband mission. And that was with legitimate work. :rolleyes:
if u comnsoder this an exploit then stfs must be a expolit too u get more diltium from one run of that. if ur lucky or do a few of them ur likely to cap ur diltiuhm in a 3 or 4 space runs.
i have 6 toons i play and cap them all with a few space runs so what who cares its just a game
Even if there were efforts to remove these from the foundry they would be replaced by the next easiest thing. Probably 'Easy - Talk to NPC'. People will say those are exploits as well and complain. When those are removed the next easiest way to complete a mission will go rampant.
Personally I think it's all a waste of Customer Service's time. I'd rather them be focused on escalating Bug Reports than this. The whole reason why you can only do Officer Reports Daily is Cryptic knew players will use the foundry to create the shortest path possible to the reward.
This is probably one of the most ridiculous quotes I have read on the forums.
Now that was a REAL exploit. Sit there and blow up! Mega XP power leveling on crack, LOOT coming out every TRIBBLE, and Energy Credits ticking up like the national debt.
Not that I tried it more than a couple times :P