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Season 7 Foundry Heads-up
pwebranflakes
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Hi Foundry Authors!
As we move closer to the launch of Season 7, the team and I wanted to give you all a heads up on some Foundry-related items:
Thanks for your understanding and we look forward to seeing all of your amazing missions built during Season 7 and beyond.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
As we move closer to the launch of Season 7, the team and I wanted to give you all a heads up on some Foundry-related items:
1) At the time Season 7 launches, the editing tool for the Foundry, as well as being able to play missions, will be disabled as previous missions are republished -- we expect this editing downtime to last only a short while. Republishing will be an automatic process.
2) Foundry spotlighted missions will return once editing/ playing comes back up, including having their own billing in the Mission Journal! If you've been spotlighted in the past on the website, expect to receive an update through your past ticket with information on how your mission will be featured going forward. There will be some new things you need to agree to in order to continue having your mission featured. Details and instructions will be in your ticket update.
3) As you may have seen from the Tribble patch notes, we've made a change to how the Foundry Daily works. Zero posted more information here.
2) Foundry spotlighted missions will return once editing/ playing comes back up, including having their own billing in the Mission Journal! If you've been spotlighted in the past on the website, expect to receive an update through your past ticket with information on how your mission will be featured going forward. There will be some new things you need to agree to in order to continue having your mission featured. Details and instructions will be in your ticket update.
3) As you may have seen from the Tribble patch notes, we've made a change to how the Foundry Daily works. Zero posted more information here.
Thanks for your understanding and we look forward to seeing all of your amazing missions built during Season 7 and beyond.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
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Hopefully this'll be the fastest foundry down time yet... :P
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hmm... that sounds rather ominous.
We saw part of those briefly on Tribble, I think.
It's probably just:
An extra round of EULA qualifications.
Maybe agreeing to let Cryptic copy/archive a non-editable version for the Spotlight version.
What do you mean by "ticket"?
I don't remember receiving anything when 'City of the Polmar Ree' was spotlighted.
I would imagine this is very much it, a limited release of the content and ideas to Cryptic for much what you imply.
Pretty much this
Ah, that's right. The first couple had direct communication with me through social media or through my email. If that's the case, you'll get an email from me, but it will be created through the ticketing system
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
I didn't get a ticket either.
Thank you
I'll be reaching out to all past spotlighted authors listed here
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Couldn't have said it better. Its a shame all those people down in the tribble forums can't appreciate the great things authors are doing.
Killing the daily mission isn't going to get them running into your arms either. But grats on removing it. You should be so proud.
If people didn't have to grind so much, they'd probably have to time to try out player missions. Now that the burden has been increased and increased further in your quest to force people to your work, people will be less likely to partake.
Careful what you wish for!
hopefully once neverwinter is up and running we can get some of their tech to better showcase our work.
Some people are determined to deny themselves the best story content in the game. That's fine, they can go grind something else if that's all they want to do. I don't want 'em. I want the people who don't care about getting more and more dilithium for dubious rewards for which there isn't any content progression that requires the best gear anyway.
I want people who appreciate story, for whom entertaining playtime is its own reward, and people who are mostly like that but who just need a little bit of a carrot to lean them that way. I hope this is progress toward getting those people.
But that's not what this thread is about and I apologize for derailing it.
What happens when our missions break? Before I agree to sign over a version that can't be edited, then I'd like to know what my options will be when it breaks due to a new update or something.
We can visit that if/ when that happens. but we don't predict it to
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Generally speaking, breaking occurs in the editor, doesn't it? Published missions only break if republished, automatically or manually. If anything, an archived version that doesn't get unpublished or republished is probably more stable.
There is a chance, however, that tuning or balance could be off.
Hmm, I wondered if I could unpublish a mission once published, since the only way to accurately test it is to publish it.
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Hehe.... I'm a bit ambivalent. 3 real missions is a lot for the reward. Personally I think 1 would be better for the current reward.
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imho that carrot needs to be a whole lot bigger.
i said it in the other thread i will say it here
@Cryptic: Foundry REPUTATION SYSTEM with Season 8 With real rewards! Make it so!
There is another, similar question that I wish to ask you in regards to Spotlight missions, as well. If a mission is spotlighted, would it be possible for an author to discuss with Cryptic inclusion of features that go beyond the limits of the Foundry but would be available with Cryptic's toolset, such as custom mini/full bosses?
EDIT: Well, this post was completely moot. Looks like the Spotlight missions only get the regular awards that Foundry missions over in Neverwinter will be getting. They probably won't even get an upgrade to continue to give out special rewards (like the Featured Episodes, hint hint) if Cryptic ever ports over the Neverwinter Foundry tech. Including any extra features is right out. Too bad, it would have been cool to give authors of Spotlight missions unique rewards beyond what would normally be given out if the Neverwinter Foundry reward system is ever ported over here.
If a spotlit mission is no longer editable, does that mean we'll never be able to "remaster" it using new Foundry technologies?
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Apparently not. Hopefully that can be discussed, at least.
I'm not sure about "never", but at this time it seems that it would no longer be editable if it's submitted for featuring.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Isn't that somewhat limited? Many of the spotlights have evolved over time even after they were spotlighted, with or without season releases. I do understand that they shouldn't be seriously damaged (like removing most of the mission to make it just barely qualify for the daily), but removing the ability to remaster stuff?
Just because you guys never got around to remastering most of your missions doesn't mean we won't. :P
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Very interesting answer there, BranFlakes. Glad to hear it's better than "never", at least.
Still disappointed that the spotlight missions will only be getting the equivalent of regular rewards going by Neverwinter's Foundry, though. Would it be possible at all to give them special rewards if the reward tech from Neverwinter is ever ported over?
Very true.
There are some major problems with the daily:
This is a step in the right direction, but it's only a small step. I hope it's just the first of many improvements to the reward structure for Foundry missions.
The other thing is, giving up the ability to edit is a pretty big price, in my opinion. It means that if you play through and notice a problem, even something as minor as a typo, you can't fix it. Especially with Foundry improvements coming along, I'd be very hesitant to give up the ability to improve mission in the future.
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I agree with you. About change the daily. Missions it will be a good idea as well.:)
I think it's more of a safeguard in case an author decides to change their mission into something, hrm... inappropriate?
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=