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Foundry Project Miscategorized And Cannot Qualify For Rewards

lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
edited November 2023 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Bug Reports
I am very very disapointed to find out that my first foundry mission remains in red text after months of work and 22 plays 9 of which were rated at five stars. When I do a custom search the mission only shows up under the criteria of "any to 20 minutes". The mission takes at least 45 minutes to complete. The author named Zorbane had a mission that was broken in the same way and did not qualify after many many plays. I put hours and hours of work into the mission building custom sets and npcs, I was hoping submit it for a spotlight. Please Cryptic is there anything you can do?
A TIME TO SEARCH: ENTER MY FOUNDRY MISSION at the RISA SYSTEM
Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
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  • rogueeenterpriserogueeenterprise Member Posts: 299 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I think Zorbane got around this by duplicating his mission and then republishing. You lose the plays you've already got but you may miss the bug occurring again.
  • crypticfrostcrypticfrost Member Posts: 1,479 Cryptic Developer
    edited October 2013
    Under investigation.
    STO QA Team
  • lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    crypticfrost wrote: »
    Under investigation.

    Thank you please help. I am not Zorbane I dont get missions posted on Startrek.com I had to work to get those plays.
    A TIME TO SEARCH: ENTER MY FOUNDRY MISSION at the RISA SYSTEM
    Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
  • crypticfrostcrypticfrost Member Posts: 1,479 Cryptic Developer
    edited October 2013
    From what I've been able to find out so far, my best advice for you is to get more people to play your mission. I'm going to keep looking into this to make sure I'm understanding all the technical stuff, but right now it looks like you just need to keep advertising.
    STO QA Team
  • zorbanezorbane Member Posts: 1,617 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Even I had to republish my mission, the original is up to 84 reviews and didn't qualify. Both lincolninspace and my problem is that the missions' average length is below the threshold for qualification (you can see this when doing a custom search).

    One thing I suspect is that author playthroughs are messing the average time up as we usually go through it really quickly to test specific things that are hard to replicate in the preview. <Pushingownagenda>If the author's paly time could be excluded from the avg play time calculation it could solve this problem</Pushingownagenda>
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  • lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    zorbane wrote: »
    I suspect is that author playthroughs are messing the average time up as we usually go through it really quickly to test specific things that are hard to replicate in the preview.

    I was careful not to do this. I did goof around a lot with costume import, the mission has other bugs in it that I had to work around. I really hope I don't have to republish like you did. This is my first mission so I don't have enough of a "fan base" yet and I really wanted to move on to other projects.
    A TIME TO SEARCH: ENTER MY FOUNDRY MISSION at the RISA SYSTEM
    Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
  • lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    zorbane wrote: »
    Even I had to republish my mission, the original is up to 84 reviews and didn't qualify. Both lincolninspace and my problem is that the missions' average length is below the threshold for qualification (you can see this when doing a custom search).

    One thing I suspect is that author playthroughs are messing the average time up as we usually go through it really quickly to test specific things that are hard to replicate in the preview. <Pushingownagenda>If the author's paly time could be excluded from the avg play time calculation it could solve this problem</Pushingownagenda>

    Thanks for your support.
    A TIME TO SEARCH: ENTER MY FOUNDRY MISSION at the RISA SYSTEM
    Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
  • lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I don't know what you did Mr. Frost but I just checked and A time to search now qualifies for standard rewards! Thank you and have a great weekend.
    A TIME TO SEARCH: ENTER MY FOUNDRY MISSION at the RISA SYSTEM
    Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
  • crypticfrostcrypticfrost Member Posts: 1,479 Cryptic Developer
    edited October 2013
    lincolninspace wrote: »
    I don't know what you did Mr. Frost but I just checked and A time to search now qualifies for standard rewards! Thank you and have a great weekend.

    I did nothing. You just needed a few more plays to put the mission into qualification range and you got them.
    STO QA Team
  • castsbugccastsbugc Member Posts: 830 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    lincolninspace wrote: »
    I don't know what you did Mr. Frost but I just checked and A time to search now qualifies for standard rewards! Thank you and have a great weekend.

    Congratz its nice to hear that sometimes things can get worked out without having to jump through too many hoops
  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    crypticfrost wrote: »
    I did nothing. You just needed a few more plays to put the mission into qualification range and you got them.

    My review took about 4 hours or so :D, could that have helped?
    maxvitor wrote: »
    Nerf is OP, plz nerf
    That's quite the paradox, how could you nerf nerf when the nerf is nerfed. But how would the nerf be nerfed when the nerf is nerfed? This allows the nerf not to be nerfed since the nerf is nerfed? But if the nerf isn't nerfed, it could still nerf nerfs. But as soon as the nerf is nerfed, the nerf power is lost. So paradoxally it the nerf nerf lost its nerf, while it's still nerfed, which cannot be because the nerf was unable to nerf.

    I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
  • crypticfrostcrypticfrost Member Posts: 1,479 Cryptic Developer
    edited October 2013
    stoutes wrote: »
    My review took about 4 hours or so :D, could that have helped?

    It did't hurt. ;)
    STO QA Team
  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    crypticfrost wrote: »
    It did't hurt. ;)

    Lol! :D

    *points obsessively to the links in my sig :P*
    maxvitor wrote: »
    Nerf is OP, plz nerf
    That's quite the paradox, how could you nerf nerf when the nerf is nerfed. But how would the nerf be nerfed when the nerf is nerfed? This allows the nerf not to be nerfed since the nerf is nerfed? But if the nerf isn't nerfed, it could still nerf nerfs. But as soon as the nerf is nerfed, the nerf power is lost. So paradoxally it the nerf nerf lost its nerf, while it's still nerfed, which cannot be because the nerf was unable to nerf.

    I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
  • lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    stoutes wrote: »
    My review took about 4 hours or so :D, could that have helped?

    Thanks for that. I have done a number of re edits. Lets hope my mission will stay qualified.
    A TIME TO SEARCH: ENTER MY FOUNDRY MISSION at the RISA SYSTEM
    Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
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