Something S9 Didn't Announce: Foundry Dilithium Boosted!

kirksplat

If you haven't noticed, the "Investigate Officer Reports" has reappeared in our journals.

It offers these rewards for playing one foundry mission, in addition to regular Foundry rewards for qualified spotlights and non-spotlight missions (any mission with the yellow text).

960 Dilithium ore
1984 skill points
1732 XP (although 3781 was actually awarded to me)

This mission is NOT a daily. It has a cooldown timer of 30 minutes, meaning it has virtually no cooldown if you're playing a Foundry mission that has a story (instead of shieldless fish in a barrel).

So, for playing a 30-45 minute mission called "Adrift," I received the following regular plus IOR rewards that totaled:

6000 XP (plus XP earned while playing the mission)
2497 dil
1984 skill points
About 70,000 ECs, from drops discarded (It was mostly a ground mission, so the ECs were light).

Regular Foundry dilithium rewards scale with the length of the mission, from 480 to 1600ish (I forget the exact cap). The cap might be higher now. I remember it being 1440, and I got more than that for a mission that wasn't very long.

These totals may be higher for a spotlight mission. They might also be much higher with a really long mission.

Does this entice you?

If so, here is a list of missions that many people like. The Foundry UI will not help you find a lot of missions.

Edit:

I just finished Sovereign77x's "Forget Me Not," which is a spotlight that takes half an hour to an hour to play, depending on whether or not you want to engage the enemy. I didn't fire a shot. I just read and experienced the story. With the added IOR:

3599 dilithium
6000 XP (Is it still bonus weekend?)
21,800 ECs
plus skill points

Half an hour of sneaking around like in the old game "Thief." Very fun. Thanks, Cryptic.

ashkrik23

It certainly helps when you are doing several smaller story mission at a time and your hourly timer has not yet finished.

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qjunior

Well, it's not a bad reward. I'm sure it's far from being the most effective way of earning dillithium (if one cares about such things).

It does not really entice me, I'm not big on the Foundry myself.

platewearingbird

kirksplat wrote: »

If you haven't noticed, the "Investigate Officer Reports" has reappeared.

It offers these rewards, in addition to regular Foundry rewards for qualified spotlights and non-spotlight missions (any mission with the yellow text).

960 Dilithium ore
1984 skill points
1732 XP (although 3781 was actually awarded to me)

This wrapper is NOT a daily. It has a cooldown timer of 30 minutes, meaning it has virtually no cooldown if you're playing a Foundry mission that has a story (instead of shieldless fish in a barrel).

So, for playing a 45 minute mission called "Adrift," I received the following regular plus IOR rewards that totaled:

6000 XP (plus XP earned while playing the mission)
2497 dil
1984 skill points
About 70,000 ECs, from drops discarded (It was mostly a ground mission).

Regular Foundry dilithium rewards scale with the length of the mission, from 480 to 1600ish (I forget the exact cap).

These totals may be higher for a spotlight mission.

Does this entice you?

So? I can roll up into a Voth BZ that's almost done, finish that one, and join about 2-3 more in about 45 minutes with double-triple the dilithium, not counting the daily quests.

Better yet there's no 30 minute cooldown.

lan451

Nah. If I want dil, I can cap out my daily 8k in the ground BZ in around 30 mins. 2.5k dil in 45 mins is slow.

Edit: What platewearingbird said.

centersolace

Oooo. Not really the best thing in the game but good nothingless~ I wish it came with a box of marks though 50-75 would seal that deal.

captainoblivous

Meh. Still doesn't make me want to do your fan fics.

IF it were higher still and gave out a worthwhile amount of rep marks then I imagine I would play them more frequently. I pretty much only use them to kill time now.

khreg

Suh-weet!



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alexmakepeace

A welcome change. It's not the most efficient way of gathering dil but it's a lot more fun than running the same battlezones over and over.

casanova11

Dont get to excited because guess what they will nerf next lol. Get dilithium has always been easy its the limiting factor of only being able to refine 8000 a day that is the let down of getting mass quantities of dil.

iconians

kirksplat wrote: »

960 Dilithium ore

It has a cooldown timer of 30 minutes, meaning it has virtually no cooldown if you're playing a Foundry mission that has a story (instead of shieldless fish in a barrel).

2497 dil

About 70,000 ECs, from drops discarded (It was mostly a ground mission).

Regular Foundry dilithium rewards scale with the length of the mission, from 480 to 1600ish (I forget the exact cap).
Does this entice you?

It would appear my interest in the Foundry has shifted from 0% to 100%. Funny how giving me rewards changes my opinion on whether the Foundry is worth doing again.

Better play as many Foundry missions as I can before Cryptic removes all dilithium rewards again because of exploitation, again.

vocmcp

iconians wrote: »

Better play as many Foundry missions as I can before Cryptic removes all dilithium rewards again because of exploitation, again.

Just that there actually was a massive exploit that got abused in abundance......

iconians

vocmcp wrote: »

Just that there actually was a massive exploit that got abused in abundance......

I won't deny that. But one of my main gripes is Cryptic keeps teeter-tottering when it comes to the Foundry rewards. One day they get me interested in the Foundry, then the next day they remove all interest I had in the Foundry.

I support UGC, but Cryptic has also given me a 'false choice' in using the Foundry to get in-game rewards.

With an emphasis on "the grind", it's just not compatable with the Foundry.

Hopefully this latest 'adjustment' with the return of officer reports will put the issue to rest and I can simultaneously enjoy UGC while not ignoring my obligation to acquire dilithium in large amounts.

But I won't hold my breath on it. People will find some way to exploit it.

kirksplat

I know it's not the most efficient way to earn dil, but it might be worth trying. We're still trying to discover the numbers involved.

The mission I played took me 45 minutes and the reward was based on average playtime. It's probably a 30 minute mission, since I had a long struggle against 3 Borg spheres in my Defiant. I also carefully read every dialogue.

I think the cap for regularly rewards might have also risen, since I remember 1440 being the cap for regular rewards. If you folks play a mission with regular rewards and the IOR, please write down playtime and numbers and share.

I may be underselling the totals, based on one mission.

The spotlights, for example, may now reward close to 3600 dilithium.

shpoks

Well haven't noticed this myslef, but it's very wellcomed regardless! Nice to have the "Investigate Officer Reports" back.
I hope it sticks around this time, there are many people that prefer a good Star Trek story rather than just mind-numbing grind.

doubleohnine

So the Cryptic strategy is to have players look at the math and see its quicker to grind Cryptic content, rather than make Foundry exploit missions? Seems fair. Gives foundry players a feeling they didnt totally waste their time doing missions for love of story, and prohibits the exploiters from wasting their time with the Foundry tools and loading the foundry with even more junk. Seems like the fairest compromise we are going to get. Hopefully Cryptic doesnt renerf.

kirksplat

I just finished Sovereign77x's "Forget Me Not," which is a spotlight that takes half and hour to an hour to play, depending on whether or not you want to engage the enemy. I didn't fire a shot. I just read and experienced the story. With the added IOR:

3599 dilithium
6000 XP (Is it still bonus weekend?)
21,800 ECs
plus skill points

Half an hour of sneaking around like in the old game "Thief." Very fun. Thanks, Cryptic.

sophus84at

best thing in a while i rather play 2-3 hours of foundry to get my daily cap and have more fun instead of voth battlezoning it in half an hour.

love the investigate officer report missin and really missed it.

kudos cryptic for putting it back again and thanks to the OP to mention it as i certainly never wuld have thought of looking for it again.

kirksplat

iconians wrote: »

Better play as many Foundry missions as I can

Please share your reactions Iconians. What's good, what's bad, and how does the game and your time spent in it feel, compared to battlezones or usual means of dilithium gathering.

blevok

Given that it wasn't in the patch notes, and IOR has caused cryptic much grief in the past, i'm betting it's just a mistake that it got put back in. I expect that it will be stealthily removed in one of the next few patches. However i do welcome it back and hope that it stays.

starswordc

blevok wrote: »

Given that it wasn't in the patch notes, and IOR has caused cryptic much grief in the past, i'm betting it's just a mistake that it got put back in. I expect that it will be stealthily removed in one of the next few patches. However i do welcome it back and hope that it stays.

Cryptic has a bad habit of just not putting stuff in the patch notes.

Yo, Cryptic? We've told you once and we're telling you again: When you do something like this, would you please, pretty please with a Hathon hammer on top, frakking tell us so we can thank you for it? I would love to be able to praise you for doing stuff instead of being critical all the time, but you've got to let us know.

kirksplat

blevok wrote: »

Given that it wasn't in the patch notes, and IOR has caused cryptic much grief in the past, i'm betting it's just a mistake that it got put back in. I expect that it will be stealthily removed in one of the next few patches. However i do welcome it back and hope that it stays.

The lack of patch notes is particularly true in regards to Foundry. Changes to the Foundry very, very rarely show up in release notes. So, it's not uncommon. It really is kind of the norm.

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kirksplat

rob2485 wrote: »

I know I used to live in the foundry until they decided that map load times and server not responding for a minute don't count toward mission completion. The reward used to be 1440 for most missions until that nerf.

Once they took away map load time counting toward the mission I haven't been back, pity you know because there are some really great authors out there and believe me some of the missions are way better than the cryptic story missions.

I can forgive them for this stuff, since it was obviously necessary to curb exploits.

a3001

f2pdrakron wrote: »

Sorry but Undine marks do not gather themselves.

platewearingbird wrote: »

So? I can roll up into a Voth BZ that's almost done, finish that one, and join about 2-3 more in about 45 minutes with double-triple the dilithium, not counting the daily quests.

Better yet there's no 30 minute cooldown.

+1 each. Tis a pity the foundry doesn't have the tools Cryptic has. Nevertheless, dilithium takes precedence and foundry missions take too long.

saedeith

I noticed this myself but the refining cap is so low that it just isn't worth it to me to run multiple times.

edgecrysger

Yeah i noticed it since the first day. I always do a run with a fast foundry mission to gather dil. (5-8 minutes). So i picked the mission from my tab, and for a foundry mission that before the event gave me 1900 dilithium for 6 minutes, now it gaves me 1440, but plus the 960 of the mission , i get more than before. It is an improvement lol.