Investigate Officer Reports....Forgotten??

where2r1

Did Cryptic forget about this?

It has been 2 years since the mentioned "forthcoming Foundry revamp"? Did the revamp happen?

I know it says on the Wiki infers Dilithium wrapper on Foundry may be permanently gone....but not really known one way or the other?? Any more information about this?

Of course, after 2 years evidence shows: it is probably gone for good. But why? Was someone getting away with running off with a pocket full of Dilithium without completing the mission?

https://sto.gamepedia.com/Mission:_Investigate_Officer_Reports_(Repeatable)

Mission: Investigate Officer Reports (Repeatable) was removed from the game in early 2016 with rumors of a forthcoming Foundry revamp, whether it will be returned or has been removed permanently is currently unknown.

duncanidaho11

It's easy to speculate that IOR was allowing grinders to profit unduly while not offering a whole lot to the greater Foundry community. You had to remember each time to accept it and it only provided a once-daily bonus to what the mission awards on its own. We still have those rewards (people can get >1,000 dil from a spotlight) but as indicated rewards now are balanced towards the content Cryptic wants people to play (not the Terms of Service violating loot/accolade grinders.) I don't think a big update is required (we're here to have fun regardless) and Cryptic may have come to that realization in looking at the data from losing IOR (if the frequency of Foundry plays wasn't affected...)

where2r1

If I remember correctly, you can only gain a reward if you were in a mission that was 15 mins or longer. Otherwise it did not trigger. They had cut down the amount of the loot to be farmed from them.

If they are THAT worried about DiL rewards, they could just make it a daily...I think it was an hourly.

But "don't put rewards on anything because everyone does the easy stuff?"...is going to cut a lot of people out of participating in anything but......you know what it is: Admiralty.

captainoblivous

where2r1 wrote: »

If I remember correctly, you can only gain a reward if you were in a mission that was 15 mins or longer. Otherwise it did not trigger. They had cut down the amount of the loot to be farmed from them.

Not at first. That was the first nerf they put in.
For a long time, the IOR missions were literally "walk up to the console on esd, click it, collect your dil".
They cut it because (iirc) they just didn't know what to do with it. It went back and forth, nerf after nerf then buff after buff after nerf etc.

where2r1

Thanks, Captain!

Last time I remember using it, it was the 15 min timer. And there was whining about the loot.
I was doing one of the Foundry missions thinking...I know there was a "thing" to pick up for the Dil...where did it go.

I hadn't realized it was removed. And the Wiki makes it sound open ended. They should probably edit that out to not sound so speculative.

thegreendragoon1

You have to be careful with the wiki as things can go for years without anyone touching it and Cryptic's intentions and priorities for the game are always being adjusted as things go forward.