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remairtamec
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Does anyone know for sure exactly what does and what does not get a mission to qualify for rewards. Initially I assumed it was the same thing that got it out of review phase, but my mission is out of review but still does not qualify (Despite being ~30mins long doing the quickest options on all sections and skipping through dialogue, closer on an hour otherwise.). I edited it after the first review I received so I assumed maybe that resets the qualification, but yesterday I noticed someone had a mission in review with no written reviews and 2 ratings that *did* qualify for rewards.
So at this point I'm completely lost. Especially as qualifying for rewards seems so much more protected that releasing the content, which seems completely backwards. As I understood it the review process was to make sure the content was not offensive or breaching Cryptic's EULA or their licence agreement for the IP. Having this easier to pass than who gets rewards would indicate it is preferable to have their licence breached and offensive material reaching the masses than it is for a mission to incorrectly give out rewards. It also leaves missions, like mine, in that odd ground where it is no longer being reviewed (so not likely to be picked up by reviewers) yet not giving rewards (so unlikely to be played by non-reviewers).
Can anyone shed some light on this? Maybe I'm just being dense.
So at this point I'm completely lost. Especially as qualifying for rewards seems so much more protected that releasing the content, which seems completely backwards. As I understood it the review process was to make sure the content was not offensive or breaching Cryptic's EULA or their licence agreement for the IP. Having this easier to pass than who gets rewards would indicate it is preferable to have their licence breached and offensive material reaching the masses than it is for a mission to incorrectly give out rewards. It also leaves missions, like mine, in that odd ground where it is no longer being reviewed (so not likely to be picked up by reviewers) yet not giving rewards (so unlikely to be played by non-reviewers).
Can anyone shed some light on this? Maybe I'm just being dense.
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A) Republishing shouldn't reset anything. It doesn't alter the reviews/plays you've gotten.
I guess I'll just be bugging my fleet for a while
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Assuming that the wait time between the clicks averages out to 2 hours is the only explanation I can figure for these (obvious exploits) to be qualified for rewards. I've also noticed that they are all reviewed by exactly 5 people, who each gave them 1 and 2 stars for an average just below 2.
I post this information here, because it seemed like the only relevant thread. Reviewing and reporting the vast number of these missions is beyond my purview. The foundry's qualifications appear to be broken, and people are exploiting it, thus destroying the dil->zen market and any relevance to the difficulty of leveling up a starbase's tiers.
(THESE LUCKY FEW ARE STOCKPILING MILLIONS OF DILITHIUM AT EVERYONE ELSES EXPENSE)
Tangled Webs is at close 100 reviews and it still re-flagged, allegedly taking zero minutes to play, so yeah... at least some missions are not getting correctly recorded for time.
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Yes..but who in their right mind would try and figure out 1) what the mission says while translating it to english. and 2) where to go after said translation....while it does sound like a massive way to gain dilth it doesnt do any good because you still have to refine it all.
I took a look and saw quite a few missions with the same text and it was hurting my brain trying to translate it lol
If I posted the location of the start and end triggers on an open forum, I would be as bad as those that created the missions. Unrefined or not, most players would give their left eye to not ever have to run dilithium missions again, or turn in contraband. Regardless of whether you translate it or not, you don't have to read to notice what they're used for and know that this is a major break in the game.
There's no excuse for someone doing in 5 minutes dishonestly (50,000 dilithium) what takes most players several days if not a week doing things honestly.
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your argument that they'll just go away is perhaps the best solution that we, as users, can come up with. I'm hoping that someone with some power to actually fix this hole in the game will do so. Point is, they haven't gone away, they are easy to create, they violate the Foundry's eula and this kind of exploit is what gets the foundry taken offline.
Perhaps forgetting about it until it goes away isn't such a great idea?
Perhaps the authors of these missions should be banned from the foundry as the EULA says they should?
I've found about a dozen from two authors and have reported them.