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Season 8 Foundry Maintenance Timeline [Complete!]

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited December 2013 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Hello Captains!

The team and I wanted to let you all know about some important information about the Foundry and the release of Season 8.

Currently, while we republish all missions made prior to today, access to the Foundry Editor is off. The ability to play missions will remain available, and you will see more missions populate the Journal as the automatic republish process continues. Shortly after the republish process is complete, we will allow access to the Foundry Editor again. Also, the ability to review missions will be temporarily disabled for a short amount of time.

We hope to have editing and reviewing back up very shortly, and will provide updates in this thread as they become available. Also, we will be delaying the next Spotlight on the Foundry for a couple weeks.

Thanks again, and we'll see you in-game!

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=


*Note: This plan is subject to change
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  • zanrath1zanrath1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Will any of our data be affected? meaning if i have a mission i published or was about to publish will i be able to withdraw it or publish it after you finish and i have access to edit again?
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    It should automatically republish, and the data should not be affected. But I'd run through it yourself as soon as you can to make sure nothing broke. LOR destroyed a bunch of missions that used particular maps. I've been fortunate enough to avoid that with "Bait and Switch" but I have a couple unrelated bugs to fix, and there's some minimap objective markers that are out of position (fortunately, I have physical objects to back them up).

    Bran, could you maybe please be a little more specific on the timetable?
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited November 2013
    starswordc wrote: »
    Bran, could you maybe please be a little more specific on the timetable?

    No specifics to provide at this time, republishing is still in process :) More updates to be posted once available.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited November 2013
    What was it you posted on twitter? "Asking how long it will take has a certain percentage to proc it taking longer" :D
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  • tpolebreakertpolebreaker Member Posts: 266 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    drogyn1701 wrote: »
    What was it you posted on twitter? "Asking how long it will take has a certain percentage to proc it taking longer" :D

    That's a derivative of the rule that back in EQ we used to call the "anti-camp radius." i.e. if you were closer than a certain distance to where the mob you are waiting for spawns... it wont spawn!

    The corollary, of course, being the death that immediately results when it spawns while you've gone afk for 30 seconds to pee...
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited November 2013
    Hi Captains,

    We've temporarily stopped mission republishing. The goal is to have it resume after the next maintenance. Your missions are fine, but we're working to address an issue with why it's taking longer than expected.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • thegreendragoon1thegreendragoon1 Member Posts: 1,872 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Thanks for the update Brandon. Glad to hear it's being worked on. :)
  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Aww... :(

    Please give the dev's proper coffee! And like the others said; thank you for all the updates.
    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.
  • zorbanezorbane Member Posts: 1,617 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Thanks for the update!
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Agree with the chorus here. Thanks for the update, Brandon.
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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  • novapolaris#2925 novapolaris
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    edited November 2013
    Thank you very much for the updates. It's much better knowing what's going on.
  • teamkiller68teamkiller68 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    why the game does not launch after starting music...?

    warum bricht das spiel ab,nachdem die star-trek musik beginnt....?
  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Hi Captains,

    We've temporarily stopped mission republishing. The goal is to have it resume after the next maintenance. Your missions are fine, but we're working to address an issue with why it's taking longer than expected.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=


    Hmm, I don't like the sound of that. What went wrong?

    Just hope this isn't a sign the missions will be corrupted again like it was with Season 4.
  • waaagh951waaagh951 Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    thanks for the update.
    feels good knowing what is going on
  • alexsanderitaalexsanderita Member Posts: 214 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    I want to add my Thanks for the updates.


    Irony is I came back to regular play for the Foundry FE "Purity" but I postponed completing it it after all episodes were published... for caution :rolleyes:


    Hope they will be republished before December the 5... :P
    I still dream from time to time about using the Gateway to doff off-game in spare minutes as we were told
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Any news? /10chars
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
    — Sabaton, "Great War"
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  • kadvelkadvel Member Posts: 30 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Or perhaps an ETA? :)
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited November 2013
    starswordc wrote: »
    Any news? /10chars

    From the above :)
    The goal is to have it [republishing] resume after the next maintenance.

    That's the current ETA.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    azurianstar wrote: »
    Hmm, I don't like the sound of that. What went wrong?

    Just hope this isn't a sign the missions will be corrupted again like it was with Season 4.

    Mine came back up first day and I checked immediately. Only thing wrong is that a few "go here" minimap objective markers are out of position, which, fortunately I put blinker objects in during one of my recent patches. Maybe a manual republish will fix it (I've got some unrelated trigger bugs to fix anyway).

    Haven't checked anyone else's though.
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    From the above :)



    That's the current ETA.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    Oops, missed that. So, Thursday, then.
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
    — Sabaton, "Great War"
    VZ9ASdg.png

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  • lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    So far I have had to manually republish.
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  • pec3pec3 Member Posts: 252 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Hello Captains!

    The team and I wanted to let you all know about some important information about the Foundry and the release of Season 8.

    Currently, while we republish all missions made prior to today, access to the Foundry Editor is off. The ability to play missions will remain available, and you will see more missions populate the Journal as the automatic republish process continues. Shortly after the republish process is complete, we will allow access to the Foundry Editor again. Also, the ability to review missions will be temporarily disabled for a short amount of time.

    We hope to have editing and reviewing back up very shortly, and will provide updates in this thread as they become available. Also, we will be delaying the next Spotlight on the Foundry for a couple weeks.

    Thanks again, and we'll see you in-game!

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=


    *Note: This plan is subject to change

    I have a lot of problems in this game, and I am not only one in my fleet that have this problems.
    1. I have problems with foundry missions.
    When I want to start one, or want to cross from one foundry map to next game crashes. I want to know why is that going on, and will that going to be fixed?
    2. When I do *Tour the universe* map goes crazy, my char becomes white, system becomes white,Inventory shows only numbers not icons.
    3. In Battlezone game crashes.
    4. When I press *E* when I am in sector space when map is on my ship does not start to move, only map zoom in. And when I look Galaxy map it does not show where I am anymore (it does not have that dot like there was before). When I am in Sirius Sector block that arrow for going to other Blocks are upside down. Many people want that back as it was before.
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited November 2013
    The republishing process has resumed :)

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Thank you very much. I really am looking forward to work in the Foundry and/or with the Foundry mission reviews again.
    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.
  • trekie564trekie564 Member Posts: 345 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Can't wait for the foundry to be at warp again.
    Good luck Devs!
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Any word on us getting editing back?
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
    — Sabaton, "Great War"
    VZ9ASdg.png

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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited November 2013
    starswordc wrote: »
    Any word on us getting editing back?

    We hope to have it back on as soon as possible -- I'll post updates once I have them :)

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    lowestlvl wrote: »
    SOON(tm):eek:

    SHHH! You wanna get sued?

    [serious]Yeah, that domain's actually owned by somebody, and it ain't Valve or Blizzard. Or Cryptic, for that matter. Egosoft stuck that up as a joke on themselves.[/serious]
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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  • vdavidsonvdavidson Member Posts: 31 Media Corps
    edited November 2013
    So I was working on my first foundry mission that I had a Stephen King moment with before season 8 went live. Will I be able to continue working on that mission when the foundry returns or will I have to start over? And, how close is the foundry to being reopened (looking for something different than soon :confused:)
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  • thegalaxy31thegalaxy31 Member Posts: 1,211 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    vdavidson wrote: »
    So I was working on my first foundry mission that I had a Stephen King moment with before season 8 went live. Will I be able to continue working on that mission when the foundry returns or will I have to start over? And, how close is the foundry to being reopened (looking for something different than soon :confused:)

    It'll be fixed within the next year.
    I would love to visit this star in-game...or maybe this one!
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