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Season 9 Foundry Heads-up
pwecaptainsmirk
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Hi Foundry Authors!
With the release of Season 9 next Tuesday, the team and I wanted to give you all a heads up on some Foundry-related items:
1) At the time Season 9 releases, the editing tool for the Foundry will be disabled as previous missions are republished -- we expect this editing downtime to last only a short while. Republishing will be an automatic process. The ability to play missions will remain available.
2) When we do bring up the editor, the ability to review will be temporarily disabled.
Thanks for your understanding and we look forward to seeing all of your amazing missions built during Season 9 and beyond.
~CaptainSmirk
Hi Foundry Authors!
With the release of Season 9 next Tuesday, the team and I wanted to give you all a heads up on some Foundry-related items:
1) At the time Season 9 releases, the editing tool for the Foundry will be disabled as previous missions are republished -- we expect this editing downtime to last only a short while. Republishing will be an automatic process. The ability to play missions will remain available.
2) When we do bring up the editor, the ability to review will be temporarily disabled.
Thanks for your understanding and we look forward to seeing all of your amazing missions built during Season 9 and beyond.
~CaptainSmirk
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— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
I'm at least hopeful to get one more map of my latest mission into a playable state and somewhat polished before the Foundry goes down.
My Foundry missions | My STO Wiki page | My Twitter home page
Will have to check that out. Another thing I decided to do while Holodeck Foundry is down is go on Tribble - assuming it's left up - and create new faces for all my characters, to take advantage of the new heads and complexions. Then I'll take the usual slider screenshots so they're ready to port over when Holodeck editor comes back.
Missions have to get auto-republished every time there's a season update, and Cryptic also leaves reviewing turned off for a few weeks to give us a chance to fix update-induced bugs.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
You won't lose anything. As others have said the editor is simply turned off while the missions go through an automatic republish. Anything you were working on will still be there, published and unpublished. Keep checking to see if your missions come up. As Ashkrik said we're already seeing some come back. I urge everyone to check their missions as they come back up and report any issue.
Unless, of course, one of your maps gets borked or some other bug is introduced that causes one or more action items to come up in the editor, preventing you from republishing (as happened to me, Duke-of-Rock and anyone else who used the Ice Caves Interior 03 map when LoR dropped).
My Foundry missions | My STO Wiki page | My Twitter home page
Drogyn and I skimmed through the maps on tribble and everything looked about the right size.
If I recall anything from past seasons, your unpublished missions will be safe and not deleted. However, be ready to make changes as it will more than likely be seriously bugged and unpublishable.
As I posted here: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=16690871&postcount=21, this is due to the issue of interacts on ESD not working until a manual republish is done. Our full republish did not fix that issue as far as I can tell. I expect it's the act of opening the project in the editor that updates it from the old ESD to the new one.
We're looking into a software fix for this, especially for Featured missions. We're keeping reviews off until we can get the ESD interact issue fully addressed.
That's all I have at this time. I'll let you folks know if/when I get more information.