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The Foundry is back! Editing is Live! Top 3 is Live!

pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
edited February 2015 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
It's Alive!

Welcome back to the Foundry, and welcome back to all our excited UGC authors!

Editing is live once again and ready for you to jump in and start working on more missions.

Please alert me via this thread if you are having any residual problems with publishing.

While you are at it, make sure to cruise the galaxy and check out the Top 3 interface, and try out some top rated missions!

Thanks everyone, and keep your eyes peeled for the new Foundry Spotlight missions!

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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Nice...

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  • lordarathronlordarathron Member Posts: 249 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Fantastic!!!
  • paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    That's not all - apparently the devs have also fixed the problem of missions not showing up in the Top 3 if they have interstitial dialogue before the first map.

    All of my missions have such interstitial dialogue, and tonight I noticed one of them ("Ghosts of War, Part V") in the Top 3 at Wolf 359.
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  • captainhunter1captainhunter1 Member Posts: 1,630 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    paxfederatica wrote: »
    That's not all - apparently the devs have also fixed the problem of missions not showing up in the Top 3 if they have interstitial dialogue before the first map.

    All of my missions have such interstitial dialogue, and tonight I noticed one of them ("Ghosts of War, Part V") in the Top 3 at Wolf 359.

    Are you sure Pax? I'm not seeing two of my missions (which have the dialog issue) that I know are well rated and are at a 'remote' system. Heck, the 'Top 3' mission option doesn't come up at all. But this is a system that has only one Cryptic mission tied to it and the 'System Info' box doesn't even show unless the mission is active. :(

    But even after picking up the mission (to show the 'system info' box), no 'Top 3' list appears.

    Are you sure Part V of your series has a dialog lead-in? :P
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  • thegreendragoon1thegreendragoon1 Member Posts: 1,872 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    captainhunter1 wrote: »
    Are you sure Pax? I'm not seeing two of my missions (which have the dialog issue) that I know are well rated and are at a 'remote' system. Heck, the 'Top 3' mission option doesn't come up at all. But this is a system that has only one Cryptic mission tied to it and the 'System Info' box doesn't even show unless the mission is active. :(

    But even after picking up the mission (to show the 'system info' box), no 'Top 3' list appears.

    Are you sure Part V of your series has a dialog lead-in? :P

    If it makes you feel any better, I have two missions that don't have any pre-system dialog and one shows up but the other doesn't. So the bug may be more complicated.

    Honestly, there was no way a system this complex was going to work perfectly out of the gate.
  • isthisscienceisthisscience Member Posts: 863 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    It looks fantastic, glad to see them up there. Some are less than three, I'm wondering if there are just a few, does it list all our doors it show a percentage, so if there are 9 there will be three but if there are six there will show two?
  • robert359robert359 Member Posts: 355 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I love the new system, I am glad Cryptic is making more Foundry content visable to players.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    isthisscience wrote: »
    It looks fantastic, glad to see them up there. Some are less than three, I'm wondering if there are just a few, does it list all our doors it show a percentage, so if there are 9 there will be three but if there are six there will show two?
    no it picks three.
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  • antzudanantzudan Member Posts: 231 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Looking forward to setting a course for the stars and seeing what I find...
  • zorbanezorbane Member Posts: 1,617 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    isthisscience wrote: »
    It looks fantastic, glad to see them up there. Some are less than three, I'm wondering if there are just a few, does it list all our doors it show a percentage, so if there are 9 there will be three but if there are six there will show two?

    Looks like there's still some issues with the Top 3 system. Some systems don't even have any showing up (I checked a few that my missions are set at).
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  • dragonsbrethrendragonsbrethren Member Posts: 1,854 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Just playing normally yesterday I picked up missions from two different systems, ones I had never stumbled onto with the old Foundry search. So great work on this feature, apparently there are still some issues, but it seems like a huge improvement over how we had to find missions before.

    I hope something can eventually be set up for missions that start in the social hubs. As it is, I'm feeling like I should move my starts out into sector space (which maybe isn't a bad thing!).
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    does this system ever show you your own? One of my missions starts at Breshar, and I can't see it, only one missions shows up there too!
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Well, the Top 3 system has definitely boosted the number of plays for "The Sentinels of Andor". I'm liking it so far. :)

    And I've seen my own mission appear in the Top 3 interface, so you should be able to see your own as well.
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  • bazagbazag Member Posts: 375 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    One of mine has shown up but there are at least 2 more that should have that haven't as yet.

    I'm not sure if things are still happening behind the scenes and it takes a bit of time for all the missions to be processed. Or what.

    I'll try republishing one of the ones that should work and see if that works.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Ditto. when I looked yesterday only one missions was listed for Breshar but my mission that starts there wasn't.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Ok, I made a few dialog tweaks, and republished. Now it shows up like it should.
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  • dragonsbrethrendragonsbrethren Member Posts: 1,854 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Does anyone know if KDF any missions are working with Top 3? I decided to hit every system in Omega Leonis (I think, anyway) and a good chunk of Pi Canis a little while ago and no missions popped up. I know there are fewer KDF missions than Federation, but I was surprised that nothing came up at all.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    dragonsbrethren wrote: »
    Does anyone know if KDF any missions are working with Top 3? I decided to hit every system in Omega Leonis (I think, anyway) and a good chunk of Pi Canis a little while ago and no missions popped up. I know there are fewer KDF missions than Federation, but I was surprised that nothing came up at all.

    I suspect that's because there are fewer KDF missions in general, and several of the ones I've played start on Qo'noS.

    Also, I noticed that missions that have you start in a social zone, won't turn up as part of Top 3. I checked to see whether "Bait and Switch", which first has you report to Admiral Marconi on DS9, would appear on the Malon system and it doesn't: there's no missions at Malon.
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    edited February 2015
    dragonsbrethren wrote: »
    Does anyone know if KDF any missions are working with Top 3? I decided to hit every system in Omega Leonis (I think, anyway) and a good chunk of Pi Canis a little while ago and no missions popped up. I know there are fewer KDF missions than Federation, but I was surprised that nothing came up at all.
    i saw one pop up at donatu last night; don't remember the name, though, and it's probably gone by now
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  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited February 2015
    From what we know, missions are excluded if you have any objectives on a social map. Starswordc's example is a good one. He has the player talk to an admiral on ESD before you actually go into a map. We were told before the systems went live that it would exclude missions that had pop-up dialogue after the accept window. Thankfully they seem to have overcome this.

    Spotlight missions also seem to be excluded. Personally I'm not bothered by this as spotlights get plenty of attention anyway.

    Missions do need to qualify for rewards in order to show up. If you need help getting those first plays, please post in this forum. We're starting a Foundry Strike Team to help authors get plays on their new missions.

    As for KDF, yes there does not seem to be many out there yet. I suspect the majority of missions start on Qo'nos. I know my non-spotlights do (but that's for story reasons and not convenience). There are also plenty of worlds that are Fed doors that have no missions either. It is my hope that this system, plus the upcoming sector space revamp, will encourage more authors to set their missions out in the 'verse as opposed to ESD consoles.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    i saw one pop up at donatu last night; don't remember the name, though, and it's probably gone by now
    Nah, if there's only one mission attached to a door, then it always gets picked.
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  • dragonsbrethrendragonsbrethren Member Posts: 1,854 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Thanks for the tip, played that mission at Donatu last night.
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  • velocitorevelocitore Member Posts: 33 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Wow, I really love the new system with Foundry missions in Sector Space, it really highlights the foundry.

    My mission "Beckon Me Unto Beacons" is located at the Cernan System in the Regulus Sector Block. It is the only mission that shows up there. The patrol missions are all GONE! With this new system my mission went from 25 reviews to 71 reviews. It took 5 months to get to 25 and less than a week to get to 71, awesome amount of plays for a foundry mission. And the Dilithium tips are nice.

    I hope everyone else is getting similar results.
  • zorbanezorbane Member Posts: 1,617 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    velocitore wrote: »
    Wow, I really love the new system with Foundry missions in Sector Space, it really highlights the foundry.

    My mission "Beckon Me Unto Beacons" is located at the Cernan System in the Regulus Sector Block. It is the only mission that shows up there. The patrol missions are all GONE! With this new system my mission went from 25 reviews to 71 reviews. It took 5 months to get to 25 and less than a week to get to 71, awesome amount of plays for a foundry mission. And the Dilithium tips are nice.

    I hope everyone else is getting similar results.

    Woo that sounds great!
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  • dkratascodkratasco Member Posts: 585 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Small suggestion to system from player point of view. Make system more dynamic if I already played one of TOP 3 missions it should not be showed for me again, instead next from the list should take it place. More figuratively speaking if I played most scored mission system should change displaying form missions 1-3 to 2-4. That way it will always shows something new to play.
  • wombat140wombat140 Member Posts: 971 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I agree. It may be something that's actually unexpectedly difficult to do, but if not it would be an obvious improvement. That said, it's not always the same Top 3 - it selects randomly from the Top 10 or Top 50 or something for each door (can't find where it says how many!), so missions you haven't played yet should keep appearing for quite a while.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Also... if there are 3 or less using that door.... it'll always show the same missions.
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  • dragonsbrethrendragonsbrethren Member Posts: 1,854 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    They've stated that the missions at a given system are the same for all players and update every 20 minutes. So that probably excludes the possibility of hiding missions you've already played.

    I think the issue is less the system keeps selecting the same missions, and more there just aren't many missions set at any given door. Hopefully this will change as authors try to take better advantage of this system.
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  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited February 2015
    I think we're starting to get a sense of how few authors really set their missions out in the 'verse as opposed to in the social hubs. And keep in mind that if you have someone go talk to a guy on ESD and then enter the mission at Wolf 359, it will not show up. I imagine there are many missions like that.
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