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[PODCAST] The Foundry Roundtable Episode 118: The Fall and Rise of the Foundry

drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
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Welcome to the Foundry Roundtable, a weekly podcast dedicated to Foundry missions, mission building and other UGC issues starring Foundry authors Drogyn1701, Markhawkman and Greendragoon.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2nsIQ4qXA

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NEWS

The Foundry is back!
A couple new bugs
Harold Mobs reduced to level 57
Locker description updated
Fix for Iconia map

IN THE FOUNDRY

Pax working revamping Ghosts of War, Part 3 and Valley of the Shadow, Part 2. Also working on new mission, Mirrorball.
Dragoon has been making fixes to In the Shadow of MIDAS, Part 2.
Mark is revisiting his bugged mission, The Beta Rana Incident
Drogyn is working on a new mission called Stand Up and Fight.

DISCUSSION

Official mission removal and how it affects our Foundry missions
Ideas for a KDF featured episode series
Foundry-designed characters as official stock NPC contacts
Tech Topic: Patrols

COMMUNITY QUESTION

What do you think of the idea of submitting player-made NPCs as official stock NPCs?

And as a special treat, during the recent downtime we livestreamed playthroughs of the new Season 11 content:

Part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez2KWlFKzjo

Part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZBADCJl36c

Part 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKj0sT4tk4A


We livestream on Wednesdays at 7:30PM EST/4:30PM PST on twitch.tv/thefoundryroundtable with episodes launching the following Monday.

If you have a topic you'd like to see us cover, have a mission you want promoted, or would like to be a guest-host, e-mail us at FoundryRoundtable@live.com or follow us on Twitter: @FoundryRoundtab

The Foundry Roundtable live Saturdays at 7:30PM EST/4:30PM PST on twitch.tv/thefoundryroundtable

Comments

  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Also, the next ep is at a non-standard time: 6:30 PM EST sunday.
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  • paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    One thing I forgot to mention on the podcast is that, in addition to revamping "Valley of the Shadow II", I have also (finally!) made a KDF-allied port of that mission. (It's still in review purgatory.)
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  • paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    duplicate post
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    OOOH!!! shiny! :D
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  • lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    This episode was chock full of goodness as usual. Your topic about mission played from different kdf races perspectives reminded me of an idea I had of doing a series of missions that branched between federation, Romulan and kdf. As it stands if I do sequel to a time to search it will likely be Romulan. I also am playing with the idea of having puzzles in my latest mission that can only be solved after the first play through, that way a second play through is rewarded with added content. Do we want user created npcs in the foundry? Hell yeah! Know what we want more? Costume import to return. Perhaps they should at least restore costume export so we can share our costumes with the Devs. Enjoyed the episode and was eager to you guys return.
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  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    lincolninspace wrote: »
    Do we want user created npcs in the foundry? Hell yeah!

    Indeed, I'm definitely for it too. Not the least of which because (insert flagrant self-promotion here) but because it would give some pretty neat contact options that we don't really have with the stock NPC's. I've been able to do something with one of the stock aliens for a few mission granting dialogs (who I've dubbed Lt. G'mak'ti) but for someone else they may be able to do more, more easily, in comparable situations if they have, say, an established Captain Ross to play around with.
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  • starfarerthetastarfarertheta Member Posts: 740 Arc User
    edited December 2015

    drogyn1701 wrote: »

    COMMUNITY QUESTION

    What do you think of the idea of submitting player-made NPCs as official stock NPCs?

    >.>

    <.<

    "Make it so."

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  • lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    Just imagine all the Amanda Barclay/Ensign Helna pawning loot missions we could build :p (I kid)
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  • paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    Count me in favor of player-made stock NPCs too. As mentioned in the podcast, I'd be willing to submit Admiral Zashek, and maybe Admiral Youngs and Black Snow as well.
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  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    paxfederatica wrote: »
    Count me in favor of player-made stock NPCs too. As mentioned in the podcast, I'd be willing to submit Admiral Zashek, and maybe Admiral Youngs and Black Snow as well.

    Well as mentioned above I'm looking at submitting Captain Ross (who should be a pretty versatile/interesting Starfleet Security contact) if this idea ever gets off the ground. I'm probably not looking at Itrex, Bailey, Graves, or Ji'Goro because there is a point of diminishing returns on the SSF team (one adds something new, two kind of get about doing the same thing with some variation, three even more so. If people want them I'd be happy to throw them out there but I personally don't think they should be a priority). The last two also have complicated backstories which wouldn't do for general use NPC's.

    That leaves all the supporting characters and for that I'd be willing to submit Haasra (the Jar Jar Binks/CMOT Dibbler of SSF, good stock alien for crowd scenes at least), Keiken (Ibi planetary security coordinator, good stock alien for diplomatic scenes at least), and maybe a generic version of the villain from Polarity. I've also got a veritable grab bag here of background NPC's if we want a popcorn mix of foundry characters (ex. Lt. Erok: troubled officer at start of Entropy, Ibi bartender who's suspiciously keen, the old/grumpy Styiat who can't tell difference between RR/FED) so let's just say the limit here is whatever Zero/cryptic specifies. :P
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