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All Foundry functions are temporarily unavailable. 19 OCT Patch notes
mattjohnsonva
Member Posts: 4,974 Arc User
What is going on with the foundry? It would be great if the devs could actually explain to us what the problem is. I know it goes down after every major update, but it came back slowly, apart from the editor, then last week they instantly shut it off and tell us it would be back at the next maintenance. Now we are being told it is still unavailable. And what do they call temporary? A week, a month, a year?
Do the devs have any idea how important the foundry is to players in this game, because if all we had to play were the 130 standard missions in the game many would have left years ago. The facility to create new missions for yourself and others to enjoy is, for many, a fantastic bonus for STO, yet it's never given the importance it deserves by Cryptic, the fact it's still in Beta after nearly 8 years is one indication of that. Now I am concerned that it will be down for months until someone fixes it in their own time, as it seems many of the cool functions in the game are "own time" projects.
Cryptic, many of us would like some explanation of what is going on with the Foundry.
Do the devs have any idea how important the foundry is to players in this game, because if all we had to play were the 130 standard missions in the game many would have left years ago. The facility to create new missions for yourself and others to enjoy is, for many, a fantastic bonus for STO, yet it's never given the importance it deserves by Cryptic, the fact it's still in Beta after nearly 8 years is one indication of that. Now I am concerned that it will be down for months until someone fixes it in their own time, as it seems many of the cool functions in the game are "own time" projects.
Cryptic, many of us would like some explanation of what is going on with the Foundry.
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The main reason for this is because they're adding the new assets and such from the season release in. Add to that they just released a specialization and an fleet holding.
The foundry was also autopublishing the missions a bit ago. Which now they have shutdown all foundry functions. I'd have to say they found a bug or exploit with it that needs to be addressed.
Perhaps we'll get lucky with this, and finally get some NPCs that finally count as Klingon Rebels.
Add to this, that in general there are only two dev's that work on the foundry.
Though I am hoping they finally debug some things that some how got bugged last year. Like ground assets that come with lights, and the lights fixtures were floating above the asset itself. Like the klingon combat arena. It has 4 of those ground torch lights you see in First City... all those were floating above the arena itself. This light by itself comes with a fire already in it. Unfortunately, due to this bug, the fire is at the base of it, instead of at the top of it.
It's a server problem:
Cryptic may have originally planned for Foundry play to come back online today but, as we should all know, things in development can change (see. why they don't talk about upcoming content.)
Notable missions: Apex [AEI], Gemini [SSF], Trident [AEI], Evolution's Smile [SSF], Transcendence
Looking for something new to play? I've started building Foundry missions again in visual novel form!
Yeah, I'm not worried about it right now. Though, I do find myself missing the challenge of map building(even with the hundreds upon hundreds of jumps in to the 3D render and back out to the editor).
If I find out any more than this. I'll post it.
Oh wait, those were just the voices in my head....
If anyone is interested in details about this, see the link in my sig below.
arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1203368/pve-content-a-list-of-gamewide-polishing-pass-suggestions
Can I add a new, easier to use editor to that wish list?