Update: the auto-republish cycle is continuing. Missions are coming back online slowly. I recommend searching for your own missions and giving them a play as they come back up. Make sure to report any bugs on the forums.

For those who haven’t been following Tribble, the Foundry is receiving a number of updates with Legacy of Romulus. These updates went live today, but of course the Foundry is going through its usual cycle of republishing. Here’s BranFlake’s official post:

Jolan tru Captains!

The team and I wanted to let you all know about some important information about the Foundry and the launch of Legacy of Romulus.

Currently, while we republish all missions made prior to launch, all access to the Foundry is off. This includes editing and playing. Once the republish process is complete, we will allow access to playing Foundry missions again. When we do, the ability to review missions will be temporarily disabled.

We hope to have editing, playing and reviewing back up very shortly, and will provide updates in this thread as they become available. Also, we will be delaying this week’s Spotlight on the Foundry until reviewing is back up.

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

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

All pretty standard.

After the break, I’ll have the patch notes for Foundry with a few explanations of what exactly some of the additions are based on my Tribble testing.

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This week, we discuss the spotlight along with our thoughts of Star Trek Into Darkness! Then we review The Tangled Webs We Weave.

Welcome to the Foundry Roundtable, a weekly podcast dedicated to Foundry missions, mission building and other UGC issues starring Foundry authors Drogyn1701, Markhawkman, Hippiejohn and Greendragoon with guest-host djf021.

Listen to it here, here and here:

Subjects:

New Foundry Assets – 2:46
Removal of costume import/export – 18:18
How to prepare for Legacy of Romulus – 23:54
Foundry Rewards – 1:08:49
Covering controversial subjects – 1:25:19
Minimalism in mission design – 1:42:20

Missions:

Conjoined by DenizenVI – 41:31
Infintesimal Frontier by Dixonium – 42:35 (apparantly everyone really loves this mission)
Beneath the Skin by P_Sutherland – 43:40

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

Mission Title : Waiting for the Light

Author : @Kirkfat

Faction : Federation

Level Requirement : 31+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

Mining Outpost 47 is requesting your assistance. What you discover may have far-reaching implications.

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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From Star Trek Online
The Foundry for Star Trek Online gives players a chance to create and share their very own stories with the world. These Spotlight Missions were designed by members of the Star Trek Online community and are great playable examples of what you, too, can add to the Star Trek Online universe.

This week’s spotlighted mission is “The Sword of the Kuvah’Magh“ by krwolcott.

Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Any
Mission Summary: The Regulus System is under attack by Klingon forces, and our relief shipment to the Hromi Sector is in jeopardy. Starfleet is mobilizing to drive the Klingons back. You will assist the convoy escorts and protect the relief freighters.

This mission also won “Best Overall Mission” during the recent Foundry Authors Academy Spotlight Competition.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Federation character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

Officer testimonials about this mission:

“Good fun. Enemies finely balanced. Good costume design, map design was good. Plot was perfect.” – @pandaberry94

“Brilliant mission and story” – @crash77a

“Short, sweet, with better use of fighters than the official episodes, and unexpectedly hilarious.” – @Odelagga

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

Foundry Spotlight Missions Index

Mission Title : Alpha Flight

Author : @RemairTamec

Faction : Federation

Level Requirements : 31+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

You have been selected for the prestigious Alpha Flight course, the Federation’s most elite pilot training program. Drawn from around the Federation and its allies, Alpha Flight pushes the quadrant’s best pilots to their limits. As stakes rise, egos clash and safety protocols are pushed to the wayside, you realize not everyone is cut out for the course, and only a handful will graduate to receive the golden wings. Will you be another dropout, a line on a memorial plaque, or will you meet the challenge and prove that you are the best pilot the Federation has to offer?

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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We survived the server outages to bring you Foundry news for the week and a review of Hero of the Empire!

Mission Title : You Don’t Know When It’s Real

Author : @Chipertuesday

Faction : Federation

Level Requirements : 31+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

After a tough mission in which you cooperated with the Enterprise-F, you and your crew go back to earth for a shore leave. Since you have no specific plan for the holiday, when your bridge officers invite you to join a hologram small craft racing game, you accept their offer. It was all enjoyable at first, but then it goes wrong and you suddenly realize that you are now in something more than a simulation…

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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Mission Title : Protector

Author : @terinvorta

Faction : Federation

Level Requirement : 31+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

A temporal anomaly has appeared on the edge of Sector 001, broadcasting a distress call. Your mission? Find and save the originator of the distress call. But all is not as it appears…

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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New tribble notes contain the following updates to the Foundry!

Foundry:

• Changeling NPC Contacts now have more visual variety.
• Added visual variety to Klingon TOS NPC Contacts.
• Resolved the issue that prevented players from purchasing additional Foundry slots.
• Players will no longer receive mission rewards while in preview mode.
• The ground Away Team will no longer appear upon previewing Space maps.
• Added new NPC Groups to the Foundry:
  • Elachi Ground
  • Elachi Space
  • Reman Rebellion Ground
  • Reman Rebellion Space
  • Romulan Republic Ground
  • Romulan Republic Space
• Added Elachi and EV Tholian NPC Contacts.
• Resolved an issue where all dialogs on a map would be copied to all objects during map duplication.
• The waypoint for a Reach Marker Task is no longer larger than the actual in-game area of activation.

Mission Title : Inner Space

Author : @rsmudger / @rickysmith1

Faction : Federation

Level Requirement : 31+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

A huge Zone of Darkness has been detected deep within Cardassian Space on a direct course that intercepts many highly populated planets from Cardassia Prime to New Romulas.

It is so vast it shifts the gravity-well of local stars and can block out all sensor readings in and around entire star systems.

Visual recordings of the engulfed star have revealed there IS a body at the center of this veil and several Cardassian ships have gone missing attempting to intercept it.

Now Starfleet has made it ‘your turn’ to face this Goliath, What lies at the center of this blackness, why is it destroying life and are you ready to go where no man has gone before?

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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Editor’s note: This review is the first in a series of Foundry Challenge reviews. Please encourage Rellim to continue with his review series.

Mission Title : Beneath the Skin

Author : @P_Sutherland

Faction : Federation

Level Requirement : 16+

Requirements : Shuttle Based Mission

Introduction:

While your ship is in port being repaired and upgraded. Starfleet wants you to re-chart a system inside the Delta Volanis Cluster. The last ship to visit the system was a colony freighter in 2398. Since then the Federation colony has received few guests. Head into the Delta Volanis Cluster to begin your mission. A routine assignment. What could go wrong?

This review has spoilers; if you do not want spoilers then do not continue to read this review.

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After 6 months of development, The Interwarp Experiment is ready for play!

You have been assigned to help out in the final testing of the “Interwarp Experiment,” which, if successful, could revolutionize the way we approach space travel.

But why were you summoned, and what is your connection to the genius behind the project? Will you learn the secrets of interwarp drive before the unknown parties attempting to interfere with the experiment?

And will you avert total disaster before it’s too late?

Mission highlights:

• Intricate character-driven mystery
• Moderate story-motivated ground and space combat
• Moral dilemmas
• Branching and situationally updated dialog trees
• Choose between two possible personal histories with the protagonist: rivalry or romance
• Explore a Defiant-class ship, making use of Cryptic’s finest starship maps to date
• Discover bonus dialogs and back story
• Estimated 45 minute play time
• Designed for single players level 31+

I wanted to give special thanks to the contributors here at StarbaseUGC for the many tutorials and videos that helped me see some of the unique game mechanic opportunities for building optional character paths in a story. Special thanks to kirkfat for his extensive video tutorials!

We want you to make mission trailers. Plain and simple. We want you to make them and post them on this site. Trailers are cool and fun to watch, but “I don’t know how to use demorecord” is a consistent complaint that we hear. Then we say “There are tutorials you can watch”, but people are still intimidated by it. “There is sooo much to it. Where do I possibly begin?”

I’m here to tell you that it’s so easy, even an old coot like me can figure it out. Most of the features that scare the crap out of you, don’t even NEED to be used. I’m just going to tell you what I do.

A quick explanation of demorecord:

Ok, to begin, let me just point out that the demorecord function of Star Trek Online is not working quite as it was intended to work. Since it was developed it has suffered with subsequent upgrades to the game. It will no longer display custom NPCs. Any NPC one has made in the Foundry costume editor will not be visible upon playback. Nobody at Cryptic will repair it because they claim it was never meant to be used by the general public and the guy who programmed it is no longer an employee. That being said, I will attempt to get you started on the simplest way to use this mechanic.
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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 (Absent this week), Hippiejohn and Greendragoon with guest-host Paxfederatica (aka @NCC-89471).

Listen to it here, here and here

Subjects:

Neverwinter Follow Up
Feedback disparity? – 0:01:37
Better ways to access the Foundry in game – 1:12:48
Challenge #7 – 1:11:07
LoR: What will we see in the Foundry? – 1:25:33
Monetization bug – 1:39:36

Missions:

A Time to Search by Lincolninspace – 0:37:20
The Interwarp Experiment by AstroRobLA – 0:56:10
Infintesimal Frontier by Dixonium – 1:01:54

Other notes:

In our discussion of how to better integrate the Foundry into the game I forgot one thing: Holodecks! We should be able to check a box that will make that mission available from any holodeck in the game.

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

From Startrekonline.com
This week’s spotlighted mission is “Silent Night“ by NX-89.

Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: A suspected traitor and a Reman assault on Rura Penthe lead to an even greater mystery where you’re never sure who’s telling you the truth.

Go to The Great Hall in Qo’nos First City and talk to the House of Kriton Political Aide to begin.

To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Klingon character, open your Mission Journal (J), and click on ‘Hail’ under the section labeled ‘FOUNDRY’ in the “Overview” tab. You will see that this Foundry mission is spotlighted in that section.

Warrior testimonials about this mission:

“Great story line – really enjoyed. Thanks!” – @frankhs30

“Great mission! I really hope it becomes an official KDF mission.” – @NeilCell

“Very nice, balance of space and ground combat. Good story as well.” – @Odelagga

For more information about the Foundry, including how to play community-authored Foundry missions and resources on how to create your own mission, check out this Guest Blog.

Foundry Spotlight Missions Index

In the official announcement, BranFlakes sends us forth in our shuttles to pick a winner.  Go forth and play these missions!  From today until Wednesday, May 29th at 10AM PDT, voting will be open.

So, without future ado, here is the list of entrants (along with the background story):
Small Craft Escapades

For this Foundry Challenge, create a mission that features content designed for and around a player being in a small craft (shuttle, fighter, etc). There is no background story you must build off of, so feel free to get as creative as you’d like.
Foundry Challenge #7 Entry Missions:

Mission Title: Beneath the Skin
Player @Handle: @P_Sutherland
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: While your ship is in port being repaired and upgraded. Starfleet wants you to re-chart a system inside the Delta Volanis Cluster. The last ship to visit the system was a colony freighter in 2398. Since then the Federation colony has received few guests. Head into the Delta Volanis Cluster to begin your mission.

A routine assignment. What could go wrong?

Note: This mission is designed for a single player.

 

Mission Title: Inner Space
Player @Handle: @rsmudger
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: A huge Zone of Darkness has been detected deep within Cardassian Space on a direct course that intercepts many highly populated planets from Cardassia Prime to New Romulas.

It is so vast it shifts the gravity-well of local stars and can block out all sensor readings in and around entire star systems.

Visual recordings of the engulfed star have revealed there IS a body at the center of this veil and several Cardassian ships have gone missing attempting to intercept it.

Now Starfleet has made it ‘your turn’ to face this Goliath, What lies at the center of this blackness, why is it destroying life and are you ready to go where no man has gone before?

 

Mission Title: Protector
Player @Handle: @terinvorta
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Any
Mission Summary: A temporal anomaly has appeared on the edge of Sector 001, broadcasting a distress call.Your mission? Find and save the originator of the distress call. But all is not as it appears…

 

Mission Title: You don’t know when it’s real
Player @Handle: @Ciphertuesday
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: After a tough mission in which you cooperated with the Enterprise-F, you and your crew go back to earth for a shore leave. Since you have no specific plan for the holiday, when your bridge officers invite you to join a hologram small craft racing game, you accept their offer. It was all enjoyable at first, but then it goes wrong and you suddenly realize that you are now in something more than a simulation…

 

 

Mission Title: Alpha Flight
Player @Handle: @RemairTamec
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: You have been selected for the prestigious Alpha Flight course, the Federation’s most elite pilot training program. Drawn from around the Federation and it’s allies, Alpha Flight pushes the quadrant’s best pilots to their limits. As stakes rise, egos clash and safety protocols are pushed to the wayside you realise not everyone is cut out for the course, and only a handful will graduate to receive the golden wings. Will you be another dropout, a line on a memorial plaque or will you meet the challenge and prove that you are the best pilot the Federation has to offer?.

Mission Title: Waiting for the Light
Player @Handle: @Kirkfat
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: Mining Outpost 47 is requesting your assistance. What you discover may have far-reaching implications.

Mission Title: Sarita
Player @Handle: @T1N1
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Any
Mission Summary: Humanitarian / Diplomatic type mission.

Mission Title: Uninvited Guests
Player @Handle: @sirboulevard
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: The incident with Admiral Zelle has left the Federation on a precarious edge with the Romulan Star Empire. With a rising rebellion in the form of the Romulan Republic and the beginning of diplomatic relations between the two nations, forces in the shadows may try to stop it before it gets too far.

 

Mission Title: Shadows of Omega
Player @Handle: @fnordbear
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: While on a standard patrol an eyes-only message is received by the Captain. The Omega Protocol has been activated. You are to travel to the Pilatus system and from there rendezvous with the U.S.S Ursa Major for further orders.

 

 

Mission Title: Cloaked Loyalties
Player @Handle: @edwinsterling
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Not Listed
Mission Summary: A strange request sends you, just you on a shuttle mission deep into the heart of Romulan Space.

Will YOU return at all

 

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Feel free to continue using this thread to discuss the missions above.

Good luck to all of our authors, and for our reviewers, have fun and boldly go!

Part 2 of a 3 part series

Part 1 – The Iconian Connection – published

Part 3 – The Iconian Ultimatum – in production

Following on from the events portrayed in The Iconian Connection, your crew must embark on a dangerous reconnaissance mission to Iconia II. Similar missions are being undertaken simultaneously by the Klingon Empire, the Gorn Hegomony and The Romulan Republic. This adventure chart’s your attempt to reach Iconia II, infiltrate their base and learn all there is to learn of their strengths, weaknesses and invasion plans.

The Iconians are a formidable foe and their origins are revealed in this sequel.

* On bridge battles

* Epic movie style story

* Tough Space battles and one impossible ground battle with escape route!

* Journey to an unexplored area of the galaxy.

* Interactive technical information

* Around 2hr in duration

* Teaming may be difficult

* Set your ship to stop at dialogue popups

* Elite is very challenging

Waiting for the Light
Fed 31+
A Shuttle Mission
(Contest Entry for Challenge #7)

by Kirkfat

Description: Mining Station 47 is sending out a distress call. What you discover may have far-reaching implications.

Estimated playtime: 35 minutes.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Please don’t hesitate to point out typos.

In this week’s episode we’ll cover the week’s news as there’s been another Foundry reward change to crush the latest exploit. Then we review Depths of Nukara Prime.