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In episode 3 we played “Yesterday is Tomorrow” by Leviathan99.
“The unearthing of an ancient artifact coincides with another startling discovery out in space that may rock the Federation to its very core.”

If you missed episode 3, then you can watch the on-demand replay on Livestream or on YouTube.

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These tidbits are pulled from the patch notes that went out for Tribble Test server (f2p) today 09/29/2011

Foundry creation access: Silver
-players may access the Foundry for content creation if they have purchased foundry project slots
-Foundry project slots may be purchased with Dilithium – Note: not available in the first beta build Silver players do not receive any free Foundry project slots
Foundry access: Gold members
-Gold players start with 8 project slots for the foundry.
-Additional Foundry project slots may be purchased for Dilithium.

The full patch notes are here:
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=233097

Forum member maquis pointed out to me that StoDemoLauncher was having trouble with Foundry missions (thanks for that). You would have to click away one error message per Foundry mission demo on each refresh.

It’s fixed. Additionally, I’ve added a new filter, that should allow you to get rid of the bottom screen error messages for smoother renderings.

Happy Foundry trailer making everyone.

Regards,
Rachel

P.S.: On a completely different matter: If you have an hour to spare, come over here.

A lot of cool things were released via Twitter for STO in general, but it seems when it comes to the Foundry … a lot of us are still pretty left in the dark. Week in, week out, there’s no new Foundry news, bugs continue after weeks on end, and it seems like the once talkative devs have clammed up entirely (even our QA friends). What gives? Why are these things happening? We discuss it.

We also make fun of Altexist behind his back, and reassure the world that no matter what happens on Twitter, Havraha and Terilynn will always love each other. Hav will always be right, too, but that’s neither here nor there. What happened on Twitter, you ask? Well you would know if you followed us on it! We’re @Havraha, @Altexist, @TerilynnS, and @NemesisChiken !

We also review CerberusFilms’ incredibly tech heavy second part to a mission, and lament about the Foundry’s inability to understand what the hell is going on when one uses walls and floors.

Also, EPIC mailbag, and a particularly epic email from epic Foundry Author OldLordSkull. Thanks to everyone who sent mail in! Especially to everyone who sided with ME in the Klingon argument because Terry and Gettysburg have been beating me over the head with how wrong I was on that for like the past week. Ugh.

Oh, also, this.

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Show Notes
- Orion Ships (And New Ships in General)
Orion Ships!
- Are the Free 2 Play Game Changes bigger than the matrix suggests?
- Are we not seeing anything fixed in the Foundry because of code merges happening with F2P?
- Terilynn has been put inside an official Star Trek Book! The latest in the Vanguard series!
- Havraha is reading his first Star Trek book: “Last Full Measure”. See? I read! I READ!
- NemesisChiken Nerd Rages About Lack of GM Help
- TerilynnS Nerd Rages About Bugs
- Hav Actually Doesn’t Nerd Rage for a Change. Ok, well he does about Steam/Origin/Battlefield 3 but only during the break. Sorry.
- New STF Armors and STF Drops
Armor 1
Armor 2

Reviews
- “Duty, Honour, and Sacrifice Part II” by CerberusFilms

Send us YOUR thoughts about the show to PodcastUGC@StarbaseUGC.com !

Mailbag – EPIC!

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With the news that Dan Stahl leaving, all we can hope is that facebook is not the next place that the borg will invade. But this has little effect on foundry so let’s list of the new mission that are playable this week.

Saving Captain Ryan by Leu77450r

The Doctor by TDGaki1

The Unknown Ally by adiralweller1701

Gartha V by Nook

A Eulogy for Eden by NX-89

Assimilating light: Part 2 by EnglishWerewolf

The Great Material Continuum by CaptBuzzKill

Man In The Mirror and Salvage by ShamrockDuck

Seraph Dancer by wayword

Overture 1: A Rocky Fanfare by KineticImpulser

Breen Campaign 1,2,3,4 by Banditks

Unholy Alliances III – Hollow Pursuits by soriedem

Each week i say this so, i try to keep it sort. Leave a comment below or in the forum post if you have a new mission out. And remember each review helps an author on getting his/her warp core from  beaching. http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=218902

Broadcast UGC is the show where we play Foundry missions live! Join us on Fridays at 3pm US Pacific / 6pm US Eastern / 11pm UK / 8am (Saturday) Australian Eastern time at livestream.com/cerberusfilms.

In episode 2 we play “Spectre of the Past” by DenizenVI.
“A civilization dedicated to peaceful coexistence finds a relic linked to its past. A millennia-old asteroid starship has shown up, but what sort of secrets will it reveal? When the situation turns dire, will Starfleet’s finest be able to prevent catastrophe?”

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The Klingon Experience Project is dedicated to gathering together unique Klingon content: whether KDF-exclusive missions by the developers or ones created by the fans.

I’ve the updated status report for Update Seven: we’re up to 43 Foundry missions. We only need 8 more missions until we’ve created 1 mission per level (thus completing Milestone One). Remember, once the 51st player mission is added, we start voting for the top missions!

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A veteran Starfleet officer has recommended you for a sensitive mission. This is no ordinary diplomatic milk run. You’ll confront the most treacherous task of your career: stopping a covert war that started years ago on the other side of the galaxy.

A war started by the United Federation of Planets…

Name: “Overture 1: A Rocky Fanfare”

ProjectID: ST-HQHMGBWAE

Author: KineticImpulser

Language: English

Allegiance: Starfleet

Level: Any Level

Starting System: Andoria System, Sirius Sector Block

**Designed for single-player

**Story-driven

**Combat-light

WARNINGS:

I recommend you set your ship to automatically halt during conversations.

45-60 minute run time.

There will be snarkiness.

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Hi all,

I’m suspending the Summer of Love contest for the time being.  Until the toolset is in a stable and reliable working order, these contests will be unworkable and unfair to those who have to spend so much time repairing their missions.

When I feel that the tool is usable and consistently free of mission-killing bugs from weekly patches, then the contest will resume with a month-long deadline.

Sorry everyone.  Maybe we’ll beef up the prizes by combining what was going to be a winter contest.  Regardless, the Foundry is too unstable, unreliable, and full of weekly bug updates that this contest has been impossible to have.

Looks like we’ve got some confirmation from Zero.  If your mission has a trigger that uses “component complete,” then republishing will break your mission most likely.  The component to be completed will not flash and the trigger will not work.

If your “component complete” triggers are working right now, it’s probably because the mission was published before the bug got into the Foundry.

Here is Zero’s comment:

Q:  If I republish my mission, will the component completes stop working?

A: My guess is that yes, it will. Your published version isn’t affected because they worked when that version was created, whereas a newly published version would be putting out whatever you currently see in the editor, which has the bug referenced here.

It’s possible that I’m wrong, but I’d hate to guess otherwise right now.

OMFG Daniel Stahl is leaving Cryptic Studios ABANDON SHIP ABANDON SHIP! … or should we? We talk about that tonight, as well as Steven D’Angelo! We also talk about continuing bugs with the Foundry, WHY there’s still so many bugs, and how we were forced to port our missons over the weekend with a broken Foundry. Oy.

Additionally we review some missions from Bazag, and Hav and Terry argue about Klingons during the middle of it! Give us your feedback on this argument!

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Show Notes

- Daniel Stahl Leaving, and D’Angelo’s Cred?
- Continuing Bug Problems in the Foundry, and Porting While Broken?
- Free 2 Play Beta: Who’s playing this?

Reviews
- “Hidden Intelligence” and “The Mysteries of Pon Farr” by Bazag

- Hav and Terilynn Argue Whether TNG Introduced “Stupidity” to Klingons

Send us YOUR thoughts about Hav and Terry’s argument at PodcastUGC@StarbaseUGC.com !

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Hi everyone,

Make sure to check out the new episode of Stoked, which has an exclusive intereview with Dan Stahl.  There isn’t much Foundry stuff in the interview, but Jeremy did press Dstahl on why the STO team doesn’t do more to update the assets.  Stahl’s answer is around 42:42.  Basically, they don’t have the staff or the time right now.  He did say that new “doors” could be on the horizon and maybe some content from upcoming feature episodes.

This week’s episode of Stoked contains a new edition of Foundry Files, in which the hosts review “True Profit.”  Also, be sure to check out the previous edition of Foundry Files, which reviewed Havraha’s “Time the Enemy.”

Hi all. This is a quick reminder that Podcast UGC broadcasts LIVE tonight at 8:00 pm CDT! (That’s 9 pm EDT, 7 pm MDT, and 6 pm PDT)

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There has been little news this week, but there will always be a massive amount of content for us to play with foundry. Here are the new mission that are on holodeck right now:

Affiction Part Two by StraboV2

The Price of Liberty by temanaor

A Relic’s Return (Conclusion) by Armsman

Bishop’s Crook by Pi-30rionis

Born for Space 01,02,03 by okaww

Now if you have a new mission for us this week please what us know by leaving a comment below or by going to the STO forums and leave it in the post called promote your foundry mission, it’s there for a reason.  Now remember that a review help the author in the long run. http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=218902

A quick tour of the Star Trek Online ‘TOS’ Interior, that I really think should be put in the Foundry!

Published (and I did a post publish playtest to make sure it worked afterwards) this last Wednesday, 9/14/11:

Foundry Mission Name: “A Relic’s Return (Conclusion)”
Author: Armsman
Project ID: ST-HG5XD7S6B
Faction: Star Fleet
Staring Location: Regulus Sector Block – Veela System
Level/Rank: ANY

Mission Description:
Now that you and your crew have discovered a possible location of the Kintaran relic; you need to determine if an Orion Syndicate base is in that star system, and conduct negotiations for the relic’s return to the Kintarans.

Author Comments:
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This concludes the story started in my first mission “A Relic’s Return” (which made the Grand Nagus’ Mission list) ; and it really does have quite a TOS hook to it that I hope players will like, and again, if you really want to experience the full story, and you haven’t done so yet – play “A Relic’s Return” before you play this one.

It may still need some playthroughs to get it from Review status and out on to the “Content” Tab; so if you don’t see it, consider becoming a Reviewer in STO and look for it on the “Review Content” Tab.

(Link to Feedback thread on the STO Forums)

That looks... expendable.

Hi all,

quick heads-up: I’ve updated StoDemoLauncher to work with the new test server Redshirt. So if you want to do your Machinima on the test shard rather than on the public server, you are good to go (at least until the next wipe).

New shortcuts:

• Open Redshirt demo directory Ctrl+F11
• Open Redshirt schreenshots directory Ctrl+F12

Regards,
Rachel

Greetings everyone,

    I have pushed to get my Fleet foundry event going again so hopefully we can renew the excitement a bit. I have included the mission list that I just posted, so if you see something I missed, please let me know and I can add it to another mail for the Fleet. I also have instructions on what to do if there is a bug in the mission, so you will not get downrated from my fleet members should it occur. If they do experience anything, they have been instructed to PM or mail me with the bug so I can report it back to you as the authors.  I’m hoping to re-ignite the excitement from before as we have a good deal more new mwmbers in the Fleet. If you want a mission added to our list, please add it to this post so I can add it. Hoping Cryptic will get us back up full force soon. Happy Authoring folks.      Duke-of-Rock

Greetings SSOG,
   Now that the Foundry is “somewhat” functional again, it’s time to revive the mission play event. There are a lot of great prizes to be had so I hope you will participate. There still are some intermittent bugs you may experience in missions, so if you do, please mail me so I can alert the authors. It is a foundry issue and not the creators fault, so please don’t downrate them for it. Following is the mission list.   continue reading…

Welcome to Broadcast UGC, a new show brought to you by the Starbase UGC community. Each week, we’ll be playing through missions created in the Foundry for Star Trek Online before a live Internet audience. Join us live on Fridays at 3pm US Pacific / 6pm US Eastern / 11pm UK / 8am (Saturday) Australian Eastern time at livestream.com/cerberusfilms.

In episode 1 we play “Retribution, part 1” by Rejak. Starfleet Intelligence wants you to find a missing ship carrying dangerous Borg technology. Could the Romulans be involved in its disappearance?

If you missed the live show, you can watch the on demand replay on Livestream or on YouTube.

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