Hey all.

I’ve started a blog, called ‘Diary of a Founder’, at http://alimac30.wordpress.com

Having just published my second Foundry mission, City of the Polmar Ree, I’m now going right back to the beginning of the mission-writing process and starting to create something else.

So I wanted to keep a record of my thoughts as I go about building a new mission… documenting what the creative process is like, warts and all, in my particular corner of the STO Foundry community.

I’m not sure anybody will be interested. But perhaps somebody, somewhere will appreciate the insight into the thought processes of this particular Founder. And I think a future version of me will appreciate it… a future me who would otherwise have forgotten how it felt to be fulfilling one of his life’s dreams by creating characters and stories in the Star Trek universe, how challenging it was, and how much fun it was.

So if want to know what I’m thinking as I build my next mission, go take a look.

Feedback is also, of course, very welcome

Ali

With the some of the things been tested going to make the jump form tribble too holo, but what has always been new, is the new content that has been created by authors. Have are the missions that have been created this week

Fed side:

Encounter of the Undine Kind by Altair145

Stolen Friend by Xioa100

Reorganised by Jarobavo

At the Center of the Mind by Ogremerc

More Data-Part 1-Theft of Honor by Hauriant

KFD side:

The klingons are running away from the small and fury thing called a tribble, what warriors they are.

Now if you’re not afraid of small fury things and have a mission coming out this week, please yet us know by leaving a comment below or go the forums and leave it in the post called promote your mission. And remember not anything is cute and cuddly.

An expedition from the Soong Foundation on its way to recover remains of an advanced android is missing. Find them and help advance Dr. Soong’s dream.

Name: “More Data #1: Theft of Honor”
Project ID: ST-HL2DUZTJP
Author: Hauriant
Language: English
Allegiance: Starfleet
Level: 16+
Starting System: Ker’rat System, Eta Eridani Sector Block

-Contains HEAVY DIALOGUE with MODEST SPACE and MODERATE GROUND COMBAT.

-Intended to be the first in a loose series, not linked by a rigid plot but by characters and an “ongoing mission” involving Android research.  The story of this mission is complete.

-Further missions in this series will take quite a while to be made.  I have to focus on other things for a while.  (And wait for Cryptic to add TOS-style locations for us to use.  The denouement will indicate why I need those.  No time travel.  That’s my other mission.)  But again, the story of this mission is complete.

So it is official I am now here on UGC and will post my mission
reviews here as well as continuing to post on STO Foundry Mission Database
forums.

Let me know if you have any missions you would like me to
look at. I am, as always, happy to help.

Brian

Broadcast UGC is the show where we play Foundry missions live! Join us on Fridays at 4pm US Pacific / 7pm US Eastern / 12am GMT / 11am (Saturday) Australian Eastern daylight time at livestream.com/cerberusfilms.

Episode 11′s mission is “Green with Envy” by NX89! This week CaptPFDennis is hosting alongside Bazag.

If you missed the live show, you can also catch the unedited replay of it on Livestream.

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What? Altexist isn’t here? What’s that? Hav’s doing the show notes again? Well that’s good and bad! There’s a lot more Foundry, but there’s also a lot more rambling! Just like the old days!

Oh, also, an ammendum. Ignore what I said about the animations — I just double checked and all the emotes are in there now! So in other words, a complaint was invalid before I even recorded it. Oooops. But in any case, enjoy!

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BLOCK A
There’s No Better Time to Start Than Now
UGC Event
The Nagus Dailies
F2P Build Going to Holodeck Early
Holiday Event Planned

BLOCK B

Experience Biiiij – http://vimeo.com/11040425
More Holiday + Holiday Contest Announcement!

Mission Review
City of the Polmar Ree by alimac30
Espionage by Arnthebard

Mailbag – Email us and send us mission recommendations to podcastugc@starbaseugc.com !

END OF SHOW

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Hi all,

I can’t thank everyone enough for the kind words and all of the emails, as the site goes through some changes.  I’m sorry that I haven’t been able to respond to many of the inquiries from other sites, but a big thank you goes out to the entire STO community.  Everyone from Stoked to Holosuite Magazine offered to assist with the administration and maintenance of Starbase UGC.  The entire community came together to ensure that this community would outlive my departure.

In the end, I’ve decided that the best thing to do is to hand off the admin duties to the podcast crews, who can serve as a type of council (yes, a council!).  Here is a brainstorm of the various duties that each person could have, if they choose to participate.

Terilynn – Chief Editor/Contest Organizer.  Teri would approve/deny new posts to the blog, as well as fix ones with heavy spelling mistakes.  She would also be the main organizer of contests, site promotions, etc.

Havraha – Website maintenance/design.  Hav would be the guy of tech stuff, especially maintenance of the spotlight widget, the banner advertisements, and the general look of the site.

Altexist – Treasurer.  Alt would be in control of the paypal account, as well as google adsense and any aspects of the site’s monetization.

Broadcast UGC crew – (make up your own titles).  The crew would check the email every other day and follow up on requests made by subscribers who want to become contributors.  They would also be responsible for changing users from “contributors” to “writers,” which gives them more options to instantly post here.

NemesisChicken – continues as our Trek radio outreach. Castmodean would continue doing all that he does with chat, twitter, and facebook.

I know that the list seems hierarchical, but it’s not my intention to create a hierarchy.  It is more of a reflection of a list of priorities, and who I think is a good fit for those tasks.  I hope that all decisions about the site are made in a democratic fashion, where all voices, including the really awesome folks who aren’t on the podcasts are heard.

If anyone listed above doesn’t wish to be on the site’s admin team, please speak up.  Or, if anyone wants to swap responsibilities, etc.

Essentially, nothing else really changes.

Does this seem like a good system?

Thanks!

Broadcast UGC is the show where we play Foundry missions live! Join us on Fridays at 4pm US Pacific / 7pm US Eastern / 12am GMT / 11am (Saturday) Australian Eastern daylight time at livestream.com/cerberusfilms.

Episode 10′s mission is “The City of the Polmar Ree” by alimac30! We had alimac30 on the show with us live to give us the author’s commentary, as well a returning special guest AdmiralMurphy from STOked’s Foundry Files!

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Vice Admiral Shaaded Varzec was kidnapped and replaced by the Terran Empire. The Mirror Operative has been exposed, but where is the real Admiral Shaaded Varzec?

Name: “Missing from the Mirror”
ProjectID: ST-HJ2AQ77MQ
Author: Deffdog
Language: English
Allegiance: Starfleet
Level: 31
Starting System: Drozana Station, Odumli

Warning: This is a dialogue driven mission, with some difficult mobs. Solo Play, or well coordinated team play is advised.

Kirkfat leaving? What’s a community to do! We comment on it and wonder how surprised we actually are that people are getting fed up.

Rate our performance! Have we been too nice or too negative to Star Trek Online!? That’s a big subject of this week’s Podcast UGC — in an time when STO gamers are most unsure about their STO future, they’re targeting us, the podcasters, to complain about how we’re reporting the F2P transition. Don’t let the trolls have all the fun! Join in on the comments! Email us at podcastugc@starbaseugc.com !

And instead of ranting about tribblegate, despite numerous opportunities, I rant about the status of the smart phone market and the concept of specs, features, and thinnest over battery life. Why? Because I have a podcast and I can.

I also give a preliminary teaser review of alimac30′s “City of the Polmar Ree”, which we will all review next week.

And Altexist has an announcement. All on this week’s episode!

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With the news that my doffs will be making the jump from tribble to holo, but that coming in December. So it time to look at the new mission on holo to play that have been created by player.

Fed side

Locally Untranslated by Ogremerc

Server not responding part 3 by Mannequinn

Stolen Friend (Arranha series) by Xloa100

Overture 4:The Ferengi Scherzo by KineticImpulser

KDF side

Honorable Death by Aussie_Mr-Data

Now remember that leaving a comment below of going to the forum post call promote your foundry mission is a good place to put your foundry mission when it comes out. And now remember to bring your anti-borg gear to Deferi because they need it the most.

Your ship is on the verge of destruction.  Pioneer is crippled.  An invasion is underway.  Task Force Overture has been betrayed. 

Your only lead is O’Ryon’s “alternative source.”  Acting like an officer and a gentlebeing isn’t getting results.  It’s time to go old school.  Just remember Rule of Acquisition Number 125: “You can’t make a deal if you’re dead.” 

Name: “Overture 4: The Ferengi Scherzo”

ProjectID: ST-HE4HUYBE8

Author: KineticImpulser

Language: English

Allegiance: Starfleet

Level: Any Level

Starting System: Earth Spacedock; Main Floor; South Corridor

**Designed for single-player

**Story-driven.  LOTS of reading.  Seriously.  It’s fun and good, but there’s LOTS.

**Combat-light

**You need to play the episodes in order.

WARNINGS:

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

60-75 minute run time.

It should come as no surprise that I tell you to beware snarkiness.

Overture 4 Trailer:

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Episode 9′s mission is “Maelstrom” by Altexist and we had Alt joining us for the show, as well as cerberusfilms as a tagalong guest. Bitesize UGC reviews “The City of the Polmar Ree” by Alimac30, which we also plan to be playing next week for episode 10!

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No lie, there’s a Foundry update coming to Tribble. Sure, the UI doesn’t actually work properly yet, and it’s all tied in to Dilithium, but it’s something… right… Right?

Rehpic:
We are doing just that. We have added the ability to buy more UGC project slots for Dilithium. The prices are 2 slots for 7000 Dilithium or 4 slots for 10000 Dilithium. You can buy up to 40 additional UGC project slots. Gold players start with 8 slots, just like existing subscribers, and silver players start with no slots.

The UI is in the build that is currently on Tribble, but it is hooked up wrong and will take your Dilithium without providing any new slost, so don’t use it to buy any slots yet. I believe the next build going to Tribble should have that fixed.

(Source: http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3855764&postcount=53)

Too little, too late? Or just at the right time?

Sorry guys, but there won’t be a podcast tonight at our usual time. Several things have conspired against us this week to result in this happening — Altexist will not be available for the show, several of us just haven’t had the free time we’ve needed to complete the mission reviews, and most notably we’re all very shaken up by the resent announcement of departure by Kirkfat: administrator of StarbaseUGC.com. While the future of the site is on shaky ground, almost every single Foundry author I’ve spoken to has cited Kirkfat’s video tutorials as the single most influential tool that allowed them to understand and master the Foundry and produce several of the most memorable missions not just within the Community Authored section, but in the entire Star Trek Online game. Because of this, most of us view Kirkfat as the father of our own creativity, and the revelation that he won’t be around these parts much longer is probably the penultimate downer of the month. All of us at Podcast UGC can’t really bring ourselves to either rage or excitement, despite some recent lighter STO news that’s come out, so we’ve opted to save the show we had planned this week for the next week, in also a partial protest to many of the changes we’ve seen to the Foundry that are still going ahead that we don’t like.

Do join us next week for the show, everyone, if the site is still here to post it on.

Full Title: The Lost Fleet of the Valkyrie, Episode 1: Relapse

Faction: Starfleet

Author: Gingie

Level: Any

Project ID: ST-HH3QNN7AU

Starting System: Vesper, Psi Canis Sector block

Synopsis:

Fleet Admiral Jennifer Wilcott has asked for your help. One of her ships has failed to report in on patrol near the Klingon border. But things are never what they seem and the missing ship, the USS Forsythe, is in far more danger than anyone can imagine.

Find the USS Forsythe and discover the terrible secret of the Lost Fleet before Klingons destroy them all

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Hey all,

I’ll try to make this message short and sweet. Knowing that I’ve helped so many authors learn the toolset and that I’ve done so much for the Foundry community has been a pleasure. I really want to thank everyone for their support and encouragement during the past year.

But, due to shifting priorities in my life, along with an increasing disillusionment with the Foundry, Cryptic, STO, etc., I’ve decided that it’s time for me to move on. I no longer have the desire, will, or stamina necessary to deal with the Foundry and STO. It has been a very long story of hope followed by disappointment.

I also cannot in good faith support future Cryptic UGC products, like Neverwinter’s Foundry. I’m not going to invest myself in something like that, only to see the past repeat itself in a predictable way. All I can really do after a year of frustration, broken promises, and borked missions is hit the cancel button.

Anyways, I’d like to find someone to replace me, but I’m not really sure how to do that.

I could put the site up for auction on ebay, in the hopes that some of the more powerful sites (like Stoked) might buy it up to consolidate it as part of a central sto community hub. Or, I could somehow pick someone, although most of the folks that I have in mind are quite active with podcasts, etc.

I’m not really sure what to do, but I’d like to see things continue with an active admin who has the skills, resources, and faith in Star Trek Online that he or she would invest time and money into this site to see it grow.

But, if that person doesn’t exist, then maybe it’s just time for all of us to close up shop and move on.

Please share your thoughts.

With the new skills out, it’s a shame that there is no skill called awesomeness that adds awesomeness to your foundry missions. Even though there no skill, here are this weeks’ foundry missions.

FED side

The Pegasus Part 1 by perkinsc007

The City of Polmar Ree by alimac30

Fun Times by crimsonko

Overture Part 3: Adagio on Diplomacy by Kineticlmpulser

Deadly Intentions part 3 by Soveregin77x

All Hollow’s eve by cmdraftbrn (2 weeks only)

City of the Polmar Ree by alimac30

KDF side

There are no new mission because they’re all combat-focused. How often do you see a Klingon create stuff?

If you have a new mission out this week let us know by leaving a comment below or go to the forum and leave a comment in a thread called Promote Your Foundry Mission. And remember no skill that can increases your awesomeness but practice!

Hey Everyone… finally… A Reunion Update

Here’s the latest Trailer/Mini Episode

The release date for Episode 2 has been confirmed too. 25/12/11- Christmas Day.

The full article can be found here http://startrekreunion.com/episodes/series-1/lynyas-trailermini-episode-1/

Oliver

Mission title: City of the Polmar Ree
Author: @alimac30
Project ID: ST-HJGVZQCX
Faction: FED
Minimum rank required to play: Any rank

Synopsis:
Once every 216 years, every sentient species in the galaxy is invited to the extra-galactic space city of the ancient Polmar Ree. It’s been 216 years and the time of the Polmar Ree has come again. Most will go in peace… but in the shadows of an enemy faction, warriors plan a catastrophic attack. Wormholes are opening in every quadrant, starships are gathering, and your invitation has arrived…

Notes:

• Takes 60 – 90 minutes to play
• Story-heavy, roleplay mission
• Mixture of story, investigating, and some shooting
• Took four months to make
• Every map is a 100% custom build
• This is my second Foundry mission (the first being “The Spirits of Ramok Nor”)
• Brutally honest feedback greatly appreciated!