Starting this Thursday (May 3, 2012), around 10AM PDT, the new Federation Caitian Atrox Carrier will be available for sale in the C-Store for 2,000 C-Store points.
How will you, the Foundry author, use it in your Foundry missions?
Now, about those Ferasans for the KDF faction…
Learn more:
via http://www.startrekonline.com/node/3122
ALSO:
+ Learn more about carrier command via Cryptic’s dev blog post (May 1, 2012)
+ Shapey’s fighters overview
Some Star Trek Online (STO) Foundry authors have invested considerable time and effort into crafting their missions. And like most Foundry offerings, they’ve seen their work passed on, or lost, in the ever-growing mission listings where a low rating (and low mission play) can be the kiss of death, regardless of its quality. In Part Two of our series, we talk with two Foundry authors about their works. You’ll begin to see insights into their original missions — and how the community has (or hasn’t) embraced their concepts… yet.
Columnist (and co-host of PodcastUGC and The G & T Show) Terilynn Shull concludes her visit to Cryptic Studios in her latest “Captain’s Log” on Massively. The article focuses on Christine Thompson, lead writer for Star Trek Online (STO), including thoughts about the STO Foundry.
Massively is part of the Joystiq network of gaming blogs. The “Captain’s Log” column is published every Monday.
Learn more:
via Massively (04-30-2012)
via @TerilynnS (Twitter)
Kirkfat takes the week off and Castmodean co-hosts with CaptPFDennis as they review Overlord by claivain.
Here’s Primetime’s tutorial on mobs and how to turn enemies into allies with recostuming.
In this Foundry Essentials, Cerberusfilms explains how to create the popular effect
of warping to another system within a single map.
I am going to begin posting the Foundry Essentials segments from PrimetimeUGC on the site to be viewed as stand alone tutorials.
I hope they can be of some use. This was the first, concentrating on map transitions geared toward beginners.
Every Tuesday, PUG TV with Jaedrian brings you his first impressions and walkthroughs of Star Trek Online (STO) Foundry missions. As he writes, you can enjoy “feedback and opinions from a casual gamer point of view as I check the F2P MMO Market. I’ll throw in some other games as well to keep it interesting.”
Jaedrian’s latest review: PUG TV takes on “Dreams of Salvation and Glory” by Tucana. Prior reviews can be found within Jaedrian’s site, including his recent review for Tucana’s prior mission, “Camelot Under Siege.”
Learn more:
via PUG TV with Jaedrian website
via Twitter
(PUG TV = Pick Up Gaming TV)
Cryptic has added a “Foundry Focus” section to the Calendar section on its STO home page! We look forward to seeing continued Foundry-related updates!
Learn more:
via the official STO website
Brandon Felczer, better known as PWE_BranFlakes on the forums and community manager for Star Trek Online, dropped in this episode to give us some breaking news on The Foundry, and it’s seriously awesome! We can’t wait for you to hear! At the same time we kind of feel bad because the rest of the episode is certainly not as happy pitched as the beginning: indeed, we had some scathing critiques of both the state of bugs within Foundry missions in the game and the lackluster design decisions that are haunting us. I’ll be honest here.
We like Obisek. We do not like timed events. If force Obisek into a Timed Event we hate, we rage. No if ands or buts about it.
And although there isn’t any mission reviews tonight (we save that for next week), we decide to mix it up by asking YOU to play and review The Mayns of Balnar Moon for next week, and send us the review you left the author to our email address! Let’s see what you think!
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Show Notes
-Brandon is Here with Weapons Grade Awesome Foundry News!
-Hav Explains His Cryptic/Foundry Animosity By Going Down His Personal Missions’ Bug List
-Terry Talks Lobi Crystals, Again
-The New Vault Event: We Don’t Get It. Watch out! NERD RAAAGGE!
-Timed Events vs. Klingon PVE Story Missions: Hav goes to the forums to ask which one Cryptic should be focusing on, and comes back with striking results.
-We Catch Up on the Neglected Mailbag
Reviews
No Reviews This Week
We Want you to Play The Mayns of Balnar Moon by Alimac 30
Mailbag – Email us and send us mission recommendations to podcastugc@starbaseugc.com !
END OF SHOW
Podcast UGC is distributed for free in mp3 format on www.starbaseugc.com and iTunes. Podcast UGC is syndicated on Trek Radio and Subspace Radio. It’s aired live on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern on www.trekradio.net and www.justin.tv/podcastugc. Any other distribution or airings of Podcast UGC is strictly prohibited without permission. Star Trek and Star Trek Online are the rights of their respected owners.
From today until Wednesday, May 9th, at 10AM PDT, voting is open for Foundry Challenge #2!
Since late March, Foundry authors have been storyboarding, developing, and designing Foundry missions for our most recent challenge, Temporal Loop. More information about the challenge can be found here.
The following is a list of submitted missions to be reviewed — if you are going to play them and vote, we ask that you please give everyone a fair chance and play through each mission. They should all be around 30 minutes of gameplay, but should take no longer than 45 minutes to complete. If you can play and complete one (1) mission a day, you will be able to play them all before the voting period ends.
Learn more:
via the official STO Blogs
Tucana
Essential Viewing, News, Rants
Perfect World/Cryptic’s Community Manager, Brandon “PWE_BranFlakes” Felczer, has issued a message on the official Star Trek Online (STO) Forums about identity management issues.
Put simply, user account information was comprised. Players have been unable to log into their accounts today.
This writer (Tucana) for StarbaseUGC.com applauds the response by Cryptic, but calls upon Perfect World’s leadership/executive management to address this matter directly with all STO players. This is a very serious matter which many players only discovered after a.) they could not access their STO accounts today; and b.) they had to figure out where to find out more about this issue, e.g. customer support channels, the official STO Forums, and Cryptic Studios’s website.
The problem has also affected Champions Online players, too.
As of this writing, this writer (and STO/Champion Online player!) has NOT received any official, direct communications from Perfect World/Cryptic, notifying about the identity theft and account compromises. Like other players, this writer had to take steps to change account information to regain access/prevent further problems.
Learn more:
via http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=268025
via http://www.crypticstudios.com/securitynotice
Primetime’s 1st hour long show featuring Foundry Author Evil70th and STO Lead Designer, Al Rivera.
Drop us a line at mailbag@PrimetimeUGC.com. Follow us on Twitter @Primetime_UGC
Tucana
Interviews, News
Subspace Radio talked with Cryptic’s Senior Environment Artist Mike “Mapolis” Apolis about the STO Foundry (and more) during this April 2012 interview. Listen to the recording or read the transcript!
Learn more:
via subspace-radio.net
Space…The Final Frontier… For many, these words were the beginning of a journey of imagination, introspection and adventure. When it was announced that Star Trek was going to be coming to the world as a Massively Multiplayer Online game, it was only natural it would attract the interest of fans around the world. Within a year of the games launch, the developers added a feature that gives ANY player of the game a voice rarely available in most online games – the ability to make their own content.
Hey gang, it is I, your humble Castmodean and that was the preamble to a post that has now gone live over on the Startrekonline.com website. Please go and check it out and give me your feedback here. Click the link to go to the STO page.
LINK
Tucana
Interviews, News, Rants, UGC Resources
StarbaseUGC.com recognizes all Star Trek Online (STO) Foundry authors want a fair chance at achieving success. Various established authors within the STO community have benefited from being highlighted in podcasts, broadcasts, and receiving repeat business from their rankings within STO’s in-game Ratings tool.
We aren’t saying the attention isn’t deserved.
We know it can be frustrating to break through that glass ceiling, to achieve the recognition for a Foundry mission that an author is proud of. Yet many missions receive no community attention, no accolades, and few gameplays (and fewer ratings).
STOked Episode 120 is available! STOked talks with Dan “Gozer” Griffis in-depth about PvP within STO.
Also among the news items:
…and much more!
Watch now:
via http://bit.ly/IaZhFA
In this episode, Bazag, Galactrix and Cerberusfilms play “Fungus Among Us” by Borticus, also known these days as BorticusCryptic and also known as Jeremy, formerly of STOked.
Our special guest is none other than ZeroniusRex, also known as the voice of Manus of Borg/Rebecca Simmons and our official producer for Foundry related stuff in STO.
If you missed the live version of the show, you can watch it (now in HD!) on YouTube above.
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Kirkfat on THE ICONIAN IMPERATIVE
Kirkfat on Waiting for the Light – Foundry Challenge #7
RemairTamec on Alpha Flight – Foundry Challenge #7
Kirkfat on The Foundry Roundtable Episode 14: Peace in our Time
Cipher on You Don’t Know When It’s Real – Foundry Challenge #7
Drogyn1701 on Updates: New NPC Groups and More!
Drogyn1701 on The Interwarp Experiment
NicholasJohn16 on The Interwarp Experiment
mattjohnson on The Iconian Connection
lincolninspace on Costume sharing
CaptPFDennis
Havraha
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