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.

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!

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.

From this thread:

General:

• Foundry mission rewards have been updated.
  • Players will only receive rewards for one mission at a time, once per hour.

Also, more updates in these notes:

Foundry:

• Waypoints for contacts on Earth Spacedock have been adjusted so they are correct now.
• The Foundry contacts in Qo’noS First City now have they waypoints pointing to them again.
• Replaced the missing “to” in Bridge Officer dialog descriptions.
• Removed all reference to attachment sidedness for Borg NPC Contacts.
• Renamed some of the Tellarite NPC Contacts to reflect the fact that they are alien, and not Tellarite.

In this thread, the following updates have gone to Tribble:

Foundry:

• Updated the following template maps so that they will have proper pathing information after they are published:
  • Argelius II Interior
  • Borg Interior 02
  • Briarpatch Research Interior
  • Cardassian Interior 02
  • Ice Caves Interior 03
  • Kassae Station Interior
• Added an “Alien” option to the species dropdown menu for both ground and space NPC Groups.

Short editorial:  This week’s spotlight goes to a Cryptic dev who took time to make a great Foundry mission.

We at SBUGC congratulate the mission.

Also, we really hope that H20rat gets well soon.  He is fighting mouth cancer.

I would like to encourage all Foundry authors and players to give more than a dilithium tip for his spotlight.  Please make a donation here.

Repost from STO:

This week’s spotlighted mission is “The Rising Phoenix – Part One“ by h2orat.

Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 41+
Mission Summary: This mission is inspired by epic Trek events that require the best of the best to answer the call and save the day. It includes those Kirk, Sisko and Picard moments where the galaxy’s fate balances on the edge of a knife. Duty and sacrifice are your watchwords… Do you have what it takes to save the Federation?

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.

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.

In this thread, dstahl gave us this update on Foundry updates (or the lack thereof) concerning the Romulan faction:

At launch, Romulans will not be able to play Foundry missions until they choose an ally, and then they can only play Foundry missions created for that Ally. As many have suggested, we will be adding a new filter that will allow Foundry authors to create Romulan specific missions that only Romulans (allied with* either faction) can fly and team together for. No ETA has been provided at this point.

So, if a Romulan wants to play a Foundry mission, they need to borrow a Fed or KDF mission from an ally. No ETA on when that will change.

A new “Choose My Adventure” series at Massively led Eliot Lefebvre to explore two Foundry missions.  In this case, he played Galactrix’s “The Syndicate Extraction” and RogueEnterprise’s “First Cause, Then Effect.”  Check out his article here, and leave some feedback.

Personally, I’m disappointed that readers voted to send him back to official story content, which he found disappointing for compelling reasons.  Read his follow-up article here.

New “Redshirt” Patch:

Originally Posted by zer0niusrex

Reposted from STO:

The votes are in, and we have a winner!

Huge congratulations are in order to our winning Foundry mission for Challenge #6…

“Depths of Nukara Prime” by @P_Sutherland

 

Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: Civilian traffic in the Eta Eridni neutral zone has been caught in the violent clashes with the Tholian Assembly in the Nukara system. When the crew of a freighter abandon ship, their only choice for survival means entering Nukara primes atmosphere, would you expect some to survive in a Class Y environment?

 

Congratulations! Watch your in-game mail for your prize. Also, your mission will be featured in the Spotlight on the Foundry in the near future.
Our runners up, a three-way tie for second place, were…

“Crystallization” by @afalconer, “404 Error: Admiral Not Found” by @dougglendower and “The Tangled Webs We Weave” by @ashtaku!

 

In third place was “Wibbly Wobbly Earth” by @SBCouto.
Congratulations to everyone! You all did amazing work with this challenge and we can’t wait to see what you come up with for Foundry Challenge #7!

For more information on Foundry Challenge #6, check out this news post.

 

Link to the forum post

Dear anyone at Cryptic who might have the power to do this for the Foundry community,

Many of us Foundry authors like to build custom interiors.  One of the biggest challenges for us relates to the lack of floors and ceilings.  While we have a few walls of different factions, we have very few floors and ceilings.  Mostly, we use one of these pieces, called “100 x 100 Building Block Platforms.”

These pieces come mainly in 3 varieties:

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The Dance of the Dead
ST-HGW9R5Y06
Federation Any Level

Description: A routine mission to transport an Orion ambassador leads to a fascinating and spooky discovery.

Hint: “Brains!!!!!”

Please leave feedback!

Repost from STO News:

Have you ever wanted to create your own Star Trek episode or story? If so, the Foundry could be your new best friend! If you are not sure what the Foundry is, check out this previous Guest Blog entry.

If you play Star Trek Online, you may already be familiar with the Foundry, STO’s User Generated Content (UGC) creation tool, however many can feel overwhelmed from the moment they launch the editor.

Hi, I’m CerberusFilms, Producer and Co-Host on PrimetimeUGC and a long time contributor to StarbaseUGC.com. We strive to help people of all abilities and experience levels achieve everything they have ever dreamed of creating using this incredible UGC toolset.

This is why PrimetimeUGC, Cerberus Films and StarbaseUGC are partnering up with Cryptic Studios to deliver the Foundry Authors Academy!

What is the Foundry Authors Academy (FAA)?

Click Here to Read the Guest Blog!

The team at PrimetimeUGC has released their interview with Producer ZeroniusRex. Check out the interview, made completely with the Foundry, here.

Show notes: News Cast and Interview

Link to the interview

Link to the forum post

This thread announces:

Foundry:

• It is once again possible to select animations for NPCs on Space maps.
• Added the following ?Detail? objects to the Foundry:
  • Bed – TOS Sickbay L 01
  • Bed – TOS Sickbay M 01
  • Bed – TOS 01
  • Chair – TOS 01
  • Chair – TOS Captain’s Chair
  • Console – TOS Sickbay
  • Console – TOS Table Console S 01
  • Console – TOS Table Console L 01
  • Console – TOS Table Console L 02
  • Console – TOS Ship Generator
  • Console – TOS Transporter Console
  • Console – TOS Wall Console
  • Console – TOS Bridge 01
  • Console- TOS Console M 01
  • Decor – TOS Pillow
  • Decor – TOS Wall Prop 01
  • Decor – TOS Wall Prop 02
  • Decor – TOS Wall Prop 03
  • Decor – TOS Wall Prop 04
  • Decor – TOS Sickbay Wall Light
  • Table – TOS Conference Table
  • Table – TOS Lounge
  • Table – TOS Captain’s Desk
  • TOS Warp Core Housing
  • TOS Warp Core Conduits
  • TOS Warp Core Complete
  • Wall – TOS Closed Gate
  • Wall – TOS Open Gate
  • Wall – TOS Orange Grate
  • Wall – TOS Research Console
  • Wall – Turbolift TOS
  • Weapon – Federation TOS Phaser Rifle
  • Weapon – Federation TOS Phaser Pistol
  • Weapon – Klingon TOS Disruptor Pistol
• Added a transporter room to the Foundry.
  • It’s available on indoor and outdoor maps under the “Details” tab.
• The icon for Contacts on Cryptic maps will no longer display as three times per contact.

New:

Foundry:

Some Romulan Foundry contacts had the same name as one another; resolved this.
Added space Dominion NPC groups.
Added space Cardassian NPC groups.
Replaced a missing Romulan statue.
Projects that were affected should now republish properly.
Foundry NPC Groups set to Timid creature will now fight back when they take damage.

Here is part 6 of my Back to Basics tutorials. Please leave feedback.

Jan. 10th Tribble release notes contain new props, to be added to the Foundry soon:

Foundry:

• Added new interior detail objects:
  • Wall Intercom – TOS
  • Tapestry – Night Scene
  • Console – TOS Table 01
  • Vase – TOS 01
  • Vase – TOS 02
  • Statue – TOS 01
  • Decor – TOS Jeep
  • Generator – TOS 01
  • Consoles – Federation TOS Ship 01
• Added new NPC Groups:
  • Species M-113 – ground
  • Tholian EV Suit – ground
  • Tholian – space

Zero adds:

I don’t yet know how frequently I’ll be able to add stuff. Hope everyone agrees it’s better to release stuff in little bits and pieces rather than hold it all up and release it at once.

She also gives us more information on whether or not a mission qualifies for the Investigate Officer Reports:

There was an issue where the Journal incorrectly said that some didn’t qualify when they did–that was resolved and is on Holodeck as of today.

Every other mission I’ve checked (since the fix went live) legitimately didn’t qualify, whether because it lacked enough plays or because the average play time was too short…

Dropping absolutely doesn’t count. And if you don’t finish the mission, it’s not a completion time, so that wouldn’t count either.

There may be some other issue here, but it’s neither of those. We are investigating these reports, but as I said, I’ve checked the behind-the-scenes number for playtime and it has come up short on all the examples…

Average length of mission is not the only factor used in determining whether a mission qualifies…

I have said this elsewhere, but number of plays/reviews is one of the factors. I hope this is unsurprising, as it’s at least slightly more difficult to exploit this way.

Also, BranFlakes confirms that the devs are investigating music-related issues with the Foundry.

Last, but not least, a new round of spotlights have been added to the UI.  Congrats to these past spotlight winners.

A few quotes from Dstahl’s latest Q and A:

As far as Reputations go, we are planning to introduce several new Reputations over the next two years. Some of the reputations being considered include PvP, FED/KDF Warfront, Tholian Task Force, Foundry Play, and Crafting, to name a few…

We’ve poured significant resources into creating procedurally generated random space encounters and, unfortunately, they never quite feel like the Trek you are talking about. This is why we created the Foundry, so that players could author missions that are much more genuine and offer something new. The next step will be to marry the Foundry to a solid Exploration concept where you can be rewarded for exploring new sectors of randomly (but player created) strange new worlds. That is the basis of what we want to do with Exploration in the future…

Q: (nyxadrill) Would it be possible to add a “My favorites” tab to the foundry list UI? There are several excellent foundry stories that I like to go back to from time to time but they are fairly well spread through the list. I know we can custom search which is fine but it would be nice to be able to add them to a favorites list for quick reference.

Dstahl: This is one of the features that we hope to port over from Neverwinter after they launch in addition to the ability to subscribe to a Foundry author. Look for this feature late in 2013…

By the way! Foundry authors will have access to the Tholian space critters and Tholian EV suits as antagonists in next week’s Holodeck update. This will also let our players begin to tell their own Tholian stories.

Congrats to HippieJohn!  Reposted from the STO Forums

Huge congratulations are in order to our winning Foundry mission for Challenge #5…

“Spectres, Episode Six” by @HippieJohn

 

Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: 16+
Mission Summary: The U.S.S. Rueben James, NCC-1707, was lost 145 years ago in 2265 in the Sherman System in an engagement with Klingon Forces. Could one of the first major Starfleet losses during the early days of space exploration be your fault? And will a daring mission to the past with your crew be the only way to set the timeline right?

 

Congratulations! Watch your in-game mail for your prize. Also, your mission will be featured in the Spotlight on the Foundry in the near future.
Our runners up, tied for second place, were…

“Imperium” by @Soriedem and “Rode the Six Hundred ” by @afalconer!

 

In third place was “Beneath The Raptors Wing” by @rickysmith1.
Congratulations to everyone! You all did amazing work with this challenge and we can’t wait to see what you come up with for Foundry Challenge #6!

For more information on Foundry Challenge #5, check out this news post.

 

Link to the forum post