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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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!
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.
A secret project to enhance existing Federation ships has been hacked by the Tal Shiar. Who is the spy and what is the link to the Iconians?
An epic tale set over 15 maps of deceit, friendship and unlikely alliances. Just who is telling the truth and what do they know? Could this be the end of the Alpha Quadrant and how is the Empress Sela connected?
Find out in this movie style mission which takes you from Utopia Planetia to New Romulus and finally to the Anesta system, the Tal Shiar’s most secret hideout in a gripping and spectacular conclusion.
Level 16+ Star Trek Movie style writing Medium length dialogue Intense ground and space battles Epic special effects
Running time 90 – 120 min Can be played as a team but you will need to read the dialogue Recommend you set your ship to stop moving at dialogue prompts
Travel to the Andorian system to begin.
I hope you enjoy this adventure as much as I enjoyed writing it.
http://youtu.be/OC-zWscdDxE
This week’s spotlighted mission is “Repairing Utopia Planitia“ by bruckner.
Faction: Federation
Level Requirement: Any
Mission Summary: Utopia Planitia is having communication problems. The recent Klingon raid on the Mars ship yards have left the area heavily in need of repairs. Assist the third fleet there in getting things back in order and find out why communications from there are having so much trouble getting back to Starfleet.
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.
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.
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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.
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 “Depths of Nukara Prime“ by P_Sutherland. A KDF version of the same mission, “Bowels of Nukara Prime“, is also being featured.
Faction: Federation/ Klingon
Level Requirement: 31+
Mission Summary: Civilian traffic in the Eta Eridani neutral zone has been caught in the violent clashes with the Tholian Assembly in the Nukara system.
When the crew of a freighter are forced to abandon ship, their only choice for survival means entering Nukara Prime’s atmoshphere. Would you expect someone to survive in a Class Y environment?
“Depths of Nukara Prime” is also the mission that won Foundry Challenge #6!
To play this Foundry mission, log onto a Federation or 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.
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
I opened my Starbase UGC account last year while two-thirds of the way through my epic six-part Federation mission series Ghosts of War, intent upon blogging about the series as I continued to write it. That was nine months ago. Alas, I was too busy in the Foundry, in STO and in RL to devote much time to blogging about my series. Well, now that I’ve completed the series, I figured it was high time I started promoting and discussing it. So… here I am.
I wrote the six missions in this series over the past eighteen months or so, with frequent updates and improvements to each one along the way. I will give you more of a behind-the-scenes look at what went into making this series in the weeks and months ahead. For now though, I’ll start with just the basic facts on each mission in the series:
“Ghosts of War, Part I” (aka “Dust to Dust”)
Mission ID: ST-HBPDJHGFE
Author: @NCC-89471
Faction: Federation
Level restriction: 16+
Duration: 30-45 minutes
Combat: Ground and Space
Summary: The unthinkable has happened: A thalaron weapon has been used on a planetary scale, sparking a new crisis for the Federation. Who is behind the attack, and can they be stopped before striking again?
“Ghosts of War, Part II” (aka “Extraordinary Rendition”)
Designed for small craft
Mission ID: ST-HI6PMJ2Y8
Author: @NCC-89471
Faction: Federation
Level restriction: 31+
Duration: 45-60 minutes
Combat: Ground and Space
Summary: To prevent a thalaron attack against the Federation, you must find and capture a rogue Romulan senator – by any means necessary. But the weapon may not be the only secret he holds…
“Ghosts of War, Part III” (aka “Chasing Ghosts”)
Mission ID: ST-HLAJXIZUN
Author: @NCC-89471
Faction: Federation
Level restriction: 35+
Duration: 30-45 minutes
Combat: Ground and Space
Summary: An unknown adversary blazes a trail of mayhem across the Alpha Quadrant aboard a hijacked Starfleet escort – leading to a revelation that could drastically shift the quadrant’s balance of power.
“Ghosts of War, Part IV” (aka “The Portal”)
Mission ID: ST-HFDLKG5XV
Author: @NCC-89471
Faction: Federation
Level restriction: 35+
Duration: 45-60 minutes
Combat: Ground and Space
Summary: From the cold ashes of the Dominion War, a dark, unholy alliance has risen. To uncover their intentions, you must learn the secret of a mysterious gateway deep behind enemy lines…
“Ghosts of War, Part V” (aka “Battleground 001″)
Mission ID: ST-HDISRTVDK
Author: @NCC-89471
Faction: Federation
Level restriction: 35+
Duration: 60-90 minutes
Combat: Ground and Space
Summary: You must lead the defense of Earth against an audacious decapitation strike by the enemy alliance. Will the Federation’s darkest hour since the Dominion War be its finest – or its last?
“Ghosts of War, Part VI” (aka “Time’s Hammer”)
Mission ID: ST-HB3UDU2GK
Author: @NCC-89471
Faction: Federation
Level restriction: 35+
Duration: 45-60 minutes
Combat: Ground
Summary: To remove the enemy threat once and for all, you must pursue them across space… and time. The Ghosts of War saga comes to an unforgettable conclusion – thousands of years before it began.
Some recent experiences got me thinking about “Drive-by’s” …those pernicious “1″ votes that people get on their missions. Now it must be said that “Drive-by” ratings are like blackholes, every sector has at least one, and while they all stink…they happen nonetheless, or as they say on Vulcan, “You can please some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time.”
Plus some people are just obnoxious Tellarites.
Anyway, this brought me to examine the 1 votes of the Spotlight and Top 32 missions to determine what mission creators should reasonably expect from the dreaded “Drive-by” ratings.
Below I’ll use the following nomenclature:
“O” = Number of One (1) votes for a mission
“P” = Number of Plays for a mission (minimum of 10)
“OP” = Ratio of O per P, a higher OP is better than a low OP.
First, the FED side.
FED Spotlight Missions had an average O of 236 over an average of 9951 P, for an OP of 42.
The Top 32 FED Missions had an average O of 18 over an average of 1068 P, for an OP of 59.
The combined averages were O/P/OP 127/5510/43.
The mean OP for Spotlight missions was 43 with a standard deviation of 16.
The mean OP for Top32 missions was 48 with a standard deviation of 25.
If the scores are normally distributed, approx. 68% of the population of missions will fall within 1 standard deviation of the mean, and 95% of the population within 2 standard deviations.
This allows us to class the OP ratings of the two categories of FED missions (Top32/Spotlight…they cannot be evaluated directly because they are effectively to different samples, the Spotlight missions obviously receiving far more “attention” per mission)
For non-spotlight FED missions, if your mission has an OP within the bounds of 23 to 73, you are receiving a normal amount of Drive-By ratings. If you are below 23 you are receiving a higher than normal amount and if your OP lands between 74 and 98 you are doing well above average. If you are above 98 you can safely consider your mission a resounding success with the player base.
By comparison, FED Spotlight missions are clearly held to a higher standard by the player base. The lower end of average is fairly equitable with non-spotlight missions, but the upper band is significantly lower, for a range of 27 to 59. Additionally, the data is tight enough that a “well below average” band comes into existence with OP’s of 11 or lower. The well above average band for Spotlight missions sits between 59 and 75, but interestingly enough none of the existing Spotlight missions falls within the outer most “excellent” band above 75.
You can really see how much harsher the upper band is if you find the differences between the Top32 and Spotlight missions for each band:
Top32-Spotlight = Differences
98-75 = 23 points
73-59 = 14 points
48-43 = 5 points
23-27 = 4 points
0-11 = 11 points
These differences will become more interesting as we move on to the Klingon side of the missions.
The Klingon Side
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.
The Mak’tar Induction mission is an introduction to the federation fleet “The Mak’Tar” It goes through a considerable amount of information on how the fleet operates, our sense of humour and background of the fleet, namely the fact that we are loosely based on the 1999 Star Trek and Sci-Fi parody – Galaxy Quest. Numerous references are made to this and a variety of in-jokes within the fleet that you grow to understand.
Considering the size of the mission, the sheer number of objects and the anmount of triggers involved, this mission is currently in a Beta stage of development so baring that in mind when writing reviews would be helpful. Any bugs found can be sent to zensoji@gmail.com or to @zensoji1 in-game.
The Mak’tar Missions are a series of missions that build on the story foundation of The Mak’tar Induction mission. They expand on the already established fleet members and the custom locations you already visited.
Episode I of the the Mak’tar Missions is set in 3 parts. All three tell of a betrayal within the the NSEA and the Mak’tar, the effects it has, the final revelation of the Mak’tar to the rest of the quadrant and the resulting war.
In part I you are given your regular monthly fleet assignment by Admiral T’Pul – to assist in the maintenance of the Mak’tar’s Communications Satellite. What you discover is an informant and a plot that has been in motion for over half a decade.
You are ordered to give up command of your ship to a Ferengi captain in order to help complete
a delicate mission for the Ferengi Alliance. Your orders come from the President, himself.
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!!!!!”
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