yeah, clickies lived as long as they did probably because Cryptic hadn't figured out how to kill them yet.

I've heard some pretty nice stuff about the NW system, and I'm hoping that gets here.

If I wanted to spend my time in player-developed content, then I would just make my own missions and know what I am spending my time on; I joined STO to get quality game play, which also means quality control by the people running the MMO. Foundry has become an excuse for not developing real content in the game (the job of the game designers at STO that expect us to spend money on game candy).

There are some good Foundry missions, but too many are just amateur game designs that are further undermined by a limited and flawed game mechanics (e.g., Boffs getting stuck in doorways, NPCs shooting through walls, an hour of play and the only rewards are a few minor consumables). Foundry should be an enhancer and the playerbases way of following up STO content that is developed for story telling and game progression.

Now with the new requirements to get the only useful reward from the Investigate daily, the encouragement to play Foundry may get some resisters to play, but I think afer just a few weeks that many will just right off that daily since it will take up more game time than many want to give to Foundry missions.

If it is a bad mission then I won't play anything else written by that person, and if it is a good mission then I will give the player due credit (and some dilith), but I am not going to accept Foundry as my primary source for game content. STO needs to give the players content and stop using Foundry as an excuse. Besides, the biggest problem with Foundry is the limited mechanics provided to the player-authors that make some good stories seem mundane or poorly structured. STO... do your job.

Poor work shouldn't be rewarded, but critiqued so the author learns from it and can then go on to create better missions. Learning from mistakes and all that. I certainly don't offer tips or a high number of stars if I think the mission can be improved substantially, especially since I had to earn that Dilithium in the first place to tip it.

On the reverse though; authors should not take it personally if they get a review that isn't rainbows and gumdrops and doesn't come with a Dilithium cherry on top. Foundry Authors have stepped into a world of making works available to wide audience with varying expectations.

The idea could be expanded to all explore areas; remember, they are by rank with objective to 20 mins like an explore currently, some combat and some report there of what happened.
The episode are currently an hour or longer and should get better rewards; but the hook to the foundry are the broken consoles and dancing. I had many ask me, "how you do that?". I reply the command codes j available community search quick that the road into the foundry and from there I found many others and always looking for something new.