Thanks guys. I took a look at the kirkfat videos, and they've been reasonably helpful (if a bit outdated). I honestly think there should be better and/or more official resources for the Foundry just in general, though.

Here's a big issue I have...a sector map showing which maps are available for space or ground use and/or which are not would be incredibly handy. I may be an old-school trekkie, but I don't know by heart the names and locations of every single star system in the game. I know roughly where on the star map I want stuff to happen, but I don't know all of the systems/planets/stations by name, and it seems like a lot of them are just plain N/A. If you want A to happen in Klingon space, B to happen in Fed space, C to happen in Romulan space, D to happen in a border area etc., there's not really an easy way to filter that sort of thing from what I can see.

After following along with setting up a basic mission (go to the place, do the thing), I'm kind of disappointed. Looking through the toolkit, a lot of what I wanted to do appears to be impossible in the Foundry context, at least in the way I wanted to do it. Looks like the devs keep all the real goodies for themselves, so that we mere mortals can't use everything the game engine is actually capable of presenting in a mission context. Even some of the locations and options I would have liked to use seem unavailable, because reasons. This is forcing me to rework the story itself to make it fit, which is just plain bad design -- story should always drive process, not the reverse.
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if i was just looking for some doff assistance, what info would be required to enable someone to suggest what would be good for me slot into active duty?

atm im basicaly not using any.

toon is a 60 eng, t6 fleet arbiter (the fed battle cruiser) phaser beam arays with 1 torp.

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+1 for kirkfat. those were the ones i kept coming across during my searches too...when i made the Bacon Wars saga foundry missions. :-)

I switched almost all of my Science ships over to tetryon-based weapons because of the synergy between the OP science abilities and destroying shields.

I've found plasma to work well with my engineers too, polaron as well. It's also just so colourful ;)

YouTube has a good set of video tutorials by Kirkfat. Just search STO Foundry Tutorials and his should come up. Once you click on one, his entire library should be accessible through his channel. Watched his myself when I was learning :)

Isn't/wasn't the official Mac client already just running in a Cedega wrapper?

I don't know yet if my irritation with how Cryptic/PWE has handled this will outway my desire to play the game.

It would take a dig, but someone here once posted a step-by-step list that looked promising. I find most of the videos out there are just cursors flying around screens with no explanation of what they're doing.

I find it interesting that a developer is recommending Wine and similar software. I would think the developers would be disinclined to vocally support nonstandard software.

Well this seriously sucks. I really enjoyed this game. Looks like I'll now have more space on my hard drive.

I'm working on a generic/cross-faction storyline that I'd like to translate into a Foundry mission, but the thing itself isn't very intuitive and I'm just not sure where to start. Of course, I won't even try mission creation until I have the story more filled out, because without that why even bother?

My question is this: what are some good learning links for Foundry mission creation? Stuff that covers the basics of the UI, triggers, usable elements and so forth. What I'm looking for is basically a series of links that could be used as a sort of "Foundry for Dummies" (as was mentioned in an old thread here). Does anyone have any good resources like that for the Foundry in its current state?

Well this is bad news for me.

I'll have to reinstall windows again on my Mac and dual boot for a while. Hopefully it won't close down before I get a chance to do that!

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I may be able to make this one, actually. Stay tuned!

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

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I may be able to make this one, actually. Stay tuned!

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Energy weapon type actually is very important, and one reason AP is popular amongst min maxer is that other than the energy weapon skills it does scale of any other skills. other energy type PROCS scale off different skills.

Phaser and Disruptors scale of Subspace Decompiler
Tetryon and Polaron scale of Flow Capacitor
Plasma scale of Particle Generators

In General Tertyon and Plasma are the redheaded bastard stepchildren of Energy Weapon Types. There's a lot of abilities that bypass shields which makes Tetryon absolutely useless. And the Proc from plasma can we cleared off by hazard emitters. When you want to put the hurt on an enemy ship you want your procs to count.

Lawson, I hear ya about the sound antiproton weapons make......

I don't really know what this means, but I'm up for some group activities assuming I'm far enough along in-game to "qualify" for them...? I've run into a few rank-gated spots here and there so not sure if this is one of them. There's a lot to this game about which I have no clue just because I've only been playing for a couple months. My toon ranks range from 48-55, if that's relevant.

I've been kind of working on pumping up my DPS too...there's a thread on here somewhere that has some pretty good tips. Using tac weapon skills, attack patterns, emergency power to weps etc before you open fire gives you some substantial DPS boosts.

I'm not so sure the energy type actually matters too terribly much, as long as you're not mixing it up (pha+dis+pla+ap etc). I was doing that thinking it would be more versatile in dealing with resistances no matter what I was up against, but then you can't really go all-in on your tac consoles.

My main (SCI) has been switched over to an all tetryon shield-ripper style which works nicely in combination with the exotic damage skills. My Romulan (ENG) is so far chewing through just about everything with an all plasma beams/consoles build, and flying the Ha'apax warbird (probably the tankiest ship I've had so far) has helped. It's insanely slow, but can just shrug off an enormous amount of punishment. I chose it because of the 125th Rule of Acquisition: You can't make a deal if you're dead.

Thanks folks. I'll try not to get too hung up on it, I'm doing a respectable output with my mk XIV's but grinding out mk II's is a good idea. I got a bunch of cheap mk ii agony phasers off the exchange so let's see what happens with those.