Let us make a pact concerning Foundry and its rating system.

[zylaxx]

Against exploiters, sure, but I will say that my rating of UGC is very likely to be strongly correlated with the XP and loot efficiency of the quest, simply because I'm here for the combat, and that's the primary mechanism for getting XP/loot from a quest, by my understanding.

Things that I find tedious, like deep dialog trees and long-distance journeys, will get a low rating from me. Unless, of course, such things are called out in the quest description, in which case I'd know to steer clear.

No offense to you but this is the exact kind of attitude that I find will not only be highly prevelant but is down right detrimental to the game and my wish is for you to stay clear or see that content that is deep, meaningful and rewarding is the whole reason why they introduced the Foundry in the first place. Quick pick me up missions like you seek are IMO a horrible ideal and I will do my utmost to leave negative comments on missions that use these sorts of tactics.

My whole reason for being in this game is the vast amount of User Generated Content that can be had which will leave the game in a much better off position compared to other themepark MMO's. Hopefully Cryptic sees fit to put a kibosh on this sort of content without ruining the deep meaningful content that I think most would prefer.

[denkasaeba]

I am not very optimistic unlike people here - exploiters outnumber us one to many.

Current exploiting system which needs a fix is defanging of monsters. In STO they make half walls to stop attacks of enemy ships so you kill them without facing any danger of getting hit.

Thus by destroying enemies or "defanged" enemies, you get free XP.

In NW it can be used as using melee enemies and making them at unreachable position and then kill them with ranged attacks.

Thanks. This is really bad for gameplay, but i don't expect anything else from Nutella kids, as we call them in Italy.

[gillrmn]

Thanks. This is really bad for gameplay, but i don't expect anything else from Nutella kids, as we call them in Italy.

I dont really care about them, problem is that when cryptic fixes the exploit - they always take away some feature hich affects normal players too. That is where it stings.

[zylaxx]

Thanks. This is really bad for gameplay, but i don't expect anything else from Nutella kids, as we call them in Italy.

Exactly. Hope the ycan fix the issues without removing freedom of choice from Foundry users who want solid gameplay.

[keirkin]

No offense to you but this is the exact kind of attitude that I find will not only be highly prevelant but is down right detrimental to the game and my wish is for you to stay clear or see that content that is deep, meaningful and rewarding is the whole reason why they introduced the Foundry in the first place. Quick pick me up missions like you seek are IMO a horrible ideal and I will do my utmost to leave negative comments on missions that use these sorts of tactics.

My whole reason for being in this game is the vast amount of User Generated Content that can be had which will leave the game in a much better off position compared to other themepark MMO's. Hopefully Cryptic sees fit to put a kibosh on this sort of content without ruining the deep meaningful content that I think most would prefer.

You know I hope there is a system in The Foundry that allows you to put people like quorforged on an ignore list so they can't even pickup your adventures. It is sad that people might put a huge amount of work into making an excellent story and adventure just to have people like quorforged give your adventure a bad rating just because they can't grind your hard work for easy XP.

It would be cool to have a running list of people like this somewhere so all the serious adventure creators could just cut and paste to their ignore list.

[lawfulstupid]

Hey now, let's not get into the "Stop having fun, guys" mentality, where someone who wants to enjoy Neverwinter as just a fun game has every bit a right to as the person who wants to enjoy Neverwinter as a Forgotten Realms experience. To each his own.

I can see how that could be a huge problem where people make maps that are just a bunch of high xp monsters in a pit for people to shoot at them at their leisure, but I hope that the rating system is robust enough for the players to police themselves. As in, something that enough players flag as an exploit quickly and quietly disappears and the creators of the exploit get reprimanded.

[castagyre]

In other MMOs I've played where players had any option to create content the most played and highest rated are the farms. People want their easily obtainable PLs and phat lewts. The few in the community who would stand up to this sort of thing seem to be a minority. If the devs can find a way to limit the capacity for a system to allow for this sort of behavior without hobbling those who wish to create quality content I applaud them, but it seems to me a constant uphill battle at best to stay ahead of.

[aeroth001]

I will not sign this pact. If the leveling up will be a big pile of boring quest like kill 10 bugs and collect 6 rocks...I think I will use the dark side of the foundry.

[gwenzelthar]

Each quest(UGC) submitted has to be tested and rated by five of the community testers. If there is an exploit or crappy "fish-IN-A-Barrel" structure to it, chances are it will get the axe before it goes live.

IMO

[shiaika]

Can we make a pact as a community to put a stop to this nonsense...

Honest people will be honest without the need of any pact. Dishonest people will be dishonest. Also, most people playing the game won't visit the forum or do so only to complain when something doesn't work ("Server down!! Fail!!!!", "Rogue OP!!! Nerf! Nerf!! Fail!!!").

I don't plan on abusing the Foundry.I also plan on doing one "Kill ten rats in the basement" quest and be very secretive about its real content...