Missions can interact with objects in live social maps, as well as within custom maps.Missions can be rated by other players, and a small tip of 25, 50, or 100 given.Existing ground and interior maps may be modified by placing props.An "Empty Ground Map" was later added for players to create environments from scratch.Open ground and interior maps can only be created from templates or reuse mission maps.Space maps could be created from scratch.Players who subscribed were given 8 free project slots.Up to 40 additional project slots can be obtained at a cost of 7,000 for 2 slots or 10,000 for 4 slots. To create foundry missions, a player needs an empty character slot and dilithium to purchase project slots.Players needed to become Foundry Reviewers to curate content by pressing the "Become Reviewer" button on the Foundry UI element. Unless the player enables it, brand new missions with few reviews are hidden.Some missions were been "spotlighted" by devs on their own tab.For missions which begin at systems in sector space, a rotating list of the Top 3 Rated foundry missions were shown to passing players.The Foundry EULA needed to be accepted first. Missions were started from the Foundry tab on the Mission Journal.Maps and assets were added by developers at an irregular basis, assets such as greenscreen walls or Empty Ground Maps for building out interiors were also included. A Foundry Top 3 system was added to the game with the 5 Year Anniversary Event. Additional features added included a tag function, for reviewers to tag player-missions as being story-driven, quarters-based, etc. One may tip the same author again each day. On January 26 2012, a tip jar was added that allows giving 25, 50, or 100 anonymously to a Foundry author a maximum of three times per day to different authors. The One Year Anniversary (February 2, 2011) saw the live release of three Federation and one Klingon episodes that were among the highest rated by users on the test server: "The Longing," "Crouching Ty’Gokor Hidden Demon," "The Syndicate Extraction," and "Unholy Alliances, Part I." The Foundry remained at Beta 0.8 until its retirement in 2019, having never left open beta status. The Foundry was a major feature of Season 3, released to the Tribble test server on Decemand was released on Holodeck March 28, 2011.
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