[Gay Content Foundry Mission] The Wounded Wolf

Hey everyone!

I've spent the last few weeks creating a gay story driven Foundry mission!

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Summary:
Dispatched to the farthest reaches of Federation territory, you must deal with a fellow Captain hell-bent on revenging himself upon an alien race, following the death of his lover.

Mission includes:
Immersive dialogue, space combat, ground combat and puzzles.
Approximate run time: 60 minutes
Team play friendly

I suspect that I might face an uphill battle with my mission ratings, because of the gay content, so if you try the mission and enjoy it, please leave favorable feedback! =) I'd appreciate any detailed feedback in the forums, as well =)

Enjoy!

i'll play this later when the servers are back up. Ratings are tough if you mispell a word or miss a full stop so try not to take it to heart. Though its hard when noobs piss all over ya hard work :P

Will definitely have a good run at it! and you know what, it's a great idea :) Star Trek online's quests weren't diverse....now it is :)

Will let you know what I thought.

NanoLion/Vandrian4951

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I suspect that I might face an uphill battle with my mission ratings, because of the gay content

There's a gay reference in my mission, 'The Spirits of Ramok Nor', where you encounter a Ferengi and he mentions that one of the male characters on DS9 has a husband. I've had over 2000 ratings so far and have read every single one of them - only two people have said anything negative about the husband reference, and around six have said that they liked it or actually thanked me for including it. The vast majority haven't mentioned it at all - and I'm optimistically taking those "no mentions" as tacit approvals ;o)

So I take those figures as pretty hopeful, though it is only a very brief mention in my mission... it'll be interesting to see how a mission that has the gay character more centre stage is received.

I hope and prey that you won't receive negative feedback - not least because this is not just any MMO, it's a Star Trek MMO, which ought to embody Gene Roddenberry's vision for an enlightened humanity: no discrimination based on outward appearance, respecting and seeking out infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

I am ashamed and deeply disappointed by any person who calls themselves a Star Trek fan and then makes a discriminatory comment based on sexuality.

Can't wait to play through your mission. I'll give it go when I get home tonight :o)

I just played it, was really good. I enjoyed the story. My boffs got stuck a couple of times in the compound but thats a foundry glitch nothing to do with you. I too got sick of working my ideas around the foundry limitations. Gave ya 5 stars coz you're worth it :-)

PS whoever that guy was who babbled on about Lucasian v Trek in your review is clearly off his rocker. It reminded me of TOS.

Thanks everyone for the support! I'm excited to see how the mission ends up being rated, and to see if people enjoy it.

@Alimac: I had played your mission a few weeks back and really enjoyed it! I didn't realize that it was published by a Fleetie, though! Loved the closet scene with the subtle head nod to the community :) The guys over at STOked plugged your mission too, didn't they? I think that's how I found out about it. Good work on it!

@CaptDry: lol thanks - I had to look the word up when that guy submitted the review, and was kind o surprised when I found out what it meant, hehe. To each his own, though!

I know what you mean about the Foundry limitations cramping style and imagination. I had to remove a few really cool elements from the mission due to spawn problems etc. Every idea that was outside of the linear "kill this and scan that" routine was a nightmare to implement.

It's too bad: I think there'd be a lot more great missions out there if the Foundry was a little more user friendly.

Glad you liked the mission: thanks for the comments :)

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@Alimac: I had played your mission a few weeks back and really enjoyed it! I didn't realize that it was published by a Fleetie, though! Loved the closet scene with the subtle head nod to the community :) The guys over at STOked plugged your mission too, didn't they? I think that's how I found out about it. Good work on it!

Yes - they did plug it on the STOked podcast, and Jeremy was very complimentary about it! So I'm very grateful to them for that!

Thanks to you, too, for your positive comments. Feedback from Fleeties always means a lot :)

I'm currently working on my next mission... there's a map I'm building that has fences arranged in a circle... the Y co-ordinate changes with the slope of the ground and OH MY GODS it's driving me to drink. But I'll get there. I love the Foundry really ;)

Looking forward to playing 'The Wounded Wolf' later :laugh:

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There's a gay reference in my mission, 'The Spirits of Ramok Nor', where you encounter a Ferengi and he mentions that one of the male characters on DS9 has a husband.

I must have missed this on my first playthrough. I'll have to reply later to watch for it.

Whether you discover the gay reference in "Spirits of Ramok Nor" depends on what branch of dialogue you take with Boson.

When I can get back in game, and once I learn Foundry, I have a mission I'm planning to develop that definitely focuses on gay characters. I call the mission "Sword of the Stubborn", and there will be both Fed and KDF versions. I have it basically plotted out.

Finally had the chance to sit down and play this, and I absolutely loved it!

As I said in my review in-game, the maps and the puzzles in particular are stand-outs. And even though I used a similar "zoning witout zoning" trick in my mission, I was still left in awe and wondering how you did the transition of leaving the compound and running outside to the shuttle. Amazing.

All in all, it's obvious that you must have spent a lot of time on this, and it's paid off.

Very well done!

I suggest you advertise on StarbaseUGC, Foundrymissions.com and the STO forums if you haven't already.

And if you do get negative comments about the same-sex relationship, you MUST ignore them. Don't EVER take this mission down. I wish we'd had an episode of one of the TV series that had this storyline, and I live in hope that Cryptic will produce an official mission that features a same-sex partnership so prominently as your mission does.

Well done again.

I just got done playing this mission and I really enjoyed it! I love missions with lots of story and dialogue. I'm hoping there is a sequel coming, otherwise I'm a little sad how it ended... :(

One tiny little nit-picky issue I had was with the computer core puzzle. I took it too literally and multiplied everything by "pi" and not "3.14" (I was too lazy to go find a calculator and just put the puzzle into MatLab, lol). It caused all my answers to be be slightly different.