I'm playing some Foundry mishes right now that are all from the same author. I can choose different races to fight, I can easily choose to fight them in the air or ground or both and in waves, I can choose easy fights, hard fights, some big mobs, small crowds of small mobs..
Just think of all the Accolades that covers.. Endeavors, too.
If I could farm them for something sellable then there'd be another plus, and, another reason to use the Foundry.
The Foundry can be extra cool, because, it doesn't have to follow the rules so much.. I think there is even a warning somewhere about that. I miss my Architect Bunnies, sometimes.. You'd have never found them in the main game. Only in Architect.
AH well.. anyway. You either get the coolness of your favorite game (which it is, to some) having mishes made up by the imagination and needs of the players themselves, or, you don't.
Now that I'm actually using the Foundry I can say for sure I will miss it and can see it's a loss for the game when it goes. I mean, it's like Architect. Either you appreciated Architect or you didn't, same kinda thing. People lived in Architect.. And other ppl probably never used it.
I've been trying to wean myself off of (the thing they want to remove due to it isn't a big enough part of STO) the Foundry when doing Endeavors but I just can't do it. The Foundry mishes are fun.. to the point.. and they can also take the 'worry' out of getting Endeavors done. So I used the Foundry again, today.. And then I did some Randoms.... which, had I ran them first, they would have fulfilled my Endeavor requirements for the day just by running *them*.. Last time, though, that I depended on Randoms to do that... I ran a ton, as ever, and somehow never could get the fights I needed. That's what I mean by "takes the worry out".
Anyway, whatever..
The Foundry may not have all the bells and whistles that they want it to have and may not be as integrated as it should be, but, unlike *all* of the rest of CO (oops) STO, including the login screen, I have yet to crash in the Foundry.......
The authors make good mishes. The fights are fun. People are having fun. It's useful. It's cool. Why cut it. They can't be *that* strapped for resources if they had time for that fluffy downgrade of a Character Creator, and, I think all of STO would give up at least 1 mish per new mish making cycle if that's what it took to keep the Foundry going.
*shrug*
We'll think what we think and they'll do what they'll do I'm just saying what I think and I think it stinks something as cool as the Foundry will just *poof* so there, neener, neener.. and more neener. : )