Let us queue multiple foundry items.

[TheMostFrench]

It's great that something like 10 energy pizzas only take 60 seconds to build, but sometimes you want to build 100 of them and it's a bit annoying to have to babysit the foundry. Could you consider adding the ability to queue multiple projects of the same item to be built? It would be great to collect 7 forma at the end of the week even though you couldn't log in every day.

[(PSN)OriginalEquinox]

Ikr, they're adding QoL improvements to places nobody wanted but nothing about the damn foundry that everyone uses and really needs a upgrade

[ReshyShira]

I totally agree, I don't think this mobile game design really works in warframe's favor.  For long-duration projects like Forma this isn't so much an issue, because you are likely checking when you login anyway to see if it's done and start another.  However, when it comes to very short duration items it really ought to be something you can queue up multiples.  Considering that you cannot even buy the larger health restores for platinum, there's literally no reason to have this time gating method except to irritate the players to no real end.

Edited May 25, 2019 by ReshyShira

[(PSN)Hikuro-93]

I understand why DE doesn't want to do it... But man do I still want this. It'd make my life so much easier if I could just set my formas, gems, pizzas, etc to be queued. Heck, even if it was restricted to only 60sec items I wouldn't mind in the slightest.

[Steel_Rook]

On the one hand, a change like that would make 10-stack blueprints pointless. On the other hand, 10-stack blueprints are balance by annoyance. You COULD craft all the items you want from the 1-item blueprints, it would just take more micromanagement. Probably the easiest, least-inconvenient way going about this is to convert 10-stack blueprints into "auto-loop" blueprints that the player can enter a number into and just craft that many items, one at a time. That way, you retain cheap-and-easy access to the basic single-item blueprint, you retain the credits sink for the auto-loop blueprints and you eliminate the fiddly nonsense of sitting at the console crafting a stack every 60 seconds.

[TheMostFrench]

The 10x blueprints have an extra cost associated with them, too. The way I see it is that the resource cost is still there, so it isn't like queuing several items eliminates the time investment, it just means we don't have to come back and rebuild the same item. I'm guessing this isn't an option yet because we have to collect the item once it's finished before we can build the same one again.

[Tsukinoki]

On 2019-05-25 at 4:58 AM, TheMostFrench said:

It would be great to collect 7 forma at the end of the week even though you couldn't log in every day.

This is actually an example of why DE doesn't want to do this:
DE wants you to have to sign in day after day to collect forma, potatoes and so on.
Why?  Because it means that you are thinking of warframe and it means that you will come back.

When you build a forma most players are thinking "Oh hey, I have a reason to sign in to collect it..."
Then someone signs in and starts playing.  Checks nightwave, the invasions, sorties and so on.

They don't wan players to go "Ok, I'll be back in a week to collect this pile of stuff...." because that means that you won't be thinking about the game.

The build timers actually help to build player retention by giving them a reason to come back day after day after day, and it makes sure that players are thinking of the game day after day until the game becomes part of your daily routine.

Its the reason why we have 12, 24, and 72 hour build timers in this game.  It actually does help with player retention in the long run.

Its a simple psychological trick that helps to convert players into daily logins and keeps them coming back constantly, even if they don't have anything building to check up on.  And it has been proven to work.

On 2019-05-25 at 4:58 AM, TheMostFrench said:

Could you consider adding the ability to queue multiple projects of the same item to be built?

Maybe for items that take less than 5 minutes to build, and maybe only when you're actually playing the game so that you can craft a large pile of restores or something.
But for the longer crafting times?  Never going to happen.  It could actually hurt player retention.

Edited May 30, 2019 by Tsukinoki

[DeadVoid118]

1 hour ago, Tsukinoki said:

But for the longer crafting times?  Never going to happen.  It could actually hurt player retention.

They could make it vastly inefficient. Something like you can only queue 3 extra, and each takes double the time to build on any day you don't login.

[Els236]

Just use the phone app and do your foundry stuff from there if you cannot access your PC.

It's what I do. If I queue up a forma and know it's going to finish when I'm at work, or am away, then I just open the app and claim it wherever I am, then build a new one.

[sam686]

Yes, give us option to control how many of the same item to craft. And for most x3 x6 x10, give us option to claim some of it while it isn't fully finished yet.

 

Problem 1: Can only craft and claim the same item, one at a time. Waiting for foundry to finish and craft more, often waste player's time from doing any missions, or foundry wasting time doing nothing after that item is completed.

Problem 2: Forced to craft multiple at a time. Cannot craft x3 x6 or x10 with not quite enough materials, but could with x1. I am looking at mostly Mining items. I cannot build any Star Crimzian at all when I only have 5 Crimzian, why?

Problem 3: When some items like 6x Star Ceimzian is 50 seconds done, 10 more seconds left, the game will NOT let me claim 5 of them and allow 1 more to finish, instead only asking to waste platinum to rush a tiny amount of time.

 

Allow us to build any amount, not get stuck with trying to build 6 and insufficient materials. When half of total time it takes is done, let us claim half of it.

[TheSkunkyMonk]

On 2019-05-25 at 11:58 AM, TheMostFrench said:

It's great that something like 10 energy pizzas only take 60 seconds to build, but sometimes you want to build 100 of them and it's a bit annoying to have to babysit the foundry. Could you consider adding the ability to queue multiple projects of the same item to be built? It would be great to collect 7 forma at the end of the week even though you couldn't log in every day.

I agree its needed but I highly doubt we will get it. Kinda of what Nightwave was about as well. getting us to log in more and spend more time ingame. Its going to get worse as well in coming updates I bet.