I played in the beta and liked a lot of what I saw but wanted to give the game time to mature and stabilize a little before playing -- I downloaded the demo yesterday and eagerly loaded it up to do what I was sure would be a token test drive before buying a copy.
However, in the thirty some-odd times I've tried to do the Khitomer mission since then, I have not once been able to make it past the conversation with the EMH without getting a SERVER NOT RESPONDING error. This lasts between twenty and three hundred seconds and then disconnects me.
I have tried running a tracert and using the nettest utility and both seem to report no issues. All other aspects of my connection seem stable. I am hoping that this is just me and not characteristic of the servers themselves. Can anyone tell me anything about this issue?
I'd really like to get in on this game, but when you can't even play the demo it is hard to justify the purchase -- even to yourself.

Thanks for your time everyone who responds -- especially devs.
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Thanks in advance for your time!
Cryptic, i live in the uk, is it a problem in general?
Our Techies just pinged me on this, we had a few hickups. Let me find out more.
What was your latency?
The folks that have problems connecting at this time, where in the world are you localted?
I am on Uruguay, South America, and mi fleet mates are from Spain.
Yes, here.. i am on South America (Uruguay) and got disconected at the same time that mi fleet mates (they are from Spain).
EU-Germany-Capital
If you find yourself dropping once more, please reply here with your location from where you play.
*hands out anchors, just to be sure*
UK midlands.
When starting the game, go into "Options" and select "EU Proxy", then log in. See if that helps!
Changing this to None helped me to get on server in first try in the last 6 month before with Eu-Proxy i need to try to login 3 times before it worked...
but i try it ... left it at none and had no Problems now
now i go to sleep and try playing at 13:00 Sat. GER Time again (GMT+1) i hope with no problems
Has Q come out to play and mess around again?