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Hi Captains,
We wanted to let you all in on a change that will be made to the Tribble and RedShirt test servers. On Monday, January 9th, we plan to take these test shards offline. RedShirt will remain offline, but Tribble will return later in the day. The Tribble database will be wiped and the shard will return in a complete clean state. This means that all characters, Foundry productions, and other player data will be removed from the Tribble test server, and will not be recoverable. If you currently have a Foundry mission on Tribble that you need to save work from, please do so before the weekend is over, as once this server comes down, we will be unable to recover any lost data.
Tribble will also return to being a normal test server. Over the past 3 months, Tribble has been an isolated environment with its own C-Store and purchases and this was done for Season 5 testing. Going forward, it will return to being tied to the Holodeck environment, having no C-Store, and honoring purchased unlocks made on Holodeck. In other words, it will be just like it was prior to the start of Season 5 testing.
Lastly, we would truly like to thank all of our dedicated players who spent countless hours testing the latest builds and providing feedback -- we could not have done it without you.
Thank you,
The Star Trek Online Team
We wanted to let you all in on a change that will be made to the Tribble and RedShirt test servers. On Monday, January 9th, we plan to take these test shards offline. RedShirt will remain offline, but Tribble will return later in the day. The Tribble database will be wiped and the shard will return in a complete clean state. This means that all characters, Foundry productions, and other player data will be removed from the Tribble test server, and will not be recoverable. If you currently have a Foundry mission on Tribble that you need to save work from, please do so before the weekend is over, as once this server comes down, we will be unable to recover any lost data.
Tribble will also return to being a normal test server. Over the past 3 months, Tribble has been an isolated environment with its own C-Store and purchases and this was done for Season 5 testing. Going forward, it will return to being tied to the Holodeck environment, having no C-Store, and honoring purchased unlocks made on Holodeck. In other words, it will be just like it was prior to the start of Season 5 testing.
Lastly, we would truly like to thank all of our dedicated players who spent countless hours testing the latest builds and providing feedback -- we could not have done it without you.
Thank you,
The Star Trek Online Team
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Edit: I'd really love a straight forward answer to that. It's a question I'm sure a lot are interested in knowing the answer to.
I didn't suggest it had to be bug free. However, we seemed to be plagued by way more bugs than the normal MMO and saying "way more" is understating it a lot.
2PM EST every Saturday and Sunday, organized via the chat channel "TFBB".
Just a reminder, the TFBB is a PvP event for anyone who doesn't take it seriously. We are not restricted by fleet, and everyone is welcome. 2PM ET Saturday's and Sunday's are when we roll. We use our own chat channel, which you can find the link to setup in my sig.
I would recommend doing a comparative analysis, because I disagree. Even WoW and TOR have huge numbers of bugs; the STO community may just seem to be more concentrated, so people tend to see more of it. "More posts" doesn't necessarily mean "more bugs", after all.
No MMO ever truly goes out of "beta", as the actual definition of the development state is defined as. Test servers exist for SPECIFIC testing purposes, but you will never find everything. An opt-in testing program means you'll only get people who want to do such things, and even then you'll get a lot of guys who only use it as some kind of "demo" for future content, and are not actually TESTING. As such, a testing server can make sure that the code is not catastrophically broken, but smaller things will never show up until everyone is playing in their myriad ways.
I don't know where people get this idea. LOL
Redshirt is a sometimes server, but we certainly can't and don't depend on it for our testing here.
Wasn't one of your internal test servers called Redshirt at some point? Most likely not the same hardware we have been using as Redshirt, the name was simply borrowed for referring to the second Public Test Server?
It goes back to the original Foundry Closed beta of November/December 2010 (I'm sure you of all people remember those days
When we asked what 'Redshirt' was - the official answer was - "One of our internal test servers..."
ROFL I'll be there. Are you sure your a toucan and not a well... don-khey?
rlly I ked
Not really. Total over-exaggeration.
Comments like this make me wonder why some people play MMO's to begin with. Its illogical to think that a massive game like an MMO can be changed or updated without sometime things going wrong. Do things sometimes take longer to fix than you would like yes that happens. But things are fixed as soon as they can make it happen. Just calm down play and enjoy yourself realize sometimes something may not be perfect but Ive never encountered a game breaking bug that prevented me from playing and enjoying myself. I have 19 toons and have played since Beta so surely I would have by now if there was one to be had.
I disagree! Some of you are just way too easy to please!
think that was tribble before the f2p build surfaced
As I recall it was mentioned that RedShirt was the secret, invite only, internal test shard of STO on an early episode of STOked. It was also mentioned that players who contribute tons to testing on Tribble, and really good useful ideas for the game in general, could and did get invited to help test on the RedShirt hidden shard.
Sorry if I threw you under the bus J-Man. *must find camo to help mitigate potential know-it-all faux paux*
I think I remember DStahl alluding to that much in the past as well...
But as one of the QA folks back then you would know far better than I. I'm just saying where I got the notion from... *best Tommy Flanagan impersonation* Yeah that's the ticket.
Tribble has always been the public test server.
if we can't copy over
there is one VA i did copy from deck to tribble I am about to 45 I did get maco Mark 11 shield and honor gaurd
and that sucks because I have 14 chips going to be lost instead of using towards a new Borg duty officer
Maintenance is now complete and RedShirt is offline. The team has decided to leave Tribble in its current form, for now -- there are no longer going to be any character or UGC wipes, and the test C-Store will remain online.
Thanks for your patience and happy Tribbleing!
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
It will not delete it automatically -- it's the "Beta" folder you want to remove.
Thanks, that was exactly the thing I wanted too ask.
we had only fleet on that serve with 2 billion plus in EC and maxed out on data sample all for it to be taken awy we worked our rears off --- Borg S.O.G --- would of been nice if they would of carried that over to tribble
Have you any idea how many bugs are found and reported on Tribble?
Are you also aware that just because something is reported, it does not mean developers can instantly fix it. As a developer myself I can tell you that sometimes its even best to wait a little longer, for more bug reports to come in, before spending time trying to determine if a user is just a complete pain in the rear or has found a bug.
Users often do not provide anywhere near enough information so the system provides it, looking over that data takes a lot of time and it still doesn't fix the issue.
It all takes time and they do fix bugs in every patch. Software of all kinds will always have bugs, accept it.
But I Iz on it now according to my machine... after moving around 12 Gigs of data >.< So if its offline.. why did it patch me and put me on?