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Scheduled Maintenance (January 24, 2013)

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited January 2013 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Hi Captains,

We will be bringing down Star Trek Online tomorrow, Thursday, January 24th, at 6AM PST (click here to view in your timezone) for maintenance and to apply a new patch. Patch notes can be found here, and we expect this maintenance to only last for 5 hours. The test server may also be unavailable during this time.

Thanks for your patience and understanding,

- The Star Trek Online Team
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited January 2013
    And before anyone asks, "why does it take so long when the patch is smaller than last weeks?", let me pre-answer it: it's because it depends on the maintenance that needs to be done :)

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • commadorebobcommadorebob Member Posts: 1,223 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    why does it take so long when the patch is smaller than last weeks?

    TRIBBLE! Ninja'd by the Community Rep.:P
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited January 2013
    commadorebob wrote: »
    why does it take so long when the patch is smaller than last weeks?

    TRIBBLE! Ninja'd by the Community Rep.:P

    :eek:

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • themariethemarie Member Posts: 1,055 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    And before anyone asks, "why does it take so long when the patch is smaller than last weeks?", let me pre-answer it: it's because it depends on the maintenance that needs to be done :)

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=


    Can you tell us ahead of time how long the unplanned extended downtime and emergency unexpected downtime will be? I'm busy tomorrow I don't want to miss out on a chance to complain about something. :D
  • teklionbenrashateklionbenrasha Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    2pm til 7pm GMT?

    Cryptic, this down time might just save my degree ;)
  • marc8219marc8219 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Such a long patch and why no no fixes for these bugs?

    No Honor Guard helmet and no Honor Guard Be'ves for female characters

    transporter taking you to shipyard instead of first city

    STF ground gear set abilties being unslotted from toolbar

    camera view randomly being changed from free camera to follow target

    rep project items being taken from device slots

    Sensor targeting assault not granting immunity

    Ruberbanding NPCs in kerrat

    Not able to change instance in kerrat

    STFs still giving leaver penalty even after 2 or 3 people already quit

    I really was hoping some of these would get fixed soon.
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    we expect this maintenance to only last for 5 hours.

    That's kind of an oxymoron. :P
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  • sean2448sean2448 Member Posts: 815 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    when will we see season 8 testing on tribble
  • fourxgamerfourxgamer Member Posts: 245 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Will somebody fix it so my KDF character doesn't have to stand on bank/exchange/lore consoles to use them. Foundry mission contacts require I do a timed jumping F.

    It's been this way for months. I think it began with the glowing console introduction. Anybody working on this or do I need to save it for an AskCryptic?
  • mikeward1701mikeward1701 Member Posts: 277 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    fourxgamer wrote: »
    Will somebody fix it so my KDF character doesn't have to stand on bank/exchange/lore consoles to use them. Foundry mission contacts require I do a timed jumping F.

    It's been this way for months. I think it began with the glowing console introduction. Anybody working on this or do I need to save it for an AskCryptic?

    I've noticed this also, the interaction area/radius for consoles on Klingon Academy have got much smaller and misaligned from the consoles. This is a problem for some of my characters (especially those short in stature) as they have to jump onto the consoles.

    Not sure when it started happening exactly but fourxgamers' probably on the money in that it started with the change to the interaction marker effect.
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Will tonight's patch fix something entirely unrelated to what the patch notes say? My concerns are very important and I need those unrelated things fixed now.
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  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    sean2448 wrote: »
    when will we see season 8 testing on tribble

    lol. Season 8 is planned for May.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    iconians wrote: »
    Will tonight's patch fix something entirely unrelated to what the patch notes say? My concerns are very important and I need those unrelated things fixed now.

    LoL

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    rock on.

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  • tangolighttangolight Member Posts: 777 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    iconians wrote: »
    Will tonight's patch fix something entirely unrelated to what the patch notes say? My concerns are very important and I need those unrelated things fixed now.

    I need a like button for this.
  • fourxgamerfourxgamer Member Posts: 245 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    pointless comment removed
  • richarddoverricharddover Member Posts: 166 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    marc8219 wrote: »
    Such a long patch and why no no fixes for these bugs?

    No Honor Guard helmet and no Honor Guard Be'ves for female characters

    transporter taking you to shipyard instead of first city

    STF ground gear set abilties being unslotted from toolbar

    camera view randomly being changed from free camera to follow target

    rep project items being taken from device slots

    Sensor targeting assault not granting immunity

    Ruberbanding NPCs in kerrat

    Not able to change instance in kerrat

    STFs still giving leaver penalty even after 2 or 3 people already quit

    I really was hoping some of these would get fixed soon.


    - transporter taking you to shipyard instead of first city
    Not an issue for me anymore
    - STF ground gear set abilties being unslotted from toolbar
    Not an issue for me anymore
    - camera view randomly being changed from free camera to follow target
    Not an issue for me anymore
    - Ruberbanding NPCs in kerrat
    Not an issue for me anymore
    - Not able to change instance in kerrat
    Never been an issue for me


    One can argue that if it works properly for some, the problem must be user-based. Otherwise it would impact everyone.
  • darkenzedddarkenzedd Member Posts: 881
    edited January 2013
    iconians wrote: »
    Will tonight's patch fix something entirely unrelated to what the patch notes say? My concerns are very important and I need those unrelated things fixed now.

    Maybe, but I can almost 100% know the patch will break a few things unrelated to the patch notes.....

    Its what they do that defines them ;):D
  • voxlagindvoxlagind Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Any chance we're going to get those Romulan BOFFs fixed before February?
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  • wbgron1wbgron1 Member Posts: 18 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I very rarely post in the forums and just laugh at everyone moaning about how long maintenance takes not just in this thread but all of them.

    But Branflakes there are a couple of things I'd love for you and the team to sort out:

    1) LAG - I have 60MB BroadBand with Virgin and I suffer huge lag spikes in game. But its not just me, people in my fleet from all over the world have said its got worse and worse in the last 3 months, many of us have written tickets to PWE support ( In game support doesn't work for me never has) with no response. Please have a look at your end of the line, if many of us are suffering then it cant be ISP's

    http://www.speedtest.net/result/2429039578.png - I shouldn't be getting lag with these speeds and pings

    2) Myself and a few others have either bought or won weapons that show what they are but when you hover a mouse over them to see descriptions something totally different....

    http://i47.tinypic.com/168uc8p.jpg
  • darkenzedddarkenzedd Member Posts: 881
    edited January 2013
    wbgron1 wrote: »
    I very rarely post in the forums and just laugh at everyone moaning about how long maintenance takes not just in this thread but all of them.

    But Branflakes there are a couple of things I'd love for you and the team to sort out:

    1) LAG - I have 60MB BroadBand with Virgin and I suffer huge lag spikes in game. But its not just me, people in my fleet from all over the world have said its got worse and worse in the last 3 months, many of us have written tickets to PWE support ( In game support doesn't work for me never has) with no response. Please have a look at your end of the line, if many of us are suffering then it cant be ISP's

    http://www.speedtest.net/result/2429039578.png - I shouldn't be getting lag with these speeds and pings

    2) Myself and a few others have either bought or won weapons that show what they are but when you hover a mouse over them to see descriptions something totally different....

    http://i47.tinypic.com/168uc8p.jpg


    The servers, or rather Cryptics coding is knackered, hence the 5 hour downtime.
    I have major lag too sometimes, not mentioning the constant disconnects that have happened over the last few months.
    I suspect that the time listed is a more realistic estimate to how long it actually takes, if you include the extra they usually put on top of the normal 3 hours. ;)
  • allyoftheforceallyoftheforce Member Posts: 736 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    So when can we expect the Gamma Orionis Defense Accolade to start working again?
  • wbgron1wbgron1 Member Posts: 18 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I got a reply off PWE - Basically saying they can't or wont help...I'm beginning to think they simply dont care anymore!

    This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Perfect World Entertainment Community Rules and Policies . ~BranFlakes
  • theultimatefunkytheultimatefunky Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    5 hours of down time just for

    Added a Duty Officer Assignment for turning in Defeated Changelings.
    The assignment can be accessed by speaking with your Security Officer.
    This yields a small amount of Dilithium, and Espionage CXP.
    Bird of Prey hangar pets can now be equipped on the Fleet Vo'quv.
    The Vesta Console ability, Fermion Field, now correctly restores the Shields of nearby allies, instead of just yourself.
    Recluse Carriers now properly launch 3 Scorpion Fighters per wing instead of 6.

    hmmmm seems as bad as DCUO for stupidly long downtimes for littles things,
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  • maddog0000doommaddog0000doom Member Posts: 1,017 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    wbgron1 wrote: »
    I very rarely post in the forums and just laugh at everyone moaning about how long maintenance takes not just in this thread but all of them.

    But Branflakes there are a couple of things I'd love for you and the team to sort out:

    1) LAG - I have 60MB BroadBand with Virgin and I suffer huge lag spikes in game. But its not just me, people in my fleet from all over the world have said its got worse and worse in the last 3 months, many of us have written tickets to PWE support ( In game support doesn't work for me never has) with no response. Please have a look at your end of the line, if many of us are suffering then it cant be ISP's

    http://www.speedtest.net/result/2429039578.png - I shouldn't be getting lag with these speeds and pings

    2) Myself and a few others have either bought or won weapons that show what they are but when you hover a mouse over them to see descriptions something totally different....

    http://i47.tinypic.com/168uc8p.jpg

    are u sure its a graphics lag many of us are getting huge lag spikes check grpahics bug forum.
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  • mrlizardomrlizardo Member Posts: 155 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    5 hour downtime .... good thing I have a fireplace, a thick book and a liter of sherry to get me through it. Now where's my lounging jacket .....
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  • milestfoxmilestfox Member Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    fourxgamer wrote: »
    Will somebody fix it so my KDF character doesn't have to stand on bank/exchange/lore consoles to use them. Foundry mission contacts require I do a timed jumping F.

    It's been this way for months. I think it began with the glowing console introduction. Anybody working on this or do I need to save it for an AskCryptic?

    It's been longer, before that. One of the updates changed the size/shape of the activation area for MANY consoles, it no long reaches the 'floor' in front of the consoles. Short characters have to jump to reach it, and some consoles, even stand on top of, just right.
  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    wbgron1 wrote: »
    I got a reply off PWE - Basically saying they can't or wont help...I'm beginning to think they simply dont care anymore!

    This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Perfect World Entertainment Community Rules and Policies . ~BranFlakes

    Yeah when a player has issues they aren't willing to help but when they want you to go vote for them in something or come out with some federation diet fluff they want your money but other than that its crappy support.
  • born2bwild1born2bwild1 Member Posts: 1,329 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    mrlizardo wrote: »
    5 hour downtime .... good thing I have a fireplace, a thick book and a liter of sherry to get me through it. Now where's my lounging jacket .....

    You have the right idea as long as you don't come back! Pick up another book when that one is finished!
  • milestfoxmilestfox Member Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Lol. I'm being productive.. at work! Instead of Ker'rat.
  • tobar26thtobar26th Member Posts: 799 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    commadorebob wrote: »
    why does it take so long when the patch is smaller than last weeks?

    TRIBBLE! Ninja'd by the Community Rep.:P

    I can correct that...for a price ;)



    Just kidding...
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