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Scheduled Maintenance (April 11, 2013)

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

We will be bringing down Star Trek Online tomorrow, Thursday, April 11th, at 5AM PDT (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 last for 5 hours and 30 minutes. 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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  • brigadooombrigadooom Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Crystalline entity time :D
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  • fallenhawkfallenhawk Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    It's on like Donkey Kong.
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  • vesolcvesolc Member Posts: 244 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    So, 8 hours. Its cool.
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  • richarddoverricharddover Member Posts: 166 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Ah, bugger. Usually I don't mind the few hours downtime, even though I live in mainland Europe. But 5.5 hours, from 2pm to 7:30... that sucks hardcore. And most of the time I'm the one preaching reason to all them complaining smegheads. :(
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    This is what I'm going to listen to as I engage the Entity for the first time: http://ds9.trekcore.com/audio/audio/emissary/2-wolf359.mp3

    :D
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  • bignutterbignutter Member Posts: 125 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Beam: Fire-at-Will no longer drains more Weapon Energy than intended.

    Just to clear it up: lets say I have 2 Beams fore and 2 beams aft, And if I have 6 enemies dead ahead, and 6 behind, I loose about 50% of my Weapon power.

    But if I have all 12 enemies ahead and none behind. I should loose 25% of my Weapon power, since only half of my weapons are firing. But until the patch I think I could have been loosing the 50% as if I had enemies behind.
  • captainbaileycaptainbailey Member Posts: 356 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Ill make sure to get a few movies ready, that way when the hamsters die and sto takes longer to get back up ill have plenty to keep me busy
  • wargillwargill Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I'm rdy!!!
    Give me all your latinum... Hew-mon!!
  • mrlizardomrlizardo Member Posts: 155 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Sounds like a good time to do some maintenance around here.
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  • sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    4.5 Hours for the patch. Not optimistic is will be done in time....

    Lets hope so though.
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  • snakeswar2snakeswar2 Member Posts: 245 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    i suspect a emergency maintenance and server stability patch will be needed after this patch been up for a few hours
  • born2bwild1born2bwild1 Member Posts: 1,329 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    richarddover wrote: »
    Ah, bugger. Usually I don't mind the few hours downtime, even though I live in mainland Europe. But 5.5 hours, from 2pm to 7:30... that sucks hardcore. And most of the time I'm the one preaching reason to all them complaining smegheads. :(

    Hmm - no - they have not learned the Scotty trick yet - say it will take 8 hours and have it done in 5.

    It could turn out to be an 8 hr patch.
  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    In fairness, in the 6 months I've been here, a patch/maintenance cycle has ended on time at least three whole times. Maybe even four.

    Place your bets accordingly.

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  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    5 to 10:30? Does this maintenance involve a Remmler Array?
  • alexsanderitaalexsanderita Member Posts: 214 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Problem is, if it takes more time -and it nearly always does-

    it could end up keeping server offline until First Contact Day/Day of Honor end

    with the off beginning during Europe time 2 PM.


    This would cut the last day of the Event for all European folks. :(


    Considering their precedents, they should have thought about doing this in another time window.

    After all, not every day is the First Contact or Honor Day with relative rewards.

    You know, extraordinary situations needs extraordinary measures. :rolleyes:


    Anyway, you're doing a great work on the game. ;)
    I still dream from time to time about using the Gateway to doff off-game in spare minutes as we were told
  • maltinpolarmaltinpolar Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    brigadooom wrote: »
    Crystalline entity time :D

    I've been in the game for a little over a year now and I never did Crystalline Entity. Not once. The horror failure stories were quite discouraging, to say the least.

    Should I be glad or sorry?
    @maltinpolar
  • taya4svktaya4svk Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    maltinpolar wrote: »
    I've been in the game for a little over a year now and I never did Crystalline Entity. Not once. The horror failure stories were quite discouraging, to say the least.

    Should I be glad or sorry?

    I'd say glad. Tried it once and gave up after one hour of minimal progress. Can't wait to give it a try after patch.
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  • haubrockhaubrock Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I have to say: Your guys timing is just aweful... Today i was hoping to get home from work early and might do some gaming BEFORE the patch... you guys ruined that... Now I see it is 5 hours in my timezone and I wonder, why you guys cant do this like from 08am to 1pm MET when most people work over here? Or like soemtimes?
  • kalvorax#3775 kalvorax
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    edited April 2013
    damn...now i know why all those borg i carelessly slaughtered on DIZ were used for -_-

    100k ec says that it will take longer than 5 hours :P
  • dkratascodkratasco Member Posts: 585 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    haubrock wrote: »
    I have to say: Your guys timing is just aweful... Today i was hoping to get home from work early and might do some gaming BEFORE the patch... you guys ruined that... Now I see it is 5 hours in my timezone and I wonder, why you guys cant do this like from 08am to 1pm MET when most people work over here? Or like soemtimes?

    Because they do it when they are at work and you don't pay them enough to make them work overtime.
  • lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Well, the time waiting for the game to come back up could be used for other things. Go out and enjoy the sun, go tour the town, etc...

    Or you can go and play other games while waiting. Of course if all of PWE's servers/games are being worked on just go play something else. I'd make suggestions, but I'm not plugging other games here.
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  • captainmal3captainmal3 Member Posts: 436 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    lonnehart wrote: »
    Well, the time waiting for the game to come back up could be used for other things. Go out and enjoy the sun, go tour the town, etc...

    It's raining and my town's a hellhole. :P

    Seriously though, I agree with you, personally I'm planning to sit down with a good book.
  • nithanathnithanath Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    born2bwild1 wrote: »
    Hmm - no - they have not learned the Scotty trick yet

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SVhg6ZENw
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  • shifter777shifter777 Member Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    No stability and disconnect fix? Since the last patch, the only time I have been stable in game is when someone has a saucer seperation, or other unique ship power. Before last thursday I was stable the whole time. Now, if someone I'm playing with doesnt have saucer sep. or unique ship powers, its just laggy and disconnects.

    The Entity Rep is just way cool! Thanks.
  • wolfpacknzwolfpacknz Member Posts: 783 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    5 1/2 hour downtime, seriously, you had better not stick with tradition and actually get this one right. The usual balls up after this amount of downtime is getting old..

    And I am glad to see "General server stability" is not mentioned since that is usually a neon arrow to "Somethings gonna crash soon"
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  • born2bwild1born2bwild1 Member Posts: 1,329 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    nithanath wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SVhg6ZENw

    or this scene with scotty on TNG:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufkh1cKG8Dw
  • stardestroyer001stardestroyer001 Member Posts: 2,615 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Something is wrong with the launcher.

    Usually when there's a patch, the launcher allows you to login and stat the game (but upon playing, it can't pull up our characters).

    This time, it appears I can't even login to use Tribble. This is quite the disappointment. First Tribble crashes (repeatedly I might add), now the launcher won't let you login.

    Well, back to Star Trek: Bridge Commander.
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  • wolfpacknzwolfpacknz Member Posts: 783 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    stardestroyer001 wrote: »
    Something is wrong with the launcher.

    Usually when there's a patch, the launcher allows you to login and stat the game (but upon playing, it can't pull up our characters).

    This time, it appears I can't even login to use Tribble. This is quite the disappointment. First Tribble crashes (repeatedly I might add), now the launcher won't let you login.

    Well, back to Star Trek: Bridge Commander.

    Tribble may be offline aswell, or the entire login system while the upgrade is going on
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  • drake122svkdrake122svk Member Posts: 731 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Seriously, wtf? 5 hours 30 mins maintenance...
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  • gcangelgcangel Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Probably are putting in Hardware Changes too. That would explain the longer downtime.
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