I was on and playing just fine (albeit things were a bit sluggish) at around 4pm EDT. Logged out to eat dinner and when I came back a half hour or so ago, the launcher patched and *poof*... I get as far as Retrieving Characters... :rolleyes:
If any genuine Ye Olden Daye messenger tried to relay messages like the sort of vacuous uninformative gibberish the average MMO PR team does, they would not only be shot - they'd be beheaded and their bodies would be crucified on a castle's front lawn.
Which would be bad if it was one of Genghis Khan's messengers as he would be deeply pissed about that and proceed to burn down the town.
For you. The day the great Bison screwed up your precious expansion was the greatest day of your life. For me....it was Tuesday.
"Rise like Lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you-Ye are many they are few"
Quite sad. Launch day headaches are expected, but the level of complete failure here is rather pathetic from an established company who has seen over the last 18 months pathetic launch after pathetic launch from their competitors... Yet you want people to purchase a lifetime? I can't stop laughing.
UGH! I get as far as "Loading list of characters" then after about a minute or so it says it failed to connect to login server or something and it timed out.
Edit: Also when clicking thread links on the forums, sometimes I get a page that says there was a "Database Error".
Quite sad. Launch day headaches are expected, but the level of complete failure here is rather pathetic from an established company who has seen over the last 18 months pathetic launch after pathetic launch from their competitors... Yet you want people to purchase a lifetime? I can't stop laughing.
Wasnt in preparation another MMO based on Star Trek?
LOL hubby went to log in, got to a new mission and it said.... "sir the planet you seek and transwarped to is not on the scanners. Lifesigns indicate there is no one on the server sir, it's dead jim."
Also, it is essentially a whole new game. Even if I've only been playing about an hour, I'm super impressed. Hope the maintenance fixes all the problems.
i've been able to get to the character screen after my 3rd attempt, however once i get there i can't fully log in because it gets stuck saying it is retrieving maps., after that it send me back to the login screen.
Quite sad. Launch day headaches are expected, but the level of complete failure here is rather pathetic from an established company who has seen over the last 18 months pathetic launch after pathetic launch from their competitors... Yet you want people to purchase a lifetime? I can't stop laughing.
Exactly. Is anyone rushing to buy their lts after this fiasco?
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
Ok, lets list the possible things that have gone wrong...(Yes I'm just pulling this out of my backside)
Upgrade was a complete success, but in their eagerness to get the game back up they failed to give the cluster enough time to finish replicating data between the servers.
Account migration failed to convert all accounts to 30 format causing data corruption. Accounts need to be restored from backup.
Cluster is fine but the account migration failed to complete. Devs missed this (I've done it) assumed it was all ready and started the game. The few accounts that finished work ok; the few that were created but stats were not finished are logging in as lev 1 characters; The rest are getting unknown errors because the login server says you exist but the game can't find you. Current lag is the result of Dev trying to complete the transfers while people are playing.
All of the third possibility but characters are being restored from backup.
All went well but there is a database mismatch on one server in the cluster. This is throwing SQL errors that the cluster is trying to handle this while a 500k people are trying to log on.
Logon server has crashed. Took Tribble down to use it's logon server as a short term fix.
Upgrade did not go well. There is a mix of version 25 and 30 in the cluster causing the game to stop with fatal SQL errors.
Can anyone think of any more??
I was able to play all three of my captains (one of each faction) on Tribble no more than 15 min ago. Maybe this is progress?
Cryptic should have not had Scotty on shore leave during this refit
Hahahaha, thinking Scotty takes shoreleave during a refit. For Scotty a refit IS shoreleave.
"Rise like Lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you-Ye are many they are few"
I do have the say what little UI I saw on the loading screen was nice. When it failed, I was able to watch the world turn while I decided if I should type my login info again.
And another quote from years of Support "It worked in the lab!"
Peaceful exploration? I have a heavily armed ship and a phaser with a kill setting, how peaceful is that?
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RnD and upgrade needs less RNG. Less lottery. Something has to change.
I was on and playing just fine (albeit things were a bit sluggish) at around 4pm EDT. Logged out to eat dinner and when I came back a half hour or so ago, the launcher patched and *poof*... I get as far as Retrieving Characters... :rolleyes:
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
For you. The day the great Bison screwed up your precious expansion was the greatest day of your life. For me....it was Tuesday.
Tru... Unable to write for unknown reasons.
Edit: Also when clicking thread links on the forums, sometimes I get a page that says there was a "Database Error".
The Legendary Horka Thane
1999 Tribes 1
Infamous TurreNt Camp ( if you dont know you are not Legendary )
If your post is anything like, "I have a sandwich so you can't be starving" it's time to rethink posting. ~thlaylierah
BURN THEM ALL!!!
lol... flaming enough?
Exactly. Is anyone rushing to buy their lts after this fiasco?
- Judge Aaron Satie
I was able to play all three of my captains (one of each faction) on Tribble no more than 15 min ago. Maybe this is progress?
Wait what? I'm sorry I got caught up in the moment.
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And another quote from years of Support "It worked in the lab!"
Peaceful exploration? I have a heavily armed ship and a phaser with a kill setting, how peaceful is that?