Cryptic, why do you break something every time you update the game? Why is it when you implement "server stability updates", the servers become unstable?
This seems to be the way of things with this game. I have never seen this level of unprofessional implementation in an MMO, and I have been playing them for years.
BTW, the "every MMO has problems" argument is moot at this point...the problems STO encounters are becoming less and less "bugs and glitches" and more and more like standard features.
You seem to have hit upon something here mate. Nearly everytime we get a server stability patch, we get emergency maint the next day. Seems very strange indeed.
That being said, servers are not easy to deal with. There could be a myriad of things that causes them to be unreliable, or not working as intended.
However, Cryptic has a bad history with the servers and/or games not working correctly. What the root cause might be, is hard to tell. Might be bad netcode, or bad server hardware, or a combination of both.
We can but hope Cryptic can fix this, but not holding my breath...
My game also crashed a few times today. Looking forward to the fix. *fingers crossed*
As a Foundry Author (attempting to finish my first mission) i can tell you this: Go and try to work with the current Foundry Editor. After that experience you probably have a lot more patience and a thicker skin in dealing with random crashes. Sad but true.
It would be appreciated if the Foundry gets some attention in the near future as well.
Many many players are having the same issue. Hope the maintenance schedule for later today addresses this problem. I was rather hoping however that it would have been addressed last evening This has made the game virtually unplayable to (I suspect) a large number of the community.
I don't know whats up , I crash while visiting Defara Invasion Zone. I know it's not just me as I've had my whole Team Crash at the same time, and apparently a lot of others are as welll by the zone chat when I get back in. It got so bad one day that it took 10 min to load the Defera Invasion Zone, and again, everyone in zone chat complaining about the same long load time.
Server Stability, I do not think it means what they think it means......
I took two months off the game after the winter event grind fest rarely crashing ( maybe once a week) . Everything seemed fine, even New Romulus loaded some what speedy (maybe 1.5 times slower than anything else). I came back when LoR came out, along with extremely long load times on New Romulus, crashes 3-4 times a day. Now the Crashes seem to happen 1-2 times per hour for the simplest of things ie. opening mail, transferring goods from hold to bank, "memory leak". I don't want to forget to mention the inevitable "server not responding" atleast once an hour.
"buying a subscription to STO is a lot like feeding pigeons, you give them food, they give you.......well you know":rolleyes:
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You seem to have hit upon something here mate. Nearly everytime we get a server stability patch, we get emergency maint the next day. Seems very strange indeed.
That being said, servers are not easy to deal with. There could be a myriad of things that causes them to be unreliable, or not working as intended.
However, Cryptic has a bad history with the servers and/or games not working correctly. What the root cause might be, is hard to tell. Might be bad netcode, or bad server hardware, or a combination of both.
We can but hope Cryptic can fix this, but not holding my breath...
As a Foundry Author (attempting to finish my first mission) i can tell you this: Go and try to work with the current Foundry Editor. After that experience you probably have a lot more patience and a thicker skin in dealing with random crashes. Sad but true.
It would be appreciated if the Foundry gets some attention in the near future as well.
Server Stability, I do not think it means what they think it means......
I took two months off the game after the winter event grind fest rarely crashing ( maybe once a week) . Everything seemed fine, even New Romulus loaded some what speedy (maybe 1.5 times slower than anything else). I came back when LoR came out, along with extremely long load times on New Romulus, crashes 3-4 times a day. Now the Crashes seem to happen 1-2 times per hour for the simplest of things ie. opening mail, transferring goods from hold to bank, "memory leak". I don't want to forget to mention the inevitable "server not responding" atleast once an hour.