Hi Captains,
We will be bringing down Star Trek Online tomorrow, Thursday, February 27th, at 7AM PST (click
here to view in your timezone) for our weekly scheduled maintenance and to apply a new patch.
Patch notes can be found here, and we expect this maintenance to last for 2.5 hours. The test server, launcher and access to manage your account may also be unavailable during some portions of the maintenance.
Thanks for your patience and understanding,
- The Star Trek Online Team
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GET HYPE X100000
All in all, a very satisfying-looking patch.
Off-topic, unlike most other players, I can't wait til' Arc is the new launcher!
I need one more Party Patrol, and the next cooldown is up at 9:15am, but now I will not be able to complete it without buying keys to get Lobi, which I am not inclined to do.
Since your first 4th anniversary announcement, you have said that we have until Thursday February 27th at 11am PST to get our qmendations done.
Now i just read that you are starting your maintenance at 7am PST - which means that alllllllll the players who have been doing party patrol for the last 14 days in a row, making sure they would be online to get the last party patrol done tomorrow before 11am pst - ARE NOW SCREWED!!!
I love STO and I have never complained once - but really???
Are you going to give players an extra 40 qmendations for changing the maintenance start time? Or maybe give us the 40qmendations for having the server down almost a whole day after 4th anniversary started.
Please do something - I know im not the only one that just wasted 2 weeks+ and am only 40 qmendations away
Also the KDF costume thing is getting ridiculous. Hopefully the KDF players will be able to wear all their uniforms at least once again before the game shuts down. :rolleyes:
EDIT: Yeah, the previous fellow poster just reminded me - is the KDF not having access to Delta Volanis a non-issue as well? Seriosly guys, your priorities seem completely messed up.
If it's over at 9 am like they expect it to, then you'll have time to jump on and get the last party patrol.
And it is 10am PST, not 11am PST like i said - so thats 3 hours before you are supposed to start maintenance.
Please fix this asap and push it back to 10am pst like you have stated for the last 25+ days, or give players 40 qmendations per character.
Everything else looks good.
At 9am PST ill be able to do party patrol - thinking id have time because it only takes a few mins, and ive seen HUNDREDS of players today talking about doing their past PP tomorrow morning before maintenance.
And now we are scewed. Cryptic, u cant just change things like this when you have people grind for 15days in arow. Remember, some people cant get online and play every single day. So some players needed that full 25 days. Technically 23 1/2 day because of the server being down a few days after launch and TRIBBLE us tomorrow.
In every place,
The deeds of men remain the same..."
~CaptainSmirk
Smirk, I don't care how long it takes if you guys can actually fix some of those bugs.
Also, some players seem to be concerned about their ability to get Qmendations--and I must say that I am confused by the early maintenance. Are you going to move the time back to 10 PST?
Download arc, get 20 lobi, worth about 60 qmendations. Or spend a massive $5 to get 4 keys to get the lobi you need. If you cannot afford $5 then I do not know who can help you.
Money is also not a problem, but its the principle. After spending 14days doing the party patrol, the last day it gets moved up three hours? Thats just not right. Many players dont play mmos EVERY DAY. We go online when we can. And believing that the maintenance would start at 10am pst (1pm for me in nyc) i set things up so i would have plenty of time to get on and do the missions for the last 40 lobi i needed.
Its just really messed up. i need 120 lobi and spending 15bucks or more is not right for a "free ship"
I love everything about this game and i enjoy all the things that all the "vocal minority" crybabies whine and complain about. But this is not right at all.
Lets hope the devs realize the mistake they are making and give players 40 qmendations per character, or enough lobi to get 40 qmendations on each character they have.
I never said anything about not being able to afford it, I choose not to. The issue is the posted end time for the event vs the server down time.
Install ARC? lol
Arc is a good thing.
First off, sorry to everyone who is concerned about not being able to get their last Q's Party Patrol in before the end of the event. If we get maintenance done early (which we have been able to do the last few weeks) then you should have enough time to get one more run done before the events ends. I will cross my fingers for everyone!
If not, I really do apologize. I know how tough it is finding enough time to play.
Maintenance normally begins at 7AM Thursdays, so this isn't an "early" maintenance, not sure if that was what some posts meant.
The Anniversary Event will officially end at 10AM. I am not able to push it back, that is beyond my powers
FINISH THE MISSION AN TURN IT IN BEFORE 10AM, if you put off playing until after maintenance ends. Play the mission asap before it ends, for your 400 QMendations.
Thanks for the feedback about this though. Now that I am running the show, I am going to change the way we post these announcements so it's clearer and players can plan around the schedule.
Good luck captains!
~CaptainSmirk
*obligatory proposal*
I would go with a detailed list of timezones sorted by: continent, country, state, gender and what ranking the last Beyonce song had.
Now if the announcement said "anniversary event will end at 7am when maintenance starts" that makes more sense. People whose cooldowns end at before 10am pst thought they would have enough time.
Cant say that the anniversary ends at 10am pst, when technically it will end at 7am PST(with possibly an extra 30-60 mins extra time before it ends again at 10am pst) if you understand what Im saying,
And to the others who asked - I dont play mmorpgs every single day lol. if I did, I would get burnt out from playing wayyy too much or run around rushing through content - bitter and jaded like many we see on the server nowadays. I have been logging in daily to make sure I had enough time to do the 15days in a row.
Also, the server was down almost 24hrs a few days after the anniversary event launched - so we only had 24 days, not 25
(...)
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Haha! It's like you devs actually listened to us! Good job on both of these!
Wow. You're going to make them cut it real close.
This pushes maintenance to 9:30 AM pacific, leaving them with 30 minutes to log in and get it done.
And if that was a reference to the conversation between Scotty and Geordi, then you're gonna Geordi up the maintenance, which means when you say 2.5 hours you *mean* 2.5 hours.
Seriously. Are you like Cryptic personal Arc cheerleader?
Lifetime Sub since June 2010
LoL I shall en devour to do so next time.
That gave me and BranFlakes a serious chuckle Bravo!
~CaptainSmirk