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flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
This is likely to sound a bit cynical shortly, though bare with me.

To my knowledge, there are three servers for STO, the main one which we all use, then there is Tribble, and then there is one before that called Red Shirts? - I don't know who has access to that third one though, likely people who purchased certain versions of the game upon release? I don't know.

Anyway, whilst this may sound like a really stupid question, what's the point of them all? If I've got it right, Tribble offers nothing different from the actual Game Server (save for unfinished content and multiple bugs; some would argue that unfinished content and multiple bugs exist within the main server anyway).

Why not upgrade the red shirt server, and remove tribble? What is the actual different between Tribble and the main game server? By all accounts, anything I can do on the main I could also do on Tribble ... just (in regard to new content) I could do earlier?
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  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    flash525 wrote: »
    This is likely to sound a bit cynical shortly, though bare with me.

    To my knowledge, there are three servers for STO, the main one which we all use, then there is Tribble, and then there is one before that called Red Shirts? - I don't know who has access to that third one though, likely people who purchased certain versions of the game upon release? I don't know.

    Anyway, whilst this may sound like a really stupid question, what's the point of them all? If I've got it right, Tribble offers nothing different from the actual Game Server (save for unfinished content and multiple bugs; some would argue that unfinished content and multiple bugs exist within the main server anyway).

    Why not upgrade the red shirt server, and remove tribble? What is the actual different between Tribble and the main game server? By all accounts, anything I can do on the main I could also do on Tribble ... just (in regard to new content) I could do earlier?

    Holodeck = Live server (where people play on)
    Tribble = Testserver / Pre-season update testbed
    Redshirt = Testserver when Tribble is used for Pre-season update testing.
    maxvitor wrote: »
    Nerf is OP, plz nerf
    That's quite the paradox, how could you nerf nerf when the nerf is nerfed. But how would the nerf be nerfed when the nerf is nerfed? This allows the nerf not to be nerfed since the nerf is nerfed? But if the nerf isn't nerfed, it could still nerf nerfs. But as soon as the nerf is nerfed, the nerf power is lost. So paradoxally it the nerf nerf lost its nerf, while it's still nerfed, which cannot be because the nerf was unable to nerf.

    I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    One test server is there to test stuff briefly before it comes on holodeck...like less than a week.
    So it's mostly minor gameplay changes and fixes.

    The other is usually employed to test stuff that's actually much further into the future like an upcoming season. So it's more new stuff that requires more time to test and usually includes more drastic changes and additions to the game.

    So it actually serves a purpose to have all three.:)

    *EDIT: stoutes beat me to it*
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Redshirt used to be the Internal test server, used by cryptic employees and a select few to test upcoming content, but was released when they took down Tribble in preperation of a huge update a few years ago... Since then it's been a regular test server when Tribble is patched with season updates.
    Don't look silly... Don't call it the "Z-Store/Zen Store"...
    Let me put the rumors to rest: it's definitely still the C-Store (Cryptic Store) It just takes ZEN.
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