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Livetream Failboat

dpsloss88dpsloss88 Member Posts: 765 Arc User
edited September 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Todays livestream just cut off. Over 1000 people are waiting around. Apparently STO lost Internet, which is hard to believe for a SF based tech company. Guess things have fallen from the heady days of the DOT Com bubble...
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  • dirlettiadirlettia Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Servers and their offices aren't even on the same half of the continent are they? Quite possible for a telecomms unit to fail miserably as this appears to have done.

    Uncontrollable stuff happens even to the most prepared of us.
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  • svindal777svindal777 Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Doooooooom
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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Cryptic does not own the internet. They are subject to the whims of their IP provider just like everyone else. We have been getting updates via Twitter.
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • tehbubbalootehbubbaloo Member Posts: 2,003 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    its mere coincidence that it happens during their network upgrade
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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    dirlettia wrote: »
    Servers and their offices aren't even on the same half of the continent are they? Quite possible for a telecomms unit to fail miserably as this appears to have done.

    Uncontrollable stuff happens even to the most prepared of us.
    No, they are not. Servers are in the Boston area and Cryptic is in the SF bay area on the other end of the country.
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited September 2014
    If I'm not mistaken, it was also the PWE building where Smirk works that lost internet which is in a whole other city from the Cryptic offices.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    See, I thought this was going to be about the Phantom.

    Eclipse w/o BOFFs > Phantom w/ BOFFs

    ;)
  • askrayaskray Member Posts: 3,329 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    No, they are not. Servers are in the Boston area and Cryptic is in the SF bay area on the other end of the country.

    Correct. Cryptic is in Los Gatos, PWE is in Redwood city and PWE has lost internet atm.
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  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    askray wrote: »
    Correct. Cryptic is in Los Gatos, PWE is in Redwood city and PWE has lost internet atm.

    Okay ppl start buying zen so they can pay the internet bill.
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    This would not have happened if BranFlakes was still around. He would have remembered to feed the hamster. :D
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    dpsloss88 wrote: »
    Livetream Failboat
    Yes, your nonconstructive criticism will help such a great deal, and will make the devs who are hard at work trying to get everything back feel sooo much better about something they had absolutely no control over. :rolleyes:
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  • knuhteb5knuhteb5 Member Posts: 1,831 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    No, they are not. Servers are in the Boston area and Cryptic is in the SF bay area on the other end of the country.

    It's sunny, 70 degrees, and gorgeous here in Boston so maybe server maintenance?
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  • dirlettiadirlettia Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    The tweet said internal connections so probably maintenance in that somebody pulled out all the patch cables while screaming at a spider on their bacon - we're looking at you trendy!
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    And I thought the level of entitlement from here was bad. That stream had it cranked beyond 9000... :rolleyes:
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  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    The only livestream I would be interested in is one from flyingtarg piloting a 5 tactical console bird of prey all decked out with a targ captain and targ crew snorting at each other for communication purposes.
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    hypl wrote: »
    And I thought the level of entitlement from here was bad. That stream had it cranked beyond 9000... :rolleyes:

    No kidding. I'm pretty sure I saw some death threats and legal threats over a silly game code. Ridiculous.
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  • dpsloss88dpsloss88 Member Posts: 765 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    For a tech company is a bit surprising they couldn't just piggy back one of the hundreds of Internet access services in SF, though if they are in Redwood City it might not be quite that easy.

    Any office building in downtown SF has access to dozens of wifi spots you can quickly access with a credit card, not to mention SF has city wide wifi for $20 a month I believe.

    Why didn't Smirk or Trendy just take their laptop down to Starbucks, which are literally on every block in California. Even if they couldn't stream they could at least have answered questions in chat.
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  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    dpsloss88 wrote: »
    For a tech company is a bit surprising they couldn't just piggy back one of the hundreds of Internet access services in SF, though if they are in Redwood City it might not be quite that easy.

    Any office building in downtown SF has access to dozens of wifi spots you can quickly access with a credit card, not to mention SF has city wide wifi for $20 a month I believe.

    Why didn't Smirk or Trendy just take their laptop down to Starbucks, which are literally on every block in California. Even if they couldn't stream they could at least have answered questions in chat.

    smirk and trendy are PWE employees, therefore work from redwood city. and its quiet possible they cant leave their office just to go to starbucks and get their wifi.

    P.S. some starbucks have really ****ty wifi and they wouldnt beable to stream.
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    dark4blood wrote: »
    ^Was anything given out during the livestream besides RMC and that G100 mouse?
    It never got that far as their internet crashed about 2/3 of the way in. We only got to see about 1 minute of the Scryer Class before it went boom.
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • whatinblueblazeswhatinblueblazes Member Posts: 200 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    tenkari wrote: »
    smirk and trendy are PWE employees, therefore work from redwood city. and its quiet possible they cant leave their office just to go to starbucks and get their wifi.

    P.S. some starbucks have really ****ty wifi and they wouldnt beable to stream.

    Having visited a starbucks or two in Redwood City, I can assure you that there is no stream-worthy wifi to be had.
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    good thing then, i had no interest in watching it, never did, was playing mass effect. guess i didnt miss anything noteworthy then.
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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Retrospect is so cool. Everyone has all the answers in retrospect...


    EDIT: Maybe I mean hindsight, that probably is a better word.

    See? Much easier now than when I wrote the first sentence.
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Wow... This has to be the single most mis-informed OP this month...
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    from what i gathered within a few moments of checking at a glance without really trying; the holo leeta code made its way out, a second code was let loose im presuming was the free r&d pack code, but it seems to of been borked, so that didnt get anywhere, without the rest of the feed, it was just a failboat from that point on.
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  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Yeah, finally a livestream not on a Friday so I can watch live and it goes kaput and no code for a goodie at the end. :(
    Sometimes I think I play STO just to have something to complain about on the forums.
  • dirlettiadirlettia Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Yep the Holo leeta code was apparently put on reddit but the stream code could never be gotten to work. Each time you try it you are told to log into STO and try again, and to contact support if the error persisted.

    I seriously doubt contacting support would do anybody any good though.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    virusdancer wrote: »
    See, I thought this was going to be about the Phantom.

    Eclipse w/o BOFFs > Phantom w/ BOFFs

    ;)
    Well, apparently, it's true. :P Smirk died less just shooting things in the cruiser than he did using a full boff setup in the escort.

    anyways the code will allegedy start working whenever their internal network issues are resolved. might be a while.
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  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I was watching.

    Technical issues like that are simply not something we can blame Smirk for.

    In my opinion (and i speak as someone who has been sharply critical of Smirk in the past) he actually coped with the blackout extremely well.

    Contact was re-established via twitter until he could get back on the twitch chat.

    Messages were informative and frequent enough.


    Honestly, in the circumstances, I can't see what could have been done better.
  • quepanquepan Member Posts: 540 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    yes the stream had some technical difficulties , We dont know the full specifics , someone could have tripped a cord , someone took the wrong piece gear out of service , .... etc .

    smirk and trendy should be commended for communicating the problem , and trying to do something for the viewers . ive seen other CMs in other games that wouldnt just say anything till a forum post the next day or not at all , till they re plan the event .
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