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At the time of starting this thread we only have 20hrs until maintenance starts, so 24hrs until Delta Rising should go live. I.. Need.. Information.. Dataz.. Update.. Something!! Is anyone else perplexed by the lack of communication from the team this close to it all happening??
*Edited to correct my inability to tell time
*Edited to correct my inability to tell time
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They're probably up to their proverbials in getting everything ready. Maybe expect something tonight.
Cheers!
On the launcher I use it states the start of downtime in PDT and also in UTC time. Unfortunately, UTC always has to be in 24 hour format. The UTC time they've quoted (0100Z) is actually in about 8 hours time rather than in 20 hours time (1300Z, which would match the PDT time they gave).
It's no biggy as I'm sure most people have figured it out. But it could lead to a little confusion.
Cheers!
ah, stated 14th October 0100 - 0500 UTC, thought thats 14th October 0200 - 0600hrs GMT
I do agree that the lack of dev blogs in the past week is a craptic fall.
Im not 100% sure but think branflakes posted dev blogs nearly every day to LOR came out
trendy n smirk combined dont do half as a good job as brandon did by him self.
yeah, we had a crazy amount of info at this point for LoR, i shall reset my countdown, and look forward to the prospect of some good info tomorrow.
that laughing girl talked last night about a few blogs coming out today
Let's be fair, they don't write the blogs, they just post them. If they get nothing, we get nothing.
Thing is...type the following in a Google search: UTC time
Yeah, the 12hr folks have taken over. Been that way for a wee while...
Sad but true.
Community management has not been up to the mark for quite a while now.
The individuals on point are personable enough, but information flow and actual engagement has been very weak.
All important stuff. But now, we have less than 24 hours to go till launch so I guess we ain't gettin' it.
(And you can't blame them for the clock mistake, your average American has little concept or use for 24 hour clocks outside the military, which is why we almost always call it Military Time.
What's my position?
That people should know what they're screaming about!
(paraphrased from "The Newsroom)
My guess would be that BranFlakes went out of his way to keep us informed.
(because he was that much of a Star Trek fan)
Smirk and Trendy probably only put out the information they are told to.
Other than the Info-mercials they do, I can't see them putting as much time into keep us informed as Brandon did.
It's just a matter of him having a greater devotion to the game and the fan-base because of his love for All Things Trek.
That's not a dig to Trendy & Smirk, it's just a difference in personality thing.
:cool:
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
I think you've properly hit the nail on the head there.. Im pretty confident that BranFlakes made a proper nuisance of himself to make sure we had plenty of information.
Hell, I'll just quote it...from back with the complaints leading up to S9.5...
So, after reading that...,
In my estimation, the person They hired to do Brandon's job is a "twit" and has no love for Trek except to put money into his bank account.
Lovely..., I guess the 'days of yore' are truly gone.
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Ah thanks. I missed that post.
I don't really feel that much has changed since that post was made though. Very unfortunate, IMO.
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"Would it kill you to pick up a phone and call? To think I carried you around for 9 months and this is the thanks I get."
Thanks Virus, was looking for that post to reference too. I'd have hoped after the Xindi issue their 'management' would have tightened up the processes and information distribution a little better, but heyho, shall just have to wait and see i guess.. like we have much choice lol
Except for T5-U costs and story missions, can you elaborate further on what you are expecting with these blogs you want? I would think we have all the info we need on them.
The job title is 'community manager' but they don't decide what information to release, when to release it or even write most of it.
Judging by the quality of dev posts they also don't edit anything, as they have been full of typos and errors latterly.
They don't seem to manage the forums, we have moderators, askray and bluegeek for that.
When we had branflakes the community was managed. Now we have two people doing the job and its not.
Smirk and Trendy don't even have the excuse that they play the game, judging by their livestreems they have little understanding of game mechanics or assets.
So what exactly dose 'community manager' acualy mean?
When you figure in that people were all "Gimme Info on shinies Nao!" early on, it makes sense that we don't really have that much left.
I'm hoping the supreme form overlord is hard at work fixing things before tomorrow
Or even better starting plans to overhaul DS9
i would allso like to know what trendy n smirk do are they both just part timers or full time it seams to me theyxare part time
If Taco isnt busy trying to fix something or crowbar something extra into the release, i'll eat my hat!! He's the 1 person i don't expect to hear from until we go live lol
Yeah, i want him and every other dev high on energy drinks and coffee making sure everthing goes as smooth as possible tomorrow and not posting on the forum right now.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/6007573
Other than those I don't think we will get a blog and instead just see stuff as they turn up in store.
Still waiting to be able to use forum titles