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I am honoustly getting fed up. A maintenance four times per month is already slightly annoying, but maintenance two days in a row? Why if I may ask?

Yesterday: I came back from school, had to go to work soon. Wanted to play some STO; maintenance. FFS, I thought. Again.
Now, the exact same situation.

Why cant you just TEST the new updates / bug fixes on a seperate private server for only game staff? And upload them on the live server when they are ready?
This would literally stop one of the most annoying things in the game.

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  • lordsteve1lordsteve1 Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    First World Problem.

    Seriously though, would you rather they never did any maintenance? The total down time a month is normally less than one day worth of total time so not really a huge period. Plus it's the same time each week.
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  • mewmaster101mewmaster101 Member Posts: 1,239 Arc User
    well, first off, maintence once a week or so is not only normal but expected of an mmo, as one that does not do that is either not getting updates at the moment in general, or the devs are useless. so there is not "Dislikeing that" and playing MMOs.

    part of it is likely that they cannot test EVERYTHING, there will ALWAYS be bugs when patches go live, either because the bug was never found, they HAVE to release a patch every week or so and the problem could not be fixed in time, or (more generally) something happened in teh transition that caused the bug to happen in the first place.
  • lamyrslamyrs Member Posts: 312 Arc User
    4 times a month is a nice maintenance roll. Today maintenance is a hotfix, because some players can't play without it. While I understand why there is a maintenance today I can't understand why it is gonna take so long but anyway, maintenances and hotfix are parts of any mmo.
    I am from Belgium and english isn't my main language, sorry if I make mistakes.
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,602 Arc User
    Updates are tested on 2 servers before they are brought to Holodeck. Just because they work okay on a test-server, it doesn't always work as intended on a highly populated server where data is constantly fluid! Maintenance is required and scheduled weekly, even if it's just a general reset.....get over it! It's rare for it to happen twice, but it is needed when required!
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  • jodarkriderjodarkrider Member Posts: 2,097 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    Fix bugs in timely manner? => People complain there's additional maintenance..
    Don't fix bugs in timely manner? => People complain there are bugs.
    Can't get it right no matter what they do, it seems. A hard life of a game dev. :D

    Mind you - Sometimes, finding, reproducing & fixing a bug is not as simple as it seems.
    With that being said, I don't think this adds anything productive for anyone.
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