I am 100% sure Cryptic has ordered a metric frakk-tonne of servers to cope. They are capitalists at heart and certainly aren't stupid enough to not invest in a game as massively popular as STO.
I don't care what poeple have to say about STO... apparantly it's popular enough to out-fill a global server network so it obviously ain't that bad.
A server needs 48 hours to set up, therefore persevere.
If you can't wait for 48 hours, then not even God can help you.
It's cryptic's fault for not realizing how popular the Star Trek universe is. The popularity is a blessing and a curse for Cryptic.
What ISN'T cryptic's fault however, is that they don't have a replicator and a magic wand, cuz this is what your all expecting of cryptic right now. If your not happy with not being able to expect the impossible, then by all means, quit.
There are enough fanatic trekkies to keep the game going. Whiners need to quit so they stop clogging up the servers.
I am 100% sure Cryptic has ordered a metric frakk-tonne of servers to cope. They are capitalists at heart and certainly aren't stupid enough to not invest in a game as massively popular as STO.
I don't care what poeple have to say about STO... apparantly it's popular enough to out-fill a global server network so it obviously ain't that bad.
A server needs 48 hours to set up, therefore persevere.
If you can't wait for 48 hours, then not even God can help you.
It's cryptic's fault for not realizing how popular the Star Trek universe is. The popularity is a blessing and a curse for Cryptic.
What ISN'T cryptic's fault however, is that they don't have a replicator and a magic wand, cuz this is what your all expecting of cryptic right now. If your not happy with not being able to expect the impossible, then by all means, quit.
There are enough fanatic trekkies to keep the game going. Whiners need to quit so they stop clogging up the servers.
STO forums are no place for posts like this. Edit to a poorly spelled rant please.
I am 100% sure Cryptic has ordered a metric frakk-tonne of servers to cope. They are capitalists at heart and certainly aren't stupid enough to not invest in a game as massively popular as STO.
I don't care what poeple have to say about STO... apparantly it's popular enough to out-fill a global server network so it obviously ain't that bad.
A server needs 48 hours to set up, therefore persevere.
If you can't wait for 48 hours, then not even God can help you.
It's cryptic's fault for not realizing how popular the Star Trek universe is. The popularity is a blessing and a curse for Cryptic.
What ISN'T cryptic's fault however, is that they don't have a replicator and a magic wand, cuz this is what your all expecting of cryptic right now. If your not happy with not being able to expect the impossible, then by all means, quit.
There are enough fanatic trekkies to keep the game going. Whiners need to quit so they stop clogging up the servers.
except they have sales figures and have known how many have sold. so you cant say they were surprised.
Star Trek is a phenom. Its a shame it was wasted on Ctyptic.
I've been watching this site since that started this que TRIBBLE http://www.mmoserverstatus.com/star_trek_online
and they only have 1 of 4 games servers running at any one time
sure they need more, but they also need to keep what they already have running
I am 100% sure Cryptic has ordered a metric frakk-tonne of servers to cope. They are capitalists at heart and certainly aren't stupid enough to not invest in a game as massively popular as STO.
I don't care what poeple have to say about STO... apparantly it's popular enough to out-fill a global server network so it obviously ain't that bad.
A server needs 48 hours to set up, therefore persevere.
If you can't wait for 48 hours, then not even God can help you.
It's cryptic's fault for not realizing how popular the Star Trek universe is. The popularity is a blessing and a curse for Cryptic.
What ISN'T cryptic's fault however, is that they don't have a replicator and a magic wand, cuz this is what your all expecting of cryptic right now. If your not happy with not being able to expect the impossible, then by all means, quit.
There are enough fanatic trekkies to keep the game going. Whiners need to quit so they stop clogging up the servers.
I'm curious where you got 48hours as a number to build a server. I've built many a server in an corporate setting and I've never seen one take that long to build. A couple of hours for the OS and base files, some configuration which I'm sure is standard across all their servers and then voila....your done.
I am 100% sure Cryptic has ordered a metric frakk-tonne of servers to cope. They are capitalists at heart and certainly aren't stupid enough to not invest in a game as massively popular as STO.
I don't care what poeple have to say about STO... apparantly it's popular enough to out-fill a global server network so it obviously ain't that bad.
A server needs 48 hours to set up, therefore persevere.
If you can't wait for 48 hours, then not even God can help you.
It's cryptic's fault for not realizing how popular the Star Trek universe is. The popularity is a blessing and a curse for Cryptic.
What ISN'T cryptic's fault however, is that they don't have a replicator and a magic wand, cuz this is what your all expecting of cryptic right now. If your not happy with not being able to expect the impossible, then by all means, quit.
There are enough fanatic trekkies to keep the game going. Whiners need to quit so they stop clogging up the servers.
Yay someone else with a brain, i was getting sick of "Im quitting and telling my mummie on you" post's.
Not sure why people think we give a **** if there quitting and have to share it with the entire forum like they were some special child, that, without them the game will not be the same or something.
I am 100% sure Cryptic has ordered a metric frakk-tonne of servers to cope. They are capitalists at heart and certainly aren't stupid enough to not invest in a game as massively popular as STO.
I don't care what poeple have to say about STO... apparantly it's popular enough to out-fill a global server network so it obviously ain't that bad.
A server needs 48 hours to set up, therefore persevere.
If you can't wait for 48 hours, then not even God can help you.
It's cryptic's fault for not realizing how popular the Star Trek universe is. The popularity is a blessing and a curse for Cryptic.
What ISN'T cryptic's fault however, is that they don't have a replicator and a magic wand, cuz this is what your all expecting of cryptic right now. If your not happy with not being able to expect the impossible, then by all means, quit.
There are enough fanatic trekkies to keep the game going. Whiners need to quit so they stop clogging up the servers.
Who are you? 48 hours to set up a server? I smell a fake like a TRIBBLE in a car....
Yay someone else with a brain, i was getting sick of "Im quitting and telling my mummie on you" post's.
Not sure why people think we give a **** if there quitting and have to share it with the entire forum like they were some special child, that, without them the game will not be the same or something.
and you believe him? He has no reference and says it takes 48 hours to build a server...
Players in headstart have witnessed repeated (and sometimes lengthy) unscheduled downtimes, random disconnects, and now a queue system that has them waiting for extended periods to even enjoy the game. It's hard to have confidence that things will be better in two days when they've failed to anticipate player demand for just the portion of pre-order players.
How can their entire team of STO designers/etc NOT know a 40+ year old epically popular series that hallmarked(along with SW) science fiction as mainstream entertainment, would generate numbers in the thousands? (esp after the box office numbers from the recent film)
That's like microsoft saying "I didn't know computers would be so popular" on vista's launch.
pure stupidity and nothing more saying they didn't know....the entire WORLD knew.
I am 100% sure Cryptic has ordered a metric frakk-tonne of servers to cope. They are capitalists at heart and certainly aren't stupid enough to not invest in a game as massively popular as STO.
I don't care what poeple have to say about STO... apparantly it's popular enough to out-fill a global server network so it obviously ain't that bad.
A server needs 48 hours to set up, therefore persevere.
If you can't wait for 48 hours, then not even God can help you.
It's cryptic's fault for not realizing how popular the Star Trek universe is. The popularity is a blessing and a curse for Cryptic.
What ISN'T cryptic's fault however, is that they don't have a replicator and a magic wand, cuz this is what your all expecting of cryptic right now. If your not happy with not being able to expect the impossible, then by all means, quit.
There are enough fanatic trekkies to keep the game going. Whiners need to quit so they stop clogging up the servers.
Yup, in 48 hours their Commodore 64s should be at their door.:eek:
Seriously, they got their new servers back in beta. Know something we don't know? Who said they were adding more?
That's like microsoft saying "I didn't know computers would be so popular" on vista's launch.
Microsoft? The company that has had their auth servers go down under load? And who are notorious for rushing out half finished products and for selling minor updates as a new product?
Why would they need to communicate, when they can just wait for the pack of rabid red uniformed fanboys to come and defend them?
SOE has tried the "army of astroturf fanboi" defense before. Ask them how that's worked out for them, as they have more former customers than they do existing customers. Far more.
A statement acknowledging the PROBLEM would be a good start. No one expects Cryptic to have the solution right away, but silence is unacceptable.
and you believe him? He has no reference and says it takes 48 hours to build a server...
I didn't say i believed it took 48 hours to start up a server, he just isn't whining constantly and has faith that Cryptic is obviously doing somthing.
I also don't believe all the people who say it doesn't take 48 hours to setup a server, how many of you have setup MMO servers, id imagine it isn't as easy as pie as setting up a website server.
Stability and Performance
Where the heck did you all come from!?!
Reality has exceeded even our wildest expectations. We looked at numbers from Closed Beta, numbers from games we've worked on in the past, and some numbers that float around the games industry. Based on those numbers, we predicted that about 65% of the keys we generated would eventually turn into active players (some keys never get delivered, others are lost in spam boxes, some are never redeemed, etc.). And, we predicted about 1/6 of those redeemed keys would turn into players that game at the same time. It's what we call our concurrent users or CCU, for short.
The actual numbers crushed our predictions.
So, we tore apart our logs and began doing a lot of extra optimization work even while we stumbled upon some truly bizarre crashes that can only appear with this sort of load. The result? The shard has been steadily improving over the first few days of Open Beta. Given the hardware we're adding and a couple more fixes we have in the pipe, shard performance and stability should continue to improve over the coming week.
I am 100% sure Cryptic has ordered a metric frakk-tonne of servers to cope. They are capitalists at heart and certainly aren't stupid enough to not invest in a game as massively popular as STO.
I don't care what poeple have to say about STO... apparantly it's popular enough to out-fill a global server network so it obviously ain't that bad.
A server needs 48 hours to set up, therefore persevere.
If you can't wait for 48 hours, then not even God can help you.
It's cryptic's fault for not realizing how popular the Star Trek universe is. The popularity is a blessing and a curse for Cryptic.
What ISN'T cryptic's fault however, is that they don't have a replicator and a magic wand, cuz this is what your all expecting of cryptic right now. If your not happy with not being able to expect the impossible, then by all means, quit.
There are enough fanatic trekkies to keep the game going. Whiners need to quit so they stop clogging up the servers.
There was a promise to have new servers installed by launch time ive been sitting waitning in the queue now for almost 2hrs people will not play this game if there are extreme wait times.
Microsoft? The company that has had their auth servers go down under load? And who are notorious for rushing out half finished products and for selling minor updates as a new product?
make a better analogy then.
Vista sold big like crack in miami. Microsoft and vista both suck buuut they weren't feigning ignorance at the numbers.
Maybe then I should've said "It's like Apple saying they didn't know telephones would be so popular during the iphone launch" oh wait, wait, someone who hates Apple will now chime in saying THAT was also bad.
I don't give a rats buttwhisker, it's the point that matters not the analogy, grasp it or not -shrugs-
Yea, just like in open beta when they said- 'wow, we don't have enough servers, but we are ordering some now for you!' Sorry, that's just unacceptable.
and you believe him? He has no reference and says it takes 48 hours to build a server...
are you really so ingorant you think they are sitting there building servers?
I have extensive knowledge with server clusters, having worked with them for a few years now, and they are not that easy. The server types being used here are most likely Blade servers, that take a while to set up, and then you need the modules to go in, then you need to program each module, then you need to do extensive testing on a new rig before putting it live...
48-72 hours just for that... depending on complexity, and i think this is a little more complex then a SBS 2003 server....
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STO forums are no place for posts like this. Edit to a poorly spelled rant please.
They need to talk to us.
That is true
More hardware plox xD Go Cryptic go!
you are just guessing.
except they have sales figures and have known how many have sold. so you cant say they were surprised.
Star Trek is a phenom. Its a shame it was wasted on Ctyptic.
Why would they need to communicate, when they can just wait for the pack of rabid red uniformed fanboys to come and defend them?
[Citation Needed]
http://www.mmoserverstatus.com/star_trek_online
and they only have 1 of 4 games servers running at any one time
sure they need more, but they also need to keep what they already have running
I'm curious where you got 48hours as a number to build a server. I've built many a server in an corporate setting and I've never seen one take that long to build. A couple of hours for the OS and base files, some configuration which I'm sure is standard across all their servers and then voila....your done.
Yay someone else with a brain, i was getting sick of "Im quitting and telling my mummie on you" post's.
Not sure why people think we give a **** if there quitting and have to share it with the entire forum like they were some special child, that, without them the game will not be the same or something.
Who are you? 48 hours to set up a server? I smell a fake like a TRIBBLE in a car....
and you believe him? He has no reference and says it takes 48 hours to build a server...
That's like microsoft saying "I didn't know computers would be so popular" on vista's launch.
pure stupidity and nothing more saying they didn't know....the entire WORLD knew.
That was three weeks ago...
Yup, in 48 hours their Commodore 64s should be at their door.:eek:
Seriously, they got their new servers back in beta. Know something we don't know? Who said they were adding more?
Microsoft? The company that has had their auth servers go down under load? And who are notorious for rushing out half finished products and for selling minor updates as a new product?
SOE has tried the "army of astroturf fanboi" defense before. Ask them how that's worked out for them, as they have more former customers than they do existing customers. Far more.
A statement acknowledging the PROBLEM would be a good start. No one expects Cryptic to have the solution right away, but silence is unacceptable.
I didn't say i believed it took 48 hours to start up a server, he just isn't whining constantly and has faith that Cryptic is obviously doing somthing.
I also don't believe all the people who say it doesn't take 48 hours to setup a server, how many of you have setup MMO servers, id imagine it isn't as easy as pie as setting up a website server.
Stability and Performance
Where the heck did you all come from!?!
Reality has exceeded even our wildest expectations. We looked at numbers from Closed Beta, numbers from games we've worked on in the past, and some numbers that float around the games industry. Based on those numbers, we predicted that about 65% of the keys we generated would eventually turn into active players (some keys never get delivered, others are lost in spam boxes, some are never redeemed, etc.). And, we predicted about 1/6 of those redeemed keys would turn into players that game at the same time. It's what we call our concurrent users or CCU, for short.
The actual numbers crushed our predictions.
So, we tore apart our logs and began doing a lot of extra optimization work even while we stumbled upon some truly bizarre crashes that can only appear with this sort of load. The result? The shard has been steadily improving over the first few days of Open Beta. Given the hardware we're adding and a couple more fixes we have in the pipe, shard performance and stability should continue to improve over the coming week.
END CITATION
From http://www.startrekonline.com/node/899
It was said on teh 18th January, and i am sure there will be a lot more servers coming.
hell ya mate, agree 100%
make a better analogy then.
Vista sold big like crack in miami. Microsoft and vista both suck buuut they weren't feigning ignorance at the numbers.
Maybe then I should've said "It's like Apple saying they didn't know telephones would be so popular during the iphone launch" oh wait, wait, someone who hates Apple will now chime in saying THAT was also bad.
I don't give a rats buttwhisker, it's the point that matters not the analogy, grasp it or not -shrugs-
are you really so ingorant you think they are sitting there building servers?
I have extensive knowledge with server clusters, having worked with them for a few years now, and they are not that easy. The server types being used here are most likely Blade servers, that take a while to set up, and then you need the modules to go in, then you need to program each module, then you need to do extensive testing on a new rig before putting it live...
48-72 hours just for that... depending on complexity, and i think this is a little more complex then a SBS 2003 server....
I agree 100% with OP