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Foundry load times!?!?

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited February 2024 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Bug Reports
This morning I tried to go into a mission on the foundry to edit. A small pop-up appeared that said “Loading the Foundry. Waiting to edit, 5 people ahead of you in the queue.” After waiting for 15min the number went down to 3 people ahead of me, I hit cancel and the system ‘hung’ on the transport room graphic with no buttons or options. I had to quit out of STO and re-launch. And when I tried again to edit a mision, I was told 8 people are ahead of me!!!!

Is this new? Why is it taking so long to load? Is anyone else having this problem?
Post edited by baddmoonrizin on

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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I made it all the way to 0, and nothing happened. After 10 mins of 0 people in line in front of me, I hit cancel. Then I had same issue of transporter room, with only the minimize and window buttons available.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Yeah - I was editing a mission earlier - got booted out and now can't get back in due to "queuing".

    If this is something new, it:
    a.) stinks and

    b.) is bugged because if it does progress to 0 (which is randomly possible) you never actually enter the UCG editor.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    All I can say, is Oy Vey and track this thread to see what Cryptic has to say about this. :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I'm in a qeue right now. It's been 20 minutes now, and there are still 3 people ahead of me.

    Is this a new thing? Are we possibly getting ready for a move to Holodeck? Is this a method of preventing the inevitable crash of the Holodeck server?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    All I can say is:



    KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANN!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    been doing this since the update. hopefully they know about this already and are working on it. don't think anyone is getting in, they are just quiting.

    if i remember it always waited for the server anyway. the que is probly the server is still down after the patch or something. remember, save often
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    LordOfPit wrote: »
    All I can say, is Oy Vey and track this thread to see what Cryptic has to say about this. :(

    Probably "It will probably be fixed Soon™"

    * Soon™ is a registered trademark of Cryptic Studios®, all rights reserved ©2011
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    XA_DeadHorse wrote:
    been doing this since the update. hopefully they know about this already and are working on it. don't think anyone is getting in, they are just quiting.

    if i remember it always waited for the server anyway. the que is probly the server is still down after the patch or something. remember, save often

    Actually, I had this issue last night, but was finally able to get into the editor after approximately a 30 minute wait. Today, however, that doesn't seem to be the case.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I just had an idea, take this as you may.

    If this is going to be the new standard of entry into the editor, I would like to flag the system, get in a queue, then, while waiting for the editor to load, be able to go to Tribble, and review missions.

    Once I move up in the queue, and the editor starts loading for me, the system sends a message to my chat window, letting me know that the editor is ready for me.

    What do you guys think?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    i don't even want to think this is the new 'standard of entry', but i can't put that beyond cryptics ability to think it's a good idea to do.

    if it is (Q forbid) you idea is reasonable and beyond cryptics ability to provide.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    i think waiting 15-30 mins to get into the editor is not a good idea in anyone's book, even if they do page me to tell me my table is ready.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Altexist wrote: »
    i think waiting 15-30 mins to get into the editor is not a good idea in anyone's book, even if they do page me to tell me my table is ready.

    15 - 30 minutes? You're lucky. After an hour, I purposely crashed my client. Got tired of waiting.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Galactrix wrote: »
    *Soon™ is a registered trademark of Cryptic Studios®, all rights reserved ©2011
    Well, I think it was originally trademarked in 2004 with their City of Heroes launch ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    There must be better ways of managing server load than this, especially if the queuing system is bugged as it appears to be.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    RichardJ wrote: »
    There must be better ways of managing server load than this, especially if the queuing system is bugged as it appears to be.
    Hopefully R&D will figure'em out before Tribble hits Holodeck... :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Sittin' in a queue, watchin' it go from 5, to 3, to 0. Sittin' in a queue. And so we wait.

    If in fact the Foundry isn't letting people in, I hope someone lets us know that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I think it just needs to go back to the way it was before they broke it. A queuing system is ridiculous. If this ever makes it to the live server the wait times will be in days, not minutes or hours if it stays like this.:eek:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Yep, it is broke all right. My major woe on this issue is the constant crashing. My CTD averages around 1 out of 5 preview runs. Also, the Foundry never functioned more than an hour without CTD. I need to run a lot of previews to align elements properly. This quene means I wait in line for 5-10 mins, do some work, crash out after 5-10 mins then wait in line again... Good to encurage me to do other stuff, like spend time with the family, code YHTK, watch Star Trek or sleep, but rather annoying when I want to get something done.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    LordOfPit wrote: »
    Well, I think it was originally trademarked in 2004 with their City of Heroes launch ;)

    I've seen the Trademark attributed to Auran games (now N3V) starting back in 2000.

    peter
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    okay, this is ridiculous! I've been waiting for 20mins to edit one little thing on a Foundry mission and there have been 5 people ahead of me in the queue! Now its down to 4! I'm sorry but this is where I need to say Cryptic WTH! Please get this fixed, nobody is going to want to wait half an hour to get in to make a mission.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    OBviously, ther seems to be an issue, butr remember, before you get all bent out of shape - It's STILL a Beta

    Hopefully, once the Devs see this, we'll get an update, but stuff like this happens with beta features.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Thanks for alerting me to this, all. We're looking into it. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    PerRock wrote: »
    I've seen the Trademark attributed to Auran games (now N3V) starting back in 2000.
    Never heard of them, but then again I wasn't really MMO-Active before 2004 and City of Heroes anyway. :o
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I can assure you that Sierra was using *soon* back in the days of The Realm. ;)

    They didn't try to trademark a single word, though.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    We found a misconfiguration and fixed it. ZRex is verifying that things are looking good. However, go ahead and try to edit stuff now. The allowed number of simultaneous editors should be significantly greater.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    DB wrote:
    We found a misconfiguration and fixed it. ZRex is verifying that things are looking good. However, go ahead and try to edit stuff now. The allowed number of simultaneous editors should be significantly greater.

    how many simultaneous editors are allowed?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I can assure you that Sierra was using *soon* back in the days of The Realm.

    I used to play something called The Realm, but it was Codemasters, and they are still online last I checked.:) I sometimes wonder if my player is still floating around in there somewhere since I sold my account.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    ZeroniusRex wrote:
    I can assure you that Sierra was using *soon* back in the days of The Realm. ;)

    They didn't try to trademark a single word, though.

    hehe another company that really pushes the meaning of "soon" to the limit is NCSoft.

    When they released Lineage2 they said that server transfer would be going live soon...little over 4 years later they added server transfers. Their site for Lineage2 is little over 3 years outdated and with 2-3 major updates per year means that allot of the new items, skills and other things are missing or incorrect, they have stated several times that it will soon get updated...yea right...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Enterprise-D wrote: »
    hehe another company that really pushes the meaning of "soon" to the limit is NCSoft.

    When they released Lineage2 they said that server transfer would be going live soon...little over 4 years later they added server transfers. Their site for Lineage2 is little over 3 years outdated and with 2-3 major updates per year means that allot of the new items, skills and other things are missing or incorrect, they have stated several times that it will soon get updated...yea right...

    CCP (Developers of EVE Online) has that beat> CCPhas claimed that the ability for player's avatars will be able to "walk in stations" is "coming soon" since December 2006 and EVERY YEAR they say Incarna (the name of the update with the feature will soon be released. January 2011; and the feature is still "coming soon".
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Yesterday, I set myself a goal to get into the foundry. It's about 11am and the queue was at 7, so I curled up on the coutch I began watching Walk Hard the Dewey Cox Story, the self indulgent directors cut, Runtime 2hrs. After 2 hrs, I look up, the queue is at 2 people. So, I decide to watch Spys Like Us, runtime 1hr 40min. 30 mins later, 0 people ahead of me in queue. 30 mins after that, I'm in the Foundry. From what I can tell, build your missions in the middle of the night and not in the afternoon. Thanks devs for checking into it.
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