Maintenance (February 22, 2013)

pwebranflakes · February 2013

Hi Captains,

We will be bringing down Star Trek Online tonight at Midnight PST (click here to view in your timezone) for maintenance and to apply a new patch. Patch notes can be found here, and we expect this maintenance to only last for 2 hours. The test server may also be unavailable during this time.

Thanks for your patience and understanding,

- The Star Trek Online Team

zerobang · February 2013

that was fast...

now only the brutal Cooldowns and [edit/redacted] is a concern

phantomeight · February 2013

You guys should seriously invest in a checklist system if you don't have one. At my job, every processing department that touches a work request on it way through the pipeline completes a checklist. I used to hate them, but now I am in higher role so I don't have to deal with that TRIBBLE anymore.

The analyst would complete the checklist as they completed their work and have another analyst review and verify the checklist. We had a custom in house web page to do it, but it could be as simple as a spreadsheet. We actually use an old version of Bugzilla (heavily modified and most stuff including another custom web frontend for tracking priorities just hit the bugzilla DB directly now) to track the work and the checklist system would then organize the checklists by bug number in it's own database. You would type in the bug and select the checklist type. You could do the same with Jira which is what we actually use for development tracking.

We have different types of checklists for different types of situations. The two items in the patch notes should be line items on the "New Ship Checklist" for the Systems team.

john98837 · February 2013

Atleast the bugs are getting fixed fairly quickly. Now if the shared cooldown between console abilities and boff cannon powers could be removed these andorian ships would be well worth the $50.

sparhawk · February 2013

Kudos for fixing those bugs quickly, but as others have said Cryptic needs to do some major work on their QA and software release processes.

admgreer · February 2013

As said in other posts, as the Bundle sits now, The ships preform better without the 3 consoles than with, That needs attantion also or your 3 pack sales will suffer.

kamencan · February 2013

pwebranflakes wrote: »

Hi Captains,

We will be bringing down Star Trek Online tonight at Midnight PST (click here to view in your timezone) for maintenance and to apply a new patch. Patch notes can be found here, and we expect this maintenance to only last for 2 hours. The test server may also be unavailable during this time.

Thanks for your patience and understanding,

- The Star Trek Online Team

Can you fix that i cant after respawn in STF maneuver the ship ?:o

altechachan · February 2013

kamencan wrote: »

Can you fix that i cant after respawn in STF maneuver the ship ?:o

Hit the "escape key" or deselect your target.

nandospc · February 2013

Wow, super fast fix, gg cryptic.

ussultimatum · February 2013

admgreer wrote: »

As said in other posts, as the Bundle sits now, The ships preform better without the 3 consoles than with, That needs attantion also or your 3 pack sales will suffer.

Sorry bud, there are only two types of consoles that get designed.

Type 1) Useless.

Type 2) Overpowered.

I'm sure the devs thought they could mitigate the Wing Cannons [SAD]x4 with a nice ACC bonus from the 2 piece, which would work if it wasn't for the fact that in general slotting toy consoles is more a detriment to your ship than a benefit.

olivia211 · February 2013

People were going crazy over how easily the Andorian ships were getting destroyed. Understandable though if you drop $25-$50 on new ships, you hope they could survive more than a few hits.

tenkari · February 2013

john98837 wrote: »

Atleast the bugs are getting fixed fairly quickly. Now if the shared cooldown between console abilities and boff cannon powers could be removed these andorian ships would be well worth the $50.

the wingcannons are still cannons, this is designed so you cant chain the super blasts with cannon rapid fires right after.

jkstocbr · February 2013

Nice fast patch ... but oh TRIBBLE ... that's Fri 7:00 PM my time

kyuui13 · February 2013

jkstocbr wrote: »

Nice fast patch ... but oh TRIBBLE ... that's Fri 7:00 PM my time

quit complaining, Hawaii, is nice that time of night, isn't it.:)

matridunadan1 · February 2013

olivia211 wrote: »

People were going crazy over how easily the Andorian ships were getting destroyed.

They called it a "glass cannon" in the blog.

So now they're fixing the "glass" portion of that descriptor. Nice to see words still have meaning to them. </sarcasm>

lilchibiclari · February 2013

If the shields were weaker than the devs intended, then it's less "glass cannon" and more "tissue paper".

Anyway, with this ship's relatively low damage-taking and high damage-dealing, it would go well with one of those threat-reducing consoles from the Fleet Embassy stores.

captyoung01 · February 2013

It's not that I am against fixes, especially for new ships. But 2 hours? Com'on there has to be more than just fixing Andorian Shield Regens and enabling Discarding of the Wing Cannon's. I smell another nerf coming on. What else that isn't broken is going to get a fix up next?

vividh · February 2013

captyoung01 wrote: »

It's not that I am against fixes, especially for new ships. But 2 hours? Com'on there has to be more than just fixing Andorian Shield Regens and enabling Discarding of the Wing Cannon's. I smell another nerf coming on. What else that isn't broken is going to get a fix up next?

Yes... you may be right - there MAY be another secret nerf OR they are actually fixing something and want to surprise us (highly unlikely - but still we can only hope)

Funny thing though - I got the new ships yesterday and did some STF's with the ENG version - didnt really notice the shield problem - but if they are "fixing" it - it can only get better XD

fhbradley · February 2013

Kumari Wing Cannons are now able to be discarded.

Now if you could just make the Practice Schematic from the Crafting tutorial discardable as well I would be very grateful. It's occupying Bank/Inventory space since July 22, 2012.

radkip · February 2013

captyoung01 wrote: »

It's not that I am against fixes, especially for new ships. But 2 hours? Com'on there has to be more than just fixing Andorian Shield Regens and enabling Discarding of the Wing Cannon's. I smell another nerf coming on. What else that isn't broken is going to get a fix up next?

They're taking a lesson from Scotty. Calculate the time it should take to push the fixes out, multiply it by four, then say that's the real time. Live the glory of being a miracle worker when it's finished early.

wolfpacknz · February 2013

Let me get this straight, you are taking the servers down for 2 hours to fix the new Andorian ships, yet no mention of fixing any of the myriad of other MORE IMPORTANT bugs that have been brought up over the past few weeks???

You know, there just isn't words to describe this....

thowas · February 2013

Actually...
It's fairly easy to destroy.
I've met two of the Kumari [tac] ships in pvp and both have been destroyed by my fleet defiant.
The damage they could do was, not good in any way, the cannons need more work so the acc mod is better.
If someone pays that much for one ship or the bundle, you atleast want the power out on the designed weapons to actually hit the target [wing cannons].
In 10 fights they could get one hit in with them, that did damage, stripped my shields and took away 70% hull :-D

Otherwise, i like the ship, it's a beauty!
And i still want it... :-)

boogieman6 · February 2013

john98837 wrote: »

Atleast the bugs are getting fixed fairly quickly. Now if the shared cooldown between console abilities and boff cannon powers could be removed these andorian ships would be well worth the $50.

bugs fixed quickly? are you serious? have you been to a Tholian Red Alert lately? obviously not BECAUSE THEY ARE BUGGED! and they have been BUGGED since the beginning of season 7. its ad that i pay for this game and its nearly IMPOSSIBLE to finish the Tholian space missions. how about you DEVS get with the program... instead of bringing in all this new TRIBBLE... fix the existing bugs that have been around fore months.!

thowas · February 2013

wolfpacknz wrote: »

Let me get this straight, you are taking the servers down for 2 hours to fix the new Andorian ships, yet no mention of fixing any of the myriad of other MORE IMPORTANT bugs that have been brought up over the past few weeks???

You know, there just isn't words to describe this....

Well...
Actually they are almost forced to fix this right away since the "ship(s)" that are having the problems is something they are selling.
It's that with everything you buy, if it's broken you have the right to have it fixed :-)

jkstocbr · February 2013

kyuui13 wrote: »

quit complaining, Hawaii, is nice that time of night, isn't it.:)

Australia actually ... and yes it is

pingahead · February 2013

In the next State of the Game, Stahl should be up front and tell everyone what most of us who have been around already know.

No Money = No Fix

Last Thurs Patch caused the BOff Placement Bug and the "2 Minute Universal Cooldown" BUG.
Cryptic knew about the issue that day. Yet we had to wait an entire week for a fix.

They release the new $50 Ships, find a few bugs....fix that immediately or we might lose sales.

mendeleev · February 2013

Love how people always complain.

Free game.

Fixing bugs with a week is nothing. Ive had games I subscribed to that didnt do it even that quickly.

Yes they make money. Or they wouldnt be here for you to play.

Get over it please.

I pay them too, I'm glad to have the game around.

tinead51 · February 2013

pingahead wrote: »

In the next State of the Game, Stahl should be up front and tell everyone what most of us who have been around already know.

No Money = No Fix

Last Thurs Patch caused the BOff Placement Bug and the "2 Minute Universal Cooldown" BUG.
Cryptic knew about the issue that day. Yet we had to wait an entire week for a fix.

They release the new $50 Ships, find a few bugs....fix that immediately or we might lose sales.

QFT

mendeleev wrote: »

Love how people always complain.

Free game.

Fixing bugs with a week is nothing. Ive had games I subscribed to that didnt do it even that quickly.

Yes they make money. Or they wouldnt be here for you to play.

Get over it please.

I pay them too, I'm glad to have the game around.

CDF :rolleyes:

gantoris007 · February 2013

Thank you for your hard work and diligence in fixing the heal/shield bugs so quickly. I'm really happy with my andorian ship pack (super cool!)

I know you guys at Cryptic recieve a lot of flack on the forums. On behalf of the player community, my apologies for all the random hate.

Don't listen to the nay-sayers. You guys are awesome. ^_^

daboholic · February 2013

Ha ha, well I guess it's good news/bad news.

Good news - They can fix things quickly when they want to.

Bad news - The ships should never have been released in a bugged state in the first place.

Maybe it's time Cryptic and especially their Q&A took some pride in their work and stopped shoving any old borked TRIBBLE out of the door in the name of a quick profit.

Before anyone asks, I don't own these ships (yet). I decided to wait a day or two to see what state they would be released in. Upon visiting the forums last night and seeing the list of problems people were reporting, I guess it was a wise decision.

wolfpacknz · February 2013

daboholic wrote: »

Ha ha, well I guess it's good news/bad news.

Good news - They can fix things quickly when they want to.

Bad news - The ships should never have been released in a bugged state in the first place.

Maybe it's time Cryptic and especially their Q&A took some pride in their work and stopped shoving any old borked TRIBBLE out of the door in the name of a quick profit.

Before anyone asks, I don't own these ships (yet). I decided to wait a day or two to see what state they would be released in. Upon visiting the forums last night and seeing the list of problems people were reporting, I guess it was a wise decision.

It just shows they are anything if not consistent...

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