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Stop this Romulan stuff, I want to play my Fed

totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
edited May 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Can't play my Fed character because this Romulan release stuff is downloading.

Pay and no play! Don't like it.
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  • mrtoken_1390846233mrtoken_1390846233 Member Posts: 58 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    the prepatch has been on for a week so if you are all up to date with that then you should only have to download another 50megs or so.

    It's a patch for new interface etc so not just for the "rom stuff"

    go and have a coffee and come back in 20
  • istianisistianis Member Posts: 43
    edited May 2013
    mrtoken wrote: »
    the prepatch has been on for a week so if you are all up to date with that then you should only have to download another 50megs or so.

    It's a patch for new interface etc so not just for the "rom stuff"

    go and have a coffee and come back in 20

    Unfortunatly , alot of peeps had issues witht he prepatch actually crashing halfway , and are now stuck with slow TRIBBLE speeds in an era where there shouldnt be any slow TRIBBLE dl speeds anymore.
  • milner62milner62 Member Posts: 129 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Its slow download thats causing problems. I started my patch at 11:00am. It is now 2:56pm and its still not complete as I finished the main patch then it started patching a 184MB patch which has been hung up on 40.2% for the past 30 minutes.

    I am to the point of pulling the plug and trying again tomorrow as I've wasted almost an entire day on this.
  • totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I dont want a new UI. I just want to play my Fed.
  • graptorgraptor Member Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Yeah, I've been playing all week, downloaded several 'patches', and yet when I logged in like five hours ago to start patching, there was over 6 GB that needed patched still. It went okay at first and then bogged down to modem level speeds.

    I've now spent over an hour trying to download the last 200mb, which keeps restarting.

    Patently unacceptable, especially given that a bittorrent based patching system as used by WoW could've prevented any subtantial load problems.
  • bluegrassgeekbluegrassgeek Member Posts: 360 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    totenmet wrote: »
    Can't play my Fed character because this Romulan release stuff is downloading.

    Pay and no play! Don't like it.
    Hi! You must be new to the Internet. :D

    In other words, this is pretty typical when a major patch/expansion hits an MMO. Nothing new.
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  • totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Its now over 1 hour after a 6 hour downtime and I still cannot play.

    This is delaying my reputation schedule on my FED character.
  • alarikunalarikun Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    totenmet wrote: »
    I dont want a new UI. I just want to play my Fed.

    You'll be able to ,when it is all patched and ready.

    You do realize that this patch isn't JUST Romulans, right? It adds content for everyone, including Feds.
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    totenmet wrote: »
    Can't play my Fed character because this Romulan release stuff is downloading.

    Pay and no play! Don't like it.

    :DLOL :D

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  • totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    bluegrassgeek wrote: »
    Hi! You must be new to the Internet. :D

    In other words, this is pretty typical when a major patch/expansion hits an MMO. Nothing new.

    Well in that case they had years and years to come up with a solution for this kind of issues.
  • vegeta50024vegeta50024 Member Posts: 2,336 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    totenmet wrote: »
    Well in that case they had years and years to come up with a solution for this kind of issues.

    The game has only had three years since it's been going and there are plenty of people looking to get into the game. Just be patient.

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  • lisslelissle Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    totenmet wrote: »
    Well in that case they had years and years to come up with a solution for this kind of issues.

    Either you are trolling very hard, or you really dont understand that as MMOs grow over the years they change, and assimilate to new ideas...i.e. new UI etc.... Sorry if you dont care, but deal with it all MMOs do this as its the nature of the game to grow, evolve over time not to stay stale and stagnate.....

    You are not missing anything, and can soon be on.....
  • jetwtfjetwtf Member Posts: 1,207
    edited May 2013
    Welcome to release day where everything slows to a crawl and you cannot play due to the heavy traffic on the servers. This is normal really but could have been less of a problem by not putting the patch in one place. offering a torrent would have aleviated allot of the traffic and renting some servers for the week just to cover the patch would have finished the remaining bottleneck.
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  • totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    vegeta50024 wrote: »
    The game has only had three years since it's been going and there are plenty of people looking to get into the game. Just be patient.

    So your patience is unlimitted?

    If not when do you get unpatient?
  • alarikunalarikun Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    totenmet wrote: »
    So your patience is unlimitted?

    If not when do you get unpatient?

    Seriously dude? Get over yourself. It's patch day. Specifically for an expansion. They're going to have issues. It will be resolved, and you can be patient. Or you can whine, and make yourself look like a 10 year old child.

    Your call.
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  • totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    lissle wrote: »
    Either you are trolling very hard, or you really dont understand that as MMOs grow over the years they change, and assimilate to new ideas...i.e. new UI etc.... Sorry if you dont care, but deal with it all MMOs do this as its the nature of the game to grow, evolve over time not to stay stale and stagnate.....

    You are not missing anything, and can soon be on.....

    I disagree. Providing enough bandwith or servercapacity so people can download fast and play the game is not neccesarily hampered by new releases.
  • graptorgraptor Member Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    lissle wrote: »
    Either you are trolling very hard, or you really dont understand that as MMOs grow over the years they change, and assimilate to new ideas...i.e. new UI etc.... Sorry if you dont care, but deal with it all MMOs do this as its the nature of the game to grow, evolve over time not to stay stale and stagnate.....

    You are not missing anything, and can soon be on.....

    Yeah, except the particular 'launch day problem' they're having is one that HAS been solved.

    Slow patch download caused by overloading. Which *is* absurd at this point in time, when several, much large games have already solved it... at minimal cost, since the solution is both open source and requires very minimal additional infrastructure. :p
    alarikun wrote: »
    Seriously dude? Get over yourself. It's patch day. Specifically for an expansion. They're going to have issues. It will be resolved, and you can be patient. Or you can whine, and make yourself look like a 10 year old child.

    Your call.

    If it were bugs, or server instability, that'd be one thing. This is a simple overload of the patching system, and it's the first time I've seen this problem in nearly a decade... because it's been SOLVED.
  • aurigas7aurigas7 Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Don't play on patchday. My download worked, but now I'm number 500 something in the login queue. Guess by the time I'm able to play it's bed time. But one day without playing won't kill me.
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  • totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    alarikun wrote: »
    Seriously dude? Get over yourself. It's patch day. Specifically for an expansion. They're going to have issues. It will be resolved, and you can be patient. Or you can whine, and make yourself look like a 10 year old child.

    Your call.

    I am simply stating that accusing me from being not patient , is nonsence in my opinion. I am also stating that almost every one has a limited ammount of patience. I do not know anyone with unlimited patience, so accusing me of lack of patience is dening the fact that most people show unpatience in certain circumstances. So only if you are never unpatient yourselve, blaming me of the same is making sense. If i am unpatient I am unpatient. Your response is not helping me at all in dealing with it.
  • graptorgraptor Member Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    totenmet wrote: »
    I am simply stating that accusing me from being not patient , is nonsence in my opinion. I am also stating that almost every one has a limited ammount of patience. I do not know anyone with unlimited patience, so accusing me of lack of patience is dening the fact that most people show unpatience in certain circumstances. So only if you are never unpatient yourselve, blaming me of the same is making sense. If i am unpatient I am unpatient. Your response is not helping me at all in dealing with it.

    Personally, I've been trying to get this installed for over five hours...I haven't seen a download this slow since about 2004.
  • totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Offering the files via alternative means could also solve this I think. Like providing torrens, or mirror download locations.

    It should never take hours to download 128MB.
  • nebronebro Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    graptor wrote: »
    Personally, I've been trying to get this installed for over five hours...I haven't seen a download this slow since about 2004.

    While I'll agree that it is very slow right now, you must not have played Age of Conan on launch day...now that my friend was an endeavor in patience: 25gig at almost dial up speeds due to server overload...
  • graptorgraptor Member Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    nebro wrote: »
    While I'll agree that it is very slow right now, you must not have played Age of Conan on launch day...now that my friend was an endeavor in patience: 25gig at almost dial up speeds due to server overload...

    Noooope.

    Really sad that *** had that problem for that matter...it ought to be a legal requirement to use a Bittorrent patching system...

    Edit: Apparently the abbreviation of Age of Conan is a naughty word according to the forum. *facepalm*
  • totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    nebro wrote: »
    While I'll agree that it is very slow right now, you must not have played Age of Conan on launch day...now that my friend was an endeavor in patience: 25gig at almost dial up speeds due to server overload...
    I am currently still downloading with 1kb/sec on a 150Mb/sec connection. After almost 2 hours I have been able to download 16% of 128MB.
  • totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    totenmet wrote: »
    I am currently still downloading with 1kb/sec on a 150Mb/sec connection. After almost 2 hours I have been able to download 16% of 128MB.
    I am not convinced this is acceptable performance toward the customer and therefor inexcusable.
  • sjokruhlicasjokruhlica Member Posts: 434 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I've got 10 GB to download, but I'm not complaining. Quit your crying. Adapt and overcome. Go read a book. Wash your car. Take your dog for a walk. Whining about it on a forum is not going to make the download time any faster.
  • bluegrassgeekbluegrassgeek Member Posts: 360 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    totenmet wrote: »
    I am simply stating that accusing me from being not patient , is nonsence in my opinion. I am also stating that almost every one has a limited ammount of patience. I do not know anyone with unlimited patience, so accusing me of lack of patience is dening the fact that most people show unpatience in certain circumstances. So only if you are never unpatient yourselve, blaming me of the same is making sense. If i am unpatient I am unpatient. Your response is not helping me at all in dealing with it.
    That is some really convoluted logic you're trying to use. Also, your grammar needs some work.

    Seriously, have you never played an MMO during a major release? Even Blizzard can't keep up; the Mists of Pandaria launch was hilariously laggy & buggy due to the sheer number of peopley trying to play. This isn't new, nor is it as easy as using a P2P download (as that doesn't help with the server load of many more people trying to play at once).
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  • totenmettotenmet Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Last 5 days the patcher forced me to download over 100GBs of data. every time on game start and game exit it downloaded agaian and again lots of data.

    Why this prepatching nonsence and still I am not ingame almost 2 hours after release, because still 128MB needs to be downloaded at 1kb/sec?
  • poeticrexpoeticrex Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It is only typical for a company that has no clue on how to put out a decent dl speed for a patch. Plenty of games with way more players patch weekly with no issue. Stop making excuses for Cryptic. I did preload the patch but it still needed 50mb to launch and those 50mb have been taking over 4 hours to dl. Not my connection it is on their side.
  • gb86gb86 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    He must be trolling. He cant be serious. This is crazy. Did you JUST subscribe to the internet today?
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