I don't want any comment from Cryptic until after this is fixed. Because every moment spent trying to soothe ruffled feathers in here is a moment not spent solving the problem.
I spent 300 hundred dollars for gold, and hundreds on lock box keys...etc. this sucks, I demand to be able to log on now! how about Now!!!!! ok now? common guys fix this. You guys better hurry up and fix this before all the sto players withdraw subsides and we start doing other things like moving out of our chairs and living in the real world.
AHHHHHHHHH!H!H!HHHHHHHHA GRRRRRRRRHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHHGERRRRHHHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHHGER...... Wait for it now the fit....... AAHAHAHAHAHAHRHEHEHDHDHRHEHEHEHEHRRRRRRRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Dam!
I played the beta and played for about 3 months after. I lost that account and toon so last year i started over and was happy to pay for this game and i still am. I have played every MMO out there and did beta on most of them. I am 36 And have been a gamer for a very very long time so i am used to stuff like this happening but this has been in beta for a few months now and they had to know that it was going to be a big thing star trek is always a big thing and i'm sorry but they knew this would happen and should have prepared a bit better for it. I started the pre-patch a few days ago so it only took me 5 min to patch today. I know there are a lot of gamers out there like me and knew this was going to happen and i am sure it will be taken care of as soon as they can figure out how to. I am not mad at anyone because the game is good but they could update us a little bit better. :cool:
The game just managed to load my characters. They are alive and kicking! Now I get stuck at "Retrieving list of maps", though. But it seems they are getting there...
While it's frustrating not to have more information... given a choice between Cryptic a) communicating with the user base, or b) fixing the damn problem, I will take b) every time. (Yeah, in an ideal world, they could do both... last time I read a newspaper, though, this wasn't an ideal world.)
I'm just going to go do something else while this gets fixed, now. And I recommend this course of action to everyone else, because we're not going to get anywhere fretting over this.
i was playing fine when I started at 3pm est. and about 7 o clock I got kicked of and now its giving me the same as others login fail for unknown reasons why please up date us on why this is happening so we know I have to go to work tonight I wanted some play time damnit.:mad:
I don't want any comment from Cryptic until after this is fixed. Because every moment spent trying to soothe ruffled feathers in here is a moment not spent solving the problem.
I'd sure like to know what better use you think a Community Manager would have when it comes to server hardware and game software bug fixing.
Keep up the good work devs! ignore the haters and keep doing what you're doing! Nothing is ever perfect in the beginning! But you'll get there in the end! I'm sure of that much!
Only problem is, This is NOT the begining, this is the same as every other time they add something to the game. I would except it if it was day one of a new game launch, unfortunately, this game is over 3 years old.
What is really sad, is we as consumers have come to except this from a company we pay for a service, that is truly sad.
Went to dinner, came back, crossed my fingers, and eureka! a new message. Loading character list.......connection to server timed out! Something to be said for variety!
this cant be good right? now i get this from the forums....
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I would be most upset if they had regional servers to be quite honest. I have made very good friends in the United States and Australia that I would otherwise not have met, or at least not all at once. Not only that but my better half is in a different country, so I would not have met her had the servers been split in such a fashion.
As for Cryptics issues, from what I understand of the server architecture employed for games such as STO, where it shares certain hardware with other products (in this case Neverwinter Nights and Champions Online) the only hardware that is physically shared is the proxy layer.
This layer is what routes all the incoming and outgoing data packets to their correct destinations which, if my information is correct, is partly what allows people to communicate across all three of Cryptics games. Were they to increase the amount of blades in the proxy layer as well as increase the bandwidth dedicated to this hardware then we should see a massive drop in communications disruptions.
If someone with actual working knowledge of multi-platform interconnected gaming server architecture could verify this, or perhaps one of Cryptics own staff, I'd be grateful. After all, I don't want to go around making assumptions.
Regional servers wouldn't prevent people from other regions playing on servers they'd prefer. In WoW, for example, I was in a guild that had British and Australian players in it, and the server was an East Coast, USA server. Same thing with the server I am on now in WoW, players from around the world congregate on Proudmoore, even though it is an American West Coast server. And plus, with cross server communication, and the ability to team up across servers, you'd still meet people from all over. The idea was only suggested to help alleviate the problems with server stability. But, your idea works equally well. Now the true test: Getting Cryptic to actually do it.
I'm just going to see how long the Server Not Responding gets up to before I get tired of it
That is just what I fear could happen in a large scale! Many didn't liked season 7 and were waiting for Legacy of Romulus to come back. If they can't, they could just decide to pass to something else. I still have hope for the game, but a MMO need players to survive.
While it's frustrating not to have more information... given a choice between Cryptic a) communicating with the user base, or b) fixing the damn problem, I will take b) every time. (Yeah, in an ideal world, they could do both... last time I read a newspaper, though, this wasn't an ideal world.)
I'm just going to go do something else while this gets fixed, now. And I recommend this course of action to everyone else, because we're not going to get anywhere fretting over this.
>Implying that the PR team has anything to do with the engineering team.
I played the beta and played for about 3 months after. I lost that account and toon so last year i started over and was happy to pay for this game and i still am.
I have played every MMO out there and did beta on most of them. I am 36 and have been a gamer for a very very long time so i am used to stuff like this happening, but this has been in beta for a few months now and they had to know that it was going to be a big thing, star trek is always a big thing and i'm sorry but they knew this would happen and should have prepared a bit better for it.
I started the pre-patch a few days ago so it only took me 5 min to patch today. I know there are a lot of gamers out there like me and knew this was going to happen and i am sure it will be taken care of as soon as they can figure out how to. I am not mad at anyone because the game is good but they could update us a little bit better. :cool:
I'd sure like to know what better use you think a Community Manager would have when it comes to server hardware and game software bug fixing.
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I'm just going to go do something else while this gets fixed, now. And I recommend this course of action to everyone else, because we're not going to get anywhere fretting over this.
I'd sure like to know what better use you think a Community Manager would have when it comes to server hardware and game software bug fixing.
Only problem is, This is NOT the begining, this is the same as every other time they add something to the game. I would except it if it was day one of a new game launch, unfortunately, this game is over 3 years old.
What is really sad, is we as consumers have come to except this from a company we pay for a service, that is truly sad.
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Regional servers wouldn't prevent people from other regions playing on servers they'd prefer. In WoW, for example, I was in a guild that had British and Australian players in it, and the server was an East Coast, USA server. Same thing with the server I am on now in WoW, players from around the world congregate on Proudmoore, even though it is an American West Coast server. And plus, with cross server communication, and the ability to team up across servers, you'd still meet people from all over. The idea was only suggested to help alleviate the problems with server stability. But, your idea works equally well. Now the true test: Getting Cryptic to actually do it.
Maybe we'll get a fail-gift for LoR!
That is just what I fear could happen in a large scale! Many didn't liked season 7 and were waiting for Legacy of Romulus to come back. If they can't, they could just decide to pass to something else. I still have hope for the game, but a MMO need players to survive.
>Implying that the PR team has anything to do with the engineering team.
Fixed that for you. Sort of.
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Soooo.... you're saying we have a better chance of logging in than getting the grand prize Lock box ship.
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"Retrieving list of characters . . ."
How do we know when we have won?!?
Oh, how cute.
You think they work in the same place.
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