Well since its easier and quicker to perform server adjustments on servers that are offline yes I do think thats a resolution. But of course if your idea is to let the minority play whilst the majority sit in queues that go on for 12 hours + and often crash thus driving those people away then sure go ahead. But when people rant on about how there is such little Klingon content there is or how few resources are put into balance issues ect and the Devs reply that they have limited resource due to finances then remember how many customers they basically threw away.
Ah, I see, you are confused.
Do not fear, when the time comes to make server adjustments, they will certainly take the server down. But the initial parts of developing a fix, that would be identifying the source of the problem, discussing various solutions, and then programming the code to correct it, can all be done without making shard adjustments and so the shard shall remain up.
Now, as for your crazy assertion that the 10k players you saw in queue last night represent the majority of players, and your attempt to equate two bad days of service as a source for problems that have existed for three years prior to the problems you are now complaining about, I'm sorry, you're wrong. In fact, you need only look at people complaining about queues of over 200k to realize there are well over the 20k people playing this game necessary to prove that 10k is a minority of players.
129000+ q way to TRIBBLE everyone off and quit thanking us for our patience i lost mine yesterday when i couldnt get on at all and now i cant get on today .
I was in the middle of a mission with a romulan toon,and twice the server kicked me off. got back on 1st time straight away,then 2nd time I end up at the back of the queue of nearly 20,000. That's abit unfair.
Devs, whats happening with these servers??? It seems to me they can't cope with the volume of players. What are you doing to sort this problem out????
Are we lightly to see bigger more advanced servers in the future????
Your queue position is 14552 out of 16196. Looks like it's time to throw another vic20 on the fire..
Ha ha ha, Vic20. You know I actually had one of those way back in the mists of time.
I've given up on the queue, sure I'd like to play the game like many people but I'lll wait until the new found bling wears off and the servers start acting normal again, well as normal as Cryptically possible. Besides I have a ton of Game of Thrones episodes to watch that I've been neglecting by playing STO.
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I also am having this problem. As you right in the middle of a mission, switching maps to continue it, and bam game client not responding. and right back into the que, which i had to wait 3 hours just to get in and play for half an hour before the crash.
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"I am captin"
"well all shes got aint enough, what else you got?"
"I could try kicking players, but I canno make any promises that will help"
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-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
But what if you are just playing to enjoy yourself on a space game or because you like to Star Trek itself? What if you don't want to dish out that money for a membership to the game? Don't you think its a little unfair to the F2P players that want to play but membership players have log in priority over us? I think everyone should get queue times regardless paid or not, because if I was to sit in queue for an hour and I knew some paid player got in when I never did, I would be really upset. I feel that Cryptic are just money hungry and looking for ways to make you pay to play this game in the long run. I just feel that they just don't care about their players at all and feel that everything is okay.
Well, in response to this, it strikes me that PWE/Cryptic would do well to allow players to buy gold account status for 1000 zen per month. Zen is already money in PWE/Cryptic's account, regardless from whom it came, and sinking zen out of the economy is in the medium- and long-term more profitable for them since it increases the velocity of the dilithium-zen-money triangle. This is a (technically and legally) private game ran by a for-profit corporation, so of course profit is their motivation, and to claim undue greed on their part is a bit silly.
That said, I don't think it's necessarily unfair to give gold/LTS players login queue priority, though I hope there's a system in place to keep F2P players from sitting in the queue near-indefinitely, or at least keep gold/LTS players from logging in and out frivolously while the servers have been continually at capacity. At least Cryptic/PWE isn't doing what many LTS have suggested, which is to kick F2P players when gold/LTS players log on.
My suggestion would be, so long as the queues are this ridiculous and there is this much demand, institute playing time limits to keep the queue moving and ensure everyone has a chance to play.
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Ha ha ha, Vic20. You know I actually had one of those way back in the mists of time.
I've given up on the queue, sure I'd like to play the game like many people but I'lll wait until the new found bling wears off and the servers start acting normal again, well as normal as Cryptically possible. Besides I have a ton of Game of Thrones episodes to watch that I've been neglecting by playing STO.
haha ya those were the days and you could techncially hook up 256 of them to one another and make a dbase with the old cassette drives....and have and make your own games...was darn fun back when i was 12
and as the guy above says this is getting worse...now almost a 23000 queue
and when you come here and leave that game screen i guarantee you 80% of time it will lock up your position so you dont move up the queue...
thus go on complain and ya see that subscription sale what a scam
free to play my TRIBBLE....its a scam ot try and get us all to pay up( no sale ive already spent 3.5 times that price give me a life time then free , and they got a guy in that thread braggin how it takes 3 secs to get in....) i wish i had 22000 times 200 bucks then we'd see whining ....when the self entitled 200 dollar peeps cant get in cause it CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH....there isnt caapcity in this network structure.
Im in a queue at spot number 19,256.................What the **** are you doing STO? Fix your **** you ****ing ITT Tech graduates.
Of all the idiots at corporate that you employ, adding extra servers with the new launch never ONCE came up in a board meeting? Jesus Christ
Wow this is a new low for MMO's, queues now, for people who have paid good money and the dedicated fans of this game?....I can almost understand it for someone like me a f2per but i have spent of ?50/$70 on this game so not entirely f2p...We deserve ALOT better.
My advice to you Cryptic is sell this game to someone bigger who can handle it. You can't sorry, I dont know what Perfect World has to do with this but, i would be getting as far away from them as possible too....concentrate on Neverwinter OR this not both you can't handle it clearly....some free business advice. No wonder crowd funding is so popular you slave to marketing games companies can't find your TRIBBLE with both hands.:eek:
Glad i did not spend more money to buy more keys! I almost bought a Legacy pack... which would have been a waste of money too. Not much incentive to spend money on a game that you can't join until 19000 people log off to let me in! HA!!
I am going to be honest , having a queue at this time of the day is bad. This defenatly means the server is not open to many players.
Queues usually start to come in games around 19.00-20.00 CET not at 16.00 CET when people are at work asleep or just getting up to go to work.
Unless the community here exists of many people who dont have to do the daily chores of us working men
There are many time zones around the world, the thing about the world wide web is that any point in your day is every other point for other people. It's like me complaining that you're doing your evening shopping at three in the morning - it's the evening for you.
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I'm not THAT difficult to please, I just have a very low tolerance threshold for stupid BS! - George Carlin.
It would be nice if the queue notice came a little earlier in the login process. Kind of a pain to go through the entire process just to find out you have an hour wait ahead of you.
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Ah, I see, you are confused.
Do not fear, when the time comes to make server adjustments, they will certainly take the server down. But the initial parts of developing a fix, that would be identifying the source of the problem, discussing various solutions, and then programming the code to correct it, can all be done without making shard adjustments and so the shard shall remain up.
Now, as for your crazy assertion that the 10k players you saw in queue last night represent the majority of players, and your attempt to equate two bad days of service as a source for problems that have existed for three years prior to the problems you are now complaining about, I'm sorry, you're wrong. In fact, you need only look at people complaining about queues of over 200k to realize there are well over the 20k people playing this game necessary to prove that 10k is a minority of players.
Not really complaining though, I love the game and will gladly wait, just wish it wasn't this ginormous.
Devs, whats happening with these servers??? It seems to me they can't cope with the volume of players. What are you doing to sort this problem out????
Are we lightly to see bigger more advanced servers in the future????
Now...22206 out of 22206
Ha ha ha, Vic20. You know I actually had one of those way back in the mists of time.
I've given up on the queue, sure I'd like to play the game like many people but I'lll wait until the new found bling wears off and the servers start acting normal again, well as normal as Cryptically possible. Besides I have a ton of Game of Thrones episodes to watch that I've been neglecting by playing STO.
"You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon, taH pagh, taH be"
so not only a long wait but crappy coding also
"I am captin"
"well all shes got aint enough, what else you got?"
"I could try kicking players, but I canno make any promises that will help"
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so not only a long wait but crappy coding also...
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That said, I don't think it's necessarily unfair to give gold/LTS players login queue priority, though I hope there's a system in place to keep F2P players from sitting in the queue near-indefinitely, or at least keep gold/LTS players from logging in and out frivolously while the servers have been continually at capacity. At least Cryptic/PWE isn't doing what many LTS have suggested, which is to kick F2P players when gold/LTS players log on.
My suggestion would be, so long as the queues are this ridiculous and there is this much demand, institute playing time limits to keep the queue moving and ensure everyone has a chance to play.
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haha ya those were the days and you could techncially hook up 256 of them to one another and make a dbase with the old cassette drives....and have and make your own games...was darn fun back when i was 12
and as the guy above says this is getting worse...now almost a 23000 queue
and when you come here and leave that game screen i guarantee you 80% of time it will lock up your position so you dont move up the queue...
thus go on complain and ya see that subscription sale what a scam
free to play my TRIBBLE....its a scam ot try and get us all to pay up( no sale ive already spent 3.5 times that price give me a life time then free , and they got a guy in that thread braggin how it takes 3 secs to get in....) i wish i had 22000 times 200 bucks then we'd see whining ....when the self entitled 200 dollar peeps cant get in cause it CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH....there isnt caapcity in this network structure.
Wow this is a new low for MMO's, queues now, for people who have paid good money and the dedicated fans of this game?....I can almost understand it for someone like me a f2per but i have spent of ?50/$70 on this game so not entirely f2p...We deserve ALOT better.
My advice to you Cryptic is sell this game to someone bigger who can handle it. You can't sorry, I dont know what Perfect World has to do with this but, i would be getting as far away from them as possible too....concentrate on Neverwinter OR this not both you can't handle it clearly....some free business advice. No wonder crowd funding is so popular you slave to marketing games companies can't find your TRIBBLE with both hands.:eek:
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There are many time zones around the world, the thing about the world wide web is that any point in your day is every other point for other people. It's like me complaining that you're doing your evening shopping at three in the morning - it's the evening for you.
I'm not THAT difficult to please, I just have a very low tolerance threshold for stupid BS! - George Carlin.