down time

scooterkhan · May 2013

is it normal to have a 2 hour downtime every day ?

or is this just because of the new patch ?

omegasignas · May 2013

likely they have a huge backlog of bugs to fix since the update, and taking on a few each day instead of trying to fix it all at once and breaking more in the process, this slower means, is more through, but don't quote me, its all in theory

thutmosis85 · May 2013

scooterkhan wrote: »

is it normal to have a 2 hour downtime every day ?

or is this just because of the new patch ?

Yes it's kind of "normal" after every new Season Patch ... but a few weeks from now it should be just the weekly Thursday-Downtime ... if not that's not "normal"

messahla · May 2013

scooterkhan wrote: »

is it normal to have a 2 hour downtime every day ?

or is this just because of the new patch ?

Welcome to

STAR TREK OFFLINE

-=Legacy of Romulus=-

Special server Maitenence editon

Very rare purple box set with an extra hour of downtime

elemberq333 · May 2013

yes, I assumed there must have been downtimes daily because every day I got home from work after LoR was launched I had to download a new 132MB patch....I hope this downtime is so they can fix that horrible ending battle in Devil's Choice mission at the end of the Romulan storyline.

I am not saying its too difficult, all I am saying is there are way to many ships in it and how do I know this? Well my sound card can't process the sounds of the battle properly because there are TO MANY SHIPS!!! :rolleyes::eek: and that alone says that I am dead right on this.

Make the battle as difficult as you want Cryptic, but for the love of a decent Star Trek battle allow me to hear what is happening when I am in that battle.

I can not hear the computer telling me enemy shields are down...just clicks and static

I can not hear my weapons firing or any weapons firing...just clicks and static

In fact all I can hear is clicks and static because there are TO MANY SHIPS in one area, which is a classic foundry rule 101 never put to many ships in a battle, at least I thought it was...:rolleyes:

tucker84 · May 2013

Maybe in a few weeks it will get back to the 1/ week downtime.

Why the female romulan doesn't have the female movement animation? I hope they will correct it.

(Sorry, i am not a native speaker.)

aphantasm · May 2013

elemberq333 wrote: »

I am not saying its too difficult, all I am saying is there are way to many ships in it and how do I know this? Well my sound card can't process the sounds of the battle properly because there are TO MANY SHIPS!!! :rolleyes::eek: and that alone says that I am dead right on this.

I don't know if it was that one of another. I did one with so many freaking fighters that I died like 10 times before I finally killed the mission objective. I was getting more damage than I was able to repair using the skills my Bridge Officers had, as well as the Buffs that I had stockpiled from drops.

nafeasonto1 · May 2013

scooterkhan wrote: »

is it normal to have a 2 hour downtime every day ?

or is this just because of the new patch ?

Please don't believe anyone man, I have been around since closed beta. Yes this is quite normal for this game.

Unfortunately since the merger of Perfect World and Cryptic my message board forum has been reset.

Only way i can prove I was in closed beta is in my account.

But yeah, this is never going to change.

horkathane · May 2013

Its called memory leaks. The reason any Information Technology environment needs to be rebooted daily is because they are losing resources and before the shard degrades to a crawl they need to reboot until they can fix the memory leaks. Not processing power, not storage related, but memory.

elemberq333 · May 2013

aphantasm wrote: »

I don't know if it was that one of another. I did one with so many freaking fighters that I died like 10 times before I finally killed the mission objective. I was getting more damage than I was able to repair using the skills my Bridge Officers had, as well as the Buffs that I had stockpiled from drops.

It is the one where you are defending New Romulas against a massive and I mean MASSIVE Elachi attack...I believe it is titled Devil's Choice and there are countless threads complaining about the difficulty of this battle. However my complaint is not with difficulty, that I can live with as I like trying different ship equipment, boff skills, battle strategies, etc, but I also really like hearing battles, everything in the battle...:(

nafeasonto1 · May 2013

horkathane wrote: »

Its called memory leaks. The reason any Information Technology environment needs to be rebooted daily is because they are losing resources and before the shard degrades to a crawl they need to reboot until they can fix the memory leaks. Not processing power, not storage related, but memory.

And after 3 years this is still happening on basically a daily basis?

dalolorn · May 2013

Lol, I was reading the maintenance thread when I suddenly found a post I wanted to reply to. And when I noticed the quote button was gone, I realized it was over!

And one hour ahead of schedule, too. :eek:

acylion · May 2013

nafeasonto1 wrote: »

And after 3 years this is still happening on basically a daily basis?

Downtime is not normally on a daily basis. I've been playing Cryptic games since City of Heroes. I was here for Champions Online, I was in STO closed beta... yes, I know someone else said this is a daily thing. They're exaggerating.

But...

They're not entirely wrong. Cryptic's not known for good server connectivity and stability. And when something breaks, it breaks hard.

You have to understand, we're not just dealing with the Legacy of Romulus expansion here. That's one reason for downtime, but another reason is the Neverwinter open beta.

Champions, STO and Neverwinter are all based out of the same datacenter, which I believe is in Boston. And they share some infrastructure. Remember the downtime we had before Legacy of Romulus? Those were problems caused by Neverwinter. And I honestly don't think the Neverwinter load problems are entirely sorted out.

So you have the Neverwinter launch and the STO expansion launch at once.

With that said, the frequent downtime is Cryptic frantically trying to fix the problems. I mean, really, they don't want to bring the game down either. They want our money, after all. They KNOW having downtime is bad for business.

It's not like it's some kind of evil conspiracy. Just...not enough resources, bad network code, and so on.

horkathane · May 2013

nafeasonto1 wrote: »

And after 3 years this is still happening on basically a daily basis?

Obviously...well I dont want to say anything against a programming team I dont know but I have been working in IT for 17 yrs, started out in Desktop support and now I own my own consulting company where I focus on VMware virtualization of data centers.

I have seen third party sql environments that have been rebooting for years and then they ask me to come in and throw insane hardware at the problem and it doesn't fix the issue.

Then there are the internal politics of the Infrastructure side verses the programming group. The IT side usually takes a back seat since they are considered a resource where the programming group is apart of the revenue stream so we get silenced, the problem persists until the programming team has run out of time and excuses and THEN FINALLY THEN we Infrastructure guys get listened to.

Anyway, didnt mean to get all into that TRIBBLE. lol

zipagat · May 2013

Its fairly normal for a game that has just launched its first major expansion, most MMOs have daily downtime at release until the devs get the major bugs and memory leaks locked down and the servers in a state to stay stable for more than a day , aka no 20 second lag everywhere.

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