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Regarding STO's *repeated* 'shards'
thetraveler82
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Fellow Feds, Klings and Roms,
Why should we put up with these REPEATED 'scheduled' - unscheduled, in fact! - so-called maintenance sessions? Why not COERCE these 'cryptic ones' to solve these bugs once and for all by taking down the servers for a day or two, and LEAVE the rest of the gaming days ALONE, as it should? And only with unforeseen errors and/or server attacks to give us these unannounced 'shards', let's say.
Should we organize ourselves under the form of an e-Petition OR under that of a mass mailing campaign, directed at "Cryptic"? Either way, we MUST do something! I mean, I'm here for little more than five months and I already had enough of this!
Thank you!
Why should we put up with these REPEATED 'scheduled' - unscheduled, in fact! - so-called maintenance sessions? Why not COERCE these 'cryptic ones' to solve these bugs once and for all by taking down the servers for a day or two, and LEAVE the rest of the gaming days ALONE, as it should? And only with unforeseen errors and/or server attacks to give us these unannounced 'shards', let's say.
Should we organize ourselves under the form of an e-Petition OR under that of a mass mailing campaign, directed at "Cryptic"? Either way, we MUST do something! I mean, I'm here for little more than five months and I already had enough of this!
Thank you!
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If you are refering to todays maintenance it is always done at that time every week. Any other downtime is done if there are any problems and until the Legacy of Romulus addition there had been very little.
I am willing to give a little leeway on any hiccups after any major update to any game for 2-3 months as problems are bound to arise after such an update but serious issues need to be dealt with in a timely manor such as the issues with deleting mails and getting kicked out of PVE scenarios.
I have been led to believe these issues were on the test server for this update and without being sorted were pushed live, if this is the case then the legacy of romulus should have been delayed due to the severity of such issues but since it has been pushed through to live they need to sort the above two issues immediately.
Old and congested servers provided problems before the Legacy of Romulus update and were kicked into overdrive with the addition of people that had previously stopped playing and new players came rushing into the game so as I stated above I will give them sufficient time to sort things out and even then I will just ask on here for an update regarding what is going to to resolve any issues.
I am sure Cryptic / PWE are working on fixing any issues and I am sure that people including myself have been annoyed / frustrated since the update but there is nothing we can do about it and I see no need to take the aggressive stance that you have by wanting to "Coerce" and organize "Petitions"
Just my opinion, feel free to comment on anything as you see fit.
Either that or they have coders that don't know what they're doing and they're making us download the same data over and over.
Gee I wonder which it is.
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Gee, I wonder which it is.
You have just *deformed* my quote, Zurganus. One does not do that.
Which *is it*! Not the other way around.
We have no "rights" when it comes to downtime, whether planned or not.
The level of stupidity around here is staggering sometimes, it really is.
This STILL doesn't give you the right to alter my proposition between quotation marks!
We have no rights, you say? Well, maybe is time for this mentality / attitude to CHANGE.
This *repeated and unscheduled* downtime thing is a mockery / insult thrown in the face of ALL of us! And whoever likes to take sides with "Cryptic", I can only suspect him or her of personal bias; of self-interest. Most probably, they're employees there OR have relatives and/or friends who are hired by this firm.
P.S. Those who MAY BE employees of "Cryptic" don't necessarily receive free Zen, but... ahem, MONEY.
END of story.
I'm guessing that it takes two days to do two days of work, whether the shard is up or down. I'm still having issues that I assume are "stability" related, and would like to have them fixed.
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It would certainly make for a more entertaining game. :P
Second, if they took the servers down for an entire day, people would go nuts in the forums about not being able to get their daily fix of buggy STO content. "Oh this is my only day off this month! How could you do this to me, Cryptic!?" some one would say.
And if they make no incremental improvements, then that also makes people angry because they assume that cryptic isn't doing anything.
I'm honestly just happy they're not taking the server down during prime time.
You can keep believing that everyone that understands the necessity of downtime works for Cryptic if you want. The simple fact is, some people realise these things happen.
I suppose in your opinion I also work for CCP, as I wasn't frothing at the mouth when EvE fell over this afternoon (for the second time this week). PSN went down not long ago. I didn't complain. Do I work for Sony too?
Can't please everyone :P
Just because you are probably 16 years old and have no other expertise other than gaming doesnt mean that everyone here on the forums has no clue about anything. There are in fact loads of hard working and possibly even quite skilled people that like to play computer games in their free time and *maybe* even play this game. I know its hatd for you to believe but they may even be devs / proggers / designer *somewhere* and thus have insights into the production of good models/code/... that you in all likelyhood will never have.
So please stop this stop crying about armchair *anything* because there are people like me and others who are quite skilled at what they do and have quite and extensive knowledge of areas you may never have heard of before. Just because there a lots of schoolbabies here doent mean that the *older faction* is not also present and enjoying the game.
I agree that we have had to wait for alot of maintenance , yet at the same time I also understand that such things are expected to happen during such a large release upon the game.
So, I don't know really , I think, I agree with somebody who said, shut down the game for a few days, to fix everything, then that way it's all fixed. I'd agree to that.
One other thing too, is , I think it would be nice , if perhaps we were all given like a crate of 20,000 crystals per character, (Free) , at some point, for having to wait for all the maintenance that's had to be done.
They don't HAVE to, but it would be nice.
I agree. I create my own games at home just for fun in some of my spare time.
Just thought I would leave that there.
Allow me to be BRIEF...
1.) OK, it was Zurganus.
2.) Then, stop being such a wuss.
3.) Who cares about your OTHER games?
We end this now, okay?
Eh. I'm a Doritos man myself.
The simple fact is, unless you've seen the code server-side, you don't know what they're working with.
Let them fix the servers, then fix the content mistakes then the game will be more stable.
it takes time to get everything right so 2 million people can play. unfortunately it is almost impossible to code the first time out the gate with no mistakes.
I could go in more detail in all the programming stuff but it would be lost on you)
The programmers are doing their best. stop your crying for a few days and let them do their job
. in a week or two this will all blow over and everything will be fine. the game is always changing and getting better there will always be a few stumbles.
so stop the nerd rage and chill out. If you would like to really help then just post the problems you find in the forums with out the freaking crying and nerd rage.