by most expensive game i mean to say that i have been playing mmos for 13 years and ive played every mmo under the sun every server ive been on ive been uber cept for areia games shaiya witch is the only game more expensive than sto and what i mean by expensive is that one can spend no real money and within 6 monthes be half way decent so start a new toon put 6 monthes in and go to krat and try to pvp lol you will be the one every one wants to kill couse ya so easy pew pew you dead but yes the game is free but every thing in sto is expensive one way that they could lessen the burrden is every month get a free captin skill retrain token i mean sure if ya have 20 toons on a account and ya refine like hell ya can make some good money and dill and z but dam as a paying client if i pay ya are obligated to keep the servers up or what am i paying for
can i buy a punctuation mark pat?
Vice Admiral Gardner
Federation Engineer
Captain of the U.S.S. Bayou La Batre
Hell. If you were an American in Amsterdam would you even go to SLEEP? There's so much.. to do.. over there. I am not commenting on whether it's all entirely legal or not.
Or they could just not have massive gaps in their software or tech.
They take the system down REGULARLY for mait. The constant CRASHES is the issues; not the mait.
No software or hardware is 100% reliable 24/7 (even with regular maintenance.) Absolutely mission critical stuff (say where peoples actual lives depend on it) usually have a lot of failover/backup capacity; so if a critical system fails, there's enough redundancy that the end user sees no interruption in service/capability.
In the end, this (STO) is a game; and no one's going to be hurt if/when something happens to the server. I'm sure they do have a certain level of failover as they don't want to loose money if they can avoid it - but they don't have the same level of redundancy a truly critical system has.
The server also has been more stable (this is the first crash in about a week); and they also stopped the daily maintenance they were doing for two weeks straight.
I think it's pretty obvious either the response and retention was higher than anticipated; OR they do have a supply chain issue (DStahl did claim that some of the new hardware they got initially failed out of the box - up to you if you believe him or not.)
In the end though we all have two choices:
- Stick it out.
or
- Move on to another game you also enjoy that in your eyes also has a better uptime quotient. (and maybe look back in on STO in the future if it appears they have their house in order.)
Formerly known as Armsman from June 2008 to June 20, 2012 PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
so by this hour I would have completed enough to get atleast 100 marks.....so I propose that we all would like to receive (FAT CHANCE) 300 marks ,,,,AND AN EXPLANATION ON WHY THE FRACK THIS CONTINUES to happen
THIS would actually be the best thing they could do. Give everyone a nice juicy Multiple Choice Marks package for each character. 1000 is more in line with the amount of downtime we have endured this week ...
Its ironic when professed "it" pros come and say the user base is wrong in wanting a stable, reliable product because of this reason or that...yet offer ZERO "knowledge" to back it up...
I'm not a computer expert. I do not know mmo maintance, infrastructure plans/procedures.
I'm a consumer. And what i see is a broken unsupported product. Think im wrong? Then tell me why. Man up "it" specialists. Shed light on this, instead of being trolls.
Maybe he IS a cryptic employee.
Offers a "NO" and then vanishes without a trace nor any information.
this is coming up on 100 pages pretty quick......too bad there isn't someone *cough* *cough* like and EP that would have been woken up and informed that his game wasn't functioning.....
I Propose we all boycott STO for 1 day and 1 night, so when the Dev's DO manage to turn on those servers, the virtual regulus, tau dewa, Alpha Leonis sectors have nary a ship in site. Just silence. I Bet that'll put the sh*t up Cryptic Muahahahaha
Alright well since this sucker doesn't look like it's gonna be patched up any time soon. I am gonna go do some reading. Yes that thing with books. Just take in a chapter or two and THEN check back. I'll be highly surprised if anything has been posted updating us on what's going on. I'll be even MORE surprised if there has NOT been a post about what's going on.
Fingers crossed that when I return. we at least have an update.
I say we thank Perfect World and Cryptic for not telling us whats wrong. I am trying not to rant but its getting harder and harder not to. I guess they feel not responding is better than just telling us they screwed something up.
im kinda glad it's not just me. i was in the middle of getting my rom toon up to tier two rom status and it just started to give me a 500 second server not responding time before it finally crashed...
SWTOR is really raking in the players tonight... People will get to catch up on the Rise of the Hutt Cartel... That's for those that need there F2P Sci-Fi/Roleplaying fix.
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So you were a programmer for several thousand clients running a wide variety of systems, with a game comprising over 10 GB of information, with a multi-national corporation breathing down your neck with a timetable?
Wow, I bet Cryptic could learna lot from you. :rolleyes:
So let me guess, you are a selfish gamer who does nothing with his life but insult those who actually have a job. Tell us, what do you do for a living? Do you know anything about programming or what it takes to even have a job?
Dont demean other people, especially if you have no proof that you are better than they are.
So, this is the Legacy of Romulus...
Patches every other day, lag, patches, queues are bugged, patches, server lag, patches, server offline... Whats next?
I Propose we all boycott STO for 1 day and 1 night, so when the Dev's DO manage to turn on those servers, the virtual regulus, tau dewa, Alpha Leonis sectors have nary a ship in site. Just silence. I Bet that'll put the sh*t up Cryptic Muahahahaha
How would they notice the boycott when the servers are down?
has anyone from cryptic even said anything about this down time.. ive been looking, and i see nothing.. do they even know? its been offline a while now, nothing on fb, nothing in the forums, nothing on the cover page..
"Retrieving list of characters..." followed by "Connection to Login Server timed out..."
Anyone know whats happening?
Reading through the forums, we have deduced the following possible reasons why we cannot play:
1) Hardware Failure
2) Software Failure
3) Failed Coding from latest patch
4) Cryptic's inability to pay anybody with a GED $10 to monitor game servers through the weekend; therefore, they don't know it's happening
5) Devs are preparing for the upcoming Roller Derby and took a hiatus from work
6) The Tal Shiar, KDF Intelligence, Section 31, or the Obama Administration have uploaded a virus into the latest patch that is slowly eating our game files.
7) The Borg assimilated the servers into the collective (actually PWE has already done this; can't be the reason).
8) Because Scotty is not a quality control engineer at Cryptic
East and Central Time Zones are off to bed... Mountain and Pacific and zones westward might get some time in in an couple hours. I look at this two ways. One it's payback for all the time Europe's Prime time has been crushed by downtime, and two... At least its Thursday night and not Friday night or Saturday when people have time to play or at least nothing much else to do and would be very bored if the downtime had occurred then. Could always be worse. So in a nutshell, catch up on some 'Z's and dream about STO. Maybe if we're good it will be back up by morning time USA.
I am in the eastern U.S time zone I am not in bed yet. I am watching my wife play Everquest whilst I GET my Drunk on... and think about reloading EQ2 onto my system cause it don't crash!
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can i buy a punctuation mark pat?
Federation Engineer
Captain of the U.S.S. Bayou La Batre
But you forget, it IS legal there.
No software or hardware is 100% reliable 24/7 (even with regular maintenance.) Absolutely mission critical stuff (say where peoples actual lives depend on it) usually have a lot of failover/backup capacity; so if a critical system fails, there's enough redundancy that the end user sees no interruption in service/capability.
In the end, this (STO) is a game; and no one's going to be hurt if/when something happens to the server. I'm sure they do have a certain level of failover as they don't want to loose money if they can avoid it - but they don't have the same level of redundancy a truly critical system has.
The server also has been more stable (this is the first crash in about a week); and they also stopped the daily maintenance they were doing for two weeks straight.
I think it's pretty obvious either the response and retention was higher than anticipated; OR they do have a supply chain issue (DStahl did claim that some of the new hardware they got initially failed out of the box - up to you if you believe him or not.)
In the end though we all have two choices:
- Stick it out.
or
- Move on to another game you also enjoy that in your eyes also has a better uptime quotient. (and maybe look back in on STO in the future if it appears they have their house in order.)
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
THIS would actually be the best thing they could do. Give everyone a nice juicy Multiple Choice Marks package for each character. 1000 is more in line with the amount of downtime we have endured this week ...
Looks like Ill have to get my game fix on the star wars galaxies emulator.
Its ok.. its ok.. Well send Timmy first... now look there.. I bet he's not hungry anymore...
Maybe he IS a cryptic employee.
Offers a "NO" and then vanishes without a trace nor any information.
Fingers crossed that when I return. we at least have an update.
Dear God NO. I was an event coordinator there once. It was....bad
This is why my skin is pale!
:eek:
Well tell him to take something. It's dangerous to go alone.
So let me guess, you are a selfish gamer who does nothing with his life but insult those who actually have a job. Tell us, what do you do for a living? Do you know anything about programming or what it takes to even have a job?
Dont demean other people, especially if you have no proof that you are better than they are.
Patches every other day, lag, patches, queues are bugged, patches, server lag, patches, server offline... Whats next?
American English at it's finest!
How would they notice the boycott when the servers are down?
Reading through the forums, we have deduced the following possible reasons why we cannot play:
1) Hardware Failure
2) Software Failure
3) Failed Coding from latest patch
4) Cryptic's inability to pay anybody with a GED $10 to monitor game servers through the weekend; therefore, they don't know it's happening
5) Devs are preparing for the upcoming Roller Derby and took a hiatus from work
6) The Tal Shiar, KDF Intelligence, Section 31, or the Obama Administration have uploaded a virus into the latest patch that is slowly eating our game files.
7) The Borg assimilated the servers into the collective (actually PWE has already done this; can't be the reason).
8) Because Scotty is not a quality control engineer at Cryptic
Anything I missed community?
Pale skin is good.. you should atleast make half way to the bathrooms over there before they even notice you...
Will a shirt that says "Eat Me First" work for you?
I am in the eastern U.S time zone I am not in bed yet. I am watching my wife play Everquest whilst I GET my Drunk on... and think about reloading EQ2 onto my system cause it don't crash!
Login failure: Connection to the login server timed out.
to
Login failure: The server is unavailable at this time.
Cryptic progress?