No still bad. Man, hadn't played this since launch and was really getting into it, loving the changes, but this is bad. Giving up for now.. DC'd three times in a one hour period, with constant lag and server not responding messages the bit I was able to get in. Not even doing anything just a patrol mission and standing around at space dock.
well another day gone by and it seems to have gotten worse. Game is completely unplayable now with everything teleporting everywhere. Hopefully tonight's patch fixes this issue otherwise this is unplayable.
This is a stupid question but why is all of this affecting this game only it seems or PWE games in general from what I hear.
My Internet does appear to run fine so why is it with the game?
Fleet Admiral Thomas Winston James a.k.a. The Grayfox Fleet Leader of:
Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians U.S.S. Liberty, NX-42813-L, T-6 Legendary Odyssey Class
Having the same problem for the last two days, at first it was just some rubber banding in missions but today once I log in the server stops responding right away, completely unplayable. Running Verizon FIOS
Well update...forget game lag...now my launcher either just pops up white or it does pop up and I type my user name and password and it just sticks with an empty patching line.
I tried to log in before the servers went down today for updates.
It's just so strange I logged in fine yesterday at around 11:00 p.m. with lag of course and today at 8:00 a.m. I can't even get in the game.
Hopefully this patch will fix it. My Internet really does appear to be fine as I'm opening multiple webpages on multiple browsers on multiple machines.
It just appears now that the STO launcher is also laggy as heck. Very frustrated seeing as how I'm so close to the Risa Corvette and even more importantly I've spend thousands of dollars in the game and my fleet in general.
Update...after trying like 20 times loading and closing it loading and closing it...45 minutes before server down I got in. /net graph is showing 118-200. Will have to monitor.
Fleet Admiral Thomas Winston James a.k.a. The Grayfox Fleet Leader of:
Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians U.S.S. Liberty, NX-42813-L, T-6 Legendary Odyssey Class
Luckily, I got my corvette the day before yesterday. And, indeed, it was around 11 AM yesterday that my game started rubberbanding, disconnecting and such.
Verizon tested my internet and I have good numbers. Obviously, it isn't our computers
Not sure if it can. Right now I don't even know if it's Verizon's problem or Cryptics. Here is what the latest patch will do:
General:
Added a message for when a recipients mailbox is full and when there are too many items in it. This will display if:
The recipient has 200 emails in their mailbox.
The recipient has 20 emails in their mailbox with an item attached.
Emails that originate from the Exchange, a mission or other game systems are not included in these totals.
The maximum number of auctions that a player can have active on the Exchange at any given time is 40.
This limit is reduced by one for every returned auction email that is in the player's mailbox.
New French and German localizations have been added.
Server stability updates.
The last one "Server stabililty updates" is what I care about the most...don't know if that's really something or just a general statement they make on every patch...
I am finding it very odd though that it was all Verizon customers complaining on this forum. My fleet members had no problems yesterday other than two like me using Verizon. Today, no one I spoke to in my fleet had any issues loading into the game. I have not changed any settings on my computer so I'm a little confused to all of it.
We should all wait and see what happens after the patch and then start posting and keeping this thread alive to see what the general consensus is.
Fleet Admiral Thomas Winston James a.k.a. The Grayfox Fleet Leader of:
Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians U.S.S. Liberty, NX-42813-L, T-6 Legendary Odyssey Class
I want to keep this post alive, definitely! Do the Cryptic folks go over these threads at all? It'd be nice to hear from the higher-ups, even if it's just acknowledging our problem.
I don't believe for a second that Cryptic actually does server stability updates, otherwise the game wouldn't feel so underperforming. I don't think they've ever mentioned what they actually were either. They probably just add it in patch notes to give the impression to players that they're actually working on something.
Just for something and giggles, I re-ran the nettest app while the server was down for maintenance... The results were... well take a look and compare to my previous post.
Well now I'm really confounded. I was fairly convinced it was an issue with Verizon but if it were just a Verizon problem I don't see why the results would be so different when testing. Assuming nettest connects to Cryptic servers, the difference between testing while under load and under maintenance is astounding. It also makes me wonder if it really is some issue over at Cryptic, maybe they've taken a disliking to Verizon?
North East US Verizon Fios user, had some lag Tuesday night, but last night it took me almost 30 minutes just to log in, rubberband around and get kicked 45 minutes later. This morning around 8AM EST wasn't too bad at all, in on first log in attempt, I hope after the update today it gets better...Really close to that Risian Corvette.
Update for me here in New Jersey. My down/up speed while not being the 30/30 that I pay for is holding steady at 25/25.
After this patch I have been able to log in fine. A little slow loading in at first where it shows the Legacy of Romulus logo but once in the game it seemed fine.
I was at ESD, The Vault and a fleet action. Ping on netgraph was also holding steady at around 140-180 (spiked maybe to 200-230 at times) which isn't bad for me.
But definitely night and day difference from yesterday where my ship was stop and go.
Fleet Admiral Thomas Winston James a.k.a. The Grayfox Fleet Leader of:
Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians U.S.S. Liberty, NX-42813-L, T-6 Legendary Odyssey Class
Back to report: The game is back to playable, though still getting the occasional hiccup. I did manage to run all my characters through the Flying High mission. Here's to hoping the speeds hold.
netgraph is showing slightly better pings and while there are still intermittent lag spikes its not as bad.
it's worse in the evenings because people come home and turn on the netflix.
maybe verizon and/or cogent and/or netflix has changed their routing to relieve the interconnect congestion, but I havent seen any news reports yet. cryptic's patch server is still taking the same route as yesterday so that hasn't changed any.
the game was running fine for me until todays patch.I keep getting time out error at "choose your character" screen.I also have verizon fios and don't think the problem is with them. time 3:38pm ,northern VA.:mad:
It's not just Verizon, I'm on a BT subsidiary ISP in the UK and I've been getting all this for a couple of weeks now.
And now after the downtime, the launcher won't even update, let alone patch the game.
I'm happy to say that after the disaster of yesterday, I can now play the game again with no problems. I certainly was not going to switch my service from Verizon FIOS to play this game and I'm glad I didn't have to stop laying ST:O.
I hope other folks who experienced or are experiencing problems have their issues resolved as soon as possible.
Well it seemed all well after the patch but after a short while of play the connection deteriorated again. Here's hoping for the second 'patch' to fix things...
Is anyone in-game? I've started the launcher, patched the files and it still won't load. At one point I got an "Error 36" that said there was a file that was locked and could not be written to.
Now, it just says "patching" and appears to do nothing.
Is the launcher broken?
VERY frustrating. This is starting to get as bad as "Heroes in the Sky."
I am also having this issue along with 5 to 10 disconnects, Rubber banding, Massive lag, All on a I5 gaming computer. I talked with perfect would tech support by phone twice since the game completely crashed. They said they would send a spec. to look into it since their policy is 100% gamer satisfaction and 100% game stability.
Being a gold member this is frustrating you think I would have priority over some free to play silver guy.
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My Internet does appear to run fine so why is it with the game?
Fleet Leader of:
Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians
U.S.S. Liberty, NX-42813-L, T-6 Legendary Odyssey Class
Game Handle: Grayfox@GrayfoxJames
Website: https://www.libertytaskforce.com
Armada (STOFA Member Fleet): https://www.libertytaskforce.com/stofa
Discord: https://discord.gg/bGp9N7z
Twitter: STOFA@LTFGrayfox
Email: CSDynamix@Hotmail.com
I tried to log in before the servers went down today for updates.
It's just so strange I logged in fine yesterday at around 11:00 p.m. with lag of course and today at 8:00 a.m. I can't even get in the game.
Hopefully this patch will fix it. My Internet really does appear to be fine as I'm opening multiple webpages on multiple browsers on multiple machines.
It just appears now that the STO launcher is also laggy as heck. Very frustrated seeing as how I'm so close to the Risa Corvette and even more importantly I've spend thousands of dollars in the game and my fleet in general.
Update...after trying like 20 times loading and closing it loading and closing it...45 minutes before server down I got in. /net graph is showing 118-200. Will have to monitor.
Fleet Leader of:
Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians
U.S.S. Liberty, NX-42813-L, T-6 Legendary Odyssey Class
Game Handle: Grayfox@GrayfoxJames
Website: https://www.libertytaskforce.com
Armada (STOFA Member Fleet): https://www.libertytaskforce.com/stofa
Discord: https://discord.gg/bGp9N7z
Twitter: STOFA@LTFGrayfox
Email: CSDynamix@Hotmail.com
Verizon tested my internet and I have good numbers. Obviously, it isn't our computers
Can the patch possibly fix this?
General:
Added a message for when a recipients mailbox is full and when there are too many items in it. This will display if:
The recipient has 200 emails in their mailbox.
The recipient has 20 emails in their mailbox with an item attached.
Emails that originate from the Exchange, a mission or other game systems are not included in these totals.
The maximum number of auctions that a player can have active on the Exchange at any given time is 40.
This limit is reduced by one for every returned auction email that is in the player's mailbox.
New French and German localizations have been added.
Server stability updates.
The last one "Server stabililty updates" is what I care about the most...don't know if that's really something or just a general statement they make on every patch...
I am finding it very odd though that it was all Verizon customers complaining on this forum. My fleet members had no problems yesterday other than two like me using Verizon. Today, no one I spoke to in my fleet had any issues loading into the game. I have not changed any settings on my computer so I'm a little confused to all of it.
We should all wait and see what happens after the patch and then start posting and keeping this thread alive to see what the general consensus is.
Fleet Leader of:
Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians
U.S.S. Liberty, NX-42813-L, T-6 Legendary Odyssey Class
Game Handle: Grayfox@GrayfoxJames
Website: https://www.libertytaskforce.com
Armada (STOFA Member Fleet): https://www.libertytaskforce.com/stofa
Discord: https://discord.gg/bGp9N7z
Twitter: STOFA@LTFGrayfox
Email: CSDynamix@Hotmail.com
contacting nettest server..
Local IP: TRIBBLE.TRIBBLE.TRIBBLE.TRIBBLE
Ping: 32.3 msec
Port: 80: 1298 KB/sec 49 KB/sec 1375 KB/sec 500
Port: 80: 1314 KB/sec 52 KB/sec 1393 KB/sec 500
Port: 443: 1080 KB/sec 44 KB/sec 1154 KB/sec 500
Port: 443: 1112 KB/sec 48 KB/sec 1195 KB/sec 500
Port: 7255: 1084 KB/sec 44 KB/sec 1163 KB/sec 500
Port: 7255: 1098 KB/sec 44 KB/sec 1169 KB/sec 500
Port: 7003: 1101 KB/sec 44 KB/sec 1171 KB/sec 500
Port: 7003: 1096 KB/sec 44 KB/sec 1171 KB/sec 500
Port: 7202: 1091 KB/sec 44 KB/sec 1167 KB/sec 500
Port: 7202: 1093 KB/sec 44 KB/sec 1170 KB/sec 500
Port: 7499: 1066 KB/sec 45 KB/sec 1138 KB/sec 500
Port: 7499: 1093 KB/sec 44 KB/sec 1168 KB/sec 500
Port: 80: 1328 KB/sec 52 KB/sec 1409 KB/sec 500
Idle NIC bandwidth Send: 0 KB/sec Recv: 0 KB/sec
hit return to exit
Well now I'm really confounded. I was fairly convinced it was an issue with Verizon but if it were just a Verizon problem I don't see why the results would be so different when testing. Assuming nettest connects to Cryptic servers, the difference between testing while under load and under maintenance is astounding. It also makes me wonder if it really is some issue over at Cryptic, maybe they've taken a disliking to Verizon?
After this patch I have been able to log in fine. A little slow loading in at first where it shows the Legacy of Romulus logo but once in the game it seemed fine.
I was at ESD, The Vault and a fleet action. Ping on netgraph was also holding steady at around 140-180 (spiked maybe to 200-230 at times) which isn't bad for me.
But definitely night and day difference from yesterday where my ship was stop and go.
Fleet Leader of:
Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians
U.S.S. Liberty, NX-42813-L, T-6 Legendary Odyssey Class
Game Handle: Grayfox@GrayfoxJames
Website: https://www.libertytaskforce.com
Armada (STOFA Member Fleet): https://www.libertytaskforce.com/stofa
Discord: https://discord.gg/bGp9N7z
Twitter: STOFA@LTFGrayfox
Email: CSDynamix@Hotmail.com
Thanks for the update grayfoxjames! I also hail from NJ and look forward to getting back in game tonight
it's worse in the evenings because people come home and turn on the netflix.
maybe verizon and/or cogent and/or netflix has changed their routing to relieve the interconnect congestion, but I havent seen any news reports yet. cryptic's patch server is still taking the same route as yesterday so that hasn't changed any.
And now after the downtime, the launcher won't even update, let alone patch the game.
I hope other folks who experienced or are experiencing problems have their issues resolved as soon as possible.
Thinking I'll play SWTOR till it's fixed
If you're having problems, keep this thread alive. This NEEDS to be addressed.
correlation is not causation
the lag is because the link between Verizon and Cogent is overloaded. There's nothing in the game that says "oh this guy is on Verizon lets lag him"
Now, it just says "patching" and appears to do nothing.
Is the launcher broken?
VERY frustrating. This is starting to get as bad as "Heroes in the Sky."
Being a gold member this is frustrating you think I would have priority over some free to play silver guy.