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  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    No mention of the issue that causes Commendations to not be awarded.
    You're just a machine. And machines can be broken.
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  • thegreathibikithegreathibiki Member Posts: 98 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    oh good I was tired of trying to figure out WHY the Voth were ripping me open like a tin can against a plasma torch but then unarmed probes were giving me Voth antiproton colored plasma damage when I used the same weapons. Can't wait for them to work correctly.
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited November 2013
    Our maintenance has begun! We expect downtime to last for 2 hours and I will post again once it is complete. Thanks!

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • miklsilvermiklsilver Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Brandon PLEASE HELP WITH THIS! I don't see it in the list of solved. http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=13447241#post13447241
    I would at least confirm that you are aware of this and are working in this direction. Because I'm worried.
  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    miklsilver wrote: »
    Brandon PLEASE HELP WITH THIS! Fix it, please! pay attention to it. I don't see it in the list of solved. http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=13447241#post13447241
    Only logical conclusion would be that they're still working on it.
    maxvitor wrote: »
    Nerf is OP, plz nerf
    That's quite the paradox, how could you nerf nerf when the nerf is nerfed. But how would the nerf be nerfed when the nerf is nerfed? This allows the nerf not to be nerfed since the nerf is nerfed? But if the nerf isn't nerfed, it could still nerf nerfs. But as soon as the nerf is nerfed, the nerf power is lost. So paradoxally it the nerf nerf lost its nerf, while it's still nerfed, which cannot be because the nerf was unable to nerf.

    I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
  • miklsilvermiklsilver Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    stoutes wrote: »
    Only logical conclusion would be that they're still working on it.

    How do you know? they can not even see or know about it? I would like to just confirm, "yes, we know working on it" and I would be calm.
  • macveemacvee Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    A patch to repair the patch. :confused:
  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    miklsilver wrote: »
    How do you know? they can not even see or know about it? I would like to just confirm, "yes, we know working on it" and I would be calm.
    I don't, and I don't care to know. It seems rather obvious that if they haven't put it in the notes, you can assume that it isn't finished.

    Try a different perspective; there are a bunch of people who can't login at all. Should they, or should your problem be given priority? They'd be crazy if they don't work on the major problem first.
    maxvitor wrote: »
    Nerf is OP, plz nerf
    That's quite the paradox, how could you nerf nerf when the nerf is nerfed. But how would the nerf be nerfed when the nerf is nerfed? This allows the nerf not to be nerfed since the nerf is nerfed? But if the nerf isn't nerfed, it could still nerf nerfs. But as soon as the nerf is nerfed, the nerf power is lost. So paradoxally it the nerf nerf lost its nerf, while it's still nerfed, which cannot be because the nerf was unable to nerf.

    I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
  • battykoda0battykoda0 Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    vocmcp wrote: »
    Just to be sure about this, does that also include consoles such as the plasmonic leech or are you just talking about weapons in specific?

    Also please add the non-rewarding of dyson commendation to known issues ;)

    And my medic kit doing damage to Borg instead of healing?
    Wow. There is a new KDF Science ship. I'll be!
  • eazzieeazzie Member Posts: 4,222 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    argent007 wrote: »
    i couldn't help but notice two things:

    first, every time the map changes, it has to "reload material files"

    why?


    second, where did all the 4.5+ star foundry missions go? also included in this, all the spotlight missions have vanished except for Purity VI
    alexvio1 wrote: »
    This should be removed because it's really annoying.
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    ^^ Agreed. Seems to be some sort of debug status line they've forgotten to take out.


    The material files reloaded is a bug that has migrated over from Tribble. On S8 launch day Brandon did comment on this on a previous thread and it will be fixed in due course. As frustrating as it is the message doesn't however interfere with gameplay.

    As for the foundry. The foundry more often than not is taken down for a short period after a season launch. The reasons behind this, I can not comment on.
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    eazzie wrote: »
    The material files reloaded is a bug that has migrated over from Tribble. On S8 launch day Brandon did comment on this on a previous thread and it will be fixed in due course. As frustrating as it is the message doesn't however interfere with gameplay.

    Thx for the useful feedback. :)

    Now, if someone could also point me to a thread where Brandon says they're working on fixing the missing body parts on Rom Embassy boffs, *g*, I'd be giddy! :P
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  • johnny111971johnny111971 Member Posts: 1,300 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    stuart1965 wrote: »
    I always do read release notes,and it would be a good assurance if all problems were fixed no matter what they are. Fixing just some things and not all is a half baked job as i mentioned before.That will not do.

    Riiiiiiggggggghhhhhhttttttt..... So, your suggestion is, fix nothing until you can fix it all. Even though you may have something that can be fixed in 1 hour, but something else will take a week... we should all wait a week?

    Yup... completely logical :rolleyes:

    Star Trek Online, Now with out the Trek....
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Hi Captains,

    We will be bringing down Star Trek Online tomorrow, Thursday, November 14th, at 7AM PDT (click here to view in your timezone) for maintenance and to apply a new patch. Patch notes can be found here, and we expect this maintenance to last for 2 hours. The test server, launcher and access to manage your account may also be unavailable during some portions of the maintenance.

    Thanks for your patience and understanding,

    - The Star Trek Online Team

    Any progress on the Foundry? It seems to be broken again.

    Also, because I complained nonstop through my first 2 hours in the sphere ground battlezone, I am sorry for calling you guys lazy doofuses. I actually really love the new expansion, even if I keep getting killed in the ground battlezone by Voth specialists (yeah, really).

    Bugs that I've seen:
    --Foundry is broken, again. Then again, you probably already know this.

    --In the new battlezone, the baddies always fire at me, personally, first and foremost, even if I didn't shoot them or anything near them. This makes it impossible to use consoles unless I have like 3 other people with their away teams right by me putting up cover shields and/or killing the Voth before they can shoot me. Since the Voth are supposed to be defense, this radical offense (and the OPed Voth weapons that they use--punched right through VR MK 12 reg shield and energy resistance armor) seem to be rather out of character. I love the new battlezone, but please, guys, don't have the Voth zerg rush me every time I step foot outside the central safe zone. It gets annoying to die every 10 seconds.

    --Certain special encounters in the battlezone (researcher defense first and foremost) are bugged and nonfunctional. Not sure if you're aware of this.

    --I got lagged out of a PVP challenge at about 4:30 PM EST yesterday. Not that that was a bad thing--I was losing rather dramatically, thus proving once and for all that tac captains suck at ground for KDF side--but it was still kind of annoying. I think that this was a random bug, though, and not a recurring issue.

    Things I really want to compliment you guys for:

    --The Breach. This queue...is fully awesome. You guys really went A and B the C of D on this thing. I flew it in my mirror sovvie, and it was AMAZING. Room to maneuver even with a gargantuan eng cruiser--hell, my fleet boss ran it with me, and he was in an Obelisk carrier, which is a total brick. Incredible scenery, it felt like I was Lando Calrissian inside the Death Star 2 in Star Wars. You guys really made something special here. Thank you so much!

    --Solnae tribble. It is cute, and the buffs are useful.

    --The way you get free gear whenever you start some of the dyson rep projects. Although I don't really like the commendation system, I do love the split-rewards system.

    --Sponsorship. Great idea, guys. Really awesome. Now my alts won't have to slave through 3 months of Rommie rep farming!

    --Sphere space zones. Some of the found missions are bugged, but the scenery is AMAZING. I could fly around in there all day and never get bored.

    --Getting Michael Dorn to do voice acting for the game. Dude, Worf is my HERO.

    --The new Fed tutorial. I'm buying ZEN at high prices just to get another character slot to try that out. Anything is better than what we had (although I will say that kicking the living daylights out of the Borg at first level was fun).

    Ideas for your next update:

    --Something to do with time travel--have the original Excelsior come through a time hole. Really, this is just an excuse to have George Takei do some voice acting, but you could build a whole FE series about it--the whole series could be about getting the Excelsior home before some dudes from the Temporal Cold War (the best part of ENT, IMHO) can destroy it.

    --Absolutely anything that involves William Shatner doing voice acting. I think that he'd make a great Iconian overlord.

    --Or just give us some Iconians to shoot. This could be a great, apocalyptic, future-of-our-galaxy story arc, with Patrick Stewart's voice work for that genuine TNG epic feel.

    Whatever you guys do, I'm sure that I will spend two hours complaining about the flaws and then fall wholeheartedly in love with it as soon as you announce the bug fixes. Congratulations on making a truly great game, guys.
  • milestfoxmilestfox Member Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Hey Rezking.
    __There are currently 3 methods I know of to get STO without ARC.
    __1. Steam. Install for free, use your login from here. Patch up overnight.
    __2. Your retail CD, if you have one. Patch up overnight.
    __3. The torrent link. This one is a bit complicated, but works bonzers.
    ____a. Get a torrent client installed. I recommend uTorrent.
    ____b. PWE have removed the torrent link from the STO download page. Go Here (All Hail Mr Peabody!): http://web.archive.org/web/20130511150622/http://sto.perfectworld.com/download
    ____c. IGNORE the prompt to download the installer/patcher. It'll force you to go to the main page and get the current, ARC version.
    ____d. Click 'Torrent Download.
    ____e. Download it.
    ____f. Install it. If it greys out the continue button, use Windows Enabler to re-enable the continue button. http://www.pendriveapps.com/windows-enabler-enable-grayed-out-buttons/

    ____You now have the October 2012 version of the game installed! And the file to reinstall whenever! Patch up overnight and you're golden.
  • mrlizardomrlizardo Member Posts: 155 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    People don't read patch notes. I still keep hearing 'Stay 5km away from Donatra' during the khitomer space STF. When informed that's old news they insist it isn't. So 15 minutes and 500 cloaks later ....... But I digress. is there some sort of core code that should be adjusted so every time a new episode comes out, I don't get rused into thinking I'm popular due to the ever-present blinking from my inbox?
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  • milestfoxmilestfox Member Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    mrlizardo wrote: »
    People don't read patch notes. I still keep hearing 'Stay 5km away from Donatra' during the khitomer space STF. When informed that's old news they insist it isn't. So 15 minutes and 500 cloaks later ....... But I digress. is there some sort of core code that should be adjusted so every time a new episode comes out, I don't get rused into thinking I'm popular due to the ever-present blinking from my inbox?

    I do believe this is the wrong forum topic for that. You need God's forum -> Bug Reports -> Human.
    (lol)
  • my1alts2alt3my1alts2alt3 Member Posts: 176 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    milestfox wrote: »
    2. Your retail CD, if you have one.

    As cheap as $11 on amazon.com, I have several online starter packs, boxed retails, plus a few copies of star_trek_setup.ex tucked away on my hard drives.

    http://download.perfectworld.com/sto/star_trek_setup.exe
  • paulymanpaulyman Member Posts: 228 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    battykoda0 wrote: »
    And my medic kit doing damage to Borg instead of healing?

    And that's a bad thing? Do what I did on my Sci. Tell your team to buy some hypos and learn to fight.
  • vengefuldjinnvengefuldjinn Member Posts: 1,521 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    mrlizardo wrote: »
    People don't read patch notes. I still keep hearing 'Stay 5km away from Donatra' during the khitomer space STF.

    I keep hearing this too. As a matter of fact, the last time I heard it, the comment: "Too bad there is no vote kick." was made shortly after......

    Maybe I'll end up on the: "Post your worst STF experience" thread.... :rolleyes:
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  • miklsilvermiklsilver Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Brandon PLEASE HELP WITH THIS! I don't see it in the list of solved. http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=13447241#post13447241
    I would at least confirm that you are aware of this and are working in this direction. Because I'm worried.
  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    miklsilver wrote: »
    Brandon PLEASE HELP WITH THIS! I don't see it in the list of solved. http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=13447241#post13447241
    I would at least confirm that you are aware of this and are working in this direction. Because I'm worried.
    Stop. Spamming. It's. Clear. You. Made. Your. Point.
    milestfox wrote: »
    Hey Rezking.
    __There are currently 3 methods I know of to get STO without ARC.
    __1. Steam. Install for free, use your login from here. Patch up overnight.
    __2. Your retail CD, if you have one. Patch up overnight.
    __3. The torrent link. This one is a bit complicated, but works bonzers.
    ____a. Get a torrent client installed. I recommend uTorrent.
    ____b. PWE have removed the torrent link from the STO download page. Go Here (All Hail Mr Peabody!): http://web.archive.org/web/20130511150622/http://sto.perfectworld.com/download
    ____c. IGNORE the prompt to download the installer/patcher. It'll force you to go to the main page and get the current, ARC version.
    ____d. Click 'Torrent Download.
    ____e. Download it.
    ____f. Install it. If it greys out the continue button, use Windows Enabler to re-enable the continue button. http://www.pendriveapps.com/windows-enabler-enable-grayed-out-buttons/

    ____You now have the October 2012 version of the game installed! And the file to reinstall whenever! Patch up overnight and you're golden.
    Or one of the many download sites, which still give you the 2012 versions.
    maxvitor wrote: »
    Nerf is OP, plz nerf
    That's quite the paradox, how could you nerf nerf when the nerf is nerfed. But how would the nerf be nerfed when the nerf is nerfed? This allows the nerf not to be nerfed since the nerf is nerfed? But if the nerf isn't nerfed, it could still nerf nerfs. But as soon as the nerf is nerfed, the nerf power is lost. So paradoxally it the nerf nerf lost its nerf, while it's still nerfed, which cannot be because the nerf was unable to nerf.

    I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited November 2013
    Hi Captains,

    We're going to extend our maintenance window by 45 minutes. Our goal is to have you back in-game by 9:45am PDT (55 minutes from now). If that changes, I'll be sure to update you.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • raventomoeraventomoe Member Posts: 723 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Hi Captains,

    We're going to extend our maintenance window by 45 minutes. Our goal is to have you back in-game by 9:45am PDT (55 minutes from now). If that changes, I'll be sure to update you.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    Was a fix for those of us who can't get into the game because we crash at the loading screen found?
    "The Multiverse, the ultimate frontier..."
    Thus begins...Lyrical Trek
  • nithanathnithanath Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Hi Captains

    It's Vice Admirals.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • battykoda0battykoda0 Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Hi Captains,

    We're going to extend our maintenance window by 45 minutes. Our goal is to have you back in-game by 9:45am PDT (55 minutes from now). If that changes, I'll be sure to update you.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    Going off to Starbucks. Want a cuppa, Bradon? :-P Thanks for the warning.
    Wow. There is a new KDF Science ship. I'll be!
  • slurmerslurmer Member Posts: 62 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Hi Captains,

    We're going to extend our maintenance window by 45 minutes. Our goal is to have you back in-game by 9:45am PDT (55 minutes from now). If that changes, I'll be sure to update you.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    now this is what we have come to know, and when its back can we all have problems logging in just so we know u love us....
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    I keep hearing this too. As a matter of fact, the last time I heard it, the comment: "Too bad there is no vote kick." was made shortly after......

    Maybe I'll end up on the: "Post your worst STF experience" thread.... :rolleyes:

    For what it's worth, I missed the patched note on the >5km distance thingy having changed too; but, in my experience, only hefty DPS makes her not cloak (so often?).
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  • orici1701orici1701 Member Posts: 201 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    nithanath wrote: »
    It's Vice Admirals.


    its correct if u recall J Dax commaded the Defiant and she was called "Captain" but her rank is not Captain. its one of them little things they used on the show.

    nice to see people that play the game are trekies oh wait hardly any of you are trekies lol

    his answer proved it and fyi no smart mouthed answer is needed as if u was one u would haven known this already lol

    and not only VAs use the forms some Lts, Commanders do to...
  • usscapitalusscapital Member Posts: 985 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Hi Captains,

    We're going to extend our maintenance window by 45 minutes. Our goal is to have you back in-game by 9:45am PDT (55 minutes from now). If that changes, I'll be sure to update you.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    ok who broke it ? :P
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  • species1977species1977 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    what is wrong with foundry? how much time for the mission to publish? or when will they show up?
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