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New Shard?

verda9938verda9938 Member Posts: 20 Arc User
edited March 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
When launching STO I noticed a new choice on the list of shards available to chose from, called Engineering. Does anyone know what it is?

*Edit* It's apparently 211MBs.
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Seeing this too. Very interesting...
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  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    I'm only seeing the usual three. Enter and find out! :D
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  • tom61stotom61sto Member Posts: 3,674 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    First I've heard of it. Mine is showing Holodeck, Tribble, and Red Shirt, nothing about Engineering.

    Oh, wow, more people with it already. Have any of you been invited to test anything by Cryptic, like ships?
  • sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Got the same here, too....

    Brb, going to test.

    Edit: Not working, I just get this message when I try to launch: Unable to start game client: The system cannot find the file specified.
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  • verda9938verda9938 Member Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    They mystery depends. When I try to launch it it says "Unable to start game client: The system cannot find the file specified."
  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Could be the Devs' secret testing server! :D
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  • rahmkota19rahmkota19 Member Posts: 1,929 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    kjwashington wrote: »
    Could be the Devs' secret testing server! :D

    Probably is. And probably, as a safeguard, you need a file that doesn't come in any form of download, but is a direct USB file or something.
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  • timelord79timelord79 Member Posts: 1,852 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Well, I tried to log onto Engineering shard and I ended up on Holodeck again.
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  • orondisorondis Member Posts: 1,447 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Well, it's certainly QA related given the name of the folder.
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  • verda9938verda9938 Member Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Ever sense trying to log on to Engineering my launcher selects it as default.. still can't access it though.
  • sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    CrypticEQAH on it. Confirmed should not be there.
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  • verda9938verda9938 Member Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    And... its gone.
  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    kjwashington wrote: »
    Could be the Devs' secret testing server! :D

    Why? They don't use the existing ones as Test Servers.
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  • oldkhemaraaoldkhemaraa Member Posts: 1,039 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    The idea of a test server is to fix da stuff BEFORE your customers get to play with it.. to see if it works.... Ya know.. like OHHHHHH FEATURED MISSIONS...

    Really wierd this is showing up...somebody did something wrong.. or maybe they didn't... could be something going on.. bet-cha money nobody gonna cop to anything.. at least not out in the open..

    Humans man, go figure!

    Its not supposed to be available to we the hoi poi. Most curious.
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  • vegeta50024vegeta50024 Member Posts: 2,336 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    warmaker001b wrote: »
    Why? They don't use the existing ones as Test Servers.

    Um, the test server (Tribble) is usually more for previews. Redshirt is usually only used for patches that are not upcoming (like for season 10) while Tribble is the preview server for new seasons and expansions.

    As far as the whole not using the current ones, if you're talking about for stories, then its true they don't use the servers for those. Except for expansion stories, featured episodes are usually kept a secret until they're released, otherwise people can spoil the episode.

    Farktoid, one of the devs, actually stated they do run through things as much as they can. While they usually try to catch bugs as they happen, it seems that there are ones that may pop up that don't get caught by the QA team. Hence why some players run into bugs but others don't and why it may take a while to fix bugs.

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  • vegeta50024vegeta50024 Member Posts: 2,336 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    oldkhemaraa wrote: »
    The idea of a test server is to fix da stuff BEFORE your customers get to play with it.. to see if it works.... Ya know.. like OHHHHHH FEATURED MISSIONS...

    Really wierd this is showing up...somebody did something wrong.. or maybe they didn't... could be something going on.. bet-cha money nobody gonna cop to anything.. at least not out in the open..

    Humans man, go figure!

    Its not supposed to be available to we the hoi poi. Most curious.

    Like I just said, unless its an expansion, they don't usually release episodes to test, mostly because they wish people remain surprised when playing.

    I've only been here since F2P launched and here's a list of episodes we've seen released in that time:

    2800 Dominion episodes
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    Temporal Ambassador (third Anniversary)
    Sphere of Influence (pre-season 8 story)
    Step between Stars (fourth anniversary)
    Surface Tension (Season 9 launch)
    Dust to Dust (fifth aniversary)
    and the most recent, Uneasy Allies

    If they let players test episodes, they'd have to pick people to test and make it NDA so the lucky people don't spoil it.

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