My team relied on me to finish the last borg probe. And having this unstable cryptic server is limiting different parts of the world... They have only Euro and North American servers. If they added australian or asia servers, also including a better network. Then things will be great!
Everything on my end is checked.
Gaming computer... Checked.
Good internet connection... Checked.
No issues with other games internet... checked.
As a typical player behind the screen, I have been playing games whether if Im in the states or in a foreign country the issues I see are common. So it's not me.
Just because another MMO works means absolutely nothing. Every MMO takes a different path to go from your computer to the MMO servers. If there is a problematic server between your computer and Cryptic's servers, then there is nothing that you or Cryptic can do. So your computer works perfectly fine with a great connection and Cryptic's servers work perfectly fine with a great connection, but your connection is faulty due to some idiotic server.
Why exactly would you expect to get 60fps stable with a hundred dollar video card ? Just asking. I mean if this game was 5 years old and they never touched the engine or ever added larger textures I believe that to be a reasonable expectation. However they have done both of those things... so with that in mind I think you should realize you have a budget video card and turn things down a few notches.
And having this unstable cryptic server is limiting different parts of the world... They have only Euro and North American servers.
Your data are inaccurate. Cryptic in fact maintains one server farm in total, located outside Boston, MA, US.
Also, your connection to the server =/= your personal Internet connection. I have excellent connections to my ISP; however, even when the site I'm headed to has an equally excellent connection, that means nothing if a node halfway across the country fails while trying to pass my particular data packet. I'm still going to experience a connectivity issue.
OP sorry you cant run stable at 60fps I have no problems doing that on a low end qaud core Toshiba laptop. I have every background program I can turned off that maybe half your problem.
Okay... I will give them the benefit of the doubt... for now.
I bet you by the end of august, cryptics internet issues will remain the same or they haven't corrected stability issues with graphics (meaning that those with high craphics cards that touch 60fps for a good minute and all of a sudden it drops down to 15 fps).
The reason being of my fps sharply drops is because the monitor vertical sync has a bug that effects the Frames per sec.
Edited: I have tested the vertical sync out, turning it on and off. If I leave it off then I will have a constant 59-60fps. But if I leave it on It will randomly fluctate during missions from 60fps to 15fps.
1) Claims to give them the benefit of the doubt,
2) Immediately backflips.
hats off to anyone that wants to try and defend sto as a mmo and its gameplay LOL!!
shows how little experience with other mmo games they have:)
anyways...
back to the stellar content created for the summer event LOL!!!!!!!
Serious question here.
What are these amazing MMOs that apparently cost less than $0 to play and still somehow have phenomenal maintenance, and constant content updates to boot? People keep hinting at them but I've never seen a name posted.
I'm not being snide I seriously would love to give 'em a go but every time I do a search I never see anything that fits the bill.
Unstable: Well at the moment, you got me there. Some serious server/client stability issues, lag, latency issues and more all under the heading of Stability that need work. and I believe is the current hot topic "get it fixed now!" item at Cryptic. It is fairly critical.
Uncaring.. I think they do care, just not about quite the same things you or I would.
Money Grubbing: MMO's are a how many billions of dollars a year industry world wide? Of course they are money grubbing. You don't get into the MMO industry to specifically get famous. You get into it to make a tremendous amount of money so you can hopefully be retired if you choose, by the time you hit your 50th birthday. I think they charge far more then they need to, and between that and the rest of their pricing structure actually limits how much they can make. They literally get in their own way. Quark would have straitened 'em out long ago.. Unfortunately he's only a fictional character. Damd shame that.
So yea, at some levels I agree with ya.. At others, I'm tell'n ya your expecting way to much. Please remember that Cryptic is owned by a multinational corporation. My understanding is they let Cryptic have a fairly nice budget to play with for all their titles. And I believe Cryptic is running 400-500 employees total these days. Money making they are!
MMO are a particular beast.. You have to constantly be spending money to make money. If your not developing new content, then you have very little chance of attracting new customers faster then you loose them. And Cryptic is not entirely the boss of its own house. You might be blaming Cryptic for what is PWE/PWI's doing.
hats off to anyone that wants to try and defend sto as a mmo and its gameplay LOL!!
shows how little experience with other mmo games they have:)
So if you have so much experience with "other mmos", what are you still doing here? Mommy and daddy refuse to pay for the monthly subscription for the "good" mmos?
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It's not the "game", it's the "company" isn't fixing these issues. I tolerate issues for a couple of days but if it is more than a week then I should complain. I shouldn't have to keep logining in and clicking the same character just so I can resume the match.
But you got to remember if my other games aren't having graphic issues or internet issues... then why is this game having problems versus other games that I do have that are working well?
I see more effort for my other games that these companies are fixing these problems one by one and not excluding other people and putting them at the very low chain. Which makes them feel like these problems aren't going to be corrected.
Ok you haven't been here long have you. Considering the work Salami is doing to get the game back on track unlike the previous EP who would 100% blame the players every damn time, it's been a very very interesting 4 months.
Unlike most games that have a proper team to work on bugs as well as the new parts of the game, STO's team have to work with an archaic engine full of spaghetti code, which results in a lot of the issues we are seeing currently. A lot of these were introduced with DR last year which have caused many annoyances for players, not just from the problems but from the reactions of the EP at the time (not Salami I should add).
The issues are being squashed, but it takes time, time that for once is now shorter than 4 years...
If you still have a beef with the game and have the comprehension and patience of a Goldfish, there are many other games out there that don't require social interaction.
Chris Robert's on SC:
"You don't have to do something again and again and again repetitive that doesn't have much challange, that's just a general good gameplay thing."
Fun fact, I used to run STO with a P4 single core and never lagged.
That's because it was intel
In all seriousness, This game is pretty dam playable, despite the fact I really don't play it anymore. (here for the summer event and that's pretty much it).
Also, for the record, my wife and I are temporarily living in a very remote Australian town and the only way we can connect to the internet is via a mobile (Cell) phone. Although I get 4G on Telstra, we are stuck using Optus 3G (unlimited data, awful connection, if you ever have the option to go optus... dont ).
despite the frustatingly awful network infrastructure of Optus, the only time we get disconnected is when their tower down here chucks a wobbler and we have to reset the phones data connection (again, don't go optus, there is a reason they've gone from 2nd to 3rd provider )
This is something of noteworthy discussion before I lock this thread.
Bugs can be complicated. Sometimes they're itty bitty little guys, sometimes they're gigantic terrifying beasts worthy of a Starship Troopers movie. They're problems though, no matter what. Prioritization is one discussion, but keep in mind that the nature of a bug can be so variable that it may require days to weeks worth of time from investigating, building solutions, testing solutions, and then implementing them. This takes a while no matter what due to processes.
That being said, we still take care and consideration in improving and going on bug squashing missions. Hell, I'm actually more involved with talking to the QA team more than I ever was in the past few weeks.
But that shall not excuse flamery. You can be upset, but you still need to exhibit maturity and civility.
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Just because another MMO works means absolutely nothing. Every MMO takes a different path to go from your computer to the MMO servers. If there is a problematic server between your computer and Cryptic's servers, then there is nothing that you or Cryptic can do. So your computer works perfectly fine with a great connection and Cryptic's servers work perfectly fine with a great connection, but your connection is faulty due to some idiotic server.
Why exactly would you expect to get 60fps stable with a hundred dollar video card ? Just asking. I mean if this game was 5 years old and they never touched the engine or ever added larger textures I believe that to be a reasonable expectation. However they have done both of those things... so with that in mind I think you should realize you have a budget video card and turn things down a few notches.
Also, your connection to the server =/= your personal Internet connection. I have excellent connections to my ISP; however, even when the site I'm headed to has an equally excellent connection, that means nothing if a node halfway across the country fails while trying to pass my particular data packet. I'm still going to experience a connectivity issue.
Oh god EA 'nuff said.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
1) Claims to give them the benefit of the doubt,
2) Immediately backflips.
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
Serious question here.
What are these amazing MMOs that apparently cost less than $0 to play and still somehow have phenomenal maintenance, and constant content updates to boot? People keep hinting at them but I've never seen a name posted.
I'm not being snide I seriously would love to give 'em a go but every time I do a search I never see anything that fits the bill.
Unstable: Well at the moment, you got me there. Some serious server/client stability issues, lag, latency issues and more all under the heading of Stability that need work. and I believe is the current hot topic "get it fixed now!" item at Cryptic. It is fairly critical.
Uncaring.. I think they do care, just not about quite the same things you or I would.
Money Grubbing: MMO's are a how many billions of dollars a year industry world wide? Of course they are money grubbing. You don't get into the MMO industry to specifically get famous. You get into it to make a tremendous amount of money so you can hopefully be retired if you choose, by the time you hit your 50th birthday. I think they charge far more then they need to, and between that and the rest of their pricing structure actually limits how much they can make. They literally get in their own way. Quark would have straitened 'em out long ago.. Unfortunately he's only a fictional character. Damd shame that.
So yea, at some levels I agree with ya.. At others, I'm tell'n ya your expecting way to much. Please remember that Cryptic is owned by a multinational corporation. My understanding is they let Cryptic have a fairly nice budget to play with for all their titles. And I believe Cryptic is running 400-500 employees total these days. Money making they are!
MMO are a particular beast.. You have to constantly be spending money to make money. If your not developing new content, then you have very little chance of attracting new customers faster then you loose them. And Cryptic is not entirely the boss of its own house. You might be blaming Cryptic for what is PWE/PWI's doing.
So if you have so much experience with "other mmos", what are you still doing here? Mommy and daddy refuse to pay for the monthly subscription for the "good" mmos?
greetings..............
Ok you haven't been here long have you. Considering the work Salami is doing to get the game back on track unlike the previous EP who would 100% blame the players every damn time, it's been a very very interesting 4 months.
Unlike most games that have a proper team to work on bugs as well as the new parts of the game, STO's team have to work with an archaic engine full of spaghetti code, which results in a lot of the issues we are seeing currently. A lot of these were introduced with DR last year which have caused many annoyances for players, not just from the problems but from the reactions of the EP at the time (not Salami I should add).
The issues are being squashed, but it takes time, time that for once is now shorter than 4 years...
If you still have a beef with the game and have the comprehension and patience of a Goldfish, there are many other games out there that don't require social interaction.
"You don't have to do something again and again and again repetitive that doesn't have much challange, that's just a general good gameplay thing."
That's because it was intel
In all seriousness, This game is pretty dam playable, despite the fact I really don't play it anymore. (here for the summer event and that's pretty much it).
Also, for the record, my wife and I are temporarily living in a very remote Australian town and the only way we can connect to the internet is via a mobile (Cell) phone. Although I get 4G on Telstra, we are stuck using Optus 3G (unlimited data, awful connection, if you ever have the option to go optus... dont
despite the frustatingly awful network infrastructure of Optus, the only time we get disconnected is when their tower down here chucks a wobbler and we have to reset the phones data connection (again, don't go optus, there is a reason they've gone from 2nd to 3rd provider
Bugs can be complicated. Sometimes they're itty bitty little guys, sometimes they're gigantic terrifying beasts worthy of a Starship Troopers movie. They're problems though, no matter what. Prioritization is one discussion, but keep in mind that the nature of a bug can be so variable that it may require days to weeks worth of time from investigating, building solutions, testing solutions, and then implementing them. This takes a while no matter what due to processes.
That being said, we still take care and consideration in improving and going on bug squashing missions. Hell, I'm actually more involved with talking to the QA team more than I ever was in the past few weeks.
But that shall not excuse flamery. You can be upset, but you still need to exhibit maturity and civility.