Yep... the instability increased about an hour and a half ago, when the population increased dramatically in the game.
I've been playing for the last 5 hours or so and didn't have any problems till just recently.
Been bounced out three times in the last 45 minutes.
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Its ridiculous get your TRIBBLE together cryptic. Nothing but wasted time now thanks a lot, I'm tired of wasted game time due to repeated disconnects, no wonder the queues continue to stay dead.
From Twitter, 12min ago: Our network engineers have applied a fix. You should now be able to login. We are still looking into the cause of the issue.
Please, fix the server issues that seem to show up on the week ends when you decide to launch a new event like the upgrade event this time. You are now starting to lose the friends I got to join the game, sadly, because they can't stay in the game, and a couple bought the lifer. You have been doing so well to lose like this. I can't stay on my toon long enough to even set her ship up. after five DCs, I am giving up and guess I will go back and play WoW for the weekend.
Believe they fixed it according to their Twitter and they are investigating what was the cause.
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Nope, no such luck--MASSIVE lag loading the launcher just a minute ago, to where I don't even want to try to log in anymore.
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Apologise in advance tried playing with the lyrics to Queens Flash for giggles
Lag, Ah, ah, Scourge of the internet
Lag, Ah, ah, I’m really raging now
Seemly there is no reason for these
Extraordinary Internet upsets
What’s happening ? Lag ?
Only Tracer to route cause
Has provided any explanation
Lag, ah, ah, It’s a feature
This Mornings server disconnect numbers
is no real cause for alarm
Lag, Ah, ah, Killing my enjoyment
Lag's for every one of us
Anger for every one of us
Crashes for every one of us
He’ll start with a Server not responding, rubber band, disconnect
ending with a mighty Lag
Captain Geko Lag reported
What do you mean Lag reported
Hide under the desks
Dispatch Trendy to deal with the discontent
Lag, Ah, ah
Lag’s alive
Lag, ah, ah, servers not responding
Just some lag with some rubber banding
Tech support they know nothing
they always fail
training is in the mail
one day they’ll find the unplugged cable oh oh oh oh
Lag, lag, i hate you
I only have few hours to play the game
Lag....
It's a dark Cryptic game day. It seems like They don't care.
E-mergency up-keep, to try to fix the software.
All the players are resistant, and try to put up a fight.
The forums flare-up and then Trendy begins...
It's gonna be a long, night.
There She sits with her keyboard.
A gifted Mod we know well,
She must be thinking to herself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Then she queued up Her handle, and she showed us the way.
There were voices in forums now,
I thought I heard them say...
Welcome to the Cryptic Hacienda,
S-T-O's the place. (S-T-O's the place)
What a data-base.
Limited room at the Cryptic Hacienda.
When you try to log-in, (when you try to log-in)
...Is when the pain begins.
Her mind is Trekian-twisted, She's got the power to rend. uuh...
She's got a lot of pretty, pretty words, that She calls friends.
How they dance off Her keyboard, sweeeet, but don't fret.
Some dance to remind you, don't you ever forget.
So I called-up my log-in, "Please let me connect"
It said, ........."You haven't got the clearance dear, so you're, never gonna respec.
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Make you wish that the servers just might,
Let you in to play...
Welcome to the Cryptic Hacienda,
S-T-O's the place. (S-T-O's the place)
What a data-base.
Their limiting us at the Cryptic Hacienda.
What a wonderful guise. (what a wonderful guise)
It takes a hundred tries...
Mirror ships, on clearance.
The Breen are bringing the ice.
Then She said... "We are all just waiting out here, while They add some more vice."
And In the Gecko's chambers,
They gather for the spiel.
They wonder what He'll dream up next,
...To make more players squeal.
Last thing I remember, I was...
Searching the C-Store.
I had to find a bundle there,
So my ship could still explore.
"Relax" said the forums,
"They are, programmed to deceive.
You can buy anything you like,
but you can never achieve!"
{another long guitar riff...}
STO Member since February 2009. I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born! Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
It's a dark Cryptic game day. It seems like They don't care.
E-mergency up-keep, to try to fix the software.
All the players are resistant, and try to put up a fight.
The forums flare-up and then Trendy begins...
It's gonna be a long, night.
There She sits with her keyboard.
A gifted Mod we know well,
She must be thinking to herself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Then she queued up Her handle, and she showed us the way.
There were voices in forums now,
I thought I heard them say...
Welcome to the Cryptic Hacienda,
S-T-O's the place. (S-T-O's the place)
What a data-base.
Limited room at the Cryptic Hacienda.
When you try to log-in, (when you try to log-in)
...Is when the pain begins.
Her mind is Trekian-twisted, She's got the power to rend. uuh...
She's got a lot of pretty, pretty words, that She calls friends.
How they dance off Her keyboard, sweeeet, but don't fret.
Some dance to remind you, don't you ever forget.
So I called-up my log-in, "Please let me connect"
It said, ........."You haven't got the clearance dear, so you're, never gonna respec.
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Make you wish that the servers just might,
Let you in to play...
Welcome to the Cryptic Hacienda,
S-T-O's the place. (S-T-O's the place)
What a data-base.
Their limiting us at the Cryptic Hacienda.
What a wonderful guise. (what a wonderful guise)
It takes a hundred tries...
Mirror ships, on clearance.
The Breen are bringing the ice.
Then She said... "We are all just waiting out here, while They add some more vice."
And In the Gecko's chambers,
They gather for the spiel.
They wonder what He'll dream up next,
...To make more players squeal.
Last thing I remember, I was...
Searching the C-Store.
I had to find a bundle there,
So my ship could still explore.
"Relax" said the forums,
"They are, programmed to deceive.
You can buy anything you like,
but you can never achieve!"
STO Member since February 2009. I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born! Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Apparently there was some issue with the Internap circuit. The networking team has been working on it.
@thlaylierah there was an exploit that made Hanger Pets sad as well as EC sad. That's why.
Awww...please don't hurt my hangar pets anymore. They're still crying from the hitpoint nerf last year. A shuttle with the sniffles is a very bad thing.
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Still disconnecting every few minutes. Apparently, Cryptic is following suit of other mmo's and seeing the cost savings, they are reaping the rewards of peddling unstable broken games.
For all the issues with power creep, ruining pvp, etc. STO until recently could generally say it did a better job of fixing bugs and generally had a very stable product. Now once people come online the clunky, broken game can't handle the load anymore. Game development is one of the few businesses in which you don't even need a working product for your customers to turn a profit. Sad.
Oh well, at least all the "It's not teh game, derp, it's your puter, hurdur, it's your isp derp" crowd has finally shut the frak up.
Apparently there was some issue with the Internap circuit. The networking team has been working on it.
@thlaylierah there was an exploit that made Hanger Pets sad as well as EC sad. That's why.
That's funny. This happens when the new T6 heavy escort carriers are released.
I can understand you not wanting to say exactly what the exploit was, but saying it made the hangar pets "sad and EC sad" makes no sense at all.
Also, tell them to fix the Plesh Brek hangar pets at the EC vendor. Many months ago I reported they were incorrectly showing as being Ultra Rare quality when they are suppose to be Rare (blue) quality. Comparing the weapons and skills to advanced versions in the dilithium store, they seemed to actually be blue quality (just judging by tooltips and item information. I never actually bought the advanced versions to test if there was a difference). So I always assumed it was just incorrectly marked for the rarity only. I checked on it about a month or so ago and it still wasn't fixed. Maybe now they can finally fix it, especially if this is part of the "exploit" you mention. I pray nobody gets banned for buying them if that's the case because the bug was reported a long time ago and nobody gave a damn to fix it.
Also way back then there were reports the Elite Plesh Brek hangar pets from the fleet store had the wrong stats and weren't functioning the way they were suppose to. Never bought them because it's way too pricey and I don't know if it ever got fixed.
Comments
"The higher the fewer."
I've been playing for the last 5 hours or so and didn't have any problems till just recently.
Been bounced out three times in the last 45 minutes.
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Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
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Liberty Task Force/Liberty Honor Guard
Pride of the Federation/Pride of the Empire
Liberty Guardians
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Lag, Ah, ah, Scourge of the internet
Lag, Ah, ah, I’m really raging now
Seemly there is no reason for these
Extraordinary Internet upsets
What’s happening ? Lag ?
Only Tracer to route cause
Has provided any explanation
Lag, ah, ah, It’s a feature
This Mornings server disconnect numbers
is no real cause for alarm
Lag, Ah, ah, Killing my enjoyment
Lag's for every one of us
Anger for every one of us
Crashes for every one of us
He’ll start with a Server not responding, rubber band, disconnect
ending with a mighty Lag
Captain Geko Lag reported
What do you mean Lag reported
Hide under the desks
Dispatch Trendy to deal with the discontent
Lag, Ah, ah
Lag’s alive
Lag, ah, ah, servers not responding
Just some lag with some rubber banding
Tech support they know nothing
they always fail
training is in the mail
one day they’ll find the unplugged cable oh oh oh oh
Lag, lag, i hate you
I only have few hours to play the game
Lag....
CRYPTIC HACIENDA
(set to this...)
https://youtu.be/mpAkMk0phOs
{A Long Guitar Riff...}
It's a dark Cryptic game day. It seems like They don't care.
E-mergency up-keep, to try to fix the software.
All the players are resistant, and try to put up a fight.
The forums flare-up and then Trendy begins...
It's gonna be a long, night.
There She sits with her keyboard.
A gifted Mod we know well,
She must be thinking to herself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Then she queued up Her handle, and she showed us the way.
There were voices in forums now,
I thought I heard them say...
Welcome to the Cryptic Hacienda,
S-T-O's the place. (S-T-O's the place)
What a data-base.
Limited room at the Cryptic Hacienda.
When you try to log-in, (when you try to log-in)
...Is when the pain begins.
Her mind is Trekian-twisted, She's got the power to rend. uuh...
She's got a lot of pretty, pretty words, that She calls friends.
How they dance off Her keyboard, sweeeet, but don't fret.
Some dance to remind you, don't you ever forget.
So I called-up my log-in, "Please let me connect"
It said,
........."You haven't got the clearance dear, so you're, never gonna respec.
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Make you wish that the servers just might,
Let you in to play...
Welcome to the Cryptic Hacienda,
S-T-O's the place. (S-T-O's the place)
What a data-base.
Their limiting us at the Cryptic Hacienda.
What a wonderful guise. (what a wonderful guise)
It takes a hundred tries...
Mirror ships, on clearance.
The Breen are bringing the ice.
Then She said... "We are all just waiting out here, while They add some more vice."
And In the Gecko's chambers,
They gather for the spiel.
They wonder what He'll dream up next,
...To make more players squeal.
Last thing I remember, I was...
Searching the C-Store.
I had to find a bundle there,
So my ship could still explore.
"Relax" said the forums,
"They are, programmed to deceive.
You can buy anything you like,
but you can never achieve!"
{another long guitar riff...}
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
thats pretty good i applaud you sir
They truly inspire me at times...
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
@thlaylierah there was an exploit that made Hanger Pets sad as well as EC sad. That's why.
OK, Thanks, Are they back then?
Awww...please don't hurt my hangar pets anymore. They're still crying from the hitpoint nerf last year. A shuttle with the sniffles is a very bad thing.
Christian Gaming Community Fleets--Faith, Fun, and Fellowship! See the website and PM for more. :-)
Proudly F2P. Signature image by gulberat. Avatar image by balsavor.deviantart.com.
For all the issues with power creep, ruining pvp, etc. STO until recently could generally say it did a better job of fixing bugs and generally had a very stable product. Now once people come online the clunky, broken game can't handle the load anymore. Game development is one of the few businesses in which you don't even need a working product for your customers to turn a profit. Sad.
Oh well, at least all the "It's not teh game, derp, it's your puter, hurdur, it's your isp derp" crowd has finally shut the frak up.
That's funny. This happens when the new T6 heavy escort carriers are released.
I can understand you not wanting to say exactly what the exploit was, but saying it made the hangar pets "sad and EC sad" makes no sense at all.
Also, tell them to fix the Plesh Brek hangar pets at the EC vendor. Many months ago I reported they were incorrectly showing as being Ultra Rare quality when they are suppose to be Rare (blue) quality. Comparing the weapons and skills to advanced versions in the dilithium store, they seemed to actually be blue quality (just judging by tooltips and item information. I never actually bought the advanced versions to test if there was a difference). So I always assumed it was just incorrectly marked for the rarity only. I checked on it about a month or so ago and it still wasn't fixed. Maybe now they can finally fix it, especially if this is part of the "exploit" you mention. I pray nobody gets banned for buying them if that's the case because the bug was reported a long time ago and nobody gave a damn to fix it.
Also way back then there were reports the Elite Plesh Brek hangar pets from the fleet store had the wrong stats and weren't functioning the way they were suppose to. Never bought them because it's way too pricey and I don't know if it ever got fixed.
I think they are also BOP so I can't buy any anywhere else.