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24H of anniversary handins lost.

ihatepwe735ihatepwe735 Member Posts: 337 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Really - another 2.5H downtime???
I've finally go the time, after facing a 1GB download and numerous bugs, to try and actually complete one of the dailies to earn a Krenimin science ship and you shut the server down for 2+ hours.
1 day gone. Progress: 0. Thanks.
/rant off
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    jbmaverickjbmaverick Member Posts: 935 Arc User
    You'd rather they allow the bugs to continue, preventing you and others from making any progress for the remainder of the event?
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    hanover2hanover2 Member Posts: 1,053 Arc User
    OP, take a moment and meditate on the practical implications of tailoring server downtime to every players individual schedule.
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    theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 5,986 Arc User
    Some of these bugs are major, the extra maintenance is welcomed, still hoping this emergency patch deals with the client crashes
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      seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
      Oh look.. The guy with the handle 'I hate PWE' has a complaint.. How unusual.

      In other 'shocking' news, today is a day that ends in Y, the sun came up this morning, and humans still require Oxygen to live.

      There is plenty of time to get your precious ship.. just calm down. Some of you people need to take video games a lot less seriously.
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      hanover2hanover2 Member Posts: 1,053 Arc User
      No, no. They should give us all of the prizes right away, for free, because we have been slightly inconvenienced.
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      ihatepwe735ihatepwe735 Member Posts: 337 Arc User
      edited January 2016
      seaofsorrows wrote: »
      Oh look.. The guy with the handle 'I hate PWE' has a complaint.. How unusual.

      In other 'shocking' news, today is a day that ends in Y, the sun came up this morning, and humans still require Oxygen to live.

      There is plenty of time to get your precious ship.. just calm down. Some of you people need to take video games a lot less seriously.

      My forum handle is the unfortunate consequence of PWE taking the game over from Atari when I originally tried to re-activate my account and the process was really really buggy because I couldn't remember my password to log into my Atari account to migrate it to a PWE account, but the password reset form required a PWE account. By the time I got it working I was really REALLY annoyed and every one of my usual usernames was taken so mistakes were made.

      And now I can't change it, so yeah... I seem to be stuck with it because the forums use our login name rather than a chosen display name. :/

      Anyhow, I *DO* appreciate the maintenance. But my timezone, and job, mean that I am now 24H behind, with zero progress. So I am going to have to wake up really early this weekend, to try and roll the 20H cooldown back a day.

      At least the patch files are up early in the maintenance, so I can get my 2MB connection started on updating.
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      architect13architect13 Member Posts: 1,076 Arc User
      Some of these bugs are exactly what we ran into last year!
      Have you tried the new forum on your phone?
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      darkhorse281darkhorse281 Member Posts: 256 Arc User
      ihatepwe735 wrote: »
      seaofsorrows wrote: »
      Oh look.. The guy with the handle 'I hate PWE' has a complaint.. How unusual.

      In other 'shocking' news, today is a day that ends in Y, the sun came up this morning, and humans still require Oxygen to live.

      There is plenty of time to get your precious ship.. just calm down. Some of you people need to take video games a lot less seriously.

      My forum handle is the unfortunate consequence of PWE taking the game over from Atari when I originally tried to re-activate my account and the process was really really buggy because I couldn't remember my password to log into my Atari account to migrate it to a PWE account, but the password reset form required a PWE account. By the time I got it working I was really REALLY annoyed and every one of my usual usernames was taken so mistakes were made.

      And now I can't change it, so yeah... I seem to be stuck with it.

      Anyhow, I *DO* appreciate the maintenance. But my timezone, and job, mean that I am now 24H behind, with zero progress. So I am going to have to wake up really early this weekend, to try and roll the 20H cooldown back a day.

      As i said in another thread do the FE, first time per char you get 400 pics as one of the rewards which will save you 10 days. Plenty of time to finish the ship.
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      thelordofshadesthelordofshades Member Posts: 258 Arc User
      ihatepwe735 wrote: »
      to try and actually complete one of the dailies to earn a Krenimin science ship and you shut the server down for 2+ hours
      In fact, you need not be upset. Most likely, you wouldn't been ablr to complete the daily mission anyway, because of the bugs.
      Starting from yesterday's maintenance, I tried three times to complete the daily mission with 3 different sets of locations. And guess what ? Every single one of them had a bugged instance in them, making the mission impossible to complete.

      So you didn't lose anything, except maybe frustration for fruitless attempt :D:D:D

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      ihatepwe735ihatepwe735 Member Posts: 337 Arc User
      edited January 2016
      thelordofshades wrote: »
      ihatepwe735 wrote: »
      to try and actually complete one of the dailies to earn a Krenimin science ship and you shut the server down for 2+ hours
      In fact, you need not be upset. Most likely, you wouldn't been ablr to complete the daily mission anyway, because of the bugs.
      Starting from yesterday's maintenance, I tried three times to complete the daily mission with 3 different sets of locations. And guess what ? Every single one of them had a bugged instance in them, making the mission impossible to complete.

      So you didn't lose anything, except maybe frustration for fruitless attempt :D:D:D

      I don't know if it was true; but I saw one person suggest that they had success doing a different ground instance that offered the correct colour of Omega particle. The quest didn't really care about the location - just the colour.
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      szimszim Member Posts: 2,503 Arc User
      Oh no how terrible! You lose ONE day?! How will you survive this ordeal?
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      mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
      op if you got no place to some consideration in the middle of all that entitlement tripe, then you are on the wrong game. i would suggest you reconsider your position and realize that one day lost isnt a big deal.
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      darkhorse281darkhorse281 Member Posts: 256 Arc User
      I have all 3 colors on multiple toons, no dailies completed for me.
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      jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
      I agree with the OP.

      There should never be server maintenance at all!!!!

      Bug patches and content updates be damned!!!!

      I want a refund!!!!

      Now back to reality... hopefully the patch will correct the omega particle problem I and most other people likely had yesterday.
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      storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,253 Arc User
      It's dead Jim...Most cannnot complete the event so the patch is an emergency. It shouldn't have been launched as it was yesterday since it is broken for "most".​​
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      darkhorse281darkhorse281 Member Posts: 256 Arc User
      storules wrote: »
      It's dead Jim...Most cannnot complete the event so the patch is an emergency. It shouldn't have been launched as it was yesterday since it is broken for "most".​​

      Especially since they had this problem last year too, Ive heard.
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      leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,348 Arc User
      darkhorse281 wrote: »
      storules wrote: »
      It's dead Jim...Most cannnot complete the event so the patch is an emergency. It shouldn't have been launched as it was yesterday since it is broken for "most".​​

      Especially since they had this problem last year too, Ive heard.

      No. The issue last year was on just one location which was Starfleet Academy IIRC. This is a new issue completely.
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      pottsey5gpottsey5g Member Posts: 4,177 Arc User
      szim wrote: »
      Oh no how terrible! You lose ONE day?! How will you survive this ordeal?
      I have now lost 2 days worth. Couldn't complete it yesterday and cannot today as its still bugged. Same issues as last year.
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      ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,571 Arc User
      Think about it, if I accept the Tholian Red Alert one day I do not run it until 20 hours later, I can immediately pick it up again, run it again after the thirty minute Cooldown and turn it in again. Check that today. You may be able to finish yesterday's and then get today's and do that and turn that in as well.
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      seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
      darkhorse281 wrote: »
      I have all 3 colors on multiple toons, no dailies completed for me.

      In order to complete the daily, you need to get the mission from Q. Just collecting Omega Particles does not count for the daily toward the Event Ship.
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      architect13architect13 Member Posts: 1,076 Arc User
      edited January 2016
      "No. The issue last year was on just one location which was Starfleet Academy IIRC. This is a new issue completely."

      Nope. There was at least one space location that was missing the particles. It doesn't matter if it was one location or a dozen, they were missing last year and they are missing this year. Although the places that I visited that the particles were missing, it seemed like the mission was confused on the ground vs. space aspect.
      Have you tried the new forum on your phone?
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      pottsey5gpottsey5g Member Posts: 4,177 Arc User
      ltminns wrote: »
      Think about it, if I accept the Tholian Red Alert one day I do not run it until 20 hours later, I can immediately pick it up again, run it again after the thirty minute Cooldown and turn it in again. Check that today. You may be able to finish yesterday's and then get today's and do that and turn that in as well.
      That would work if I could complete yesterdays mission. But as the emergency patch has made it even worse I cannot do that. the game is now unplayable. Every single zone change makes the game crash. Yesterday it was only every other zone.
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      tenderbitstenderbits Member Posts: 117 Arc User
      pottsey5g wrote: »
      ltminns wrote: »
      Think about it, if I accept the Tholian Red Alert one day I do not run it until 20 hours later, I can immediately pick it up again, run it again after the thirty minute Cooldown and turn it in again. Check that today. You may be able to finish yesterday's and then get today's and do that and turn that in as well.
      That would work if I could complete yesterdays mission. But as the emergency patch has made it even worse I cannot do that. the game is now unplayable. Every single zone change makes the game crash. Yesterday it was only every other zone.

      I had zero game crashes while running about yesterday. I hope it doesnt spread. With all the travel/zone changes needed to finish the dailys, this could be a real pita. Fingers Crossed
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      zorander6zorander6 Member Posts: 130 Arc User
      No zone crashes for me, finished yesterday's quest and there is a 6 hour cool down. Can run it again when I get home.
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      ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,571 Arc User
      Yikes!!!
      'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
      Judge Dan Haywood
      'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
      l don't know.
      l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
      That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
      Lt. Philip J. Minns
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      ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,571 Arc User
      Just finished up yesterday's with a trip to SB 39. Turned it in and got today's with no problem. Will go out and get them, see if I have any issues with Andoria. Bajor, and SB 39 (again).
      'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
      Judge Dan Haywood
      'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
      l don't know.
      l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
      That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
      Lt. Philip J. Minns
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      swamarianswamarian Member Posts: 1,506 Arc User
      I'm working on my second daily as well. Looks fine.
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      farranorfarranor Member Posts: 559 Arc User
      hanover2 wrote: »
      No, no. They should give us all of the prizes right away, for free, because we have been slightly inconvenienced.

      That's what they did in 2012. "Fly this ship. Like it? Good, because it's yours." Now we have to log in every day to grind a daily just because Cryptic/PWE/etc. want to show a prettier graph for player metrics in their quarterly reviews.
      leemwatson wrote: »
      darkhorse281 wrote: »
      storules wrote: »
      It's dead Jim...Most cannnot complete the event so the patch is an emergency. It shouldn't have been launched as it was yesterday since it is broken for "most".​​

      Especially since they had this problem last year too, Ive heard.

      No. The issue last year was on just one location which was Starfleet Academy IIRC. This is a new issue completely.

      I see that not only were you not around for last year's event, you didn't even do any Googling.

      https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/2u578y/semiunofficial_anniversary_patch_bug_thread/
      https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/2u8492/psa_omega_molecule_stabilization_impossible_to/
      http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/comment/12339929

      Starfleet Academy, Bajor space, and ESD space were broken. Bajor space in particular had no particles showing up at all. Sound familiar?
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      rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,040 Community Moderator
      At least they caught it real early. Besides... play the FE and you get a pretty big jump too.
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      potencethe1stpotencethe1st Member Posts: 257 Arc User
      "Play the FE" doesn't help players still trying to complete last years project who may not have extra days to waste and need every daily on top of the FE.

      The damn apologists just need to quit it. It's okay to acknowledge its broken, it's okay to ask for it to be fixed; and it's certainly ok to ask for the event to be extended.

      See were given explicit expectations and they failed to deliver. Asking to make the right and being told to deal with it comes across as incredibly victim-blamey. Don't be that person.
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