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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The universe has a wonderful sense of humor. The trick is learning how to take a joke.
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
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.
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.
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
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.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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
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.'
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.'
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.
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?
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.