IMO, in all this maintenence European players are ignored. We have 1,5 day without possibility to enter the game. Cryptic need to revise date and time to do such things.
I use to play wow they ripped me off so i don't play wow.. but the 5 hours down time and no fixes? Must be clearing files, defraging, running virous scan, and maybe adding more ram... lol who knows
5 hours of downtime on the day WoW launches Legion ... this is either brilliant (anticipating low player numbers) or incredibly poor planning (giving more players a reason to try a competitors game), i cant decide which TBH.
It's WoW. It'a recycled stroyline, a basic continuation of TBC reboot. The fact that people still play wow is rather amazing,
5 hours of downtime on the day WoW launches Legion ... this is either brilliant (anticipating low player numbers) or incredibly poor planning (giving more players a reason to try a competitors game), i cant decide which TBH.
It's WoW. It'a recycled stroyline, a basic continuation of TBC reboot. The fact that people still play wow is rather amazing,
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IMO, in all this maintenence European players are ignored. We have 1,5 day without possibility to enter the game. Cryptic need to revise date and time to do such things.
They plan maintenance when user count is typically lowest. Unfortunately, this means that Europeans will get the shaft since there are more stateside players.
Since it would seem many of the posters in this thread are from Europe or the UK it might help you to know that the first Monday in September is Memorial Day in the United States. They are doing the server maintenance early as they do with all observed US holidays in anticipation of higher server traffic for the extended weekend. (most people take the preceding Friday off as well and some also take Thursday off). This is not for any bug fixes in any of their games, but just to get their weekly server maintenance done early.
Since it would seem many of the posters in this thread are from Europe or the UK it might help you to know that the first Monday in September is Memorial Day in the United States. They are doing the server maintenance early as they do with all observed US holidays in anticipation of higher server traffic for the extended weekend. (most people take the preceding Friday off as well and some also take Thursday off). This is not for any bug fixes in any of their games, but just to get their weekly server maintenance done early.
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Could this be the "BIG ONE" Trendy was hinting at the other week ? or is it simply a behind the scenes clean up that the front end user i.e Player will see no improvement to server performance or fix to gameplay bugs ?. And just be a 5hr loss of playtime ?
IMO, in all this maintenence European players are ignored. We have 1,5 day without possibility to enter the game. Cryptic need to revise date and time to do such things.
Almost anytime the pick would be bad for someone somewhere - so they pick a time (6:00 AM - 11:00AM PST (9:00 AM - 2:00 PM EST) that works for their Network Engineering staff in the U.S. where the servers are located on the East Coast of the U.S. What's so hard to understand about them picking a time for what appears to be a major hardware maintenance cycle on their infrastructure?
(IE 5 hours and affecting all three Cryptic games STO, NW, CO with no software patch for ANY of them = Cryptic network and server infrastructure hardware maintenance replacement cycle - and a big one.)
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Gr8... current it knowledge: use a HA cluster, every full shutdown is a complete fail these days of it engineering. Maybe usual for an american company. There are balancer mechanisms for leading incoming clients on an other system with current old version, patch ur productive system, after that, disconnect all an let em connect to the new system... Yes u need to know how to build up ur database in a proper way.... man... companies these days...every day a step back...
Why does it say at the top, Holodek back up and online?
I think that's an old notification (perhaps from the very unexpected late-night downtime not too long ago.) Click the X in the upper right of the box to clear it.
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Well, since Cryptic and WoW use Cogent as a server hub, AND that site has been lacking in quality. I'm guessing they expected the servers to be bogged down and didnt want their players screaming at them "IT's the game!!"
Surely, given how much you charge for Zen (£40 for 5800 which won't even get you the cross faction battle cruisers, funny that you never get enough Zen in one purchase to get what you want if you decide to pay towards the game) you would be able to afford to have a couple of back servers so there is no downtime for players. I think I may just stop my subscription at the end of its first month and play another game
Gr8... current it knowledge: use a HA cluster, every full shutdown is a complete fail these days of it engineering. Maybe usual for an american company. There are balancer mechanisms for leading incoming clients on an other system with current old version, patch ur productive system, after that, disconnect all an let em connect to the new system... Yes u need to know how to build up ur database in a proper way....
man... companies these days...every day a step back...
Gr8 job managers...show us the way to hell...
That would be a huge investment for minimal gain, I don't think it would be worth it tbh.
IMO, in all this maintenence European players are ignored. We have 1,5 day without possibility to enter the game. Cryptic need to revise date and time to do such things.
They plan maintenance when user count is typically lowest. Unfortunately, this means that Europeans will get the shaft since there are more stateside players.
I will say it differently. It's not the first time that PWE/Cryptic schedules a maintenance during an event. Rather it's becoming a standard procedure from them to do so or TRIBBLE it up big time (for whatever reason) during an event. Haven't seen one event in fact that hadn't one large downtime so European users are losing one day in total, but never is Cryptic/PWE extending the event to compensate their failure.
Maintenance is always welcome. Hopefully this does fix more problems than it introduces.
No, it isn't. Not if it is an extra five-hours downtime during an event and not if they clearly say there won't be any patch notes, meaning no bugs will be fixed.
Surely, given how much you charge for Zen (£40 for 5800 which won't even get you the cross faction battle cruisers, funny that you never get enough Zen in one purchase to get what you want if you decide to pay towards the game) you would be able to afford to have a couple of back servers so there is no downtime for players. I think I may just stop my subscription at the end of its first month and play another game
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LOl see this too, is just one of the most hilarous bug I've ever see on this game
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it is all simple logic if you think about it they are under a china company and the way they do bussines is like their other china made games (PWI/PWE) makes as much TRIBBLE as fast as they can to see to you as much as possable and give as little as possable with as little as possable. all the PWI/PWE game run the same and they are trying t run sto the same as them. so you don't get real good fixes unless it cut in to their profit form mrico trans actions. ie the lock boxes for one. so you of corse end up with what we have now
Well this was actually more informative then the news section for a change, because both the news section and the launcher appear to think today is the 25th August, so they are the patch notes that are up.
Thought something was off when I read the patch notes and saw a load of stuff they had 'fixed' already on it.
Gr8... current it knowledge: use a HA cluster, every full shutdown is a complete fail these days of it engineering. Maybe usual for an american company. There are balancer mechanisms for leading incoming clients on an other system with current old version, patch ur productive system, after that, disconnect all an let em connect to the new system... Yes u need to know how to build up ur database in a proper way....
man... companies these days...every day a step back...
Gr8 job managers...show us the way to hell...
If you're implying that life without STO is Hell, then the dev team is doing a really good job.
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Disappointed, but not surprised.
They plan maintenance when user count is typically lowest. Unfortunately, this means that Europeans will get the shaft since there are more stateside players.
let's be honest, almost no one works anymore
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
Almost anytime the pick would be bad for someone somewhere - so they pick a time (6:00 AM - 11:00AM PST (9:00 AM - 2:00 PM EST) that works for their Network Engineering staff in the U.S. where the servers are located on the East Coast of the U.S. What's so hard to understand about them picking a time for what appears to be a major hardware maintenance cycle on their infrastructure?
(IE 5 hours and affecting all three Cryptic games STO, NW, CO with no software patch for ANY of them = Cryptic network and server infrastructure hardware maintenance replacement cycle - and a big one.)
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Because Moriarty took control again.
man... companies these days...every day a step back...
Gr8 job managers...show us the way to hell...
I think that's an old notification (perhaps from the very unexpected late-night downtime not too long ago.) Click the X in the upper right of the box to clear it.
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That would be a huge investment for minimal gain, I don't think it would be worth it tbh.
I will say it differently. It's not the first time that PWE/Cryptic schedules a maintenance during an event. Rather it's becoming a standard procedure from them to do so or TRIBBLE it up big time (for whatever reason) during an event. Haven't seen one event in fact that hadn't one large downtime so European users are losing one day in total, but never is Cryptic/PWE extending the event to compensate their failure.
No, it isn't. Not if it is an extra five-hours downtime during an event and not if they clearly say there won't be any patch notes, meaning no bugs will be fixed.
T'Ket / Random Iconian slash fics will now be a thing... YAY...
Thought something was off when I read the patch notes and saw a load of stuff they had 'fixed' already on it.
If you're implying that life without STO is Hell, then the dev team is doing a really good job.