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Different Patches for the other Shards servers?

gamesweetg#7900 gamesweetg
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edited September 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hi I've decided to play on either Tribble or Redshirt shard. Since I'm on a Lifetime Subscription.

However when I change to them. I discover that the launcher has to patch the game again for Tribble and Redshirt shards.

Why does it do that because it seems like it's redownloading the whole entire game. As I type this message?
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited May 2019
    Redshirt and Tribble are test servers, and if you download for them, you basically the game installed a second and third time. They are indeed on different patch levels. Note that Cryptic is pretty clever about this, and usually you don't need to redownload them completely, instead components are copied over from the existing installations. But even that takes time. But the different patch levels will definitely lead to you having to download something.

    Since they are test servers, you don't really need them, unless you want to preview and test features on there.
    They won't even have your characters on them. You can transfer characters from Holodeck (when the feature isn't broken; see details for how todo it in the guides section), but that will be just a copy of the character at the time of the copying.
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  • gamesweetg#7900 gamesweetg
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    edited May 2019
    Ok for a moment I thought those other two Shard servers had different & better benefits.
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  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,507 Arc User
    zanuzelta wrote: »
    Ok for a moment I thought those other two Shard servers had different & better benefits.

    As mentioned, they are purely for testing and you will encounter issues on it as they are not for regular gameplay. You won't get access to C-Store, Dil-Ex et al that are available on Holodeck.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,669 Community Moderator
    Tribble is where everything gets tested before going on Holodeck.
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  • claudiusdkclaudiusdk Member Posts: 561 Arc User
    Redshirt and Tribble have also a few times in the past gotten a character list reset. Where they removed peoples characters when testing new major content, so people would test them with a freshly made new character, instead of characters people had copied over or already leveled.
    I wouldn't advise to play on them like they were regular servers. They are mainly for testing new content.
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  • garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    ones patched tribble do . holodeck will take it from that patch from time to time!!
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    https://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1249570/axanar-locks-in-start-date-for-filming
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