Thanks for the notification on the server down

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  • eazzie
    eazzie Member Posts: 3,250 Arc User
    BACK UP FOLKS
  • tigeria#8677
    tigeria#8677 Member Posts: 15 Arc User
    If i have to choice between creators not responding bcause they bugfixing, or creators responding but not bugfixing, i go w the first.. and if they havent found the issue yet, what really is there to say..

    "We working" will prolly just lead to another avalanche of questions.. so i get it.. lets give them the time and space to fix it.. they let us know when they have something informative to say..
    - Tiger
  • pritch#1622
    pritch#1622 Member Posts: 34 Arc User
    Is Eve Online any good?

    Serious question; I watched a whole youtube ad on it yesterday and it looked good but I know literally nothing about it.

    I'm very fond of STO and a huge ST fan but it's not been a great gaming experience lately. I start to think I need to diversify.
  • thegrandnagus1
    thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,102 Arc User
    > @pritch#1622 said:
    > Is Eve Online any good?
    >

    If you really want to know, you should post on the EVE forums or reddit. They will be able to answer your questions better than we will.
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  • bellonpeneagle
    bellonpeneagle Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    It's back up if you use ARC launcher. But if you try to use Epic, it crashes.
  • nightken
    nightken Member Posts: 2,808 Arc User
    pritch#1622 wrote: »
    Is Eve Online any good?

    Serious question; I watched a whole youtube ad on it yesterday and it looked good but I know literally nothing about it.

    I'm very fond of STO and a huge ST fan but it's not been a great gaming experience lately. I start to think I need to diversify.

    do you like mining and spreadsheets? if so then yes. if not then it may not the game for you.


    if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
  • chipg7
    chipg7 Member Posts: 1,572 Arc User
    fluxcapacitor#9257 wrote: »
    More troubling are their attempts at hypermonetizing literally everything. The fact they don't have money to even spend on proper music - look at the new Synth TFO, it's a badly done MIDI rendition of off-copyright music (Hosts' Mars Bringer of War). Where the money is going no one knows, but it's not on content and it's not on programming.
    I don't see STO remotely this way. But I've played other games too, where the monetization is actually that bad. Anything by Rockstar is a constant money-grab, for example. EA is notorious for locking everything behind a paywall and releasing hot garbage.

    STO is not even close to that level.
  • lordmalak1
    lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,673 Arc User
    bellonpeneagle wrote: »
    It's back up if you use ARC launcher. But if you try to use Epic, it crashes.

    THATS interesting. I wonder if the ARC launcher can work around the directX error yesterdays patch created.
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  • spiritborn
    spiritborn Member Posts: 3,575 Arc User
    Well it's back down again or at least was a moment ago,
  • houseofdax
    houseofdax Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    Everything seemed fine for myself (and others) in game, but when i switched characters (17:03GMT) login server was unavailable, should have stayed on the toon i was on
  • marcoramius2
    marcoramius2 Member Posts: 18 Arc User
    Still down.
  • eazzie
    eazzie Member Posts: 3,250 Arc User
    marcoramius2 wrote: »
    Still down.

    Yep server crashed again.
  • chipg7
    chipg7 Member Posts: 1,572 Arc User
    I was in-game, and we got a 10 minute warning for "emergency maintenance." So login is probably blocked leading into the maintenance.

    Some communication from the team would be really great about now... I'm a big supporter of the game, I love it, I'll pretty much always defend it. But I'm getting annoyed by zero official communication here.
  • seaofsorrows
    seaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,889 Arc User
    Just got an in game notification of an Emergency Maintenance.

    No ETA was provided.
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  • westmetals
    westmetals Member Posts: 8,221 Arc User
    Got no notification but got kicked out on a character change about 2 minutes before the hour.

    Their communications would be horrifyingly bad today, except I don't think they are actually trying to communicate at all.
  • corinthalas
    corinthalas Member Posts: 1,948 Arc User
    10m warning on server being brought down for maint. I guess that's better than crashing without warning like it did earlier. I even managed to get the darn TFO done.

    Something is definitely all kinds of screwed up with the server though. Today may just be a giant write-off.
  • o0galathor0o
    o0galathor0o Member Posts: 66 Arc User
    Well as long as all my chars are still there when it's done, I'm fine with it.
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  • eagletalan
    eagletalan Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    Still down.! Isn't this the norm.?
  • lordkerdoch
    lordkerdoch Member Posts: 32 Arc User
    doctorstegi wrote: »
    Great been in this boring new TFO since 15 mins and then boom server down. Good job Cryptic thanks for the advanced notifications.

    Cue the Cryptic Defense Force....they'll be here shortly to explain why it is your fault.
  • aoav160
    aoav160 Member Posts: 439 Arc User
    chipg7 wrote: »
    I imagine that QA while working from home is a new type of hell.

    STO isn't the only game suffering from this right now. Heck, games aren't even the only industry suffering from bad or delayed content.

    Still not happy about it, but such is pandemic normal.

    No it's not difficult at all. Our devs where I work saw zero work interruptions. It's poor management if they are using that excuse.
  • alcyoneserene
    alcyoneserene Member Posts: 2,412 Arc User
    Server down again, barely managed to finish the TFO which also bugged out but the bugged transport was visible and managed to get destroyed by enemy NPCs.

    I am pleased to discover disabling some visual options, possibly lens flare and bloom, took away the full screen flashing on enemies blowing up. I hope this holds true on borg maps too.
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  • sevent7ta
    sevent7ta Member Posts: 2 New User
    Welcome to Epic, I guess.

    Recently returned, was actually having a good time.. until the update.

    Guess I will keep perusing games.. ironically, the unexpected downtime was just long enough to download SWTOR. 10 minute warning came up, and it finished. Coincidence? :wink:

    -77TA
  • lordkerdoch
    lordkerdoch Member Posts: 32 Arc User
    tigeria#8677 wrote: »
    If i have to choice between creators not responding bcause they bugfixing, or creators responding but not bugfixing, i go w the first.. and if they havent found the issue yet, what really is there to say..

    "We working" will prolly just lead to another avalanche of questions.. so i get it.. lets give them the time and space to fix it.. they let us know when they have something informative to say..

    That would hold true, if the only employees they had were developers and QA.
  • iamynaught
    iamynaught Member Posts: 1,283 Arc User
    I was just in game, in the queue even, when the 10 minute warning came up. Actually managed to finish the queue, but I wound up with an AFK penalty. I never stopped firing on baddies the entire time in the mish and I get an AFK? We even managed to rescue 48 of the 50 transports, 2 got stuck and had to die to progress. I don't know what else the game expects of players, but apparently *I* don't hit that metric.

    I think I'm done with this event. Not a fun queue, and having to run it for 14 days would have been pushing it, but 20 out of 30? Nah, not worth it. For those that continue, I hope you have fun.
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  • pritch#1622
    pritch#1622 Member Posts: 34 Arc User
    nightken wrote: »
    pritch#1622 wrote: »
    Is Eve Online any good?

    Serious question; I watched a whole youtube ad on it yesterday and it looked good but I know literally nothing about it.

    I'm very fond of STO and a huge ST fan but it's not been a great gaming experience lately. I start to think I need to diversify.

    do you like mining and spreadsheets? if so then yes. if not then it may not the game for you.
    Haha, maybe not then! I've had enough spreadsheets at work in my life.

    I like to fly my starship around and look at the pwetty things, maybe shoot the odd baddie.

    STO, there are far more positives than negatives in my experience, but lately I haven't played much else and that always magnifies the negatives. Why I think it's a good idea to try something similar, but perhaps I should just rummage through my Steam library too.

    I hope the devs can wrestle it back up soon!
  • leemwatson
    leemwatson Member Posts: 4,620 Arc User
    aoav160 wrote: »
    chipg7 wrote: »
    I imagine that QA while working from home is a new type of hell.

    STO isn't the only game suffering from this right now. Heck, games aren't even the only industry suffering from bad or delayed content.

    Still not happy about it, but such is pandemic normal.

    No it's not difficult at all. Our devs where I work saw zero work interruptions. It's poor management if they are using that excuse.

    It's not what you think. It was explained there are 'assets' they were not allowed to take out of the office, so they've had to come-up with work arounds (Using Red-Shirt as test server etc). There is clear evidence that it's affecting productivity (amongst many companies), and blaming 'bad management' is a tad harsh. If, for an example, a Cryptic employee had off-site access to certain parts of the game/database/code and there was a breach that took the game down, or allowed unauthorised access to accounts and assets that personally affected you, you'd be painting the town blue with anger for them being 'careless'. There's no bad management here, just caution.
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • saber1973a
    saber1973a Member Posts: 1,220 Arc User
    edited October 2020
    Was just changing alts, when the server go dark again...
    Still, managed to do today event progress, hope it will be remembered.

    Some bugs are understandable with so much change in mechanics (experimental ship upgrades with trait solts assigned to ships, and additional slots for gear on ships), and Epic Stroe compatibility, but I would like it more, if there would be some info from devs, what actually happened and what they doing about it...

    This "mystery" is not the thrilling kind for me :p
  • postagepaid
    postagepaid Member Posts: 2,869 Arc User
    Saw the 10 minute warning come up just as the last transport was sitting waiting to die. The maintenance warning highlighted just how stupidly long you have to wait from the announce that all transports are gone to the end of the tfo because there was the minute til offline warning just shortly after I left.

    I'm tempted to group both my accounts and have one /follow the other for this TFO, normally I'd never do so for group content but given how bad this TFO is I don't see anyone really caring.
  • aoav160
    aoav160 Member Posts: 439 Arc User
    tigeria#8677 wrote: »
    If i have to choice between creators not responding bcause they bugfixing, or creators responding but not bugfixing, i go w the first.. and if they havent found the issue yet, what really is there to say..

    "We working" will prolly just lead to another avalanche of questions.. so i get it.. lets give them the time and space to fix it.. they let us know when they have something informative to say..

    Another line of misinformation. Developers don't or shouldn't interact with the customer. PM's and BA's do that. Management should at least put out a "We are broken!" notification at a minimum.

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