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Server down?

phalanx01phalanx01 Member Posts: 360 Arc User
edited December 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hey all, wanted to play a bit of STO but I keep getting a "Unable to authenticate: Lost connection to Account Server". Are the servers down for maintenance? I just can't find any notification about a downtime right now.
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited November 2023
    Shard Maintenance, yes. According to the message on the launcher: "We will be performing shard maintenance on November 29 from 5-11 AM Pacific (13:00-19:00 UTC). Please check the forums.'

    Of course, the Forums don't have any announcement, so there's that...
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  • phalanx01phalanx01 Member Posts: 360 Arc User
    bergins wrote: »
    Shard Maintenance, yes. According to the message on the launcher: "We will be performing shard maintenance on November 29 from 5-11 AM Pacific (13:00-19:00 UTC). Please check the forums.'

    Ah thank you, I couldn't even see the message on the launcher because it never showed any text. And I didn't find any posts about maintenance either.

  • nightwchtr#5523 nightwchtr
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    yeah think they should give a days notice not just blindsiding us day of
  • sthe91sthe91 Member Posts: 5,967 Arc User
    edited November 2023
    nightwchtr#5523 wrote: »
    yeah think they should give a days notice not just blindsiding us day of

    Except they mentioned it in the launcher a day before. Also, when they do this quarterly maintenance it is usually (though not always) on a Wednesday. Always be aware that when you have these, a Wednesday is a possibility for shard maintenance, plan accordingly if that is the case. Patches are usually Tuesday or Thursday for PC and console (which has its own schedule). With that said, would be nice if the Arc client and the official forums would be updated with these notifications and not just the Twitter/X page and the other socials. They used to post those notifications in the forums in their own thread then stopped for some reason.
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  • tom61stotom61sto Member Posts: 3,673 Arc User
    sthe91 wrote: »
    nightwchtr#5523 wrote: »
    yeah think they should give a days notice not just blindsiding us day of

    Except they mentioned it in the launcher a day before.

    Only towards the end of the day, as when I first logged in yesterday for my Daily there was no message. When I logged in later in the day, it did have the message, but very likely a lot of people never saw it.
  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 10,897 Community Moderator
    sthe91 wrote: »
    nightwchtr#5523 wrote: »
    yeah think they should give a days notice not just blindsiding us day of

    Except they mentioned it in the launcher a day before. Also, when they do this quarterly maintenance it is usually (though not always) on a Wednesday. Always be aware that when you have these, a Wednesday is a possibility for shard maintenance, plan accordingly if that is the case. Patches are usually Tuesday or Thursday for PC and console (which has its own schedule). With that said, would be nice if the Arc client and the official forums would be updated with these notifications and not just the Twitter/X page and the other socials. They used to post those notifications in the forums in their own thread then stopped for some reason.

    That's my bad. I slept in today. Didn't have a chance to post anything until maintenance was about over. Sorry, guys.
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  • inferiorityinferiority Member Posts: 4,396 Arc User
    edited November 2023
    baddmoonrizin wrote: »
    That's my bad. I slept in today. Didn't have a chance to post anything until maintenance was about over. Sorry, guys.
    Whilst we do appreciate your efforts, maintenance and downtime should be getting posted by the Community Manager!
    It's their job - to manage the community...
    There's the official website, official forum and launcher which should all get said info.
    Additionally, there's a Facebook page and a X/Twitter feed that seems to get more news and announcements than all of the 'official' places combined.
    Thank you very much indeed baddmoonrizin, but I really think the ball was dropped long before you had a chance at catching it!
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