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One word. "Akamai" = dropped packets, latency, etc. I never had disconnect issues in the Midwest/USA, then for a couple of years in Phoenix, AZ. Then in October of 2023 STO became a map-crash fest for me. I started a different thread here and provided many, many pathpings, tracerts, packet loss analysis, my own Tech dept…
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"Server problem" may not be the best term to use, although servers do have problems that come & go. Cryptic (or whoever) can claim for example that all the map disconnects are not their servers or code = plausible deniability. My Tech Support and two engineers from my ISP found that there's a huge problem with one of the…
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No announcements. Must just be me, or my account.
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I did the Events tab again, but waited for the lag cloud to clear at the end of the mission. And I did get credit.
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Final post -- I promise. Unless something major happens. My STO minimalist strategy is to log in & do the event tfo/mission and refresh my fleet status. I got in too early this morning for the event so I did a safe endeavor -- kill Borg ships. Found a space encounter for assimilate the barbarians, tried to go in and boom…
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You could be on a CDN that Akamai does not play well with, network group forums I read a year or two ago were talking about that quite a bit. It seems that for some reason crossing certain CDN boundaries, especially when one of them is Akamai, can be problematical with bouts of high latency and lost packets. There were…
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I got excited when I saw in today's patch notes "Resolved a number of issues that caused the game to crash for some players" so I came back to test it. After a cold boot & doing nothing else in-game I qued for an elite ground TFO and my old nemesis "game server timeout" ctd returned. I rebooted again, logged as a different…
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My private tech people tell me Akamai most likely is causing most of our grief. Now we have lag & rubber banding also. Most fans of the game (me included) don't want to admit that we're going into "maintenance mode" but it's worse than that if they can't address their server management.
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After eliminating my ISP as the culprit, Arc determined that my ctd's are due to a TCP timeout; in other words my client stops talking to their server. It's odd that this primarily happens with my TFO's (Into the Hive, Miner Instabilities) and not with logins. The Windows 10 event viewer on every crash says it's an "event…
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All I've heard is that if I use this torpedo daily, I won't have any cavities at my next dentist appointment.
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No luck with the console patch (was hoping for a stealth fix). It may be worse. Game Server disconnects still on TFO's but now on patrols too. I'm not into Starfield, but I have high hopes for Star Citizen. This is way too frustrating for a "game". Auf Wiedersehen and LLAP.
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Post Mortem. I have no problem logging into the game. I get game server time outs on nearly every TFO run (just running Into the Hive elite & Miner Instabilities elite), occasionally patrols, and most recently just trying to get into the Fleet Spire. Maybe those two TFO's are seeing too high volume!?! My ISP is good, per…
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Your ctd looks worse than mine. I get into the game but get "game server timeouts" when I try to do anything, but stay in the game, all since the last patch. You could try Force Verify at startup if you haven't already; it takes awhile. There are a lot of distractions going on at Cryptic right now, so I'm not overly…
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Wrap Up. My ISP (Cox) sent a tech to my house today plus had a different level tech on the phone to evaluate my pathping. They said it looks like the first stop at Perfect World is blocking the ping tests; it doesn't mean anything is broken as it could just be their policy. But the handoff from Cox to Perfect World/Cryptic…
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Final attempt: reset modem & router, shut down Windows firewall, shut down virus scanner, made sure no overlays were running. Today's test: first TFO-elite (Into the Hive) was successful, second TFO-elite (Miner Instabilities) = game server ctd, third test with a different character TFO-E Into the Hive was successful,…
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Yes, but thanks. I never use on demand patching & only use Force Verify when I'm in situations like right now. I went back in & got server timeouts/ctd for doing old episodes too. There's a clear problem between twelve99 and Boston1.level3.net (most likely). I'll try extreme measures tomorrow (resetting all devices,…
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So here are today's tracert & pathping. It looks to me like the tracert is good, but the pathping has a 100% loss problem at Boston1 (Perfect World?). Sorry about the word wrapping. Tracing route to patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.184.200] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms arrisatom [192.168.0.1] 2 10 ms…
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I run tracerts every week & the usual bottlenecks are at all the game servers. I have a brand new O/P modem and router. I did run the "verify files" option & read a couple of book chapters while I waited. The few old episode map changes I tested worked as did a couple of patrols. Every TFO I launch on every character gets…
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"No Keys Remaining" is posted
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Keys for the other games are generated, so I'm guessing they are out of STO keys but haven't moved it to the "no keys left" section.
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If in fact the points are being banked, it must be in the background. I've done many endeavors mostly unintentionally, and my screen displays the 750 total and points progression stopped just short of what would be 751. If the progression points are still be counted, the process is invisible to us.
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I'm seeing too many false positives here. I'll wait for an official announcement before I hit double-digit patches & it still not working. This could be a good time to take a break from STO; the down side is losing event progress & getting booted from fleets.
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Lengthy patch slowly loads, then I get the infamous game client fail error. Second try = same thing. I'm not going to bother with the force verify. Giving up & will check the forums tomorrow.
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I suspect the Temporal Police don't want people messing with the first contact timeline. When we get back in, I'll verify it with my Section 31 captain if I can find him.
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I banked zen to buy the 13th bundle, but I'm holding off for now. The 12th bundle did a nice job of outfitting all my alts and my main Fed and KDF toons are doing fine with a Section 31 torp boat & the Vaadwaur Jugger (plus still sitting on last year's event token & a few T6 tokens). I was hoping to see a few strong…
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Never mind. Just a little confusing display. With each character the tribble displays as already purchased and available both.
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Iconian War/House Pegh On my first run, I chose the ground trait Up Close and Personal then equipped it. On my second run, I chose the space trait Point Blank Shot then equipped it and now my Up Close and Personal trait is gone. Did something change where you can only have one of these rewards? I've successfully done this…
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Same problem here. I've tried every way I know to create manuals from BOFF candidates and it no longer works.
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Yes, you need to create a new character. I just went back in to check on my trapped recruit and he's still stuck in the tutorial with no way out. Deleting & passing on this event.
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I'm not seeing any new info anywhere, but I only use Discord outside of game. They may have nothing to report yet. Nonetheless no communication is rarely a good thing. I'll delete my new recruit if there is no news today. He was just an extra to round out my fleet with a Ferasan Engineering captain. No chance for KDF…