On the difficulty in getting a STF queue to fill: Gecko: “So many queues, so many people are spread out. (not enough players)” Lootcritter: “There used to be. Before the dark times. Before Delta Rising” Whether I’m on the road or in the office, part of my monday ritual is listening to the weekly Priority One Podcasts.  While I don’t always agree with what I … Continue reading Priority One Podcast #219 – Gorns & Things, & Snarky Afterthoughts

Thursday’s regular weekly update has a number of Season X glitch fixes, including another attempt at dealing with the horrendous lag that impacts players.  While we hope that there will be some sort of improvement on the lag front, players should be prepared for dealing with this as an ongoing issue for weeks to come. General: Resolved an issue which caused some items to be … Continue reading Holodeck Release Notes: Season Ten Fixes Continue

Salami Inferno has posted an update on the issues impacting Star Trek Online’s performance: There are three large issues that are impacting performance right now, and they’re all under investigation. We’re having some odd network issues, not including DDOS attacks, and you may have seen trendy collecting traces along with other information from players. This data is being passed off to our network engineers who are working … Continue reading Salami Inferno Apologizes on Performance Issues

By COLIN KELLAHER April 26, 2015 2:12 p.m. ET Perfect World Co. on Sunday said it agreed to be taken private by its chairman in a deal that values the Chinese game developer at about $1 billion. Perfect World said Michael Yufeng Chi’s Perfect Peony Holding Co. will pay $20.20 cash for each American depositary share Mr. Chi doesn’t already own, an increase from the … Continue reading PERFECT WORLD ENTERS INTO DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT FOR GOING PRIVATE TRANSACTION

This little tidbit (ok, ok, LONG tidbit) is that Cryptic is moving forward with a costume update for the Klingon Faction in Star Trek Online.  Look!  New Shiney! nuqneH Klingons! Posted by crypticjoejing in the Cryptic (soon to be moved) forums. The following is on the character art side of things but we thought it big enough news to put here in the GD thread… We’re excited to … Continue reading Qua’Pla: Klingon Costume Improvements! It IS a good day to Die (from Lag)

What’s causing your lag?  Powers?  Traits?  Cognet?  Indigestion?  UFO’s?  Iconians?  Even the Wizards of STO were challenged: A fIx is coming®.  Kinda like Winter. Continue reading Star Trek Online: The Iconian Lag

One of the cooler benefits of my new job is that not only does our office sit on one of the fastest internet nodes on the west coast, my funky new laptop comes with a selection of 5 VPN access points – 3 in the US, 1 in Seoul Korea, and the last one in France.  And it’s ok to use these for ‘recreational use’ within … Continue reading 10GB fiber connection + 5 VPN choices: Lag everywhere. It’s not my connection.

General: “Blood of Ancients”: Resolved an issue where the player and Captain Kagren are sometimes stuck in the ground in the first cut scene. Resolved an issue where two music tracks were playing at the same time in the beginning cut scene. The surface of Lae’nas from system space now displays damage after the Iconians attack the planet. Resolved an issue where the Heralds would … Continue reading Day Two: Another Patch

One of the immediately visible changes in TIW (is it to soon to be abbreviating The Iconian War?) is the lack of sector walls and the incredible map eye-candy. The Starbase 157 system, with the new Sector Space Art. AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING!!! pic.twitter.com/gD5RxrVrhT — STO Admiral Daniel (@STO_Adm_Daniel) April 22, 2015 These changes are a huge improvement and certainly a favorite in zone chat.  But with any change … Continue reading Duty Officer Assignments, or “Shaka, When the Walls Fell”, now with maps 😉

SPOILER FREE Nowhere enough time left in my day to check everything out, but first impressions are really good.  The bugs aside (and there are many), I’m liking the direction of the story for Season 10.  The bank issues have me concerned as they are not part of tomorrow fix (ATM). Here we go: The first two episodes “Blood of the Ancients” and “Delta Flight” drop … Continue reading First Impressions – Season Ten