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badpuppy1
Member Posts: 34
Pre boarindg went fine, first two days fine.
Then....
A smal patch come out and thier popular "Blackbeard" server is completly unreliable. SO you would switch to another server except you spent the pre boarding getting your toon to level 20.... lot of time wasted.
You log in now and you get a message saying your firewall won't allow UDP transmissions except your firewall and anti virus are all TRURNED OFF!!
The recommended fix is to download wire shark run the broken game, take notes and then send your notes with the wireshark data off to flyinglab so they can look into it.
I was afraid of this when I found out t Flying lab chose SOE as its partner.
I'll give that a new launch is prone to be buggy but to be asking player to do homework instead of rolling back the defective patch is nuts.
That and nothing from flying lab addressing teh problerm. If they don't get honest soon this could be the quickest death of a game in history...
Which is a shame 'casue it has so much potential.
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I'm guessing that this is tied to the fix for a lot of people, being the inclusion of a TCP entry into a file in your main folder.
Couple questions, did you create a file called pirates_local.ini to solve other lag issues? If so, you'll get the "can't connect to UDP, falling back to TCP message"...but it doesn' t really mean anything.
If you didn't, try making a copy of it, then removing it entirely, and restarting the game and see if it helps. If not, you can always replace it.
It's borked atm. Everyone is out, same issue, nonsense message.
Very unimpressive.
Hmmm....server rolled abck and lost me around three hours of gameplay....fantastic. Not.
I was just starting to enjoy the game, and the question I find myself asking is can I really be bothered to do everything that I just did all over again? Probably not.
My fault for choosing to play a game that's hosted on SOE servers, they never change.
Proud Master CH -
Sorry,
Proud FORMER Master CH...
my toon was untimely converted into something more Star Warsy
Borked is right....the FLS forums are unavailable and when I went to try to log in after the crash it said my password was invalid. Anyone else running into this?
EDIT: Restarted computer and I can use password now.....perhaps my capsLock was down.
http://www.straightdope.com/
I'm in the same boat (no pun intended). I rolled Blackbeard on release and now that I'm 17 the server is constantly down, the login is bugged and I'm wondering why nothing has changed as far as servers in the past 10 years...
Their forums too... if you have 11 servers, each with a target of 2k players and your forums crash when more than 5000 people are on it (or whatever) then I think someone should go study math.
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
Like I was saying before and got a warning.
See this?
I know, it's not even a bad word or anything. Just a question.
Some will call it TROLL. I call it a QUESTION.
My wife and I are both having the same problem on the Bonnie server. When we're able to get in, it's only for a few minutes, and then our progress doesn't get saved for some reason.
Why do all these companies choose SOE as their publisher and server carrier when they're so well known for screwing up just about everything they touch?
I ask the same thing. And people can't say why. Only that you are a troll. Yep it's wierd and I will never understand that.
Time for a movie, cya all! Cheers!
Where does SoE get their servers anyways? <-- Serious question btw
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
Did'nt you get banned from the LotRO Forum?
Lets look at one of your finest history moment on mmorp.com
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First of all thanks to the one that made me banned. (Hope this don't make me banned again.)
Second, when did I say that WoW is better? I don't even play WoW anymore. I just think it's sad that they must make this game look like WoW and not come up with a own style/design. Just look at WoW and then this game... they both the same just other monsters. Both have this ugly cartoon looking style. When did LOTR become a cartoon?
And yes I still think it's a bad time. A bad time to try copy WoW. Now when people are tired of WoW and are looking for something new.
Better wait and make something that don't look like an OLD GAME like WoW.
But hey maybe I'm wrong. Have fun and good bye.
Please don't ban me again for this. This is not trolling.
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You sir or maam, need to definetly find a good mmorpg to play. instead of all your useless posts on the PotBS forum, you could actually be making friends in another mmorpg and leveling.
I know your disappointed with PotBS, but give it a break. Sheesh, take a look at this website and choose another game to try out and make a difference, instead of uselss elementary grade level forum spam.
I'm having EXACTLY the same problem.
To say the least I've been planning all week for a nice evening of playing PotBS and well it's not going to hapen.
omg Gnab! I scheduled this entire weekend for potbs! I feel like we are connected on some deeper level! Oh well, I guess I will play the game "SoL" which seems to always be the case.
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
My wife and I bought this game mainly on a whim after looking into it a little bit. I'm actually really enjoying the game from what I've experienced, but of course, it's impossible for us to play right now because of some issue with the servers, or at least the one that I'm on.
As much as I understand that the game is new, I don't understand why they just don't roll back the last patch that supposedly borked everything up. My guess is that all the SOE employees are 9 to 5 workers who won't even touch this issue until Monday, and by then I've lost the weekend and a lot of potential game time.
Sad really, because I think the game is a diamond in the rough, and with a little time, it will be excellent.
Edit:
I just looked at the official POTBS forum, and it's basically just post after post about how messed up the servers are. Hope something is done about this soon.
Maybe they are and maybe they are not. It would not matter in any case.
On the other hand it seems that FLS's employees are working. Which could matter.
I'm so broke. I can't even pay attention.
"You have the right not to be killed"
It's the first weekend for a new MMO. If the servers were gona crash it was gona happen today cause 90% of people (at least in USA) have the weekend off.
Just another one of those painfull facts of life.
Everyone lost two hours of play time, whoop dee friggin doo.
Go run some errands, mow the lawn, or watch a musical.
It could have been worse.
Same here. I went and played EQ 2 for about four hours, came back, and it loaded fine. Guess whatever they messed up they fixed.
I didn't lose two hours of playtime
I was offline looking at ships and equipment for my ships. Hot damn, there is alot of information out there to shift through.
Biggest problem I see with the game right now is server instability. My connection went out just while I was in an NPC combat instance. When I tried to reconnect I got a message that I could not find the server. When it finally let me reconnect my ship had been sunk, and I lost all my cargo and durability.
Anyway, I petitioned to see if they would restore my stuff. Not my fault their servers are in such a sorry state. Lets see if they restore my durability point, or say "sorry chump, you're SOL".
Will customer service triumph over poor server quality? How long will it take to respond to my petition? I'll post an update on the results.
I would be surprised if they restored anything to you on account of you crashing. That would set a bad precident for the future and result in all sorts of positions to restore goods and other intangible commodities like honor points and PVP rewards. If something sinks your ship because you crashed and takes something from you, are the devs really going to take it back for you?
I'm not thinking so.
Yeah, unfortunately I think you're probably SOL.
I do feel your pain though, in beta I lost THREE lives of my ship (forget the name, but it was the under 20th level one with fore and aft cannons I'd paid 30k for!!!) due to various lag issues
Servers are still bad. New game or not. That will make people unhappy.
Avatar system that is not the best. That will make people unhappy.
People level up fast. What will they do later? That will make people unhappy.
Too much need to be done. I don't think people are going to wait.
Played:
From Earth & Beyond, Anarchy Online, Matrix Online, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, Age of Conan, Tabula Rasa (Beta), EvE Online, City of Villians, Atlantica Online, Guild Wars, Lineage 2, Pirates of the Burning Sea, PlanetSide, RF Online, Second Life, Fallen Earth.
I agree, it will be interesting. The problem wasn't at my end, but theirs. As I was waiting to re-connect to the server (for about 5 minutes) I went on their forums to see how to file a petition. Thus, I had internet access, just not access to their game server. This has been happening on and off all weekend for many, as discussed in this thread. Anyway, when I came back I was still not connected, so I cancelled, and tried again about 2 hrs later.
Anyway, I like to test customer service response rates. Some, like SOE's EQ 2 is actually pretty decent, some, like Sigil's Vanguard Saga of Sheeeeet is non existent. How much does Flying Lab want to address customer concerns? All to often in our society we are told that if we want customer service, goto Helen Waite.
How much a company values their customers by making good on a problem that is out of the customer's control says alot about the company. It's like a warrantee, it's only as good as the company that stands behind it.
You make good points old daddy. I'm posting here waiting for my server to come back up (again). I keep telling myself, "Hey, WoW had issues, its OK if PotBS does too.". But I will say that WoW was Blizzard's first MMO ever, and they had doubled server numbers within a week, fixing the majority of the complaints.
SoE has released countless MMO's I really don't know what the excuse here is lol. But with that said I'm still sitting here waiting to get in because the game is still fun.
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
Although I have to agree, the kind of server instability at launch this game is experiencing is really unacceptable and will not bode well.
I can also say, I agree with daddy about speed leveling in this case. This game really does come with a built in, solid end game for the people who are interested in it.