Has loading times increased due to the influc of returning players since early f2p access? As alot of loading times are stalling for me at 95 mark or sometimes at the early 0x mark.

If this is because of alot of the instances are full i.e 75 players or near then what will it be like when the influx of f2p players hit tomorrow?

Now as a work around, when I have a character 'frozen' during transfer, I find that terminating the STO Client, restart and load the launcher, then choose the character stuck in transfer, will get you right into the destination desired...

Where to? ESD? If you look at the instance numbers it looks like they have increased the capacity. Some have 75 on ESD which might explain slow load times there. I haven't found load times slower elsewhere except DS9.

For me, it's always a hella long wait after the patch. I usually go do something else for the hour or two that I get stuck on that damned second loading screen.

I noticed the same thing here, 1st loading after a patch is incredibly slow !

The worst thing is that your chat will be frozen as the game slowly patches itself with the speed of a glacier.

Also I was suffering tremendous chat lag yesterday and today in sector space; while my ship was stuck outside ESB thanks to 10 second lag.

ESD/DS9 etc has been 75 for a couple months now. It is better loading then it was. Last weekend the server crashed and when it came back up there was the queue system. Going to be interesting in the next hour how things go.

I have been having these same problems for the last 2 weeks.

It is seriously irritating me now!

I recall yesterday during the new Jem'Hadar mission I saw something like one thousand four hundred instances of Deep Space Nine.

Now that was epic!