This being the main reason I posted an issues thread. Much as I rag on the Dev team for the mistakes they make, without information about in-game issues, they can't fix them. And i'm damn sure Brandon is relaying the information cropping up in this thread to the Devs as we speak.

I agree. Personally, the fact that I had intimate insight into the problem to begin with the past few days, only served to infuriate me more... and, much the same now... I would have preferred ignorance so I could just go on believing its just overwhelming patch downloads causing the lag

Well, in either case, I will continue to at least marginally hope that this is an influx of popularity in the wake of the 3rd anniversary publicity and broad account reactivation... and isn't from faulty network hardware that got duct tape where it needed replacement :|

No, this is unusual. I have logged on as soon as the servers were up when they released S4-S7. No lag then. Something is wrong. Expect an emergency shut down soon. Maybe if people wouldn't complain so much when they are doing a patch, they can get it right the first time. Don't let the few (in comparison to the 2 million playing) rush you into ending the maintenance STO.

So interesting, the same problem is here... Sometime there will be a simple maintenance, without extending, etc...

I know it's not. I made this thread for the discussion of the extremely bad server lag. Also, the cards that we got won't burn out on this game.

same here. 60 second lag in every loading screen.

Red makes me mad

Yep.

Transparency continues to prove its benefit in so many situations, but no matter how often its benefits are exposed, isolationism and blanket devoid-of-information statements will stay the norm for quite some time I'm afraid.

I'm happy that there is community response at all even through a community manager... too many games have I been in where the only community response is to close a thread, and when that doesn't work anymore to turn off the forum -.-

LOL. If you people will think for one second, you'd realize the reason for the "Server Not Responding" timer. Who knows how many people are on the servers right now, trying to get their new ship. And they are all doing it at the same time. So the servers are BOUND to get a little clogged up. Just wait a few minutes, and the map will load. Don't stress. Have a cookie. Listen to some music. Patience is the key.

How do you know if it was the game or something else that crashed my video card?
Is it just coincidence that my graphics card went out right after a STO update?

I don't know the answer to this question. But don't go pretending you know the answer either. Stranger things have happened!!

For the record my card was 8800gt 512mb more then enough for STO.