The Energon Pub

Well, the eggs have been delivered and everyone's in a chocolate coma, but it seems there's still all these... bunnies hanging around?

Hey HMWarriors - who's up for a good old-fashioned Alt Hunt? With thanks to ThunderThruster for the prompt!

Where'd the bunnies come from? We don't know! Maybe a malfunctioning space bridge, maybe a dimensional portal, maybe the Chaos Trinity are behind it? But they're here, and now it's up to you to help clear them out!

Starting tonight at midnight site time (00:00 CDT / 22:00 PDT / 06:00 BST) and running until midnight next Sunday (04/12), I'll be tracking missions for the four rabbit altmodes:
(398) Helpful Land Animal
(948) Small Land Animal
(1060) Small Land Animal
(1065) Dangerous Repairer

You'll get 1 point for each stasis lock inflicted on a bot with one of these alts. But if you feel like adding to the chaos, all four modes are available to both factions for the duration, and you'll also get 1 point for each stasis lock you score while you have one of these alts... (Yes, that means 2 points for bunny-on-bunny violence)

Make sure to call out your kills in the thread below. I'll keep a leaderboard in the next post, with regular updates through the week. Top score gets the bragging rights, and maybe I can swing some other prizes too?

Have fun hunting wabbits!

Scores up to #419363 (08-Apr-2026 18:01:00 CDT)

Leaderboard

1. ThunderThruster - 8
2. Dragonslayer - 5
3. sprockitz - 5
4. Aubreybot - 3
5. vintron - 3
6. Bumblevivisector - 2
7. Glyph - 2
8. Kurn96 - 1
9. megatronpro - 1
10. Optimus_Prime007 - 1
11. Silver Wind - 1
12. SupersonicShockwave - 1

Bunny killers

1. Mantis (sprockitz) - 2
2. Aerialus (vintron) - 1
3. Ascendant (Silver Wind) - 1
4. Brachiocon (SupersonicShockwave) - 1
5. Deadlift (ThunderThruster) - 1
6. Don King Kong (vintron) - 1
7. Eviltronus (vintron) - 1
8. Flash-Turbine (Bumblevivisector) - 1
9. Hi-Jinx (Glyph) - 1
10. Kill-Vulcan (Bumblevivisector) - 1
11. Mnementh (ThunderThruster) - 1
12. Mortis Maximus (Dragonslayer) - 1
13. Optimus-Prime (Kurn96) - 1
14. Rawrrr (Aubreybot) - 1
15. S.S. Georgie (sprockitz) - 1
16. Sensaur (sprockitz) - 1
17. Shunt (ThunderThruster) - 1
18. Slow-mo (Glyph) - 1
19. Stardrive (ThunderThruster) - 1
20. Watchdog (Dragonslayer) - 1
21. Zephiris (ThunderThruster) - 1

Killer bunnies

1. Beast of Caerbannog (ThunderThruster) - 3
2. No Ordinary Rabbit (Dragonslayer) - 3
3. Hoppity Hop (Aubreybot) - 2
4. Ants (sprockitz) - 1
5. Chopper (megatronpro) - 1
6. Just A Rabbit (Optimus_Prime007) - 1

sprockitz wrote:Hmm are there robo bunnies out there now. 100 million xp and no recent history…

Busted!
I'd better explain these to nip any speculation in the bud - I'm also experimenting with some functionally NPC / PvE bots for quiet times / special missions etc. May or not prove to be a good idea... Have discovered that I can give them XP through the dashboard but can't give them Energon for armour etc (which also means I can't offer Energon prizes for stuff, annoyingly). And all manual atm, so not very consistent.

(Note: there are currently 3 robo-bunnies for each faction, with matching alts and stats; they all go into missions at the same time to keep it balanced. Trying to provide some extra targets but not affect the alt hunt scores too much, so I'm currently applying the following rules to them. If they turn out to be a problem, I can exclude them from the scores completely.)

• Only join empty missions, generate fresh missions if necessary
• One robo-bunny per mission, do not fight each other
• My own bots absolutely not allowed to fight them
• They count as kills, but do not gain any points themselves

Nyuk nyuk... So sorry for running over No Ordinary Rabbit, Dragonslayer!

sprockitz wrote:If we want to make them a little harder to kill i can donate some armor /weapon energon to the bunny cons if a bot would do likewise for the bunny bots

Cheers sprockitz - though I'll need to get the dashboard fixed if I want to keep using them, as I'd need to reformat them frequently for new roles.

Dragonslayer wrote:Normally you'd need a Holy Hand Grenade for that.

--EDIT--
Okay, so it's not quite a grenade...

Damn, those wabbits have been chewing on the power cables tonight, huh.

Now I'm wondering which of the two Tim plucked from the Shattered Glass universe...


Leaderboard and kill counts updated!