The Energon Pub

Caelus wrote:Ach, the way I remember it, three months into the game people were kicking around 1mil+ trying to figure out what to do with it.

I think it may have been a bit longer than that, but personally speaking my little fortune (before Tammuz pumped it up even further) was made from the arena bug which saw the cr chamber not costing anything regardless of what level you were at.

I think Vir was fairly close in terms of weapon costs when he first programmed it, and I think it would have worked out well had we not had the glitches and handouts. But because we did, things blew out and buying the most expensive weapons is easy.

Caelus wrote:

Burn wrote:Unfortunately we've been hit with so many energon/xp bugs, handouts, glitches ... the economy is pretty much stuffed.

Ach, the way I remember it, three months into the game people were kicking around 1mil+ trying to figure out what to do with it.

I'm currently trying to work out where my extra 1mil energon has come from overnight. Has anyone else got a mysterious million? I can't find anything anywhere to explain it.

Mkall wrote:Remember that seibs did have the occasional hiccup while HMW was completely off.

Yep, and even during the times the site always ran slow for me (23:00-01:00ish UK time) there has been a definate improvement.

Its never going to be perfect as the overall site is still glitchy as hell, but I think this decision has really helped.

Caelus wrote:Edit: Now, if Energon cost for CR chambers was actually related to how fast you repaired, that would have been far cooler. Paying 0 Energon gets your bot repaired in 6hrs. 10,000 Energon gets him fully repaired in 10mins. We could have burned a lot of our excess in tournies if we'd had a system like that back in the day.

An awesome idea, but the problem is that the money/player ratio is already too inbalanced and this would just help those who have the money currently.

Consider resetting all energon stocks, then removing all costs for a set period of time (ie. a month) to allow us to begin to rebuild supplies and then apply this idea?
Otherwise a fair implementation of any scheme like this is impossible.

jazzrules wrote:

Caelus wrote:

Burn wrote:Unfortunately we've been hit with so many energon/xp bugs, handouts, glitches ... the economy is pretty much stuffed.

Ach, the way I remember it, three months into the game people were kicking around 1mil+ trying to figure out what to do with it.

I'm currently trying to work out where my extra 1mil energon has come from overnight. Has anyone else got a mysterious million? I can't find anything anywhere to explain it.

yeah Jazzrecycles, the lat energon glitch hits the bots hard about 6 of them ended up with about 200 billion energon, and pretty much started being very communistic and handed to their mates/every other autobot.

the cons on the other hand only had one player who got hit, and while he did hand it to his mates this energon was used as a reward for killing in perhaps the greatest minigames HMW has known.


but yeah weapons need to function like armour(as in are destroyed when bots are reset) annd armour needs to be balanced

Tammuz wrote:the cons on the other hand only had one player who got hit, and while he did hand it to his mates this energon was used as a reward for killing in perhaps the greatest minigames HMW has known.

The Evil Schemes and Project B.A.R.T., the most fun ive ever had playing HMW.

One day I hope they can return, Quintessons and all.

Minicons where rather good at destroying energon, the problem is that im loathe to drop below 2 mill.

Watching people fight over the Quint heads was probably the highlight of the games for me, but the minicon killing was massively successful. We wiped out the Autobots supply in a matter of weeks!

We really do need something to waste our energon on though, even if its just buying altmodes or something, ive still got 6 mil left, and I gave away over 20 in the 'schemes.
Most of it to Murderplex...


This would work.

Tammuz wrote:weapons need to function like armour (as in are destroyed when bots are reset)

But we'd need weapon generation/stealing missions to replenish stocks after a while.

Psychout wrote:Watching people fight over the Quint heads was probably the highlight of the games for me, but the minicon killing was massively successful. We wiped out the Autobots supply in a matter of weeks!

We really do need something to waste our energon on though, even if its just buying altmodes or something, ive still got 6 mil left, and I gave away over 20 in the 'schemes.
Most of it to Murderplex...


This would work.

Tammuz wrote:weapons need to function like armour (as in are destroyed when bots are reset)

But we'd need weapon generation/stealing missions to replenish stocks after a while.

But how would that work couldn't you just unequip a weappon before you reset

Good point. Maybe once you equip a weapon its unequippable until its overwritten by another one and/or lost in a reset?

Guess it depends on how often you change weapons. I dont change mine very often, the nerfing of the BB's and Dol's was the first time id had to change a weapon around in over a year.

I kinda liked the idea about buying altmodes with energon. Gives the players an actual reason to save their money instead of letting it accumulate (or depreciate, depending on who you are). I know now that the only time I'd actually be spending my energon (aside from CR costs) would be to re-armor my 'Bots after resetting them, which I don't do often.

It's taken me over an hour to reply to a PM and make this post.

But then, again, I remember times when Seibertron was like this w/out the game...

Edit: Lost the site about 5min til 2pm Mountain time, but it came up again pretty fast, and now it is fine.

Caelus wrote:But then, again, I remember times when Seibertron was like this w/out the game...

Now there's something we hadn't considered. This site, while great, is cantankerous at the best of times. Might these slow downs be the site itself, and not the game?

Dragonslayer wrote:I kinda liked the idea about buying altmodes with energon. Gives the players an actual reason to save their money instead of letting it accumulate (or depreciate, depending on who you are). I know now that the only time I'd actually be spending my energon (aside from CR costs) would be to re-armor my 'Bots after resetting them, which I don't do often.

Why not give every player access to their side's "core" alts, and have the lists of "common" and "rare" ones be based not on a rotation, but on a price for which you have to buy them for your team? Flavour-wise, it's the cost of researching the ability to reformat a transformer with that alt, and game-wise, it adds another icon to the list you can choose from when giving a character an alt. A rotation of sorts could occur when the 'Alt Shop' shuffles around the available stock every now and then, making some alts available to buy, and temporarily discontinuing the ability to buy others. Once an alt has been purchased, it's there for your team to use forever, putting an end to the days of retired alts being clung to despite the desire to reset, but still allows the selection of alts to be shuffled regularly. Perhaps a cap on the number of purchased alts might need to be applied, but if they're priced accordingly (perhaps each purchase increasing the cost of the next) then it shouldn't be a problem.

Looks like the game is down again...

Well, bugger.

Rat Convoy wrote:Well, bugger.

My thoughts exactly. At least now I can go do some of my mounting homework.

Ah, feck.

Just when I am geting back into the game too....

It figures that I am back for a week and it is down again.

well it was fun while it lasted

Back to Tic Tac toe

question why can't we go back to site last version.. let's face it this upgrade of the board to php3 is messing the site up

_Galvatron_ wrote:question why can't we go back to site last version.. let's face it this upgrade of the board to php3 is messing the site up

I believe that, at the very least, all posts since the upgrade would be lost.

Caelus wrote:

_Galvatron_ wrote:question why can't we go back to site last version.. let's face it this upgrade of the board to php3 is messing the site up

I believe that, at the very least, all posts since the upgrade would be lost.

Do you know what is going on now? How long will the game be down?