The Energon Pub

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Sat Jun 14, 2025 4:18 pm

Dragonslayer wrote:
Glyph wrote:Yep, still giving the same error message as before.

Can confirm. Poor Watchdog is gathering dust instead of armor.

May as well just lob them back into it though, its not like they get negative XP for being naked.
This issue likely isn't being fixed any time soon. >:oP

by **ashe5k** » Mon Jun 16, 2025 7:24 am

Naked tournament sounds like it could be fun.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:31 pm

ashe5k wrote:Naked tournament sounds like it could be fun.

This works for me. I don't need much of an excuse to not wear pants.

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I'll pass on that
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boogity, boogity
(There he goes) boogity, boogity
(And he ain't wearin' no clothes)

the streak lyrics

News Credits: 2 · by **Zordon** » Tue Nov 18, 2025 2:16 am

Zordon wrote:
Red Sentinel wrote:Is the armor installation error going to be ongoing long-term?

11 out of my 12 bots have armor, but I know others are going to be feeling the hurt a lot (a low level bot used to be able to survive a Magnus Hammer hit from a level 11 bot LOL).

Ryan said in the bug report thread he was going to look into it but that was over a week ago. Will just have to wait it out, I’ve also got a bot running around without armour too

We missed the one year anniversary of the armour issue :KREMZEEK:

by **Bun-Bun** » Tue Nov 18, 2025 7:31 am

Truly a new Golden Age for the site :lol:

News Credits: 34 · by **Glyph** » Tue Nov 18, 2025 7:45 am

And it blocks so much else.

Want to climb the levels? Sorry, you're stuck with low-level (or no) armour and can't compete with older peers.

Want to try out a different config? Nope, can't afford to reset and lose my armour.

Mods want to add new alts or hand them out as event rewards? What's the point, nobody will reset to use them.

News Credits: 3630 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:16 pm

Sorry this wasn't resolved. Can you guys point me in the right direction about the armor. It was never a feature that I initially wanted for the game and is not something I've used on my characters. I'm not familiar with the process but if you guys can provide links, that would be helpful.

Yes, Vir programmed the game but Heavy Metal War was my initial idea. We had a lot of fun talking about the concept 21 years ago and then he built something that was pretty cool at the time. Part of me wants to reinstall the original version of HMW instead of trying to work with the code from 4+ different programmers.

Let's keep this topic on track and get Armor resolved. Sorry for the year lapse. It's been a hectic year for the site.

News Credits: 3630 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:29 pm

I'm assuming the armor issue that is not described in any detail in the first few posts in this topic is pertaining to this page. I'm working on cleaning up the code. Let's just see if this is what you guys are talking about: https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/armor.php

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:50 pm

Seibertron wrote:... if you guys can provide links, that would be helpful.

I've not touched/altered/upgraded armour in years so can't linky, but as I understand it there is a bug that prevents bots installing it and just throws out an error message instead when they try.

Glyph explains it better than I can, as always.

Glyph wrote:Can't equip armour of any kind, whether through reset or upgrading STR.

News Credits: 3630 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:52 pm

Armor seems to be working again. My character Waverider is currently getting armor installed.

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/armor.php

Armor install error was fixed. It was an issue where valid armor was being rejected with an "invalid armor identifier" error. The problem was caused by armor ID values being treated as floats instead of integers, which breaks array key validation in the version of PHP that is used on Seibertron.com. Casting the submitted armor ID and quantity values to integers resolved the issue, and armor installation is now working correctly again.

Armor up!

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:53 pm

And thus ends the era of the naked combatants.

Burn, you can put your pants back on now.

News Credits: 34 · by **Glyph** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:56 pm

/writes long post collecting all the detail on the armour issue

/it gets fixed while I'm posting

Ah well. Deleted. Thanks for fixing it, Ryan.

News Credits: 3630 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 4:09 pm

Glyph wrote:/writes long post collecting all the detail on the armour issue

/it gets fixed while I'm posting

Ah well. Deleted. Thanks for fixing it, Ryan.

Sorry about that Glyph. Adding (int) is all that needed to be done!

Code: Select all: $qty = safe_post('armor_qty_' . $v, 'int'); $ai = safe_post('armor_id_' . $v, 'int'); $old_qty = safe_post('old_armor_qty_' . $v, 'int'); $old_ai = safe_post('old_armor_id_' . $v, 'int');

News Credits: 34 · by **Glyph** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 5:09 pm

Yup, I was certain all along that it was a one-line fix!

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 5:33 pm

Psychout wrote:Burn, you can put your pants back on now.

You can't tell me what to do, you're not my Dad!

by **Drop Bear** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 6:48 pm

This is a nice Christmas present, delivered as a very pleasant surprise. Honestly, I’d given up, thinking armour was busted forever and that was that. I might have to start playing again.

Thank you, Seibertron.

Also, Burn can put his pants back on if he wants, but I will be leaving mine off.

…

Don’t keep looking at me like that. It only makes me feel sexier.