The Energon Pub

[Bun-Bun]

History isn't showing for me. Wiped on main HMW page and in character pages.

Weird. Mine is showing history but it's of all the missions I'm a ghost in.

I suspect there was some kind of error where the Mission numbers were reset but the logs weren't deleted so we're getting this strange effect.

Probably once you start showing up as a ghost (or just joining missions) your histories will start to repopulate with the new logs(but that's just a guess)

[KAMJIIN]

I thought for a minute Bun was back with us. If wishes were fishes...

[Bun-Bun]

I thought for a minute Bun was back with us. If wishes were fishes...

Well I'm here and posting which is more than can be said about Burn or any of the other ghosts for that matter
Considering Hallows & Poof are showing up in missions right now maybe it's better that some people remain just ghosts

[Dragonslayer]

And I'm showing up in said missions as an Autobot...

[KAMJIIN]

I wonder if it's giving you guys the xp/energon, or if it's just log hiccups.

[Bun-Bun]

You need to read the faceypage discussion
I already checked, despite what the logs sy the ghosts do not gain anything from the missions they're in.

[KAMJIIN]

But they are definitely shooting back, now.

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... ion_id=146

[Bun-Bun]

But they are definitely shooting back, now.

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... ion_id=146

That is a change from this morning....
Time for more observation

[Bun-Bun]

Watched this mission
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... ion_id=188
Hellfire received full rewards for interacting with ghosts but the ghosts received nothing.
Also of note: The ghosts only interact with the active character, not each other.

Looks like backdoor NPC's to me.

[Jedi Kermit]

It is currently broken. Looks like past completed missions (Ghost missions) adding new participants to old finished rosters. Personally losing (not necessarily the team) the mission with 0 health, 0 experience, and 0 energon meaning you lose "money" while regenerating...

[Jedi Kermit]

I'm losing energon in ghost missions of the past that I joined then but not now....

[Bun-Bun]

Mmmmkay
Not sure how that's possible.
Can you document it somehow and show us?

[Bun-Bun]

I haven't deployed since I made that last post but my Ghosts have been in plenty of missions.
I made note of my Energon & XP totals then and they were exactly the same as they are now.

If you are losing Energon it likely has more to do with having more opposition (albeit ghostly) than your character's Ghost being in missions.

[Jedi Kermit]

I haven't deployed since I made that last post but my Ghosts have been in plenty of missions.
I made note of my Energon & XP totals then and they were exactly the same as they are now.

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If you are losing Energon it likely has more to do with having more opposition (albeit ghostly) than your character's Ghost being in missions.

You are right. I spent the last week seeing my character participate in a lot of "ghost" missions and actually paid attention to my experience and energon levels. They didn't change. Also seeing how frequently they pop up, I really don't want to participate anymore till the game is fixed.

[Absolute Zero]

Cool. Your ghost will still be there to generate XP for the rest of us.

[steve2275]

Cool. Your ghost will still be there to generate XP for the rest of us.

the ghost of bun-bun

[Absolute Zero]

Cool. Your ghost will still be there to generate XP for the rest of us.

the ghost of bun-bun

That just sounds like a horror movie.

[Bumblevivisector]

Sorry I've fallen out of touch, and this is probably a big nothing, but in Flash Turbine's latest "I Am Inevitable" match, he stasis-locked both Level-0 Autobots, but one of them (Aerobot?) was also "destroyed".

Is "...and has been destroyed" just new-ish flavoring text for lopsided matchups and I never noticed, or is that some old programming resurfacing like when Maximal and Predacon factions would somehow show up to be granted victory? Mostly just curious.

[KAMJIIN]

It's a leftover line of text from the mini-cons. When they were removed, that line of text was inadvertently left in. That's what everyone told me. It happened to all my new characters the first time they were stasis locked.

[Bumblevivisector]

Thanks!

[Red Sentinel]

Seems like we can't buy armor for our bots anymore. The result comes back "Invalid"

[Glyph]

Tested & confirmed - looks like a database error?

This was trying to upgrade armour from 9 tons Iron to 10 tons Iron. As far as I can see the form is still sending the correct values (checked HTML and captured POST) so it doesn't look like the code has changed, but rather the DB can't match the ID (implying a DB change, which I think is more likely).

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(Actually there's a second, funnier possibility - I note that the armour ID variable was called $ai in the old code I have, so it's possible the variable name somehow factors into it...)

[Silver Wind]

Attempted to upgrade Extricate's armor from 10 tons of Trythilium-steel to Nucleon Tempered Titanium. Game decided to go "nope, Chuck Testa".

[Dragonslayer]

Attempted to upgrade Extricate's armor from 10 tons of Trythilium-steel to Nucleon Tempered Titanium. Game decided to go "nope, Chuck Testa".

Armor is broken right now, been broken for a couple of weeks now. Glyph brought it up to the global server thread. Naturally, the first quick fix did not work and will require more archeology to determine what the problem actually is.

So, business as usual

[Light Metal]

Is this now the end of armour? Don’t let it be so.