The Energon Pub

[Light Metal]

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

[Psychout]

(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...)

Nerd.

Didn't you always have to strip off your old armour to add new stuff on top, I always thought adding 1 more 'ranks' worth of it screwed things up anyway?

[Glyph]

Never had a problem just adding a ton of the same type whenever I upgraded STR; only changed type on two bots and it seemed ok.

Pre-bug, obviously - right now nothing new can be equipped at all.

[Bumblevivisector]

My team's last 6 missions appear to have never happened. I guess that's because the whole site's been fading in and out for a week?

[Glyph]

Oh... checking back a few old numbers, I'm seeing "Mission log not available" on everything. Going to guess a cleardown happened as part of the efforts to fix the site problems.

Mission characters still seem to be there, though (which makes it a little weird that the home page summaries don't show up, but IDK what the code for that looks like these days).

[Psycho Warrior]

I'm hoping the armor glitch can be fixed sometime. I regret resetting some of my transformers since now they're glass canons.

[Burn]

I'm hoping the armor glitch can be fixed sometime. I regret resetting some of my transformers since now they're glass canons.

It'll probably be fixed around the same time the forum search function is fixed.

[Bumblevivisector]

I assume I'm not the only one getting,

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function random_int() in /var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/includes/core.php on line 510"

...in place of the buttons that would actually select a mission below all the available missions, as well as the side menu? I know the site's been having bigger issues over the past 24 hours, just reporting this on the off chance it might give someone a hint as to the fix.

[Seibertron]

Thank you for posting that. I was aware of the error as I was making changes to a ton of code on Seibertron.com. All of the changes I've been making, as talked about elsewhere on the forums, is to optimize the site to increase speed. I just finished making changes to the scripts that run once per minute on the server that handle a variety of tasks, including HMW's processing functions. As I was making the changes, I ran the scripts to see if there were any errors. There weren't, but that doesn't mean that the functionality didn't get screwed up. If you see anything odd that wasn't there last week, please let me know. I backed up the HMW processing file first prior to making changes so I can roll back stuff if needed. Otherwise, enjoy the faster Seibertron.com.

[Seibertron]

I'm hoping the armor glitch can be fixed sometime. I regret resetting some of my transformers since now they're glass canons.

It'll probably be fixed around the same time the forum search function is fixed.

Does anyone know when or why the search feature was disabled on the forums? If I did it, I don't remember doing it at this time. I just enabled the search feature again.

Where can I view the armor glitch?

[Zordon]

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).

armour_error_241008.JPG

(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...)

Theres picture of the error in glyphs post on the previous page if that helps. Happens whenever trying to add armour to a ot

[Silver Wind]

The HMW side bar was working fine as late as last night (3/17 PDT), but it has since disappeared. Turning off web browser addons did not fix the issue.

[Bumblevivisector]

Right side bar has been gone for 2-3 hours, preventing gameplay. I could only get back to this thread via forums menu, and even that was down for me for a while.

Hope the updates are going okay!

EDIT: Holy Silver synchronicity!

[Seibertron]

Right side bar has been gone for 2-3 hours, preventing gameplay. I could only get back to this thread via forums menu, and even that was down for me for a while.

Hope the updates are going okay!

EDIT: Holy Silver synchronicity!

Thank you for letting me know. I hadn't noticed that. The sidebar navigation has been restored.

[Silver Wind]

Thanks for the quick response.

[-Soundwave-]

It allowed me to activate more than 6 team members at once. That is not normal.

[Bumblevivisector]

It allowed me to activate more than 6 team members at once. That is not normal.

Me too! It's been doing that on and off for about a week. I think it would let me deploy a seventh 'Con on a mission as I post this, but I'm naturally not going to tempt fate testing it.

If it happens again, I'll try to note the time of day, if that helps.

[Seibertron]

Probably no need for that. It's something i messed up somewhere when I was cleaning up some code last week. I am away at the moment and won't be able to address it until next week.

[Seibertron]

Can one of you share the specific URL where the error is happening with the activiation of more than 6 bots at a time? Thank you.

[Zordon]

It’s just from the registry page

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

[Glyph]

Can one of you share the specific URL where the error is happening with the activiation of more than 6 bots at a time? Thank you.

From the registry (registry.php)

I found that I couldn't activate more than 6 in a single submission, but I could activate less than 6, then activate a few more in another submission to take the active total over 6. Once I had 6 or more active in total, I could no longer activate more. In the example below, I activated 4 bots, then activated 3 more in a second submission.

As the activation check is on the registry page, the missions page was also perfectly happy to let me put all 9 bots into missions at the same time after I'd activated them this way (as 5 then 4 more).

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So it looks like the check for how many bots are currently active has been broken - the page correctly checks that the player isn't submitting more than 6 bots at once, but doesn't check that the form submission plus the existing active bots totals 6 or less.

Checking an old backup - and I assume the code is still similar - the check used to happen at the entry point to the

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elseif ($action == "activate") {

branch. The page pulled the current number of active bots into $active_count at the top of the page, then had a guard clause to check that (count($_POST['character_id']) + $active_count) wasn't more than 6 before proceeding to activate each submitted bot. It looks like either this guard clause has been removed, or (more likely) the $active_count query isn't working properly and is getting counted as zero.

[-Soundwave-]

I would say something odd happened here, and it's not just these two its the entire team there are so many of them.

[Glyph]

Me too - each bot on my team is showing up exactly 31 times in the list. Notably, the details / stats are all the same EXCEPT for the Rank column, which makes me think this is a DB join issue. The first row appears to be the "real" bot according to the Rank - if you click through to the character page, you can see that the Rank matches - but then it's followed by 30 duplicates with "random" Rank values (presumably other bot records joined in, perhaps via the high score table?).

[Zordon]

Me too - each bot on my team is showing up exactly 31 times in the list. Notably, the details / stats are all the same EXCEPT for the Rank column, which makes me think this is a DB join issue. The first row appears to be the "real" bot according to the Rank - if you click through to the character page, you can see that the Rank matches - but then it's followed by 30 duplicates with "random" Rank values (presumably other bot records joined in, perhaps via the high score table?).

Yep something’s wrong I’ve got the same someone bash it with a hammer

[sprockitz]

The number continues to grow. Maybe going up 1 every hour. Noticed it with 11 copies yeaterday morning then 17 by afternoon now 36 copies right now.

So maybe on hourly updates it is starting a new copy? Also it seems to be multiples of 1024 (or +1023) with regards to rank.