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News Credits: 34 · by **Glyph** » Sun Aug 17, 2025 11:02 pm

News Credits: 3637 · by **Seibertron** » Mon Aug 18, 2025 2:41 am

Sorry guys ... I couldn't figure out what I did earlier that broke the missions. I've been hammering away at this for 14 hours. I'll tackle it again tomorrow night hopefully. Bear with me!

I enabled some new logging functionality tonight so that i can take a look at what's going on. please feel free to add characters into missions and arena battles so that i can take a look at the logs tomorrow to see if any patterns come to light.

If I can't figure this out, I might just rewrite the whole mission and arena log process which has been needed to be done since day 1 of HMW. That's on the agenda anyways but it might happen sooner than later if I can't figure this out.

by **ThunderThruster** » Mon Aug 18, 2025 4:28 am

Missions might be a bit of an intermitant problem:

[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/includes/game_shared.php on line 2519: error_log(/var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/logs/errors/heavymetalwar.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/missions.php on line 83: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3992)

News Credits: 34 · by **Glyph** » Mon Aug 18, 2025 4:42 am

^ Re above: Getting a bunch of the same [phpBB Debug] permission warnings on War Room, CR & High Scores, missions.php seems to be ok if there's an available mission but emits the debug warnings if it has to generate a new mission. Forms on War Room, Join Missions etc (probably all) emit "headers already sent" errors on submit (probably because of the debug warnings).

by **ashe5k** » Mon Aug 18, 2025 7:54 am

I got this every time I put a bot in a mission or activated a Transformer

[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/includes/game_shared.php on line 2519: error_log(/var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/logs/errors/heavymetalwar.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/missions.php on line 83: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3992)

But if I went directly to the page right after that, mission or war room, it loaded fine.

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Mon Aug 18, 2025 11:56 am

managed to get a bot into a mission.

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=368891

No log generated.

by **ThunderThruster** » Mon Aug 18, 2025 12:54 pm

Had the same issue as Psychout. Any characters that I could get into a mission, generated "No record available". Just thrown a couple of bots into the Arena to see if it's working.

Website · by **Silver Wind** » Mon Aug 18, 2025 2:02 pm

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News Credits: 3637 · by **Seibertron** » Mon Aug 18, 2025 9:29 pm

I'm doing some debugging right now. I'm on 3.5 hours of sleep from last night's marathon of trying to fix these HMW problems so I don't know how far I'll get tonight but I wanted to give you guys an update.

Basically, I'm working on creating a script that will "requeue" and "reprocess" failed missions (and we'll take a look at arenas later if it's not resolved with this process). The script will grab a few missions which has characters not currently doing something else at the moment, requeue the mission using current timestamps, and then forcing their processing so that I can properly debug this damn code. I'm surprised this hadn't been done before but here we go.

Once I get all of this working again, I'll modify this script to process all battles that failed that are in the database still. So please keep putting your characters in missions and arenas. Regardless if it failed or not, I'll figure out how to reprocess them all later.

If it doesn't work in the end, then oh well. I'll figure out something to do to thank all of you if it doesn't work (and maybe a little something extra if it does as I've got another big thing in the works with the rest of SEIBERTRON that will help encourage HMW gameplay).

Just wanted to keep you guys posted so that you aren't discouraged.

News Credits: 34 · by **Glyph** » Tue Aug 19, 2025 8:07 am

News Credits: 3637 · by **Seibertron** » Wed Aug 27, 2025 11:24 pm

News Credits: 3637 · by **Seibertron** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 12:13 am

Website · by **Silver Wind** » Thu Sep 25, 2025 9:59 pm

I don't know if this has already been brought up, but I discovered by accident that the passcode used for the Arena and CR Chamber doesn't have to be exact. It doesn't even have to match whatsoever, so long as you have inputted a value in the field (e.g. only typing z instead of scraplets).

Testing this out has also left me unable to deactivate the character because there is no button to do so. Time for Serene to see some action, then. :michaelbay:

by **ThunderThruster** » Mon Oct 06, 2025 6:50 am

There's still a lousy glitch with some missions destroying 1 combatant while there's zero sign of there being any combat, as happened to Blokefish in this battle against me: https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=374645

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News Credits: 34 · by **Glyph** » Wed Oct 08, 2025 8:40 pm

by **ThunderThruster** » Mon Oct 13, 2025 3:32 am

News Credits: 34 · by **Glyph** » Mon Oct 13, 2025 6:17 am

Website · by **Silver Wind** » Mon Oct 13, 2025 4:45 pm

Another couple examples I had happen just now.

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=376603
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=376607

Website · by **Silver Wind** » Sun Oct 19, 2025 5:47 pm

Is it just me, or has the column for indicating alt mode abilities in the combat log stopped displaying properly?

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=377923

by **ThunderThruster** » Thu Nov 13, 2025 7:52 am

Looks like we've lost any and all forms of Ranking/leader boards.

Website · by **Silver Wind** » Fri Nov 14, 2025 12:11 am

News Credits: 34 · by **Glyph** » Fri Nov 14, 2025 5:29 am

At a guess, the HS table's been emptied and the hourly HS refresh routine is either bugged or disabled. Leaning a little towards the former because clearing the table is the first part of that routine, but the latter is also possible as it's been disabled in the past when it was blamed for site performance issues.