The Energon Pub

News Credits: 34 · Sat Nov 15, 2025 3:43 pm

Looks like that one's querying the players table directly, rather than the hourly character score cache. I always forget about those occasional unlisted pages!

News Credits: 3646 · Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:20 pm

The glitch with ranks has been resolved. It should be working properly now. It is repopulated on the homepage.

The ranks error was preventing the forum and site sessions for users from being pruned and managed properly, which is what lead to the entire website being down earlier today. The database server ran out of disk space this morning with the latest database backup from the forum sessions database table growing out of control (causing the daily database backups to go from 1gb to 5gb per day).

I just spent the past 5.5 hours debugging and tracking down the problems and then it all lead to an error from HMW. Urgh. Regardless, lots of problems solved today and some new code implemented to hopefully prevent this from happening in the future.

News Credits: 42 · Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:57 pm

Uh, I may have had a bit too much sherry this evening, but has the deactivate button disappeared on anyone else's registry?

I need to deactivate some crap troops and don't appear to be able to.

News Credits: 3646 · Sat Dec 20, 2025 4:05 pm

I took a quick whack at the weapons.php page as well just to give it a little more modern interface: https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/weapons.php

News Credits: 3646 · Sat Dec 20, 2025 4:14 pm

Psychout wrote:Uh, I may have had a bit too much sherry this evening, but has the deactivate button disappeared on anyone else's registry?

I need to deactivate some crap troops and don't appear to be able to.

I didn't modify that page. I just verified that the deactivate button is working on the War Room page. Are you on a mobile device or laptop/computer?

News Credits: 34 · Sat Dec 20, 2025 5:05 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Psychout wrote:Uh, I may have had a bit too much sherry this evening, but has the deactivate button disappeared on anyone else's registry?

I need to deactivate some crap troops and don't appear to be able to.

I didn't modify that page. I just verified that the deactivate button is working on the War Room page. Are you on a mobile device or laptop/computer?

It's a known bug that the deactivate button doesn't appear if the last bot in the Active list cannot be deactivated because they're busy (in a mission etc), even if other bots are Active but idle and could be deactivated.

I have a workaround similar to the (now fixed) CR bug, which would add the Submit button back onto the form - I'll write it up.

--EDIT---
Example here:

registry_no_deactivate_noted.png

Tue Dec 23, 2025 7:43 pm

Seibertron wrote:The glitch with ranks has been resolved. It should be working properly now. It is repopulated on the homepage.

The ranks error was preventing the forum and site sessions for users from being pruned and managed properly, which is what lead to the entire website being down earlier today. The database server ran out of disk space this morning with the latest database backup from the forum sessions database table growing out of control (causing the daily database backups to go from 1gb to 5gb per day).

I just spent the past 5.5 hours debugging and tracking down the problems and then it all lead to an error from HMW. Urgh. Regardless, lots of problems solved today and some new code implemented to hopefully prevent this from happening in the future.

thank you very much

Mon Jan 12, 2026 8:15 pm

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=394947

First time I've seen the mission log generated correctly, but with my 'bot going from 100 to 0 in a single hit in a multi-target strafe. :-|

Screenshot 2026-01-12 Heavy Metal War - Mission #394947 - Transformers.png

News Credits: 34 · Mon Jan 12, 2026 8:33 pm

Yeah, definitely looks like you started the battle on <20% judging by the rest of Super Sonicon's strafes, presumably from the usual bug - see also Strike-Eagle, who apparently started on 0% and never made or suffered any attacks.

Kind of odd that only those two look like they entered on <100% honestly! I'd have expected more if it was doing the "run the battle twice" thing.

Mon Jan 12, 2026 11:12 pm

That's what threw me for a loop, yeah. Normally you have this happen, not the Bug Gods going "[blank] you" in particular. xD

Sun Jan 18, 2026 6:41 pm

I've noticed a few times when I try to deactivate one of my bots the deactivate button isn't there

Sun Jan 18, 2026 8:09 pm

Primal Prime wrote:I've noticed a few times when I try to deactivate one of my bots the deactivate button isn't there

THAT SHOULD BE #1 PRIOTY GAME WISE ANYWAY

sorry

News Credits: 34 · Tue Jan 20, 2026 3:49 pm

Primal Prime wrote:I've noticed a few times when I try to deactivate one of my bots the deactivate button isn't there

It's a known bug on the War Room page, see here. It should be an easy fix (the form is just looking at whether the last bot can be deactivated, rather than whether any bots can be deactivated) but only Ryan can implement it.

While we wait, I've written up a forum post on how to work around the bug with a Javascript snippet - hopefully that helps!

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 19, 2026 6:35 am

Just noticed that while the rest of Seibertron seems to be running fine, HMW has had a "fatal error" white screen for several hours.

A little worried this might finally be the end of the game, so I thought I'd mention it.

News Credits: 7 · Thu Feb 19, 2026 9:23 am

Bumblevivisector wrote:Just noticed that while the rest of Seibertron seems to be running fine, HMW has had a "fatal error" white screen for several hours.

A little worried this might finally be the end of the game, so I thought I'd mention it.

I've seen this too, but it seems to be limited to just the War Room/Registry, CR Chamber, and High Scores pages. I can get to the weapons store and Missions page just fine, but those three are currently broken.

News Credits: 3646 · Thu Feb 19, 2026 10:01 am

Bumblevivisector wrote:Just noticed that while the rest of Seibertron seems to be running fine, HMW has had a "fatal error" white screen for several hours.

A little worried this might finally be the end of the game, so I thought I'd mention it.

Fixed: https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/war-room.php

I am hardening up the server and get rid of about a dozen PHP modules. This is the only spot on seibertron.com where that posix function is used. I rewrote the code so that the block function from that module is no longer needed.

Making lots of progress behind the scenes this week to secure the server and site. Getting ready to build an official Seibertron Store and roll out the upcoming S.T.A.R.S. system.

News Credits: 3646 · Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:11 am

I'll keep working on the altmode color selector this weekend. I ran out of time earlier today and uploaded a non working version by accident. I also got sidetracked while I was digging through HMW code and addressed a few other areas that I wanted to update. Thank you for your patience.

News Credits: 3646 · Tue Feb 24, 2026 12:10 am

FYI ... so I haven't directly worked on the altmode color issue again since my attempt last week. On my new computer that I got back in October, I never setup my local development environment (WAMP) so that I could program in a local development environment. I've got it more-or-less setup now and am just working out a few bugs. Once I have this setup again, I'll address the altmode color issue locally and then push the files live once I've got it working properly. Mondays are always my 10 to 12 hour day at the Seibertron Store due to weekend orders so I didn't get to spend much time on this today. I'm pooped and can't focus on programming any more after 12 hours plus an hour of seibertron WAMP and server and programming stuff. Time for a beer and some Jon Stewart to help make sense of the world from the last week and to prepare for tomorrow night's must-watch TV.

Tue Feb 24, 2026 1:54 am

Seibertron wrote:FYI ... so I haven't directly worked on the altmode color issue again since my attempt last week. On my new computer that I got back in October, I never setup my local development environment (WAMP) so that I could program in a local development environment. I've got it more-or-less setup now and am just working out a few bugs. Once I have this setup again, I'll address the altmode color issue locally and then push the files live once I've got it working properly. Mondays are always my 10 to 12 hour day at the Seibertron Store due to weekend orders so I didn't get to spend much time on this today. I'm pooped and can't focus on programming any more after 12 hours plus an hour of seibertron WAMP and server and programming stuff. Time for a beer and some Jon Stewart to help make sense of the world from the last week and to prepare for tomorrow night's must-watch TV.

No worries, bud. Thanks for keeping us updated and, as always, thank you for continuing to work on HMW.

If you’re up to it—and I don’t mean to force you—have a beer for me as well.

Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:03 am

Looks like alt-mode colors are working! Woohoo! Thanks!

News Credits: 1 · Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:18 am

Woah, Lucky finally got the whale off the rainbow! (According to Sogmaster)

The right colors are back, after 8 months!

Thanks, whoever all worked on that!

News Credits: 3646 · Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:49 am

IcyJuggernog wrote:Looks like alt-mode colors are working! Woohoo! Thanks!

News Credits: 34 · Wed Feb 25, 2026 11:51 am

Nice one, I've been hoping for that fix for a while

Wed Feb 25, 2026 9:15 pm

Jolly good show, old chap!

Boy, it sure is nice to see custom colours again. They have brightened up the game splendidly.

News Credits: 7 · Tue Mar 10, 2026 2:49 pm

War Room is still down after all the recent fixes:

Error wrote:[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /data/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/war-room.php on line 11: require_once(./includes/team_funcs.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required './includes/team_funcs.php' (include_path='.:/opt/plesk/php/7.4/share/pear') in /data/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/war-room.php on line 11
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[type] => 64
[message] => require_once(): Failed opening required './includes/team_funcs.php' (include_path='.:/opt/plesk/php/7.4/share/pear')
[file] => /data/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/war-room.php
[line] => 11
)