The Energon Pub

[Seibertron]

Thanks for picking that up so quickly, Ryan. Seems to be working now!

The text was my guess too - I was just working on progressively adding a little to it until I hit the error and had isolated it to the end of the second para, so my guess is the "-mo's" in the last sentence. But then I got a brief delay and guessed you'd updated something!

Still getting the timeout on my normal IP though - is that a temporary thing and I just have to wait out some block period?

Yah most likely. I didnt look to see how long the timeout was for on your ip. If it continues to be problematic after a few days, I can clear out the security jails for you (or maybe just remove your ip from the jails).

[Glyph]

Ok thanks.

[Seibertron]

@Glyph ... the HMW dashboard section was restored back to how it was. The errors should be resolved or at least mostly cleaned up. If you find more errors, please post in the HMW problem reporting thread (this one). Thanks!

[Glyph]

Thanks Ryan, looking good.
(Was aiming to keep staff stuff separate from the public thread, but I'll use this thread going forward.)

Oh, and the timeout from the 403 thing above resolved within 24 hours, FWIW.

[Primal Prime]

I've been noticing that my Bots aren't lining up by level in The War Room anymore. My level 8 (highest level) Bot is in the middle or bottom rather than being first. As is my second highest.

[ThunderThruster]

I've been noticing that my Bots aren't lining up by level in The War Room anymore. My level 8 (highest level) Bot is in the middle or bottom rather than being first. As is my second highest.

As per Ryan's post from March:
The characters appear in order of how they are activated and then you can manually change the sort order however you would like by using the little left and right arrows.

[Primal Prime]

I've been noticing that my Bots aren't lining up by level in The War Room anymore. My level 8 (highest level) Bot is in the middle or bottom rather than being first. As is my second highest.

As per Ryan's post from March:
The characters appear in order of how they are activated and then you can manually change the sort order however you would like by using the little left and right arrows.

I see that once they are active. That isn't an option when they are not activated. So all twelve of my Bots are out of order when not active.

Also those arrows aren't working for me once they are active

[ThunderThruster]

We have to shift them around when they're active ( a bit of a chore) but they should retain that position once they come out the other side of a mission (using the deactivate feature WILL mess it up).

Also those arrows aren't working for me once they are active

That could just be the gaps between their positions. If one of your other bots would sit in a position between two your trying to change, it looks like it hasn't done anything. You have to keep hitting that direction arrow.

[Silver Wind]

#439997
#439999
#440000
#440001

Frustrating. I'm tired, boss...

[Glyph]

Something going on with the server today? Nearly every opposed battle I've had in the past day has been hit with the multi-run / ignored character bug.

#451567 (SB ignored)
#451566 (Grope ignored)
#451553 (Big Dumper ignored)
#451457 (Hi-Jinx ignored)
and so on...

[Silver Wind]

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/view_mission.php?mission_id=460669

Instead of the usual "no actions taken" version of the bug, Sentinal and (a severely-injured) Flash-Turbine briefly duke it out while Serene and Starwing are glitched at 0% health.

[ThunderThruster]

This error/glitch does grow tiresome. You lose out, regardless of being the victor or the loser.
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=460738
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=460739
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=460741
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=460742
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=460743

[steve2275]

€51,705,265 "the sky is the limit"
Surge of Orbatrons strike squad steve2275 [GAG]

Mission #461642:
Defend Metroplex!
This mission begins in I still had time

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=461642

[Cheetron]

Hey all. I popped on today on my phone. The fix that let me go back to the original page to play hmw is gone. I have 0 way to access missions. I might have gotten lucky and remembered the entire team page url. Hope it's just a bug

[Silver Wind]

Anyone else suddenly find the character names being bolded or something? I'm hoping this isn't intended; it's harder on my eyes. (Using Firefox v159.0, fwiw.)

[ThunderThruster]

Yup. Glad to know it's not my eyes playing tricks on me.

[Seibertron]

Hey all. I popped on today on my phone. The fix that let me go back to the original page to play hmw is gone. I have 0 way to access missions. I might have gotten lucky and remembered the entire team page url. Hope it's just a bug

What error are you encountering?

[Seibertron]

I see some of the errors you guys reported over past few months. I don't check this forum often so if there problems, a little nudge sent my way would be great. I'll take a look at this hopefully soon. I'm working on other bugs and looking at upgrading to the latest version of php after a php vulnerability was announced this past week.

Is this of any interest to you guys?

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _final.php

[Seibertron]

Anyone else suddenly find the character names being bolded or something? I'm hoping this isn't intended; it's harder on my eyes. (Using Firefox v159.0, fwiw.)

Screenshot 2026-11-02 at 12-34-07 Heavy Metal War Your War Room - Transformers.png

Fixed.

[Burn]

I see some of the errors you guys reported over past few months. I don't check this forum often so if there problems, a little nudge sent my way would be great. I'll take a look at this hopefully soon. I'm working on other bugs and looking at upgrading to the latest version of php after a php vulnerability was announced this past week.

Is this of any interest to you guys?

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _final.php

Yes

[Dragonslayer]

I see some of the errors you guys reported over past few months. I don't check this forum often so if there problems, a little nudge sent my way would be great. I'll take a look at this hopefully soon. I'm working on other bugs and looking at upgrading to the latest version of php after a php vulnerability was announced this past week.

Is this of any interest to you guys?

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _final.php

Yes

Seconded.

[Seibertron]

Speaking of which, I'm in the middle of upgrading the server to the latest version of PHP. There are errors. I'm working through fixing it. I see quoting is broken now.

[Seibertron]

I see some of the errors you guys reported over past few months. I don't check this forum often so if there problems, a little nudge sent my way would be great. I'll take a look at this hopefully soon. I'm working on other bugs and looking at upgrading to the latest version of php after a php vulnerability was announced this past week.

Is this of any interest to you guys?

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _final.php

Yes

Seconded.

Can you guys tell me what that file was supposed to do? Is it "working" for what you guys need? The page had been broken for years but I fixed the errors yesterday while doing checks to upgrade to the latest version of PHP.

[Dragonslayer]

I see some of the errors you guys reported over past few months. I don't check this forum often so if there problems, a little nudge sent my way would be great. I'll take a look at this hopefully soon. I'm working on other bugs and looking at upgrading to the latest version of php after a php vulnerability was announced this past week.

Is this of any interest to you guys?

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _final.php

Yes

Seconded.

Can you guys tell me what that file was supposed to do? Is it "working" for what you guys need? The page had been broken for years but I fixed the errors yesterday while doing checks to upgrade to the latest version of PHP.

I've honestly never seen this page before. Not sure what it's genesis is, but it looks old based on some of the names in there. It looks like it was an attempt to track and score a competition within the game's systems itself rather than everyone doing it on the forum (duh). I just think Burn and I were expressing interest in the idea of built-in tools or systems for in-game tournaments/competitions.

[Burn]

I can't quite recall what the go was with it (Glyph or Psychout will probably remember) but it would have been a way to automatically track any tournaments we were running. I don't know if it was ever finished or if it was, if it was even used.