The Energon Pub

[Dragonslayer]

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but when I was reviewing one of Raze's mission logs for the Wabbit Hunt, I noticed something odd to me.

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/view_mission.php?mission_id=419230

At 2:04, Raze hits BunBot.003 with his Fusion Cannon, a "No recharge" weapon. Then the next action is him at 2:09 punching Choo Choo. Now, I may be wrong/have forgotten the weapons recharge mechanics, but if the Fusion Cannon doesn't have a recharge, shouldn't Raze have been able to use it for both actions?

Like I said, not sure if there actually is anything wrong, just something I thought was interesting.

[Glyph]

CAVEAT: I'm not entirely sure what the current code does with recharge times and it's always been a little flaky. What follows is supposition. But that said...

Recharge times are a bit odd: if the current code still looks like it did when I last saw it, it's a bit of a mix between real-time (seconds) and rounds (each time a character acts). The Fusion Cannon (and a number of other older weapons) actually has a recharge rate of 1, not zero as you might expect - the display code in the weapon shop treats 0-1 as "No recharge". I think the intent was that it's used on round X and is ready to fire again on round X+1. BUT... I think it's possible for two consecutive "weapon" attacks to hit an off-by-one error when the recharge rate is 1, and do what you saw in the log. Interesting quirk!

[Silver Wind]

"Moooooooommmmm, the War Room's being weird again!"
Currently having an issue where I'll select 6 bots to activate and submit the page, and then it'll load with 3 bots activated, 3 bots in the inactive section but still checked, and 3 error messages telling me I can only have 6 active bots. My gut feeling is it's something to do with the active_order flag since it looks like there's been another change there - my inactive bots are seemingly back to being ordered by ascending character_id.

Just encountered this error again.

Edit: Attempted to simply press the Activate button again, and it only activated two of the three inactive selected - along with a single error line for the 6 bots thing.

[megatrontsm]

when i attempt to sell my extra weapons i lose energon instead of gaining energon. is there a reason for this

[Silver Wind]

Firenze's alt mode (Dragon Wyrm) is looking weird all of a sudden. Force-refreshing had no effect.

Screenshot 2026-04-13 at 14-26-22 Heavy Metal War Your War Room - Transformers.png

[Glyph]

It's the custom colour. I noticed when setting up the robo-bunnies that the Brightness value in the colour picker isn't selected at all, and makes the custom colour default to #000000 (i.e. pure black) when you submit the form. If you do (re-)select the C/I/B values though, it works properly. (And the existing custom colour shouldn't change if you don't actually submit the form)

The errors are for a missing javascript file that would change the colour of the sample icon in the Altmode Color section as you select colours. Annoying, and is probably the reason the Color & Intensity are set to default and the Brightness value isn't selected at all, but doesn't prevent the custom colour being set when the form is submitted.

[Silver Wind]

Thanks. It took several attempts, but I think I have him back to his previous color. I don't know why it'd be just him. Sure I'd updated his character bio today to reflect a new mission record, but it had saved with no issues whatsoever before this happened.

[Seibertron]

when i attempt to sell my extra weapons i lose energon instead of gaining energon. is there a reason for this

No, that would not be the proper thing to happen. Can you guys provide me with the URL where we sell extra weapons so that I can look into this?

[Seibertron]

Thanks. It took several attempts, but I think I have him back to his previous color. I don't know why it'd be just him. Sure I'd updated his character bio today to reflect a new mission record, but it had saved with no issues whatsoever before this happened.

I fixed the error with the include file not working for some reason. It must have been a remnant from switching to the new server, though I couldn't figure out what that code wasn't working as it should. Something about the relevant path to the color functions file was bad even though it should have worked. Please let me know if you guys encounter more errors like that.

[Silver Wind]

when i attempt to sell my extra weapons i lose energon instead of gaining energon. is there a reason for this

No, that would not be the proper thing to happen. Can you guys provide me with the URL where we sell extra weapons so that I can look into this?

The buy/sell weapons page.

[Glyph]

Yes, the weapons page as above - but I've just sold a weapon to test and didn't encounter any bug. The before and after Energon totals were correct.

[Seibertron]

when i attempt to sell my extra weapons i lose energon instead of gaining energon. is there a reason for this

No, that would not be the proper thing to happen. Can you guys provide me with the URL where we sell extra weapons so that I can look into this?

The buy/sell weapons page.

I'm not even sure why I asked where that was. It's literally in my site's navigation.

Doh!

[Seibertron]

I fixed an issue in the Weapon Shop where selling weapons could sometimes result in incorrect Energon amounts. In certain cases, players might have received less Energon than expected or even lost Energon when selling items due to how sell values were calculated behind the scenes. Selling weapons now correctly awards the proper amount of Energon every time.

[Seibertron]

The same bug was in the Battle Beasts code. I resolved the problem there and got the Battle Beasts Gambling working again as well. The page needs to be cleaned up at a later date but it's functional again.

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... 26#hmw_top

[ThunderThruster]

Are the stat bars supposed to be this tall in the upgrade screen?
I get the need for them increase horizontally with each upgrade but I don't think they need to vertically increase as well.

HMW Stat Ugrades height.jpg

[Seibertron]

Are the stat bars supposed to be this tall in the upgrade screen?
I get the need for them increase horizontally with each upgrade but I don't think they need to vertically increase as well.

HMW Stat Ugrades height.jpg

No that's not how they're supposed to be. I'll address this later.

[Seibertron]

Are the stat bars supposed to be this tall in the upgrade screen?
I get the need for them increase horizontally with each upgrade but I don't think they need to vertically increase as well.

HMW Stat Ugrades height.jpg

I updated a lot with the look of character-upgrade page. I have a few other changes and testing I want to do later but I'm out of time right now. Please provide feedback when you guys can. Thanks.

[ThunderThruster]

Are the stat bars supposed to be this tall in the upgrade screen?
I get the need for them increase horizontally with each upgrade but I don't think they need to vertically increase as well.

HMW Stat Ugrades height.jpg

I updated a lot with the look of character-upgrade page. I have a few other changes and testing I want to do later but I'm out of time right now. Please provide feedback when you guys can. Thanks.

Looks much better than it was. Thanks

[Seibertron]

I modernized and updated a ton of code on the server tonight in bulk, most of which was streamlining some things in HMW and upgrading some code and combining some functions in our core database file. I don't see any errors from those changes in our error logs so I'm assuming I'm good for the night without having to test anything else. If you encounter any errors, please let me know. Server looks real good after these changes so fingers crossed I didn't accidentally screw up anything tonight.

[Glyph]

Getting a 403 error when submitting the Edit Character page (character-edit.php). Anyone else?

[Dragonslayer]

Getting a 403 error when submitting the Edit Character page (character-edit.php). Anyone else?

I tried different things (changing text, changing color) with three different characters, but I didn't get any errors on any of them.

[Glyph]

Huh, it seems to be only one of my characters - Slow-mo (#91218)
But it's consistent, I get a 403 any time I submit the form for that character, whether I've changed anything or not.

... aaaaand now I seem to have got some kind of automatic IP block for having hit the 403 page too often.
Whole site times out for me, but works fine when I switch to VPN. (Still can't edit the character though.)

[Seibertron]

Your character's bio specifically is setting off the server's security rules. Add the text of his bio along with some of the special text characters utilized in the bio, and the server's security system thinks that you are trying to hack the system. Working on a fix.

[Seibertron]

I tracked down the issue. One of the server security filters was falsely interpreting parts of the character bio text as suspicious command syntax and was blocking the save request before it reached HMW itself. I’ve adjusted the filtering rules for the character bio field so normal RPG/story text should no longer trigger the block.

Glyph, can you try saving your character again when you get a chance and let me know if you still run into any issues?

[Glyph]

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?