The Energon Pub

[Silverbolt]

You suggest it like it an easy thing to do...

I'm guessing that your programming skill is probably similar to my own. So how do you know its not.

Of course if I were running things I probably would have started every bot off with 20 million exp when they were created and had all alts available from day one.

Just to give everyone a taste of what a high level bot can do to further increase interest in HMW2.

I would think removing the rotater and having all alts available would be easier then figuring out why the rotator is broken after one cycle.

[-Soundwave-]

Sure that'd be cool don't get me wrong. But last I heard, the mods don't have much to work in game wise so it is a possibility that Psychout just can't. OS well he's too busy with V2 to do it so we're just sort of stuck. Sucks but at least the game is up.

[Necessary Evil]

Of course if I were running things I probably would have started every bot off with 20 million exp when they were created and had all alts available from day one.

Just to give everyone a taste of what a high level bot can do to further increase interest in HMW2.

No doubt it'll be just me, but I wouldn't need a 20 million xp incentive to encourage me to play V2.

I believe HMW2's new features should prove enough to keep the new and existing players very intrigued.


I've only just started to play again, but I've noticed that my ranking hasn't changed at all. In fact, it remains at N/A. I don't find this to be a problem (since V2 happens to be in the process), honestly; I was just wondering if there were any other "ghosts" hovering about?

EDIT: This has probably been brought up before, but The Autobots have won the mission. And I can't believe I couldn't finish off that bastard...

[Psychout]

You suggest it like it an easy thing to do...

So how do you know its not.

Because I put my fingers in my ears and say its not.

Ill make this easy for you Silverbolt; nothing that is broken in this temporary version of the game will be fixed. OS has better things to do, like make V2.
Accept what you have now as it wont be changing, or leave and come back when V2 is ready. Either way, it bothers me not.

And if you wanted extra XP, you should have joined the level 6 challenge.

[Silverbolt]

Then what in the heck is the point of having a bug reporting thread. Other then to give the moderators a outlet to belittle the players because they would like to see something work. Honestly I'm not asking for new features, or for anyone to spend weeks or even a day to fix something. Just saying that if something could be turned off completely and everything made available that there would probably be a benefit to the players.

As for the challenge or whatever you want to call it, I have no interest in having to think with this game, its a time killer for me so I just want see mission put bot in mission.

[Psychout]

Then what in the heck is the point of having a bug reporting thread.

Because there are more important things in this game that could go wrong than a load of .gif images not showing up when they are supposed to.

Had you looked in the helpfully titled Known Game problems and helpful links (please read) 12/05/09 thread then you'd have already known all of this.

[Editor]

Then what in the heck is the point of having a bug reporting thread.

Not to step on any mods toes with this responce but..

It's because this thread was more important when V1 was the main focus of the developers, however as we are mostly waiting on the game upgrade where the vast majority of problems with V1 will have no consequence, it is more of a hold over than anything else.

Yes it is still used, but be no means is it the resource thread it may have once been.

Your comments are valid, but as the majority of players who are still here are aware of the issues and that they are on the back burner while V2 is in the works, most of us are willing to live with them as long as the game is functional.

[vaporretarder]

awesome, ya gotta love parse errors in the middle of a tourney haha

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/includes/layout.php on line 116

oh well, I'm sure it's only temporary, just figured I'd get a good laugh with this.

(at least I didnt bring up the alt rotator heh)

[Name_Violation]

i noticed when i got upgraded to 15 million xp, that when upgrading if you repeatedly click the upgrade button you can upgrade multiple times. but it lets you pay for over 10 in a stat, but stat stays at 10. is it just an impatience tax?

I had to reset like 5 times to get my stats right

[Psychout]

is it just an impatience tax?

Yep.

That'll learn ya.

[Name_Violation]

is it just an impatience tax?

Yep.

That'll learn ya.

stupid rush deliveries fee

[stang_211]

One of my bots got stuck in the arena yesterday while the game was having some problems. Now that same bot can't join the arena fights. He can do all the missions he wants, but the the arena.
What do I need to do to get him back into the arena?

[Psychout]

One of my bots got stuck in the arena yesterday while the game was having some problems. Now that same bot can't join the arena fights. He can do all the missions he wants, but the the arena.
What do I need to do to get him back into the arena?

Stay in the missions?

PM me his link and ill see what I can do for you. We've had a handful of them recently and im investigating ways to correct it.

[Tristar]

One of my bots got stuck in the arena yesterday while the game was having some problems. Now that same bot can't join the arena fights. He can do all the missions he wants, but the the arena.
What do I need to do to get him back into the arena?

Don't feel bad I'm having that same problem with my former level six combatant had to create a new con to take his place...Dynamix now is locked into missions.

[Sid Delicious]

Here's a nice twist to the old Autobot-sneak-win bug:

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... n_id=39090


Even when I win, I still lose.

I beat both bots (both down to 0%) and the Autobots still win...

[Carlos_Oliviera_U.B.C.S.]

Jesus tap dancing Christ! When is HMW gonna be back up?

[Psychout]

Jesus tap dancing Christ! When is HMW gonna be back up?

Short answer: We (the HMW mods) don't know.

Long answer:

As for HMW, I'm not sure when I'll be putting it back online. The site's been hammered with traffic for the past week and HMW kept bringing the server down. Since OS is working on a new version of HMW2 which will hopefully be launching in the near future, there's no sense in figuring out the problem with the old legacy scripts that process the battles at this point.

This may well mean that its down for a while, or even right up until the new game is completed, but as soon as the staff know more we'll tell you all...

[Light Blade]

Arena logs, active character bar and high score panel are all super imposed on top of each other

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/character.php?character_id=94759

[Wilko]

GAME ERROR
# Prisoner 655321 was not able to register for the Arena.

I get this error whenever i try to register one particular bot for the arena i have even tried reseting the build and it still does the same thing. Its not that big of a problem but seen as he's a rammer i'd like to put him in the arena now and again....

[mitchsantona]

Got a question about my character icon having a big 'X' through it. I changed it recently to a Panther and the icon only shows up in my character profile page and arena results page. Other than that it's 'X'ed out. Any suggestions? I already tried to reload it again, and it didn't work that time either. (Had to pay for armor twice too ). Any help would be appreciated.

{edited}
I found an older post about this problem since then but just wondered if it's best to just change my icon back to a common or core one.

[Psychout]

I know the feeling.

It'll still work properly and its tactics will work in battle, but the scaled image of it is borked, so it entirely up to you if you want to keep it or not, it wont affect anything else about the game.

[UltraPrimal]

Nobody can defeat me!

No, seriously. I just had 3 missions in which I was defeated by "Nobody". Each one consists on one of my Maximals and a Predacon slapping each other around for a bit and then the match ends with:

Outmatched and running low on energy, the Decepticons retreat from the battle. Victory belongs to the Autobots!

Autobots and Decepticons? I didn't see any of those old fossil fuel chuggers! Anyone else report this bug yet?

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... n_id=64998

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... n_id=64999

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... n_id=65000

[Name_Violation]

Nobody can defeat me!

No, seriously. I just had 3 missions in which I was defeated by "Nobody". Each one consists on one of my Maximals and a Predacon slapping each other around for a bit and then the match ends with:

Outmatched and running low on energy, the Decepticons retreat from the battle. Victory belongs to the Autobots!

Autobots and Decepticons? I didn't see any of those old fossil fuel chuggers! Anyone else report this bug yet?

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... n_id=64998

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... n_id=64999

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... n_id=65000

OLD oldold old problem. cant be helped

[UltraPrimal]

Ah, OK. Another thing I've noticed. The HMW Index page doesn't show my recent arena battles, just missions. I'm guessing this is common too?

[Name_Violation]

for us beast factions its common. i've never seen it work. heard it never has for aminals