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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Tammuz » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:03 pm

last may there was a database error or something, and we rolled back to febuary, everyone lost all progress, however anyone who created an account at that time lost everthing and such don't really exist as far as HMW concerns, they have no money to create TFs, and no one can donate to them.
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Malicron » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:41 pm

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And the mods can't delet the old acounts?
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Tammuz » Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:59 pm

tthe admins could, but that tends to kill the board and cuase that to crash, anyway the account(remember these peeps still exist) works for most of the site just not HMW, OS however can sort it out
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby kuzzy » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:55 pm

just a quick q
what is the programming program that you are using for hmw.
if its anything like qbasic i think id know how to help with some little things
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Tammuz » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:11 pm

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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby kuzzy » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:03 pm

whats php?
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Snowtron » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:02 am

Okay so what your saying is the HMW is down now but when it comes back on I can't do any thing anyway. :-( :D
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Tammuz » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:16 pm

kuzzy wrote:whats php?

wiki wrote:PHP is a computer scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages.[1] The name PHP is a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications. Textual User Interfaces can also be created using ncurses.




Snowtron wrote:Okay so what your saying is the HMW is down now but when it comes back on I can't do any thing anyway. :-( :D


no. not at all. when it comes back which should be sunday evening, or maybe monday morning and you should be able to play as normal
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Snowtron » Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:23 pm

Tammuz wrote:
kuzzy wrote:whats php?

wiki wrote:PHP is a computer scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages.[1] The name PHP is a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications. Textual User Interfaces can also be created using ncurses.




Snowtron wrote:Okay so what your saying is the HMW is down now but when it comes back on I can't do any thing anyway. :-( :D


no. not at all. when it comes back which should be sunday evening, or maybe monday morning and you should be able to play as normal


Okay cool. :D
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby kuzzy » Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:53 pm

Tammuz wrote:
kuzzy wrote:whats php?

wiki wrote:PHP is a computer scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages.[1] The name PHP is a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications. Textual User Interfaces can also be created using ncurses.




Snowtron wrote:Okay so what your saying is the HMW is down now but when it comes back on I can't do any thing anyway. :-( :D


no. not at all. when it comes back which should be sunday evening, or maybe monday morning and you should be able to play as normal

ok i understand everything now and im pretty sure i aint anything like qbasic lol
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Tammuz » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:06 pm

i have no idea what so ever, i'm a scientist not a programmer.
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Malicron » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:07 pm

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Tammuz wrote:when it comes back which should be sunday evening, or maybe monday morning ...

So much for that assessment. :cry:
So, do we have any word on a possible ETA for the game's return?
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Dr. Caelus » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:46 pm

Whiner-tron wrote:So, do we have any word on a possible ETA for the game's return?


No.

The Sunday/Monday estimate was based on Seibertron saying that he "turned off HMW for the weekend". Hypothetically, it's just a matter of waiting for him to turn it back on now that the weekend is over.

Unfortunately, Seibs offers little in the way of solid schedules.
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Evolution Prime » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:52 pm

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Caelus wrote:
Whiner-tron wrote:So, do we have any word on a possible ETA for the game's return?


No.

The Sunday/Monday estimate was based on Seibertron saying that he "turned off HMW for the weekend". Hypothetically, it's just a matter of waiting for him to turn it back on now that the weekend is over.

Unfortunately, Seibs offers little in the way of solid schedules.


Just like the military having their schedule set in jello.
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby MagnusLabel » Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:09 am

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Hello, I was wondering what "Robot Mode Abilities" is in the upgrade session. :?:
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Psychout » Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:31 am

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MagnusLabel wrote:Hello, I was wondering what "Robot Mode Abilities" is in the upgrade session. :?:

Its a hangover from the last programmer. He added robot modes to the game, but they didnt work properly so he removed them just before he quit.

Reset the minion and all details of robot mode should disspapear, but if you cant reset it or want to keep the altmode then you'll just have to ignore it, but whatever you do, dont try to put any xp into it as if you do it will be wasted.
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby MagnusLabel » Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:53 am

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Psychout wrote:
MagnusLabel wrote:Hello, I was wondering what "Robot Mode Abilities" is in the upgrade session. :?:

Its a hangover from the last programmer. He added robot modes to the game, but they didnt work properly so he removed them just before he quit.

Reset the minion and all details of robot mode should disspapear, but if you cant reset it or want to keep the altmode then you'll just have to ignore it, but whatever you do, dont try to put any xp into it as if you do it will be wasted.

Thanks!
Luckily I asked before I would like to put xp in it.:lol:
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Psychout » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:06 am

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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby MagnusLabel » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:37 am

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Hi guys, I've found few more questions and willing to be answered:

What does "Recharge" means in the weapons' descriptions?

Why is the Reference: Alt-mode icons not showing any icon now?

Thanks :D
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Supercollider » Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:47 am

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MagnusLabel wrote:What does "Recharge" means in the weapons' descriptions?

Hi MagnusLabel,

Think of it as the reload rate as it's a very rough indication of how soon you can use it again.

e.g Rocket Launcher takes about 1 minute to recharge/reload so if you make 3 normal (non=-tactic) attacks in a minute you'll only fire the laucher once. (Caelus might have changed that time recently).

Whereas Battle Blades have No Recharge so they'll be used in every non-tactic attack.

MagnusLabel wrote:Why is the Reference: Alt-mode icons not showing any icon now?

Hmm, good question.... Anyone got an answer?
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Tammuz » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:22 am

oh yes the weapons are entirely balanced whithin themselves; nothing now has a stupidley long recharge time, or has stupidely high damage for stupidely low stats
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Psychout » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:27 am

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Supercollider wrote:
MagnusLabel wrote:Why is the Reference: Alt-mode icons not showing any icon now?

Hmm, good question.... Anyone got an answer?

The alts were due a complete change when V2 was originally so I guess the original list, which was heinously out of date even then, was dumped and never replaced.

I wouldnt expect to see anything there for a fair while yet.
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby MagnusLabel » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:28 am

Motto: "(miming matches) My hovercraft is full of eels."
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Supercollider wrote:
MagnusLabel wrote:What does "Recharge" means in the weapons' descriptions?

Hi MagnusLabel,

Think of it as the reload rate as it's a very rough indication of how soon you can use it again.

e.g Rocket Launcher takes about 1 minute to recharge/reload so if you make 3 normal (non=-tactic) attacks in a minute you'll only fire the laucher once. (Caelus might have changed that time recently).

Whereas Battle Blades have No Recharge so they'll be used in every non-tactic attack.


So is it mean weapons have ho recharge are better than those have short recharge because of can be used in every non-tactic attack? :-?

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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Supercollider » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:09 am

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MagnusLabel wrote:
Supercollider wrote:
MagnusLabel wrote:What does "Recharge" means in the weapons' descriptions?

Hi MagnusLabel,

Think of it as the reload rate as it's a very rough indication of how soon you can use it again.

e.g Rocket Launcher takes about 1 minute to recharge/reload so if you make 3 normal (non=-tactic) attacks in a minute you'll only fire the laucher once. (Caelus might have changed that time recently).

Whereas Battle Blades have No Recharge so they'll be used in every non-tactic attack.


So is it mean weapons have ho recharge are better than those have short recharge because of can be used in every non-tactic attack? :-?

yup!
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Re: HMW Quick Start Guide & Beginners Advice

Postby Chaoslock » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:17 am

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MagnusLabel wrote:
Supercollider wrote:
MagnusLabel wrote:What does "Recharge" means in the weapons' descriptions?

Hi MagnusLabel,

Think of it as the reload rate as it's a very rough indication of how soon you can use it again.

e.g Rocket Launcher takes about 1 minute to recharge/reload so if you make 3 normal (non=-tactic) attacks in a minute you'll only fire the laucher once. (Caelus might have changed that time recently).

Whereas Battle Blades have No Recharge so they'll be used in every non-tactic attack.


So is it mean weapons have ho recharge are better than those have short recharge because of can be used in every non-tactic attack? :-?



Sort of... SR weapons tend to do more damage, and every weapon under 24 seconds are useable.
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