The Energon Pub

Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:00 pm

Since Glyph's new problem/bug report thread went poof in the board wipe, I suppose a replica thread is in order.. don't get me wrong, I <3 the Insecticons.

Post your HMW problems/bugs/etc. here.

News Credits: 34 · Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:03 pm

Thanks Phasewing.

When posting bugs, please try to give as much information as possible - character IDs, battle numbers, exactly what you were doing when the problem occurred, etc - to help me replicate the problem and/or figure out its source so that I can fix it.

Thanks!

Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:28 pm

when trying to participate in a mission or arena, it wont accept my passcode. and im not mistyping it. it just keeps loading up, password error.

News Credits: 23 · Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:37 pm

My problem involves passcodes as well. I've been trying to heal my Characters in the CR Chamber to no avail. The passcodes aren't accepted even though they are typed correctly.

News Credits: 34 · Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:50 pm

Working my way through the passcoded pages atm. As the problem with them is something I can't fix with my access, I'm temporarily disabling them.

Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:44 pm

Thanks so much. You got my characters out of debt. I don't know when but I am ready to play. Thanks again.

It's not a bug I know. But when I tried the PM feature it wouldn't send. Duh. :oops:

It's down. Forgive me. Sometimes you just get used to certain things.

Any thanks. They are charging now.

Noel

Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:00 am

Glyph wrote:Working my way through the passcoded pages atm. As the problem with them is something I can't fix with my access, I'm temporarily disabling them.

plase dont bother
things are SOOOOO much smoother without those bastards

News Credits: 34 · Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:23 am

Yeah, I know. I prefer it without them too. The problem is that it's so damn easy to run macros without them. It'd take me maybe an hour tops to throw together a client-side script that could keep my bots going into battle 24/7, and I code relatively slowly.

An alternative way of doing the passcodes would be to ask for it at random intervals rather than on every page, but that would be at least as annoying if not more so - when you're trying to get into that mission with 5 secs to go, you won't be happy to be redirected to the 'please enter this passcode to prove you're not a macro' page.

Unless I can come up with some way of verifying the user that can't be spoofed by a script, that's about all the options I have without ignoring macros at the point of access and instead resorting to some kind of over-complex statistical analysis of playing patterns to identify them.

Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:29 am

Why is the Allosaur altmode labelled as a land animal when it clearly is a dinosaur :???:

Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:22 am

Glyph wrote:Yeah, I know. I prefer it without them too. The problem is that it's so damn easy to run macros without them. It'd take me maybe an hour tops to throw together a client-side script that could keep my bots going into battle 24/7, and I code relatively slowly.

An alternative way of doing the passcodes would be to ask for it at random intervals rather than on every page, but that would be at least as annoying if not more so - when you're trying to get into that mission with 5 secs to go, you won't be happy to be redirected to the 'please enter this passcode to prove you're not a macro' page.

Unless I can come up with some way of verifying the user that can't be spoofed by a script, that's about all the options I have without ignoring macros at the point of access and instead resorting to some kind of over-complex statistical analysis of playing patterns to identify them.

Why not have the passcode when you're activating your bots in that screen. It would still verify the user and they'd only have to do it that one time to get 6 active bots in and then could disperse them wherever without a passcode, but then after getting them out of CR or activating the next set you'd have to enter the passcode again. Wouldn't that work just as well as having to enter it at missions and arena battles and be less annoying for the players?

News Credits: 34 · Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:35 am

That is an alternative I've been thinking about.

Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:27 am

ill agree with ashe

Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:12 pm

Sharpwing wrote:Why is the Allosaur altmode labelled as a land animal when it clearly is a dinosaur

Because it would qualify as both. Plus it has Avoid and Ram and not just Ram. Aren't Pterdactyl's considered air animals as well?

News Credits: 226 · Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:27 am

Is it possible to get the login time out extended a bit?

It seems I barely have enough time to go get a drink before I have to spend the next minute logging back in through 3 different pages.

Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:04 am

Goribus wrote:
Sharpwing wrote:Why is the Allosaur altmode labelled as a land animal when it clearly is a dinosaur

Because it would qualify as both. Plus it has Avoid and Ram and not just Ram. Aren't Pterdactyl's considered air animals as well?

That's not really a solid explanation...

Why would, for example, the Allosaur be a land animal when the Triceratops is a dinosaur?

Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:52 am

Beacuse an Allosaur is fast and a Triceratops is slow.

Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:41 pm

Firstly, It's not really a bug its more of an error, all the new (as in today they were released) Alt modes for the decepticons aren't showing up on the data base and when I went to redo one of my guys the program says it's not in my faction, this counts for all of the new alt modes.

Secondly I noticed earlier when putting my guys into battle there is no password system, has that broken or have you guys removed it?

Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:45 pm

There's still some last minute tweeking on the rotation system, I think. Glyph is doing today's alt rotation manually when he has a moment, then next week will begin the true 'auto' part of it.

Edit:
Yeah, here it is....

Glyph wrote:Surely that's just Murphy's Law?

Anyhow, I will do my best to start the rotator tonight. Under normal circumstances it would run at 0100 CST on the Monday of every week, but I chose not to enable it yet as I have a smallish amount work still to do on the classifications of the older alts. Unsurprisingly, the forum crash on Thursday and the fallout / cleanup from that has been top priority over the last few days.

I'll start it manually as soon as I'm ready to do so.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:13 pm

Steel Starscream wrote:Secondly I noticed earlier when putting my guys into battle there is no password system, has that broken or have you guys removed it?

Both last week the passwords were showing up but when typed in would come back with incorrect password so Glyph took them off until he can fix it

Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:04 pm

Sharpwing wrote:
Goribus wrote:
Sharpwing wrote:Why is the Allosaur altmode labelled as a land animal when it clearly is a dinosaur

Because it would qualify as both. Plus it has Avoid and Ram and not just Ram. Aren't Pterdactyl's considered air animals as well?

That's not really a solid explanation...

Why would, for example, the Allosaur be a land animal when the Triceratops is a dinosaur?

To be perfectly honest it's probably to differentiate between the T-Rex and Allosaur alts. Until the alts rotate the 'Cons already have 2 or 3 T-Rex alts classified as Dinosaurs. Allosaurs look very much like T-Rex's except they don't have short stubby arms and other differences. But most people mistake them. If it makes you feel better the 2 Velociraptors we have are split: one is a dinosaur and the other is a small animal.

Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:22 pm

Goribus wrote:Allosaurs look very much like T-Rex's except they don't have short stubby arms and other differences.

Such as Allosaurs being predators and T-rexes being scavengers.

For example.

Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:41 pm

Furcalor wrote:
Goribus wrote:Allosaurs look very much like T-Rex's except they don't have short stubby arms and other differences.

Such as Allosaurs being predators and T-rexes being scavengers.

For example.

I meant physical differences. But yes that's one of the differences they have.

News Credits: 34 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:45 pm

Interrupting the dino discussion for a minute, we're now one bug down. Took me a while to track down the problem and jump through the little hoops, but BBCode now works in sigs again!

Have fun!

Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:00 pm

*looks to see if it does work...*

-edit-

Yay, it does.

*Hugs on the quotes*

Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:00 pm

Uh... Glyph?

It works in sigs now, but now it doesn't show up right in the profiles.

See my sig here?

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Is what's showing up in my profile.