The Energon Pub

Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:51 pm

I will pony up some money to help out.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:08 pm

is HMW OVER?

HELL NO!!
I just dropped into some missions

Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:11 pm

Yeah, pics are gone though. While that will help speed things up (if it's intentional) removing the db calls entirely would probably help more.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:21 pm

Shadow Dragon wrote:Yeah, pics are gone though.

I think weapon stats have been changed too.
Laser Pistol is now Laser rifle?

News Credits: 7 · Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:40 pm

Unmodified (=uncolored) alts are working.

Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:42 pm

Do we know what happened?

News Credits: 6 · Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:43 pm

DISCHARGE wrote:I think weapon stats have been changed too.
Laser Pistol is now Laser rifle?

That would be my doing. A long overdo aesthetic change I made a few weeks ago. Just switched the names on the two.

And weapons should now be balanced as far as damage range vs stats.

Recharge Times are still a bugger though, so at the moment, they make the distinction between a 'good' weapon and a 'crap' weapon.

News Credits: 7 · Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:09 pm

I didn't know Caelus had access to the red button panel. :-P

What else can he press?

Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:50 pm

Omega Charge wrote:I didn't know Caelus had access to the red button panel. What else can he press?

The "permanently delete HMW" button. Why do you ask?

News Credits: 6 · Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:18 pm

Omega Charge wrote:I didn't know Caelus had access to the red button panel. What else can he press?

All I know that I can manipulate is weaponry. OS gave that ability to Mkall, AS, and eventually me last Fall/Winter. I added the Grenades way back then actually.

Hypothetically I have access to armor too, but OS told me not to touch it. Something about crossing the streams...

Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:37 pm

you know, being that we only just got HMW back up we might as give seibs a heads up thay we're about to crash the site and then play with the armour!

News Credits: 42 · Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:32 am

What was the point of OS giving you the admin panels and then telling you not to use them? :BOOM:

QuietStorm wrote: who's willing to pony up 2 bucks a month to play the game?

Id be more then willing to chip in, (on the sole condition that it went on a game server and nothing else,) but as my limited understanding of copyright laws go, if the game starts to charge for its use then it will become 'profit making' and therefore a pretty major trademark problem. Cue Hasbro's legal machine...

Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:24 pm

Psychout wrote:What was the point of OS giving you the admin panels and then telling you not to use them?

what's the point of OS making me part of the support team and the totally ignoring every single thing i say.

Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:57 pm

Psychout wrote:What was the point of OS giving you the admin panels and then telling you not to use them?

QuietStorm wrote: who's willing to pony up 2 bucks a month to play the game?

Id be more then willing to chip in, (on the sole condition that it went on a game server and nothing else,) but as my limited understanding of copyright laws go, if the game starts to charge for its use then it will become 'profit making' and therefore a pretty major trademark problem. Cue Hasbro's legal machine...

Nice idea might be if every one in the game donated say 5 dollar to buy our own server. Then it wouldn't be so much a pay to play deal just a one time thing. Of course I don't know what a server costs or how many players would donate money.

News Credits: 226 · Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:03 pm

Wouldn't there be ongoing monthly server fees?

I think Ryan said something about the one Seibertron.com server costing him between $100-$200 a month.

We can debate back and forth about the legality of people donating money. But the way I see it, you do NOT have to pay to play the game, you simply make a donation. Whether you donate or not doesn't impact on your ability to play and the money recipients are NOT doing so to make a profit.

Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:35 pm

Well i bet there is 100-200 players that would donate a dollar to have our own server I know I would. I'm not any law specialist at all but like your saying if it's a donation I don't see how we would be breaking any laws

Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:16 am

voluntary donations!

give me a paypal account and I'll do my part.

Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:28 am

slip wrote:Well i bet there is 100-200 players that would donate a dollar to have our own server I know I would. I'm not any law specialist at all but like your saying if it's a donation I don't see how we would be breaking any laws

Unfortunately I'm going to have to chime my opinion in.

One of the main reasons I play this game is because it's free. Hell, many people play this game because it's free, so having to pay for new server wouldn't be in my, or probably very many more people's, best interests.

Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:34 am

Hollow One wrote:Unfortunately I'm going to have to chime my opinion in.

One of the main reasons I play this game is because it's free. Hell, many people play this game because it's free, so having to pay for new server wouldn't be in my, or probably very many more people's, best interests.

That's what everybody thinks, but a donation of $1 would be an appeal to your moral / guilt. not Everyone will donate but if a group of players would donate some and others not there would still be a balance.

and come on.. what's $5 on the amount of time some people spend here?

News Credits: 42 · Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:22 am

Lets not get ahead of ourselves.
Volonutary Donations are a potential solution, but lets not get hung up on the idea just yet, there has to be other options out there - we all want to find a way to save this game.

Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:52 am

Okay, rather obviously we have only two ways to save the game here; reduce the server drag it creates or increase the site's computing power. Now it seems to me that killing the arena nearly did it as the site sloe downs were isolated incidents instead of a constant problem. Is there anything else we can take out of the game? Maybe some random code left from previous deletions?

Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:57 am

Whiner-tron wrote:Okay, rather obviously we have only two ways to save the game here; reduce the server drag it creates or increase the site's computing power. Now it seems to me that killing the arena nearly did it as the site sloe downs were isolated incidents instead of a constant problem. Is there anything else we can take out of the game? Maybe some random code left from previous deletions?

What about the Battle Beast Gambling?

Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:20 am

Lord Gothika wrote:What about the Battle Beast Gambling?

Of COURSE its genious!

i say we should delete battle beast gambling its not of much use to anyone anyhow

Im so glad i thought of it!
:WHISTLE:

if you say anything gothika... :HEADHURTS:

capiche?

News Credits: 6 · Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:43 pm

Bit late there smokey. Dropping battle beasts has already been mentioned (in an older thread), and talked about as a good idea.

Drop it like a bomb I say!

Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:49 pm

Dealer wrote:Bit late there smokey. Dropping battle beasts has already been mentioned (in an older thread), and talked about as a good idea.

Drop it like a bomb I say!

looks like you have to go too....
*loads revolver* ahh crap i cant shoot you through the Laptop

*facepalmdesk*