The Energon Pub

News Credits: 6 · by **Metroplex79** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:57 am

Wasn't sure if this was a bug or something out of my control

On my Mortar-fied profile, it shows I had a mission

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/view_mission.php?mission_id=162673

But when I clicked the mission, I'm not in it.

I also took a screenshot from my index page, and it verifies that I was not in it.
(the bottom one)

News Credits: 1 · by **Jeep?** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:05 am

I noticed that yesterday, I've been told it happens a lot when you join a mission with very little time left. YOu had to manually CR your character, too, right?

News Credits: 5 · by **Omega Sentinel** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:09 am

Things have been a little "off" since the server switch.
Don't have any answers yet. I'll see what we can do.

News Credits: 6 · by **Metroplex79** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:15 am

It happened again with my Turboflame.

Jesus Prime wrote:I noticed that yesterday, I've been told it happens a lot when you join a mission with very little time left. YOu had to manually CR your character, too, right?

Yeah, I had to. That's not good. So much for being a good samritan for my out-numbered Decepticon comrades.

Omega Sentinel wrote:Things have been a little "off" since the server switch.
Don't have any answers yet. I'll see what we can do.

Oh good. As long as you know about, that's cool.

by **Ramrider** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:21 am

Why would you have to manually CR a character who's not in the mission? Surely he wouldn't have been injured in the first place?

News Credits: 1 · by **Jeep?** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:24 am

Ramrider wrote:Why would you have to manually CR a character who's not in the mission? Surely he wouldn't have been injured in the first place?

Glitches it up somehow. There's a mission countdown and everything, but the character's just not in the log.

News Credits: 6 · by **Metroplex79** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:28 am

Ramrider wrote:Why would you have to manually CR a character who's not in the mission? Surely he wouldn't have been injured in the first place?

My thoughts exactly, how could he be phyically injured (in my case, died) if he was not in a mission?

The "Stargate"/"wormhole"/"transporter" absorbed the physical body and only sent the spirit to watch the teammates die. :lol:

I wonder if we could sell this glitch to Ebay, as per "Anti-Sniping" at the last few seconds :lol:

"Miserable glitches"-Shockwave

News Credits: 5 · by **Omega Sentinel** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:29 am

Cosmic Rust

by **Tammuz** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:45 am

i look at it as the TF in question running into the shuttle bay and getting their at the exact moment the shuttle starts it's engine,and whammo! robot casserole.

by **Pariah** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:49 pm

rich in iron, but hard to swallow....

News Credits: 6 · by **Metroplex79** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:49 pm

Pariah wrote:rich in iron, but hard to swallow....

Not rich at all. I didn't even get the basic "mission win pts/€" for those Decepticon wins. :sad:

...and yeah, hard to swallow.

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:25 pm

Metroplex79 wrote:
Pariah wrote:rich in iron, but hard to swallow....

Not rich at all. I didn't even get the basic "mission win pts/€" for those Decepticon wins.

...and yeah, hard to swallow.

This'd worked better if they let the medic in.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:08 am

Got one myself.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/burnscrap/Image1.jpg

Manual cr was required too. I'm certain there was at least 20 seconds left to join but it was cutting it close.

I missed out on a chance to beat up Lucky. :-(

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:16 am

Third one in 2 days. Its joining in the last minute that triggers it, this one had 45 seconds left when Steel was sent.

by **Subsonika** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:57 am

same has happened to me few times last 2 days

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:33 am

steve's xp gain is going to dip drastically then.

News Credits: 1 · by **Hoistimus** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:27 am

I've had it happen a few times in the last few days too.. I just avoided entering missions in the last minute, although that's usually the good ones left to join.

by **Tammuz** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:47 am

at least 30 seconds is needed to avoid being bounced out

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:06 pm

Tammuz wrote:at least 30 seconds is needed to avoid being bounced out

I'm bettin go closer to a minute. But Lifeline wasnm't exactly fashionably late, either

News Credits: 1 · by **Absolute Zero** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:28 pm

It's happened to me about 4-6 times since the server switch. Rather annoying. Especially when you're automatically dead after the fact.

News Credits: 5 · by **Omega Sentinel** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:59 pm

Dreadwind wrote:It's happened to me about 4-6 times since the server switch. Rather annoying. Especially when you're automatically dead after the fact.

get as many details about each instance you see as possible. I need to know all the circumstances behind one of these missions before I can start troubleshooting it because I can't duplicate the problem in my development environment.

by **Tammuz** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:22 pm

56 seconds left and Blitzfix get's in
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... _id=164527

mission had 5 bots/3 cons before entry

entered with FF on old server.

EDIT: 39 secodns and Ghostwing gets booted
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... _id=164530

mission had 3 bots/2 cons before entry

entered with FF on old server.

EDIT: which server hosts your development area?

EDIT: 44 seconds and Sturmwing get's in
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... _id=164526

EDIT: 42 and Hexwing doesn't
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... _id=164560

EDIT 43 seconds and Swingwing doesn't
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... _id=164532

EDIT: 44seconds Shieldwing gets in
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... _id=164580

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:00 pm

Wild guess, The old server is reading Bot x's entry. The new server however, does not. Since the battle is operating on the new system, we hve a phantom. Being Stasis Locked is just the effect pof swapping realities. And since they didn't take place in a battle in this reality, they don't earn anything. (or vice-versa)

Just a guess from an un-educated techie though

News Credits: 1 · by **Hoistimus** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:03 pm

Um.. I'm finding that missions are over and logs available when there's about the same 44 seconds left in them. Might be a clue as to what's going on.. I'm hoping.

Website · by **Silver Wind** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:25 pm

(This was all done using my computer at home, which has WinXP SP2 with IE v6, by the way.)

I waited until there was about 30 sec. remaining before putting Priestess into a cross-level mission to see if I experienced the issue as well. The result came back an unfortunate positive. The mission says 6/6 for my side, but Priestess has apparently only sent an astral projection of herself.

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Edit: ~35 seconds left, Ascendant and one other bot didn't "join"
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/view_mission.php?mission_id=165171

~45 seconds remaining, Ransom's namesake not showing
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/view_mission.php?mission_id=165197
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Edit 2: 55 sec., Extricate makes it in
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/view_mission.php?mission_id=165196

50 sec. and Ransom's Survei shows up
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/view_mission.php?mission_id=165213

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Edit 3: Ascendant and Priestess came out with 0 xp/€0 & needing an hour in the CR. Despite having been said to be in a mission (status bar and character profile), they still do not show up or even get mentioned in the mission log anywhere nor on the HMW index page.

The outcome was the same for Ransom's namesake.