The Energon Pub

News Credits: 226 · Sun Feb 04, 2018 4:44 am

This thread will be used to keep players apprised of any updates to HMW.
This could range from fixing a typo in a mission brief to announcing that the HMW control panel has been updated to the point we can fix typos in mission briefs.

News Credits: 226 · Sun Feb 04, 2018 4:47 am

February 4 2018

LIGHTSABERS
Are now back in stock.

Lighgsaber, Black Lighgsaber, Green Lighgsaber, Red Lighgsaber, and Purple Lighgsaber have all been into line with each other. This may have included a reduction/increase in damage, cost, and stats required.

Dual-Bladed Lighgsaber remains unchanged

News Credits: 226 · Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:36 pm

Lightsabers are back in stock.

News Credits: 226 · Thu Apr 05, 2018 3:44 am

5 April 2018
Now and then I've received PM's or just stumbled across people who were once Maximals or Predacons and then found themselves with access to the wrong faction forum after the Maximal and Predacon factions were removed.

So I have gone through and removed ALL members from the Maximal and Predacon groups.

What does this mean?

Members may find themselves without access to their faction forums. Getting access back is easy, just shoot me a Private Message.

News Credits: 226 · Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:50 pm

Automatic Machine Gun
XS2 Ionised Null-Ray

Both of these have been restocked after being requested (did it just before I left for work, on lunch now so I have time to announce it)

If there are weapons not in stock that you want, let me know and I'll restock them.

News Credits: 226 · Sun Apr 15, 2018 2:45 am

If anyone bought that 512mb USB Stick for 100K ... it's now been deleted.

It's a temporary thing I use to pay Autobots who do stuff for me.

Might want to check the bot you equipped it to...

News Credits: 226 · Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:48 pm

FUSION CANNON
Quite possibly the most iconic weapon in TF lore. Megatrons weapon. It belongs to the Cons.

But it's always been THE weapon in this game because it's had no equal.

Until now.

MAGNUS HAMMER
Secretly, he's always had time, he's just picks and chooses which bullshit he deals with and when (like me), the hammer of Ultra Magnus, the guy who upholds the laws (like me!)

It's stats were close to the Fusion Cannon, but it had the liability of a short recharge. It's stats have now been brought into line with the Fusion Cannon, making it the Autobot equivalent.

Oh and they've both been restocked.

Kind regards,
Burn
Seibertron Administrator who allegedly does nothing

P.S. If you have a problem with all that, **** off.

News Credits: 226 · Sun May 20, 2018 6:00 am

The following weapons have been removed because from memory they were from shits and giggles. They can easily be recreated as rewards in future events.

Dead
Banhammer
heavy kick to the nuts
Name Violations prototype
Exploding Huggles

The following weapons have been restocked as correct channels were followed (pm'ing me will not get weapons restocked, there's a thread for that)

Brawn Blasters
Electric Cannon
XS2 Ionised Null-Ray

News Credits: 226 · Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:05 pm

21/08/2018 (or 08/21/2018 for those who insist on being different)

Just so I don't have to keep saying this or answering this, the Missions portion of the Control Panel is still a work in progress.

Ryan recently made changes to some code behind the scenes to help make it easier for him to code going forward. Some how this has triggered a number (possibly all) of older missions.

At this point in time we cannot add missions, we cannot deactivate missions.

There is nothing new. Do not get overly excited.

News Credits: 3642 · Sat Aug 25, 2018 3:42 pm

I've been working on cleaning up code, directory structure, and old files that I've determined are no longer needed. I have a backup folder with a replica of the game before I started hacking it apart and making all of the game-wide changes.

I removed a lot of unnecessary files from the HMW directory on the server today. If you notice any missing files (mostly images), please let me know and I will either restore the directory or files as needed.

A lot of code clean-up has been going on behind the scenes. I removed duplicate functions that someone had replicated wherever they needed them instead of using 1 common shared file. I renamed functions, variables, etc to follow a more unified theme. Those changes have also been pushed.

I'm working toward the goal of giving Burn an admin section where he can manage more of the things like Missions and such. In order to do that, I have to clean up all of this code. Will work on this some more later tonight.

No mission admin section yet, Burn. I'm still undecided what the best solution is yet.

Sat Aug 25, 2018 4:10 pm

Will you be able to do anything for alt modes? I'm very curious and perhaps too hopeful

Adding, replacing ones in need of a fix/refresh, etc? I don't mean add new alt classes, just wondering if anything can be done about the images.

Sat Aug 25, 2018 4:35 pm

Thanks for the update!

Nice to know something is happening with the game instead of just sitting here wondering. ;)^

News Credits: 3642 · Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:46 pm

Phasewing wrote:Will you be able to do anything for alt modes? I'm very curious and perhaps too hopeful

Adding, replacing ones in need of a fix/refresh, etc? I don't mean add new alt classes, just wondering if anything can be done about the images.

What needs to be done with the images? Is something not working properly or not as originally intended?

News Credits: 226 · Sat Aug 25, 2018 6:36 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Phasewing wrote:Will you be able to do anything for alt modes? I'm very curious and perhaps too hopeful

Adding, replacing ones in need of a fix/refresh, etc? I don't mean add new alt classes, just wondering if anything can be done about the images.

What needs to be done with the images? Is something not working properly or not as originally intended?

Phasewing is our resident alt mode image creator. She'll be wanting to know if/when we'll be able to add more of her creations.

Sat Aug 25, 2018 8:21 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Phasewing wrote:Will you be able to do anything for alt modes? I'm very curious and perhaps too hopeful

Adding, replacing ones in need of a fix/refresh, etc? I don't mean add new alt classes, just wondering if anything can be done about the images.

What needs to be done with the images? Is something not working properly or not as originally intended?

There are some that are broken since goodness knows when, and pretty much what Burn said.. if it's possible.

News Credits: 226 · Sat Aug 25, 2018 9:17 pm

Phasewing wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
Phasewing wrote:Will you be able to do anything for alt modes? I'm very curious and perhaps too hopeful

Adding, replacing ones in need of a fix/refresh, etc? I don't mean add new alt classes, just wondering if anything can be done about the images.

What needs to be done with the images? Is something not working properly or not as originally intended?

There are some that are broken since goodness knows when, and pretty much what Burn said.. if it's possible.

Once the missions side of things is done this is probably something we should work on to freshen the game up even more.

Sat Aug 25, 2018 9:21 pm

Burn wrote:
Phasewing wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
Phasewing wrote:Will you be able to do anything for alt modes? I'm very curious and perhaps too hopeful

Adding, replacing ones in need of a fix/refresh, etc? I don't mean add new alt classes, just wondering if anything can be done about the images.

What needs to be done with the images? Is something not working properly or not as originally intended?

There are some that are broken since goodness knows when, and pretty much what Burn said.. if it's possible.

Once the missions side of things is done this is probably something we should work on to freshen the game up even more.

That would be amazing

News Credits: 1350 · Sun Aug 26, 2018 2:05 am

Thanks for all the hard work seibs

I know how hard it is to go digging through code and how frustrating it is to deal with errors :lol:

Sun Aug 26, 2018 10:48 am

Sweet, thanks for the update.

Would be awesome to see new alt modes too.

News Credits: 226 · Sun Aug 26, 2018 3:44 pm

Anyone out there know anything about a plan to introduce FOUR more factions? (On top of 'Bot, 'Con, Max and Pred)

News Credits: 1350 · Sun Aug 26, 2018 3:47 pm

Burn wrote:Anyone out there know anything about a plan to introduce FOUR more factions? (On top of 'Bot, 'Con, Max and Pred)

Wait four more? Aside from quints and unicron, who would the other two be?

Sun Aug 26, 2018 3:55 pm

News Credits: 226 · Sun Aug 26, 2018 3:56 pm

Non-Aligned and Cybertronian (plus the Quints and Unicron).
Don't expect to see these four any time soon unless the game grows dramatically and can support that many factions.

News Credits: 1350 · Sun Aug 26, 2018 4:03 pm

I forgot the cybertonian factions. Yeah I wouldn't expect it straight away as there would need to be a few changes in structure for the game to make it work I would imagine. Still, a vision for the future is always a good thing to have.

Sun Aug 26, 2018 4:08 pm

Burn wrote:Non-Aligned and Cybertronian (plus the Quints and Unicron).
Don't expect to see these four any time soon unless the game grows dramatically and can support that many factions.

What if these factrions were simply cosmetic? From what I understand, the old Maximal/Predacon factions were aligned where Maximals could fight Autobots, etc (please correct me if I'm wrong - I wasn't around during those times) and so were separate from Autobots, completely.

If being aligned as a Maximal meant you simply got access to a variety of special alts and mission texts but were essentially on the same side as Autobots, it might run a lot smoother and wouldn't require a large player base. (ex: a 5-7 mission exists for both Autobots and Maximals, where both can join, but the mission text is one thing for Autobots and something else for Maximals, just like how Autobot and Decepticon texts are now.)

To be clear, I'm not hoping for alternative faction implementation, as I'm perfectly content with simply role-playing the Maximal faction. It was an idea I'd wondered about previously and thought I'd bring up.

EDIT: I'm not sure what the purpose was, originally, in adding them, or to what extent the changes ran. If this isn't relevant to their purpose in being created, which to my knowledge was simply to be a part of a faction other than 'Bot/'Con, feel free to ignore it. (not sure if there were other benefits/parts of the game that were supported by faction variation, for example).