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Is the armor installation error going to be ongoing long-term?

11 out of my 12 bots have armor, but I know others are going to be feeling the hurt a lot (a low level bot used to be able to survive a Magnus Hammer hit from a level 11 bot LOL).

Red Sentinel wrote:Is the armor installation error going to be ongoing long-term?

11 out of my 12 bots have armor, but I know others are going to be feeling the hurt a lot (a low level bot used to be able to survive a Magnus Hammer hit from a level 11 bot LOL).

Ryan said in the bug report thread he was going to look into it but that was over a week ago. Will just have to wait it out, I’ve also got a bot running around without armour too

I just assume it's not going to be fixed anytime soon.

100% certain Ryan forgot about this 12 hours after failed to easily fix it.
#RIPArmor

There's a list of things that have broken over the years (or never worked in the first place); wouldn't be surprised if the armor problem sticks around. HMW always was a passion project that what's-his-name -- was it Vir? Venthir? I know it started with a "V" -- dumped into Ryan's lap all those decades ago and disappeared off the face of the earth. And Heavy Metal War doesn't make him money (gotta make a living).

Silver Wind wrote:There's a list of things that have broken over the years (or never worked in the first place); wouldn't be surprised if the armor problem sticks around. HMW always was a passion project that what's-his-name -- was it Vir? Venthir? I know it started with a "V" -- dumped into Ryan's lap all those decades ago and disappeared off the face of the earth. And Heavy Metal War doesn't make him money (gotta make a living).

It gets him page hits and advertising from links on the pages, not as much as it used and will make more from the eBay store but think it used to make enough to keep the site fees and server running

Silver Wind wrote:HMW always was a passion project that what's-his-name -- was it Vir? Venthir? I know it started with a "V" -- dumped into Ryan's lap all those decades ago and disappeared off the face of the earth.

Vir4030 - yeah, he set up the base game but was already gone by the time I joined.

1 more thing gone for good? One can hope but hostory doesn’t bode well. Really I am surprised the game still exists props to Ryan for that…most other web based games i started playing back in college have all long since vanished.

I have no idea what the issue is, nor the ability to do anything about it.

Out of curiosity though, What have you lot broken this time?

I've not reset anyone on my team in a decade so have no use for it.

Can't equip armour of any kind, whether through reset or upgrading STR.

Sadly no news on a fix yet.

Same for me. It doesn't matter whether it's a reset, installing new armor type, or just increasing the tonnage after a STR upgrade.

Is this still broken?

ashe5k wrote:Is this still broken?

Yes. I just attempted to upgrade Priestess' armor type and received the identifier error.

You mean Ryan DIDN'T fix it when he promised he would 5 months ago?!

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Bun-Bun wrote:You mean Ryan DIDN'T fix it when he promised he would 5 months ago?!

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

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I was betting it still was but I figured I'd ask

Has anyone tried it since Ryan was around the last few weeks?

-Soundwave- wrote:Has anyone tried it since Ryan was around the last few weeks?

No change. Armor still errors out.

Silver Wind wrote:

-Soundwave- wrote:Has anyone tried it since Ryan was around the last few weeks?

No change. Armor still errors out.

I can confirm. still getting errors.

Has anyone tested to see if there are still errors?

Yep, still giving the same error message as before.

Glyph wrote:Yep, still giving the same error message as before.

Can confirm. Poor Watchdog is gathering dust instead of armor.

Dragonslayer wrote:

Glyph wrote:Yep, still giving the same error message as before.

Can confirm. Poor Watchdog is gathering dust instead of armor.

May as well just lob them back into it though, its not like they get negative XP for being naked.
This issue likely isn't being fixed any time soon.

Naked tournament sounds like it could be fun.

ashe5k wrote:Naked tournament sounds like it could be fun.

This works for me. I don't need much of an excuse to not wear pants.