The Energon Pub

News Credits: 3 · by **Name_Violation** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:53 pm

It gets shut off for bot-con, whens it comin back online???

News Credits: 7 · by **Omega Charge** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:10 pm

Relax, they're all just returning. I'd say in the next 12-24 hours, and if not, then soon.

News Credits: 3 · by **Name_Violation** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:44 pm

i know

i'm just impatient

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:50 pm

And do you know how annoying the "when's such and such happening?" threads are?

It's back on when it's back on. If you're lucky it'll be on before HMW2.

News Credits: 2 · by **Wingspan** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:46 pm

Burn wrote:And do you know how annoying the "when's such and such happening?" threads are?

It's back on when it's back on. If you're lucky it'll be on before HMW2.

"And get off my lawn!"

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:55 am

Wingspan wrote:
Burn wrote:And do you know how annoying the "when's such and such happening?" threads are?

It's back on when it's back on. If you're lucky it'll be on before HMW2.

"And get off my lawn!"

Oh go play in your faction forum.

by **neliz** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:06 am

why did it get shut-down in the first place? really botcon?

News Credits: 1 · by **Kaijubot** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:08 am

neliz wrote:why did it get shut-down in the first place? really botcon?

The extra traffic to site puts extra strain on the server; most Transformers sites grind to a crawl during Botcon so it makes sense to turn the game off to free system resources for the rest of the site.

by **neliz** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:30 am

Kaijubot wrote:The extra traffic to site puts extra strain on the server; most Transformers sites grind to a crawl during Botcon so it makes sense to turn the game off to free system resources for the rest of the site.

Hmm, number of pageviews doesn't seem ridiculously high though, but hey, it hardly surprises me anyway.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:39 am

Page views should be higher just from me having to constantly remove spambots all ******* weekend. :-x

by **neliz** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:05 am

Burn wrote:Page views should be higher just from me having to constantly remove spambots all ******* weekend.

Response time is still snappy, I say, thanks to you burn!

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:11 am

To the spam bots? Yeah, I was all over them.

Had one earlier but I left it alone. I think it works on a loop, goes back to see if it's crap has been deleted and if it has posts again so I let it run it's course while I went out. I'd already spent half an hour deleting it's threads, wasn't going to waste any more time on it!
Seibertron.com - Winner of the BotCon "Spambot Free" Site Award

by **neliz** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:25 am

lol

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:58 am

Burn wrote:To the spam bots? Yeah, I was all over them.

Had one earlier but I left it alone. I think it works on a loop, goes back to see if it's crap has been deleted and if it has posts again so I let it run it's course while I went out. I'd already spent half an hour deleting it's threads, wasn't going to waste any more time on it!
Seibertron.com - Winner of the BotCon "Spambot Free" Site Award

The new version of the forums should be launching in the next week or two. It is my hope that the newest version of phpBB will resolve the Spam bot issue. I know it's a pain but bear with me a little longer until I work out some of the style sheet issues with the newest version.

If that doesn't resolve the SPAM bot problem, I'm going to see about using my own solution for the CAPTCHA image that you see during the registration process to see if the one I use will stop the Spam bots once and for all.

As for HMW, I'm not sure when I'll be putting it back online. The site's been hammered with traffic for the past week and HMW kept bringing the server down. Since OS is working on a new version of HMW2 which will hopefully be launching in the near future, there's no sense in figuring out the problem with the old legacy scripts that process the battles at this point.

For those of you wondering, here are the site's stats from the past week. I'm waiting for yesterday's numbers to be posted on Google which should be in a little bit. As you can see from the numbers below, there's been a massive increase in traffic during BotCon weekend. The site generally averages 250,000 to 300,000 pageviews per day.

Monday, May 25, 2009 - 242,046 pageviews
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 280,689 pageviews
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 243,663 pageviews
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 276,950 pageviews
Friday, May 29, 2009 - 299,675 pageviews
Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 568,625 pageviews
Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 502,552 pageviews

by **neliz** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:27 am

wow, half a million views on one day, that's some NICE traffic!

News Credits: 7 · by **Omega Charge** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:56 am

I see, thanks for the update.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:52 pm

Seibertron wrote:Monday, May 25, 2009 - 242,046 pageviews
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 280,689 pageviews
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 243,663 pageviews
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 276,950 pageviews
Friday, May 29, 2009 - 299,675 pageviews
Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 568,625 pageviews
Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 502,552 pageviews

You don't have a break down by section at all Ryan?

I'm guessing the news page was heavily hit because despite the increased traffic, the forums still seemed very quiet over the weekend.

News Credits: 3 · by **Darth Trader** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:12 am

Any chance we can get Ryan to turn the game back on for 24 hours or so before he completely scraps it, so that we can all get screen caps of our team and final scores for posterity sake?

by **Kickyourassacons** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:38 pm

Galvatron Supreme wrote:Any chance we can get Ryan to turn the game back on for 24 hours or so before he completely scraps it, so that we can all get screen caps of our team and final scores for posterity sake?

Good call GS, I second that

News Credits: 3 · by **Name_Violation** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:43 pm

Kickyourassacons wrote:
Galvatron Supreme wrote:Any chance we can get Ryan to turn the game back on for 24 hours or so before he completely scraps it, so that we can all get screen caps of our team and final scores for posterity sake?

Good call GS, I second that

i like it too

News Credits: 2 · by **Zordon** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:47 pm

Name_Violation wrote:
Kickyourassacons wrote:
Galvatron Supreme wrote:Any chance we can get Ryan to turn the game back on for 24 hours or so before he completely scraps it, so that we can all get screen caps of our team and final scores for posterity sake?

Good call GS, I second that

i like it too

me 4

News Credits: 8 · by **Electron** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:40 pm

me 5

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:54 pm

Guys please, we don't like this any more than you do.

I've talked to Ryan, HMW was causing more problems in the background than any of us realise. He's waiting to hear back from OS regarding the status of HMW2 before making a final decision.

Trust me, I really do hope we can get it turned on again, even if it's just long enough for some form of send off.

by **Raphael Prime** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:35 pm

I'm hoping for the best that it's allowed to return for a little. I too would like to get a cap of my team and help give the game a send off. But if that's impossible, oh well, i'm sure i'll live.

I'm also assuming this isn't something a little log wipe wouldn't help fix any is it? Cause i know the mission and arena numbers were getting quite high.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:42 pm

If I recall there was a log wipe quite recently, and that doesn't always help.

Many of you would have noticed there's a few things not working, who knows to what extent the code behind the scenes is like after all the crashes and what not. Hence why HMW2 is being developed, fresh code, and much much more easy to modify and expand.