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Psychout wrote:Could you please explain this function a bit more for us techtards? Are you referring to location as in 'Iacon', or location as in specific area within the code.

That first option genuinely excites me...

Location as in "Iacon". The locations were being randomly generated for each mission previously. I just gave us HMW admins the ability to control which location each mission type should belong to. I'm finally getting Darryl the ability to manage mission types, which I promised I'd get him a few weeks ago. It took this long to fix all of the other things just to get back to this point finally. I'm excited!

Do the locations display anywhere in the game? There's data for the 4 locations that are currently in the database as well as faction tallies for each location.

Seibertron wrote:

Psychout wrote:Could you please explain this function a bit more for us techtards? Are you referring to location as in 'Iacon', or location as in specific area within the code.

That first option genuinely excites me...

Location as in "Iacon". The locations were being randomly generated for each mission previously. I just gave us HMW admins the ability to control which location each mission type should belong to. I'm finally getting Darryl the ability to manage mission types, which I promised I'd get him a few weeks ago. It took this long to fix all of the other things just to get back to this point finally. I'm excited!

That is awesome!!

Seibertron wrote:Do the locations display anywhere in the game? There's data for the 4 locations that are currently in the database as well as faction tallies for each location.

Not that I am aware of, in my time here (as player or staff) I don't recall it ever being mentioned.

Can you share the listed locations and, thinking longer term, would it be possible to expand that beyond 4?

Psychout wrote:Can you share the listed locations and, thinking longer term, would it be possible to expand that beyond 4?

1	Iacon		# of Mission Types: 31		# of Battles: 226,243
3	Kalis		# of Mission Types: 34		# of Battles: 226,132
4	Kaon		# of Mission Types: 35		# of Battles: 226,717
2	Polyhex		# of Mission Types: 41		# of Battles: 226,047

100% possible to expand beyond the initial 4. Just built the tool in our admin section to do just that.

Fantastic, thank you very much.
I have a ton of questions still, but they can wait. This alone could enable a very interesting twist to the game.

no clue whats being talked about

It's one of those first minor steps to bring able to have an interactive map that shows which areas of cybertron have been won by which faction

that sounds sweet

I merged my update topic with Burn's update topic, and then unlocked the topic so everyone can reply. Game on!

Seibertron wrote:

Bun-Bun wrote:;)^

Burn wrote:

Bun-Bun wrote:I just noticed that the old armor missions actually say they're producing armor again.
Is that just left over code or has that functionality been returned?

Check the armour quantities to verify. If it's working, it's a side affect.

Just had another one and checked.
It is in fact working. Bonus!

Is this still working? I didn't even work on it (I don't think) so not sure what I did that got it working again. Maybe just cleaning up bad code that I keep seeing fixed the problem inadvertently.

It's taken a while but I finally had another armor mission
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... n_id=80884
Still works.

It probably always worked, it's just that those specific armor missions have not been available for a while.

Tomorrow I hope to work on fixing stats and restoring XP spent on too much tech spec stats (or figure out why the logic failed) ... or I might just reset the characters and let you guys figure out how to respend your XP. Haven't decided yet. Open to suggestions. Hitting the sack! Back at it again tomorrow.

The tech spec bug hasn't cost anyone any xp, once they reset they get all the xp back again, so there shouldn't be any need for the R-word. (Although if any one does have a stat over 10 currently, reset away, they knew the risks... )

Just putting the cap of 10 back the tech spec and tatic stats would solve the issue.

(Although if you wanted the give the staff the ability to create over-statted NPC's for tournaments etc., then a panel override would be good?)

Love the updated sidebar, but the HMW Forums link takes you to the main forum index, not the HMW one.

Psychout wrote:Love the updated sidebar, but the HMW Forums link takes you to the main forum index, not the HMW one.

And the link to the faction specific forums has disappeared of the sidebar again.

Speaking of the HMW sidebar. Is it possible to get that to show up when you're in the forum specific forums? I's terribly annoying to have to re-navigate back into HMW after checking them (especially on mobile)

Bun-Bun wrote:

Psychout wrote:Love the updated sidebar, but the HMW Forums link takes you to the main forum index, not the HMW one.

And the link to the faction specific forums has disappeared of the sidebar again.

Looks like the idea was for the link to go to the HMW forums index, as opposed to directly to GD like it used to.

Speaking of the HMW sidebar. Is it possible to get that to show up when you're in the forum specific forums? I's terribly annoying to have to re-navigate back into HMW after checking them (especially on mobile)

This would also be brilliant

Psychout wrote:

Bun-Bun wrote:

Psychout wrote:Love the updated sidebar, but the HMW Forums link takes you to the main forum index, not the HMW one.

And the link to the faction specific forums has disappeared of the sidebar again.

Looks like the idea was for the link to go to the HMW forums index, as opposed to directly to GD like it used to.

Faction specific forums both show up when you are logged in now. The site's navigation was never intended to manage factions. I can't keep manually adding them back in only to have them overwritten when the site navigation changes. Just for the record, I am NOT a fan of faction specific forums. The game currently isn't popular enough to warrant having forums dedicated to unique factions. Regardless, I don't want to deal with that now, so links to the Autobot and Decepticon specific forums both show up if you are logged in.

Psychout wrote:

Speaking of the HMW sidebar. Is it possible to get that to show up when you're in the forum specific forums? I's terribly annoying to have to re-navigate back into HMW after checking them (especially on mobile)

This would also be brilliant

I think I fixed this, but I am confused with the wording above. If you mean the catch-all HMW forum link that shows the 4 sub-forums, then this is working now. If you mean something else, please be more specific so that I can correct this issue. Thanks.

Here's the link where I made the HMW sub-navigation start displaying at: heavy-metal-war-forums-f164.php

To be clear when I said "faction" before I only meant the Autobot & Decepticon forum not a faction as in RDD (that's what faceypage is for)

And what I meant about the sidebar was if this circled bit

Could show up when you were browsing Darkmount or Iacon like it does when browsing the regular HMW forum that'd be wonderful

Bun-Bun wrote:To be clear when I said "faction" before I only meant the Autobot & Decepticon forum not a faction as in RDD (that's what faceypage is for)

And what I meant about the sidebar was if this circled bit

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Could show up when you were browsing Darkmount or Iacon like it does when browsing the regular HMW forum that'd be wonderful

I still am not understanding what you are requesting. The HMW menu that you circled does show up in the Autobot and Decepticon forums respectively. If you are requesting something else, please be very specific. Thanks.

Apparently it was showing up in the Autobot forum but not the Decepticon forum. This has been corrected. Please let me know if there are still areas where the HMW menu doesn't show up. Thanks.

Huh.
So it does.
It did not when I made the first request.
In my defense I've been away for a couple hours and been using mobile since I came back (have I mentioned how painful it is to use this site on mobile ) & just hadn't gotten back there yet.
Thanks!

Bun-Bun wrote:Huh.
So it does.
It did not when I made the first request.
In my defense I've been away for a couple hours and been using mobile since I came back (have I mentioned how painful it is to use this site on mobile ) & just hadn't gotten back there yet.
Thanks!

Good things come to those who wait. All of this HMW work is going to run right into the site redesign. Below are some sample test shots from the redesign prototype that I've been tinkering around with but am not quite yet happy with.

Desktop version:








Mobile version:

heavy-metal-war-forum-f16.php is all we need

heavy-metal-war-forums-f164.php not needed

thank you

Seibertron wrote:Just for the record, I am NOT a fan of faction specific forums. The game currently isn't popular enough to warrant having forums dedicated to unique factions.

If we're talking 'Bot/'Con forums then they're definitely needed. Folks like to have a bit of privacy during tournaments to help plan things. If you take a look for the Campaign for Cybertron Round 3 discussions you'll see how much fun folks were having deciding on who to "hunt" on the opposing side.

Burn wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Just for the record, I am NOT a fan of faction specific forums. The game currently isn't popular enough to warrant having forums dedicated to unique factions.

If we're talking 'Bot/'Con forums then they're definitely needed. Folks like to have a bit of privacy during tournaments to help plan things. If you take a look for the Campaign for Cybertron Round 3 discussions you'll see how much fun folks were having deciding on who to "hunt" on the opposing side.

Truth! For your convenience, if you're ever interested in looking back on it, the links are below. Definitely a hit event, and the faction forums are what made it possible.

Autobot Round 3 thread
Decepticon Round 3 thread

Hey guys, I could use a few people for testing.
It's a level 6-10 mission.
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... n_id=83271