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  Requesting Update on New Power Creep Roles?
  • Atanner

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  @geir1983 just looking for @artch to apologize to you guys for attacking Screeps customers and abusing power to try to prevent people from having discourse about it. Did you see the post where he/she threw the community under the bus for the miscommunication regarding the change to generatePixel()?
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  How to install python package
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  Screeps allows you to write code in different languages (including Python) by installing libraries from GitHub. Here you can find all third party tools what you can use in your development process (languages support, not official API and other), and here a complete guide for Python usage.
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  isActive() call extremely expensive.
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  This was meant for end users who are utilizing the isActive() call. Not server side.
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  A strange request for help.
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  @jnark Can find his profile with that username here: https://screeps.com/a/#!/profile/TicTac. Also links to his Steam profile but that's private. Looks like he was only active on the main game world October/November 2016.
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  Game.market updates please
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  @tigga Nothing (Excuse my, i didn't even see/notice that). Can I get CPU price somehow? At least the order doesn't seem to appear on my Game.market.getIncomingOrders. Also for me, Game.market.getHistory is falsely designed, since it shows price fluctuation history and not the actual history page content (function sounds misleading). Something like Game.market.getFluctuation seems more appropriate. Modifying: Also if anyone has any good ideas or relevant to topic, please do comment.
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  How can I stay up to date on wars and in-game politics?
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  Thanks!
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  Encouraging more combat at high GCL
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  i was giving some thought again to this topic, and i come with some not code-breaking ideas: limit ramparts to 1M at RCL8 give PowerCreep Operator PWR_OPERATE_RAMPART (can be instead of OPERATE_TOWER) Range 3 usable on controller Increase Rampart max Hits in Room to 5M/15M/30M/45M/60M level 1/5/10/15/20 duration 800 / 1600 / 3200 / 4800 / 6400, cooldown 900/1800/3600/5400/7200, 100/500/1000/1500/2000 OPS cost ramparts with hits above hitsMax decay 1% of hits per tick Lower max ramparts would somewhat prevent turtling behind multiple rows of 100M ramparts, nukes a more viable use case now, and defending against them requires a little more than just having 15M rampart, or spawning repairer or two to build them up. With this change my expectation would be that there would be more combat : more breaches through ramparts (due their lower hits) more use of Power Creeps due to their new defense capability more use of nukes since no-one would have the default 5M/15M protection on every room 24/7/365
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  On the defensive power of strongholds
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  @zortea said in On the defensive power of strongholds: @tigga said in On the defensive power of strongholds: They always did. I don't see anything in the souce to suggest this has changed recently. @tigga said in Right now it is very easy to take down a L5 stronghold with two nukes and loot 3/4 containers.: Then I don't understand how you can clear a L5 stronghold with 2 nukes like you said a few months ago. Right now the repairer will fully repair its entire damage. Do you mean just use the nuke as a distraction for the repairer? ~9 months ago there was a change where repairers went from bredth-first unproritized repairs to depth-first prioritzed repairs. That was an improvement, but really just means you need more nukes. Nukes are cheap.
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  Boosted creep bodyparts
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  It's 70% of THAT tough boosted part. That's why the tough parts are always first. This means that fully boosted tough parts have an EFFECTIVE hit points of 330 hit points. There is also a "stacking effect" between tough parts and heal parts, as heal parts heal base hit points. So one tough part requires 330 hits to disable, but only 100 heal to recover fully. Short story: At level 6, you have 2 towers. That's a total maximum damage of 1200 hits. A T3 (Tier 3, the highest tier.) of boosted attacker needs 4 tough parts (1320 hits for those 4 parts.) and 9 heal parts ( 432 total healing) so it can fully recover all 4 tough parts in all cases. TL:DR. T3 boosted creeps will steamroll a level 6 room.
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  Changing Script location for Steam Client [Windows]
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  I think other programs are using "LOCALAPPDATA" environment variable too. so not goo idea to chnage it. what you can do is replace screeps folder with symbolic link. I did that for few programs since I installed SSD into my PC setup. Symlink on windows can be created by opening cmd and execution command: mklink /j "c:\mklink" "d:\mkfolder" Sure replace path location with yours.
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  Is moveTo the enemy of cpu ?
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  @maddokmike Can't hack enemies, but you can communicate with other code bases via segments.
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  Feedback on 06/18 update
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  Actually gonna move this to the update post.
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  Respawn problem
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  Thanks @hollish and everyone for answers
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  Moving between rooms
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  The advice for beginners is to keep your cost values low. For advanced pathing anything "works". For efficiency you should set your heuristicWeight to at least the minimum tile weight. The default heruristic of 1.2 is assuming roads 1, plains 2. But heuristic 6, road 5, plain 10, swamp 50, is just as efficient and returns the same path. The low values problem is because PathFinder caps the heuristic at 9 so heuristic 24, road 20, plain 40, swamp 200, should be just as efficient but it costs more.
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  movement speed - from odd no. of parts
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  roads are always 1... walls, swamps, and plains
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  what if you could tunnel into another room?!
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  ye for sure, it would feel like a wasted investment in walls, if someone tunneled around. i think being able to build in enemy rooms could up pvp options. like building remote turrets. stealing E from their mines etc. building annoying walls that block paths
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  Changing Regen_mineral
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  "buff up a mineral that you don't want to mine at the moment. It essentially functions as a low throughput unlimited capacity mineral storage." I have had at one time a X resource have 2,000,000 in the deposit for safe storage for later time. This is the only thing I've found this operate to be useful for. Due to the inverse nature of boosted mineral harvesting vs operate mineral, this ability has a hard time being useful.
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  is dismantle useful ?
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  dismantle only works on buildings. So Attack with work parts - your main focus is in dismantling buildings. You only care about opposing creeps if they try to stop you. Defend with attack parts.