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  Thank You Screeps
  • Helam

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  I can really relate to this, I also didn't know a bit of javascript before I started, and I've gotten to the point where I actually feel competent with it. In the end it proved much more effective than any formal javascript course, and still felt like a game the whole time. Also, the chance to talk about programming with people with much more experience has been amazing.
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  Is the game running slow?
  • Stilgar

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  I just bought a game and I am terrified! It's one month later and right now tick is about 5 sec.
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  Visual Studio Code -- Autocomplete
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  Methods, CPU, and caching
  • Zpike

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  The slack channel is where most people socialize.
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  Power Creep Level Formula Error
  • tedivm

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  Game Etiquette
  • Zpike

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  Har! What a noob!   I need GCL to take an enemy controller.  I have none. I guess I will need to play a bit longer before taking him out. LOL
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  Hard Reset
  • Zpike

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  It's been a couple of days now and it only happened the once so I figure it was a game glitch.   Keeping my fingers crossed that I don't have some weird infinite loop in my code.  
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  ERR_NO_PATH
  • Zpike

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  Thanks all,   I got it figured out.  I used the {maxRooms:1} option when in the target room and it fixed the issue of continuously swapping rooms.   Thanks for the quick feedback!
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  Power creep cross-class powers
  • Crusher48

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  Room navigation solutions?
  • GiantZoc_

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  Your data is coming from memory, which your code must populate from somewhere within your code.  It's not available to other people that aren't using your code base.
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  Respawn zone warning signs, not all that we hoped for.
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  I think there may be some misunderstanding about the intent of the original post (which may be my fault for writing about an example which goes against how most players understand the game mechanics to work). The intent of this post shouldn't require a "defensive post", but instead the intent of the original post was to gather additional clarification on the novice/respawn zone creation intent and start an open discussion (hopefully with Artem and the devs) about ways to update the mechanic to meet that intent in a way that isn't as frustrating for the players. I know that the specific documentation doesn't address most of the RL scenarios and I'm not actually arguing that there is a bug in the code that needs to be corrected or that the current mechanic is behaving contrary to what the documentation specifies. I guess what it boils down to is that there is a lot of confusion around the creation of novice/respawn zones. I don't believe that the confusion around their creation is the intent or required (Artem can correct me on this if it is incorrect) and so the original intent of this post is to clear up some of the confusion(Artem and devs required for this) and maybe discuss possible implementations that would eliminate it. If you don't know what confusion I am talking about, it is based off of "At any random time any room not reserved or claimed could be turned into a noob zone or a respawn zone."
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  Confusing Tip of the day
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  Huh? I'm confused by the wording here. Are you saying that when you get a new GCL the script will only partially run?
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  underwhelming skills
  • tedivm

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  Yeah, the more I've thought about this the more I'm not really happy with it. Revised list- OPERATE_EXTENSION - while not useless it seems super niche and overpriced. DISABLE_EXTENSION - I'm actually liking this one than I originally thought. So my biggest issue with the two skills above is that they are linked together a lot on the skill tree at the lower levels. I think breaking them up to add more variance to the lower level Operators would help. HARVEST_MINERAL and HARVEST_ENERGY - these actually do have some solid benefits and should be removed from my "underwhelming" list. REFLECT - I still think this should be a skill that can be given to another creep. 
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  Commander: Aura
  • Reini

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  I think the aura idea is interesting, but I have to disagree on the commander being the weakest. Here's some ways I plan on using mine: * RENEW, and bring a healer along with the power creeps. Paired with an executor with HARVEST_ENERGY, the healer can tag along indefinitely, and avoid the need to return home to heal power creeps. * SUMMON isn't as obviously useful for harvesting as Executors, but it essentially lets you replace the CPU cost of moving a hauler creep 48 steps across a room with a single action. This would be a huge CPU savings Seems like it could also be useful in combat situations. * Being chased down by a sniper / killbot Executor? Put SIGHT on your own Executor and kite / instakill them. * Being chased by a group of boosted creeps? Keep hitting their healer(s) with EXHAUST and force the attackers to stay back or risk getting shot down. * BERSERK + cloud of snipe executors.
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  Opting into complexity and the new user experience
  • shedletsky

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  vrs: that idea is actually way better. I like it aesthetically as well.
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  Leaderboard by unique code
  • Twill

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  While I do and don't agree with @Shedletsky (dev resources are limited and should be put to high value features, this is a somewhat solved problem with MOSS and others...and yes, it will never catch a determined bad actor), I think @Mirroar makes a good case that those who offer code should get some benefit, otherwise they may not be so altruistic. And @Syncaidius, sure, the fun is in solving problems, but for me, I learn a lot more from seeing how other people have implemented and building onto that...I'd be completely lost and probably would have abandoned a long time ago if I couldn't use someone else's framework as a starting point. Either way, I think there may be a "Gamification" solution to code sharing that lets people who write unique code measure themselves accordingly, whilst also allowing of us who aren't great devs, learn from those who are.
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  Useful utilities
  • artch

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  i've created a new auto complete (the other one seems not maintained)   https://bitbucket.org/gobse/autocompletescreeps
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  Skill Idea: "send"
  • tedivm

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  This leads to an interesting question, it isn't stated in the docs (at least i don't think so), but does HARVEST_MINERAL require an extractor?
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  Transferring RESOURCE_ENERGY between creeps
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  Question regarding multiaccounting for third party projects
  • tedivm

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  From everything I've read online this really only matters if the virtual currency is "convertible", which it appears that this is not. Half of what you pointed to refers to bitcoins, which is where most of the regulations come from.   I also want to point out that EVE Online explicitly allows this- they do *not* allow people to sell services for real money but do allow it for isk (their in game currency). I find it very weird that they would be unaware of the laws against this. https://developers.eveonline.com/resource/resources