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  Respawn zone warning signs, not all that we hoped for.
  • Rajecz

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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
  • coteyr

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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
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  Skill Idea: "vision"
  • tedivm

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  A good commander needs vision!
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  not allowed on ptr
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  Functional Roles
  • Blade

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  The screeps website doesn't work properly without javascrip, who would have thought?   I have a similar approach. Every time the worker is full of energy he ckecks with the local spawns memory what the max builders, repairer and so on are and then chooses his role accordingly. My creeps work with roles and jobs. The roles are worker, goon and longwayharvesters and such and the jobs are builder, harvester, upgrader, repairer. The job memory gets cleared when they switch from getting energy to work and getting reasigned. I think I lose one tick every time that happens though.  I have no idea how efficient my code is, the last time I coded anything really was in 2004   module.exports = { run: function(creep){ grid = creep.room.name;var gridcontrol = creep.pos.findClosestByRange(FIND_MY_STRUCTURES, { filter: (s) => (s.structureType == STRUCTURE_SPAWN)}); var miniharvester = gridcontrol.memory.harvester; var maxrepair = gridcontrol.memory.repair; var minibuilder = gridcontrol.memory.builder; var maxbuilder = gridcontrol.memory.maxbuilder; var numberworkers = creep.room.find(FIND_MY_CREEPS, { filter: (s) => (s.memory.role == 'worker')}).length; var energyneed = creep.pos.findClosestByPath(FIND_MY_STRUCTURES, { filter: (s) => (s.structureType == STRUCTURE_SPAWN || s.structureType == STRUCTURE_EXTENSION || s.structureType == STRUCTURE_TOWER) && s.energy < s.energyCapacity });//console.log(miniharvester); gridcontrol.memory.workeractive = numberworkers; //console.log(gridcontrol.memory.workeractive); var numberofharvesters = creep.room.find(FIND_MY_CREEPS, { filter: (s) => (s.memory.job == 'harvester')}).length; var numberofbuilders = creep.room.find(FIND_MY_CREEPS, { filter: (s) => (s.memory.job == 'builder')}).length; var numberofupgraders = creep.room.find(FIND_MY_CREEPS, { filter: (s) => (s.memory.job == 'upgrader')}).length; var numberofrepair = creep.room.find(FIND_MY_CREEPS, { filter: (s) => (s.memory.job == 'repair')}).length; var constructionSite = creep.pos.findClosestByPath(FIND_CONSTRUCTION_SITES); var repair = creep.pos.findClosestByPath(FIND_STRUCTURES, { filter: (s) => s.hits < s.hitsMax && s.structureType != STRUCTURE_WALL }); //For when I need feedback, I should write a function for that at some point -.- //console.log(" "); //console.log("harv: " + numberofharvesters); //console.log("build: " +numberofbuilders); //console.log("repair: " +numberofrepair); //console.log("upgrader: " + numberofupgraders); //console.log(energyneed);  if ((creep.memory.job == false || creep.memory.job == undefined) == true){ if (numberofharvesters < miniharvester == true && energyneed != undefined){ creep.memory.job = 'harvester'; } else if ((numberofrepair < gridcontrol.memory.maxrepair == true) && repair > 0){ creep.memory.job = 'repair'; } else if (constructionSite != undefined && numberofbuilders < maxbuilder){ creep.memory.job = 'builder'; } else { creep.memory.job = 'upgrader'; } } else if (creep.memory.job != false) { if(creep.memory.job == 'harvester' && energyneed == undefined){ creep.memory.job = undefined; } if(creep.memory.job == 'builder' && constructionSite == undefined){ creep.memory.job = undefined; } if(creep.memory.job == 'harvester') {jobharvester.run(creep);} else if (creep.memory.job == 'repair') {jobrepair.run(creep);} else if (creep.memory.job == 'builder') {jobbuilder.run(creep);} else if (creep.memory.job == 'upgrader') {jobupgrader.run(creep);} } } };
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  The SUN awakens the undead
  • R33T4RD

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  Oh! Recap! I would love to hear more war stories.
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  Additional skills...
  • demawi

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  I actually really like your auxiliary idea of being able to prepare boosts. If a lab could spend (10*X) ticks to turn X resource into a "consumable" boost to be applied in future, it would be very cool.
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  [Discussion] Skill selection mechanism
  • Atavus

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  The issue I have with the current table is that it restricts the breadth of creeps I can have at lower levels, so I like the rework idea. But, something should probably be done with minimum levels to ensure people don't have fleets of lvl1 KILL creeps.
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  The initial barrier to power creeps
  • jtay

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  For the record the reason you are expanding so slow is that you aren't doing any remote mining and haven't claimed a single room despite your GCL having gone up. This game scales interestingly, so I'd recommend focusing on your multiroom (remote mining and new colonies).
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  Need for Speed - Endgame optimization limitations
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  @Finndibaen I totally understand and agree that the playing field is level if everyone uses JavaScript. I only meant to suggest that, since the cost of running the servers is almost purely based on how much CPU/RAM is used, and thus the game devs wish for us to make the most CPU efficient code possible, then allowing us to use a language which is significantly more CPU efficient than JavaScript would likely go a long way to reduce their expenses. I'm sure this is no small amount of work for them as they are very heavily invested in JavaScript.  However it's something for them to consider if indeed they do want to save probably-significant money without the consequences of simplifying/reducing the game that we all enjoy playing.  
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  [Code Snippet] Get Possible Connections for Source
  • Oblivionburn

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  *edit* others posted my <200 lines solution already ...
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  Cannot sell subscription tokens
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  Several months later, now that I have plenty of CPU, polling the market every tick is indeed nothing to be concerned about. When I wrote this comment I had a very very low GCL with maximum remote mining consuming 100% of available CPU - polling the market looking for deals all the time was not insignificant overhead that was preventing me from leveling up my GCL at maximum speed, which was (and still is) my primary concern. FWIW I am fairly active in the subscription token market now.  Because of the market's poor implementation, it is easy to make a lot of credits by setting buy orders at very low prices.  Along comes a low GCL player who is forced to sell to me even though my pricing is not at all competitive, and voila!  I've made a small fortune.  Rinse and repeat. Am I happy that it's so easy to make credits if I use the system like this?  Not really, but I do it anyway.  Does it show that the market is working?  No.  It only illustrates how broken the market really is when it comes to forcing new players to use buy orders rather than allowing them to create competitively priced sell orders.