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  Thank you for this game.
  • Cogtortion

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  It's an excellent game! I think with Seasonals, Arena and now Discord the game will grow well.
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  Hosting of slack export
  • SemperRabbit

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  Were you ever able to find anyone for this? Would be nice to get one last snapshot of slack
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  Slack workspace deleted?
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  Definitely time to move to Discord. The lack of history is rubbish.
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  CPU tips and tricks
  • orangecatboy

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  Enlarge the harvesters by more WORK parts will save a lot CPU.
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  Find empty spawn in room with full extensions.
  • ayrtep

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  @ayrtep said in Find empty spawn in room with full extensions.: So this is the first time I have looked at the screeps engine, so I am probably missing stuff. However https://github.com/screeps/engine/blob/master/src/game/game.js#L316 register.rooms[object.room].energyAvailable += object.store.energy; register.rooms[object.room].energyCapacityAvailable += object.storeCapacityResource.energy; We are += on something that could be null, in which case it would just turn null and stay that way forever! https://github.com/screeps/engine/blob/master/src/game/store.js#L28 Here stuff in the store is set to "null" rather than "0" if the resource is missing. I am just guessing, but I suspect there might be an issue here. The bit in game.js was only done 11 months ago. https://github.com/screeps/engine/commit/879b4ca215f1e0b7fd92c7b32c7e59bdc4722cfc#diff-47818c887f19982321abd70c2e741871 https://www.worktime.com/ I am not sure if this is relevant, but it's happening on a steam private server.
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  Season 2 feedback
  • Tigga

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  I guess I will write my thoughts also. I wasn't here for first season so this was my first take on seasonal, but I am not new player also, I was playing around 2018-2019 and then had a break from, game, so I jumped in with two years old code. Overall I did surprisingly better than i expected (got 16-th place). Place brackets was too wide for my taste (mb cause of that was, that there wasn't too much player competing), but around beginning of second month I figured out that I have no chance to get into top 10 (at least with time I have on hand for codding), but in the same time I was pretty sure I don't drop bellow 30 place. That caused I started to lose interest in fighting for better place. I wish there was more incentivise for fight for each place. Highway walls was pain for working with, but I liked it. My code for getting around them was crappy, but that was mostly because i had more pressing issues with my 2 years code that I was in need of fixing. I don't mind if for them to be in next season, and i even want them. I liked gathering score, and overall it wasn't too hard to get it started, so I think it was easy enough to start getting them for more freshly players. As Tigga said, boosting was problem this season from my perspective. As player with no alliance or in game friends it was hard to compete for high places. I was missing market. I know it was for better to disable it, for above reason, but maybe enable it to trade with "npc"? So you can trade resources that you have too much for more needed ones. It sure should be balanced, so there is still better to plan rooms for mining desired resources, but at least you could have something to do with all that oxygen and hydrogen. Also, you can transfer that code for persistent server. Also, factories would be more viable that way. Not much feedback but i want to share also: yea, Tigga was extorting me, but overall I didn't end to badly with that barging compared to players that got totally wiped out and needed to respawn. I think it was good deal for me (I didn't have chance to fight since my war code was pretty non-existent at this point of game). I even enjoyed it somewhat (Stockholm syndrome? xD) I think it can be nice addition to game, but to that happen, big players need to have harder time to control large spans of territory.
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  Seasonal Idea: King of the Hill
  • CartOfSwine

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  "Since you not only have to hold the room with creep alone" i think most (if not all) of S1 and S2, top20 players can own a sector for themselves that means that the 2-3 rooms/sector are quite untouchable by anyone else for scoring due to limited TTL of claim-body creeps. Only 'disrupting' might be possible, but still that would mean that player would probably have to sacrifice his/hers score-defence (since not owning a sector) That alone would mean that the gap between top-players and everyone else would be huge. With every room possible to score, there is still option for mediocre/new players to participate in some way, allows some agreements like in S1 to mitigate weak-player wipe, and there would be some more creativity with army of smaller claim creeps over big area or focusing on holding fewer more worth rooms with bigger claimers
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  Forum Alternatives
  • Shibdib

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  @shibdib I like slack for chat, but one major drawback is that there is no history .. obviously in this forum there is not to much traffic but there are many topics that have very valuable content which would be lost if it would have been just discussed in slack. There is even more going on in the screeps steam forum .)
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  Why is Arena not going with hex tiles?
  • cribbit

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  i guess the main reason is that already have stuff working with squares
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  Overriding Console.log
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  @systemparadox Thanks I shall make my own logging object. Simple enough to do.
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  Pixels/decorations suffixes (:A :B :X etc)
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  I want to be better
  • Kit_Gamer

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  @detox said in I want to be better: @kit_gamer said in I want to be better: already wrote some script to make my colony live and evolving. Happy playing) Scrape the insides of your imagination and read lots of internet for ideas. @davaned said in I want to be better: Remote mining, autoexpand, combat, etc As a non life-time player (atm), these are very CPU heavy ways of play. Right now, I'm with 12 rooms(no reservations), running around 50 creeps with very little CPU left for advancing. Had some ideas for lowering CPU cost, but I would have to respawn all over. So I'm getting back to this point, I noticed a major gap on my CPU usage. Spent some time checking, re-checking and re-re-checking my codes and came to the conclusion of recycling source-harvesting creeps since most of the time my storages are filled(as I mentioned), and apparently my price's are too high or players aren't active enough on the market. global.clearance = function(discount){ let orders = Game.market.orders; for(let order in orders){ let price = (discount)?(orders[order].price - orders[order].price * discount):(orders[order].price); Memory.rooms[orders[order].roomName].discounting = (discount)?(true):(false); Game.market.changeOrderPrice(orders[order].id, price); } let msg = '[ ' + Game.shard.name + ' ]: '; msg += (discount)?('Hosting clearance, * ' + discount +'.'):('Clearance over.'); return msg; } Now, since I've recycled some creeps, it left me quite an amount of CPU(a drop of roughly 5-10). Which leaves me pondering, should I go for more rooms, or, try expanding my codes(such as an automated power acquirement script, which has been on my to-do thoughts for a while now)?
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  Podcast about the unidentified Screeps player found dead in a tent.
  • JNark

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  https://www.adventure-journal.com/2020/12/the-mystery-of-deceased-hiker-mostly-harmless-is-at-long-last-solved/ Mystery solved. There's a name and username in that blog post (long read)
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  @artch Precisely this attitude
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  I appreciate the honesty of that reply. (But pixels are still garbage :P)
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  Restricted-use Emoji
  • tdxtor

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  instead of trying to make more up on our own? wdym?
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  What is up with shard0? The unfairness of slow ticks.
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  @kingkong said in What is up with shard0? The unfairness of slow ticks.: Is it a fair conclusion that competitive play and cleaning out zombies is part of the game design as way to get better tick times? This is just a question to better understand the game, not a comment in the form of a question. I'm not really sure it's part of the game design. It just is what it is.
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  Creep not following moveTo() pathing
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  @explicit @RayderBlitz Yeah, that was it. Movement is still kinda funky when there is more than one creep out but at least now it's actually going where it is told. Thanks for the help fellas (oﾟvﾟ)ノ
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  Should generatePixel now generate 2 pixels, since it costs 10k CPU?
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  Moved: https://screeps.com/forum/topic/3099/game-cpu-generatepixel-change/102
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  Respawn in season shard
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  To Update, today two zones were added on the edge of the map. There's a novice zone with 10 days here: https://screeps.com/season/#!/room/shardSeason/W15N35 And a respawn zone with 9 days here: https://screeps.com/season/#!/room/shardSeason/E15S35 Both zones appear to have score zones that are cut off from other players outside the zone for the duration of the zone,