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  Market history precision
  • PluCout

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  Container sizing
  • WarInternal

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  I've changed my mind I don't think container up sizing is worth the disruption. However, double the number of containers might allow for some new and interesting solutions, especially in SK rooms. 10 remote containers cost 5 energy per tick to upkeep, but allows for more CPU efficient hauling. I think that is an interesting tradeoff. Currently you need 8 sources in range to feed a T3 boosted 40 CARRY. Double the number of containers means you could feed it with 4 single source rooms where each source has 8 containers. Running the hauler less often is easier but efficiently mining out a source into 8 containers as worthy trade off. Caravans have two problems. One is buffering between trips. But I find the second to be a bigger issue. Caravans don't offer any advantages over 5 single haulers. If we tweaked the pulling mechanic to allow for single intent caravan movement that would give me a reason to use caravans.
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  Pull improvement: Allow fatigue consumption
  • Davaned

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  Make Creeps and PowerCreeps inherit from a "Movable" class
  • SemperRabbit

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  its ok @deft-code, ty for the suggestions, but yeah, i guess its not happening ever. devs put their foot down, testing be damned.
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  Market for CPU Bucket
  • Atanner

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  @deft-code said in Market for CPU Bucket: Highly efficient code bases have some of cool-stuff tricks. Since they consume less cores they have a great cool-stuff/core ratio I think ultimately every bot caps out at 300 CPU, any improvements in efficiency in the bot work out to more or less server load based merely on how effectively the 0.2 CPU intent cost maps onto underlying server costs.
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  Static Source Farmer Structure
  • Atanner

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  @deft-code Shoutout to https://screeps.com/forum/topic/2646/discussion-more-structures-in-unowned-rooms/1 I definitely feel that more serious investment in unowned rooms would open up a lot of combat options, and make unboosted creeps usable in offense.
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  console can filter by currently viewed shard
  • wtfrank

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  Tradable 1 Day tokens
  • likeafox

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  Make portals configurable to not only spawn different shards but servers - RAIDS
  • Sanados

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  Fantastically difficult to implement as a general solution since you'll need to be sharing DB objects between different servers with different users etc. Possible but a ton of work. Doesn't make that much sense considering you wouldn't have an account on that server, and no GCL/cpu to run it, and even your code wouldn't be there. Can work around all of it but I think shards fill the role a little better than this.
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  Ability to draw visuals on the map view (not just room view)
  • wtfrank

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  map overlay to sketch approximate borders around players' or alliances' empires
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  Move Tutorial Completion to Account Instead of Cookie
  • Tessaryn

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  Technically I think it's local storage rather than cookies, but the effect is the same. It's annoying when a new browser logs you into the tutorial.
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  SpawnCreep() additional option: notifyWhenAttacked
  • wtfrank

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  Ability to view intershard segments in Memory segment viewer
  • wtfrank

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  Power enabled should be a scale(1-5) instead of Binary(off/on).
  • likeafox

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  Y'all are thinking too small. We need a list of PWR_* to enable them. We could do that for body parts and boosts as well. </sarcasm> OK. seriously now. I'm not on a shard with Tigga and I've been playing off and long enough that I have reasonable defenses. So I might be biased. But this same thread recurs frequently. New feature X is imbalance because some player could use it to destroy someone who hasn't added code for X yet. But what I see in practice is buggy code, both on the attacker and defender, which means attacks are fairly infrequent (at least on shard0 and 1) and most sieges end when someone finds a corner case your code doesn't handle yet. Imagine when ranged attack parts were introduced and replay the power creep fears. I hear the anti-power complaints, maybe they'll become problem, but they can be nerfed WHEN that happens. Put two mature code bases up against each other in a 100% battle (not an alliance war that is whole other level of mess). Or if power creeps attack become trivially superior and mass extinction results. Now for a concrete example. Tigga destroyed a room with a spawn disrupting power creep. But watch the replay. Tigga didn't win because the defending room couldn't spawn anything. Tigga won because the creep spawning in the room glitched out when one of the spawns stopped working as the code expected.
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  Allow access to node's Buffer class
  • Esryok

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  More benchnmarking: some code that amongst other things copies some strings into the wasm heap via a Buffer takes 414ms, but the same code that uses the polyfill Buffer takes 1878ms. So the polyfill buffer has abysmal performance both at converting javascript strings to arrays, and converting arrays into javascript strings. The polyfill Buffer is not something that anybody should willingly use!
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  Request x/y coordinates as optional url parameters
  • WarInternal

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  Good idea. Instead of zoom I would wish width and height in tiles, so that it's guaranteed that your area of interest is completely visible on every display / window size.
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  Moving the boosting mechanic into the spawning mechanic
  • MrFaul

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  Hello, the strange German dude, Of course, implementing what you're talking about in Screeps is not an option. This change would decrease the number of tactics and use-cases of spawning and boosting mechanics (the example is, you can spawn 6-9-12 50parts creeps, renew them to have the same ttl using the spawner, then boost with labs), increasing logistics difficulty at the same time. This is exactly opposite to what we're trying to achieve in game design. Regardless of that, I thank you for wording your idea here on the forum. While it can't be directly applied to the game, it still can be the source of inspiration in some other activities.
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  Remove signs automatically when declared as Newbie/Respawn zone or a someone respawns in a Room
  • MrFaul

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  The disadvantage of getting rid of the signs is that newbies don't get much idea about who is active in the area and might be interested in that territory. Newbie zones aren't sterile areas, it's quite common for adjacent players to take control of rooms once the walls come down.
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  Concept: Towing
  • pruby

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  Fantastic!
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  Event log transfer and withdraw is ambiguous.
  • WarInternal

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  I find the entire even log system as it is right now very unwieldy and nigh-useless. Certainly not what it could be. Also parsing event logs for every room you run is a significant investment of CPU cycles, which pretty much prevents its use for every day tasks.