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  Carrier role idea for the Commander class of Power Creeps
  • Orlet

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  Personally I liked the idea of renew creep. I worry that renew creep would lose most of its usecase (and interesting long range gameplay) if you don't have a good reason over spawning a creep. The kind of spawning idea I would be interested in would be a certain creep type you define, eg. you have have ability to spawn large numbers of a particular creep body. Basically like an aircraft carrier that can cheaply produce fighters, rather than a mobile manufacturing plant than can create anything. However, that just because I think the challenge of going a far distance with renewing along the way sounds interesting. No strong reason against spawning as a power. The idea of building a container to start producing creeps from just outside an enemy base is an interesting concept. Cool thought and good limitation with max energy cost.
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  My [ideas] to some new stuffs like: Logistic, Factories, Metals, Armor and Craft
  • Fepalito

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  @o4kapuk yes and is because of that that i want to have more things like this! The system of Minerals and labs already are in the game so just need expand it to focus more on combat and give some players more milestone to focus on millitary then just use boosters to expand your base. The buffs that boosters get from Labs are just for meele and don't have a real "Siege" "Battle" buff like if a room close a wall in the edge you can only have 1 unit in that room to attack so i think you guys need to expand the boosters system to be more "War focus" and have like instead of normal creep a "Metal Creep" where 1 - 4 units in the edge of the room can start siege the room you want to take / attack / sabotage so you make some "Armors" (like boosters) but they give you defense aganst towers, lower you damage to the creeps and bonus to wall or allow you to attack from big range and just destroy some creeps for a limited time (like if they have ammo and you need to suply then and is much more expense them normal energy) then if the player is online and make a army to get it out they will have advantage of damage etc edit1: and just clarify i telling this to be more "early" game the after like 2-3 months of play to get the level 3 boosters, like make with only tiers 1 this thing and the more advanced stuffs only adept with the Boosters that actualy exist in the game, because in the early game players only have to make "Automatic Effective Farm Room" to focus on, soo give players a new way to play the early games like be a raider etc will be a nice touch for new players and incentive to play more
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  Don't send emails for errors on the interactive console
  • SystemParadox

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  yep I like the email notification feature but I agree there's not a huge need for console typos to trigger it...
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  More notifyWhenAttacked-control
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  That's a good point!
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  Ability to draw visuals on the map view (not just room view)
  • wtfrank

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  map overlay to show which enemy rooms are in range of nukes, how many nukes they're in range of, and whether your nukes are on cooldown.
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  A few requests for SIM mode and the SIM World
  • StormWing0

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  We recommend using private servers for multiroom and multiplayer testing environment.
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  InterShardSegments for each shard rather than a shared one.
  • SteveTrov

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  This feature is now deployed to the PTR: https://screeps.com/forum/topic/2534/ptr-changelog-2019-01-30-intershardmemory
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  API Request - Battle and Nuke endpoints
  • tedivm

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  Ah now I can find em! Thanks for the ids, now they gone.
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  Novice Zones => reduced code size
  • wtfrank

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  I in general agree to @wtfrank's idea. There needs to be a way to limit the proliferation of open source codebases among newbie zones. Hell, check the respawn zones on shard3, most of them are full of Overmind bots. @Smokeman that's what the newbie zones are for. Setting up entire shard like that would be inefficient, and result in most newbies not learning anything and/or just leaving their code vegetate on the shard. Timed safe area for initial development is a much better incentive to "get sh!t going". And I'm yet to see a person who'd go out of their way to wipe all the rookies from a rookie area once it despawns. Most of this community are incredibly welcoming to new players, at least to the ones who are actually developing their own code. And finally, getting roflstomped early in the game can also act as a great motivator. Need to exact revenge on someone can really get you going. Speaking of motivation, all those overmind bots in my vicinity on shard3 have been a good motivator for me to get going with stuff too. I've been using them as punching bags to test/develop battle code. But I am not OK with them spawning in a rookie zone and driving the real rookies away from the game.
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  • Communication

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  [Idea] Compound breakdown reactions
  • Orlet

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  Yeah, strongholds can possibly create some extra uses for combat boosts, which would be nice.
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  Allow calling notifyWhenAttacked during spawning
  • WarInternal

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  Quick hack to fix this. Creep.prototype._notifyWhenAttacked = Creep.prototype.notifyWhenAttacked; Creep.prototype.notifyWhenAttacked = function(notify) { const spawning = this.spawning; this.spawning = false; const ret = this._notifyWhenAttacked(notify); this.spawning = spawning; return ret; }; The processor doesn't check that the creep isn't spawning. So bypassing the client side check in Game is all you need. Getting rid of the restriction entirely is better idea though. The change is simple and sane enough that you would probably get it done faster by creating a pull request than asking them to do it for you. PS: Devs, please make an official intents api, most (all?) client side checks can be bypassed anyways.
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  additional options to sort saved server list
  • psy372

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  checkbox/toggle to disable animations on new UI frontpage
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  Pulling multiple branches from github
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  Sound
  • klugemonkey

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  @qgazq Somehow I'm not able to paste the complete code here. So we try gist: Link to Gist
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  Usermade (clientside)interface
  • Fiskmans

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  Doing this through to the server seems very strange to me. Don't forget you can run Javascript in the client through <script> tags in the console. Consider writing a function you can call from the console that modifies your client UI, or check #client-abuse in Slack for examples. (They're working on a redesign for the UI though, so choose carefully how much time you invest.)
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  Please redesign the goal of markets
  • Conquest

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  To me the main issue with the market is that it's very difficult to link up buyers and sellers. The only way to express your interest in buying or selling a resource is to create an order. There are two issues here: The limit of 50 orders is totally insufficient. There are 42 resources, so you can't even have 1 buy and 1 sell order for every resource. That's before we even think about multiple rooms (which will be needed, because the market is localised). Orders are subject to a fee as soon as they are created These issues seriously discourage creating prospective market orders. I have some LO to sell, but I'm not going to create an order because I can't afford to waste one that might never be fulfilled. I have no idea if anyone is interested in buying, or if there is, I have no idea what price they would buy at. If I do decide to create a sell order, what price do I start with? How long do I wait before lowering the price? Has it not sold because I'm asking too much or because there are no buyers right now? What amount should I place the initial order for? If I create an order with a small amount to see whether anyone is interested, perhaps no-one will buy because they don't want to waste a terminal cooldown on such a small amount. If I create it with more, I'm wasting more credits if no-one buys or I have to reduce the price. Both issues discourage creating orders in the first place. If I do create an order, the up-front fee with no refunds causes orders to be placed with tiny amounts, even if I have 500,000 resource to sell. This is what slows the market down, and it's particularly bad for less popular resources like middle-tier boosts.
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  Update/rework of the ATTACK part's hitback damage
  • Orlet

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  @kyralee said in Update/rework of the ATTACK part's hitback damage: Re-purpose the Tough Body Part - With this suggestion we would remove the hit back of attack parts entirely and move that over to the Tough body part. This would function like the "Thorns" stat in Diablo and other similar games/mechanics. This could hit back every target or limit it to the number of Tough body parts the creep owns similar to my suggestion 2. Obviously cost and damage values would need to be tweaked. Newbie, here, but FWIW I like this idea of ATTACK doing only what it says on the tin, and either turning TOUGH turning into THORNS, or adding a new part that reflects, say, 10% of damage (at a greater cost than TOUGH).
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  UI suggestion for the Memory tab.
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  On the topic of the memory viewer, inter-shard segment isn't viewable in the segments tab.