Feature Requests

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  Dijkstra flood fill, path to all destinations
  • JSwigart

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  @flyasd1 Right, but he suggested using it to recognize choke points or open areas. That would mean the terrain is not relevant, only the number of tiles away from the walls: Using walls as seed points, it can be useful to identify choke points and areas with the most open space, etc.
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  Modify Tip of the Day to be More Accurate
  • KyraLee

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  So they do decay from use and just over time, I didn't realize that. I would still think we could make the tip more accurate. Roads and Tunnels decay from use and over time, so don't forget to repair them.
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  AttackController too easy to recover from
  • SteveTrov

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  PTR updated. Let's check this out and ensure that we have no reasons to be unhappy about this mechanics anymore.
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  Ramparts to public in uncontrolled rooms
  • SBense

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  You can get the energy from an adjacent room. Though given that a tunnel costs 45,000 energy, I'm not sure if that's preferential over dismantling.
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  Make trading subscription tokens more profitable for everyone
  • MrFaul

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  a boost in genral market activity Making the market more attractive for new low-level players Making subscription tokens affordable by splitting them into 1d coins Creating a baseline for subscription tokens / coins it is currently very arbitrary Creating a new value and feel for subscription coins by required work Allowing people to "suspend" their subscription with a decent but fair penalty Providing a means to handle subscription programmatically, at least to know when it ends so they can switch tasks to buy coins Simplifying subscription management by making it a "physical" thing 1 coin = 1 day of CPU; 100 coins = 100 days (monthly subscription just gives a amount of coins) Refresh the revenue stream for the game to ensure continued development of such People are cheapskates and don't want to be bound, this will hopefully increase the amount of people who want to try out the game.
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  Color Blind Mode :D
  • Calfa

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  @keenathar Deuteranopist here (Green color blind, and sorry if i misswrote it, i'm spanish xD) I can't tell the difference between the first and the third. For me they are exactly the same A setting we could tweak that'd set different colors depending on our color blindness would be fantastic. A pop-up when we hover with the name of the color so we can then use the proper constant would be enough imo, tho. Thanks for your efforts!
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  Allow programmatic sending of personal messages
  • Atavus

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  Uh is there any noteworthy development regarding this topic?
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  Keep code folded
  • Calfa

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  Try Alt+0 / Alt+Shift+0 hotkeys. Tip: you can use almost all hotkeys listed here: https://ace.c9.io/demo/keyboard_shortcuts.html
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  Expose respawn/novice property on Game.map and/or Room
  • CaptainMuscles

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  @artch said in Expose respawn/novice property on Game.map and/or Room: @tigga Terrain data is statically cached in all nodes and is fetched only once on launch. Novice/Respawn status is stored in MongoDB where all rooms info is located, this kind of query is way more expensive. Right, but as a user I'd just do the following: if (!global._roomInRespawnNoviceArea || resetRespawnNoviceCache) { global._roomInRespawnNoviceArea = {} for (all ~4000 rooms) global._roomInRespawnNoviceArea[roomName] = isRespawnNoviceArea(roomName) } Where resetRespawnNoviceCache is set on the tick any walls go down or up. There's probably a good reason you can't do this - I'm not at all familiar with the backend and you obviously are! My point is that this array shouldn't come to more than 4kb per user, and populating it once per reset seems fairly cheap. EDIT: I've used an object for simplicity. Pushing this into UInt8Array would be 4kb, packing it into a bitmask could get it down to 500b.
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  Allign Info to screen rather than aligning it to a room position
  • Calfa

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  It would also be nice to be able to write that kind of information outside the boundary of the room instead of overlapping it.
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  Transparency option for Creep.say speech bubbles
  • Jacudibu

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  @jacudibu Thank you for your suggestion. We're adding this into the backlog.
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  Structure.notifyWhenAttacked getter
  • Orlet

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  @artch looking through all Events logs where own Creeps/builings are /Filter for rooms with enemy creeps will cost a lot of parsing CPU.
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  Detect when structure or creep is selected
  • Calfa

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  Pretty sure creating plugin for ScreepsSC doing exactly this is quite trivial, I can say that because I did it a long time ago (then stopped using Screeps-SC)
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  Make the free 30 day subscription after a steam purchase start once the first spawn was placed
  • Jacudibu

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  @artch I agree with the other people here that just looking at the worldmap should not start my CPU subscription (regardless of trail or bought in addition). Especially not without warning me. Like I said before I bought this game and lost my full trail subscription because I wasn't even aware that my subscription started until I got the warning that my subscription is about to end!
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  Tick number in console timestamp
  • Orlet

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  @obamallama indeed, that's one thing I forgot to mention. Thanks!
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  Rework of harvest boost
  • Crusher48

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  Oh heck. What was I thinking? It's the INPUT labs that don't get the cooldown, having the output lab get hit with that essentially prevents production from occurring in that lab for the cooldown duration. So that's essentially a deal killer. And I hadn't even gotten to the part where I figure out the actual mineral cost... which is probably also a deal breaker. All in all, what is the point of this feature? Boosts are still too expensive to use for anything but the one place you HAVE to use them, combat.
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  Make the limits of the maps connected to the opposite rooms (Like Earth)
  • RiQuY

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  Wouldn't the game be worse if the terrain was identical? As in, the desire to control slightly better territory is surely a good driver of conflict and therefore engagement... The edges have both disadvantages and advantages - less people in range so you're perhaps safer but have less combat targets, less people to contest power banks but less power banks in range. If we put portals of some kind at the edge of the map, it would mean that the entire map was as connected to other parts of the map, so the terrain was less diverse.
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  Console to save command history permanently
  • wtfrank

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  server list in game client
  • keenathar

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  It's already planned. See Dev updates thread: Re-designing many game interfaces ... for example, it's planned to add a list of community driven private servers to the login page of steam client.
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  Boosting with L,Z,K,U,G
  • likeafox

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  I remember being intimidated about boosting initially as well. However, my experience was different. get mineral harvesting working get distracted by other pressing needs panic about full terminals quickly hack up some code to sell minerals on the market. Use my new found credits to manually buy tier 3 heal boosts Ruthlessly smash my neighbors with boosted healers. I think the boosting via the market flow is good enough. A tier 0 boost flow could still enhance the game, but it is not strictly fixing a problem the current flow doesn't already cover. Other thoughts on tier 0 boosts. To be clear each boost will only apply to a single body part type. It won't be possible to have U boost both attack and harvest. Either G, OH, ZK, and UL should either all be tier 0 boosts or none of them (None is probably the right choice since they all require reactions anyway). I like the consistency of using O, H, and X as well as Z, U, L , and K as tier 0 boosts (make sure that minerals in your first few rooms always are able to boost something). tier 0 boost should be LESS than half as good as tier 1. Again the point of tier 0 is get a player going while still providing a strong incentive to use the regular boosts. The tier 0 boosts should target noob tasks. Absolutely no TOUGH, HEAL, or dismantle boosts. I don't think upgrade boosts should be available as tier 0 boosts either. Upgrade boosts are the most commonly used boost and keeping them as tier 1-3 provides a good incentive to write reaction or market code. Probably no MOVE, ATTACK, or RANGED_ATTACK boosts, since new players don't really need to be attacking or defending with more than towers and unboosted defenders. That leaves: harvest repair build carry