Feature Requests

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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.
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  Market Usability: communicate effect of each compound
  • wtfrank

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  N-thed, really. Minerals page is probably my top most opened screeps doc page already...
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  UI - Room Overview improvement
  • Davaned

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  Native Folder Support
  • WarInternal

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  It's possible to use the call stack to determine which file you're in. https://github.com/deft-code/typescreeps/blob/master/src/debug.ts#L9 This is very similar to the code I've using now. I use this trick to add a file and line number to my console.log messages. Using this trick you could write an alternative require proof of concept entirely in game code rather than in the engine. You might have use a different separator; I don't know what the api will do with files with / in the name. (the current require implementation ignores leading ./ so might have to work around that also.
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  Remove parsing of Memory per tick
  • Xenofix

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  @w4rl0ck still much more complicated than expected But it's in our todo list.
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  Claim Part Boosting
  • KyraLee

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  I've always thought that lack of boosts on CLAIM bits was a bit odd, but then, the entire part is a special snowflake in many terms (no renewal, reduced lifespan, no boosts). Although adding boosts would be an interesting idea. Increase the amount of ticks removed from an enemy claim when using attackController Increase the amount of ticks added to a friendly reserve when using reserveController Decrease the cooldown on subsequent attacks when using attackController These three I'm all fine with, and don't see them breaking any game mechanics Decrease the fatigue generated by claim parts This one's kinda.... weird. Personally, I don't see much use for it, since just slapping more MOVE parts on the creep, or boosting them, would nearly always be more efficient and cheaper. Increase the range of the actions enabled by the claim part Now this one is a problem. A lot of code (for ramparts deployment, etc.) is built around the fact that any creep-controller interaction must be at melee range. This change would break it a lot. All in all I think adding boosts to CLAIM parts might be an interesting addition.
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  Nuke power surge
  • Crusher48

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  "Roaming" economy powers
  • Tigga

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  In that case it must be assured that advancing levels brings more benefits than having multiple "low lvl" power creeps.
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  Add body to Spawn.spawning
  • Tigga

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  That's a good point! Thanks for the tip, didn't think of that.