Option to start game by claiming controller
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At the moment we start a game by building a spawn. This works well for new players, who want to start doing stuff quickly before they lose interest.
However, for someone with an existing code base, it makes sense for the code to place the first spawn. Just leaving the choice of choosing the first room to the player.
So when starting you can either place a spawn as now or select the controller. There will then be a 'claim controller' option in the sidebar.
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You'd still be selecting to start manually though, maybe some one who does botArena can talk about how that's set up since its to my understanding almost all hands off, not sure if there's a way they auto-set spawns.
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There is a private server mod which, if installed, allows this. You name your first spawn "auto" and instead of placing it it just claims the controller and the first spawn construction site placed is auto-completed.
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Do you have a link? I am probably staring at it https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=464350&browsesort=trend§ion=readytouseitems&days=90
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should be part of https://github.com/screepsmods/screepsmod-admin-utils iirc
gotta be careful with the steam workshop, a bunch of stuff there is terribly outdated