Closed Alpha has started! https://screeps.com/forum/topic/3173/arena-closed-alpha-has-started

@systemparadox My test may not be accurate, you can also test it yourself

I guess I will write my thoughts also. I wasn't here for first season so this was my first take on seasonal, but I am not new player also, I was playing around 2018-2019 and then had a break from, game, so I jumped in with two years old code. Overall I did surprisingly better than i expected (got 16-th place). Place brackets was too wide for my taste (mb cause of that was, that there wasn't too much player competing), but around beginning of second month I figured out that I have no chance to get into top 10 (at least with time I have on hand for codding), but in the same time I was pretty sure I don't drop bellow 30 place. That caused I started to lose interest in fighting for better place. I wish there was more incentivise for fight for each place. Highway walls was pain for working with, but I liked it. My code for getting around them was crappy, but that was mostly because i had more pressing issues with my 2 years code that I was in need of fixing. I don't mind if for them to be in next season, and i even want them. I liked gathering score, and overall it wasn't too hard to get it started, so I think it was easy enough to start getting them for more freshly players. As Tigga said, boosting was problem this season from my perspective. As player with no alliance or in game friends it was hard to compete for high places. I was missing market. I know it was for better to disable it, for above reason, but maybe enable it to trade with "npc"? So you can trade resources that you have too much for more needed ones. It sure should be balanced, so there is still better to plan rooms for mining desired resources, but at least you could have something to do with all that oxygen and hydrogen. Also, you can transfer that code for persistent server. Also, factories would be more viable that way. Not much feedback but i want to share also: yea, Tigga was extorting me, but overall I didn't end to badly with that barging compared to players that got totally wiped out and needed to respawn. I think it was good deal for me (I didn't have chance to fight since my war code was pretty non-existent at this point of game). I even enjoyed it somewhat (Stockholm syndrome? xD) I think it can be nice addition to game, but to that happen, big players need to have harder time to control large spans of territory.

"Since you not only have to hold the room with creep alone" i think most (if not all) of S1 and S2, top20 players can own a sector for themselves that means that the 2-3 rooms/sector are quite untouchable by anyone else for scoring due to limited TTL of claim-body creeps. Only 'disrupting' might be possible, but still that would mean that player would probably have to sacrifice his/hers score-defence (since not owning a sector) That alone would mean that the gap between top-players and everyone else would be huge. With every room possible to score, there is still option for mediocre/new players to participate in some way, allows some agreements like in S1 to mitigate weak-player wipe, and there would be some more creativity with army of smaller claim creeps over big area or focusing on holding fewer more worth rooms with bigger claimers

A version of your code should run on all Shards if you have at least one owned object (creep, buildings, tombstone) on-shard. A few things to note about doing multiple shards though: You need to assign CPU to the shard, there's a 'reassign CPU' button at the bottom of the shards menu https://screeps.com/a/#!/shards or it can be done via code: https://docs.screeps.com/api/#Game.cpu.setShardLimits Creeps that travel though an intershard portal lose all memory and are assigned a new ID, their name & ticksToLive will remain the same. So whatever memory you had assigned will be lost, so stuff like role (if using roles) will be gone, meaning the creep doesn't know which module it should be using.

Just seen the issue here https://screeps.com/season/#!/history/shardSeason/E28S19?t=2407645, the terminal became invisible when the rampart over the tower was destroyed. If you go back a bit in the history you'll see that one of the towers also went invisible. It seems to change when ramparts are removed. Only happened in Chrome on Linux. Firefox on Linux was fine, as was the steam client. Chrome on Windows was fine, even on the same machine. Issue persists after a restart. I will try and find a test case on the main server to see if anyone else sees the issue at the same time.

Run JSON.stringify(Memory) And Copy all to HTML , Click Button I think this tool can check for memory leaks. And analyze which memory can be placed in the global. This will be useful. I hope I can share it with everyone, and hope everyone can make some suggestions

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I wrote my own function to fix this since it's been months with no response. Hit me up on slack on CrAzYDubC and I will help ya out.

@segmentationfaultcoredumped Hey man ! you see me deeply ashamed ... after some 2 decades of unix ... a problem like that ! Thanks a lot, I owe u a beer

Oops, I was looking at the parameter description for moveByPath the whole time: "A path value as returned from Room.findPath, RoomPosition.findPathTo, or PathFinder.search methods. Both array form and serialized string form are accepted." Sorry if I confused anyone.

@shibdib I like slack for chat, but one major drawback is that there is no history .. obviously in this forum there is not to much traffic but there are many topics that have very valuable content which would be lost if it would have been just discussed in slack. There is even more going on in the screeps steam forum .)

@shibdib said in Alpha Map - Same color as plains: @artch All good, I know o4 was commenting about squishing bugs. Just wanted to make sure this thread didn't get lost in the shuffle Apparently this got lost in the shuffle https://i.imgur.com/YUa94hk.gif

This is the expected behavior for a limited store.

I tried the steam client again and despite the topic saying "m1 macs" the client still crashes / does not work on ALL macs with the latest operating system big sur that came out last november.

@tehfiend ah yes, I was refering to Room.lookForAtArea (suggested that because you mentioned range of 3). agree with all your thoughts. [EDIT] ah, now I got what you mean by "travel distance 3", not roads in range of 3 from start pos but path to a road which ends at the range of 3 from closest

@tigga they should be there currently. @eiskalt Just like all obstacles do.