Changelog 2018-03-05

artch

http://blog.screeps.com/2018/03/changelog-2018-03-05/

SteveTrov

Game.market.orders appears to be broken under iso-vm

for (i in Game.market.orders)console.log (JSON.stringify(i))

[13:32:36] [shard1] "[object Object]"

and only contains one of my orders

More info, I currently have 45 orders across all 3 shard, mixture of BUY / SELL, active / inactive and different resources.

Kenji

@stevetrov said in Changelog 2018-03-05:

Game.market.orders appears to be broken under iso-vm

for (i in Game.market.orders)console.log (JSON.stringify(i))

[13:32:36] [shard1] "[object Object]"

and only contains one of my orders

More info, I currently have 45 orders across all 3 shard, mixture of BUY / SELL, active / inactive and different resources.

Also experiencing issue with Game.market.orders. I currently have 27 orders only on shard 1. New orders created in the iso-vm work fine, but all other orders can't be accessed. Switching back to shared-vm fixes the problem.

Subodai

Tombstones don't render in the old SVG renderer

Amadox

Amazing update. Haven't played in a while but reading that makes me itch for it again

Creep.name and StructureSpawn.name properties can now be accessed by other players.

I'm curious what the reasoning behind this change is. any insight?

SemperRabbit

I switched to IVM this morning, and I get an error after the tick completes. My creeps still run, and my grafana still shows stats, so my tick processing and the Memory stringify is complete. Below is the error:

Error: Could not find an object with ID 5a9d6d80fdab382d1d4952e9
    at data (:36351:19)
    at Object.get [as my] (eval at exports.defineGameObjectProperties (:1121:9), :6:56)
    at Object.exports.defineGameObjectProperties.obj.toJSON (:1140:29)
    at JSON.stringify ()
    at global._init.global._start (:29412:45)
    at ()
    at make (/opt/engine/dist/core/runtime/make.js:243:31)

artch

@SteveTrov @Kenji Game.market.orders should be fixed now, thanks for reporting.

@Subodai SVG renderer is considered legacy and not supported anymore.

@Amadox It's always nice to see some familiar faces again! Names are now public for the sake of consistency, see here: https://screeps.com/forum/topic/48/major-client-side-information-leakage

@SemperRabbit Do you have any clues what that object with ID 5a9d6d80fdab382d1d4952e9 is about?

WarInternal

The default object serializer that use to return something like [Object object] is now printing undefined, which is very confusing.

artch

@warinternal Yes, it's a known issue, Marcel is working on it. One possible workaround is to use ""+myObject in the console instead of myObject.

SemperRabbit

@artch i have no clue what that ID went to. Whenever I tried a Game.getObjectById() for it, it returned undefined instead of null, but it seems to have resolved itself. whatever yall did, thank you

SemperRabbit

@warinternal said in Changelog 2018-03-05:

The default object serializer that use to return something like [Object object] is now printing undefined, which is very confusing.

a hack around that would be defining Object.prototype.toString = ()=>"[Object object]";. Just one option to get it working again if your code was expecting that...

artch

Update:

Fixed an issue with undefined console output.
"Reset storms" now shouldn't affect isolated-vm users in any way, neither by resetting their VMs nor by giving bonus CPU.
Heap memory limit now varies depending on the shard's terrain shared buffer size:
- shard0 - 355 MB
- shard1 - 292 MB
- shard2 - 292 MB

New npm packages published: 2.13.0 and 3.0.0-beta.5.

SteveTrov

@artch said in Changelog 2018-03-05:

@SteveTrov @Kenji Game.market.orders should be fixed now, thanks for reporting.

I can confirm this issue appears to be fixed for me.

Kamots

This may help some folks. Seems to be a common question on Slack asking how to figure out actual usage.

if (typeof Game.cpu.getHeapStatistics === "function") {
	let heapStats = Game.cpu.getHeapStatistics();
	let heapPercent = Math.round(((heapStats.total_heap_size + heapStats.externally_allocated_size) / heapStats.heap_size_limit) * 100);
	console.log("heap usage:",Math.round((heapStats.total_heap_size)/1048576),"MB +",Math.round((heapStats.externally_allocated_size)/1048576),"MB of",Math.round(heapStats.heap_size_limit/1048576),"MB (",heapPercent,"% )");
}

SteveTrov

I think I have found a few bugs relating to tombstones and caravans

The creep lost stats now seem to include a lot of creeps that have died of natural causes. IIRC these stats used to show creeps lost in combat. From looking at replays for the last hour I have confirmed that the stats include some creeps that timed out.
The caravan haulers now drop tombstones instead of containers and those tombstones have a much shorter TTL than the containers did. Was this intended?
Caravans are still getting stuck https://screeps.com/a/#!/history/shard1/E0S20?t=6618000

And one Iso-vm bug

At 30 minutes past the hour or just after I get Script execution timed out ungracefully, restarting virtual machine errors nearly every hour I am on ISO-vm.

Despite these issues, the new release is looking really good.

SteveTrov

Update about caravans and tombstones.

https://screeps.com/a/#!/history/shard1/W10S19?t=6637767

Caravans drop containers when damaged, but when the creeps are destroyed their loot goes into a tombstone that has ttl of 250 opposed to the containers 5000 ticks.

demawi

Game.market.orders-limits seem to be broken. There are much too much active orders. Dont know if you already fixed the boundary, I haven`t tried it myself. But currently Im looking at: Object.keys(Game.market.getAllOrders({roomName:"E9S69"})).length => 142 on Shard0 (and that is not the only broken limit)

No wonder Game.market.getAllOrders based trading code has become so slow.

Edit: just one hour later: Object.keys(Game.market.getAllOrders()).length dropped from 4800 to 771 (on Shard0).. what gives a much better trading performance.. this gives a much better trading code performance..

stuy486

So it turns out I had 4027 open orders on shard0, which seems to have been the primary contributor to slow getAllOrders performance. I've deleted them all and things seem to have returned to normal. There must've been a period of about 600 ticks where Game.market.orders was empty for both my code and the server, which both prompted and allowed me to create so many orders.

W4rl0ck

just wanted to thank you guys for work on the ivm it's really working great and a huge lift of the experience.

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I was (particulary since the node 8 update) literally getting hundrets of hard reset mails every day... and they are all gone now. I only had a very small percentage of those high cpu ticks, and they are all gone with ivm.

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I switched to lvm this morning... and cpu usage looks really smooth now... I hope it also has a nice advantage on backend site for you guys.

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ags131

I also want to say: Thank you! CPU usage is much more stable and predictable, hopefully this is also helping server side too. Looking forward to being able to push it up to S+ once it leaves beta

artch

@stevetrov

The creep lost stats now seem to include a lot of creeps that have died of natural causes. IIRC these stats used to show creeps lost in combat. From looking at replays for the last hour I have confirmed that the stats include some creeps that timed out.

Fixed in screeps/engine#d5657f.

The caravan haulers now drop tombstones instead of containers and those tombstones have a much shorter TTL than the containers did. Was this intended?

Now their tombstones will have 5000 TTL, and their body will have only 1 CARRY part as the last one, so no partial drop is possible. The capacity is hard coded to 5000 (yes, this single body part is boosted a lot :)).