<![CDATA[Announcing a bot-free nursery]]>Too often, you see a novice zone colonised by open source bots, which expand rapidly and leave no room for genuine novice players. As an experiment I would like to try out a player-created solution to this problem.

Having recently declared two sectors bot-free, I would like to announce the opening of a player-created novice area, that is guaranteed free of NCPs and open source bots, open to anyone of GCL 3 or below as with the usual novice sectors.

The area of this player-created novice area is approximately the top half of sectors E25S35 and E35S35 on shard 2. 0_1550739245336_ncp free zone.png

Compared to a traditional novice area:

Pros

  • Guarantee of no open source bots (or that they will be wiped out soon after spawning in)

Cons

  • No walls surrounding the zone
  • No protection from nukes

Let's see how this works out.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/topic/2554/announcing-a-bot-free-nurseryRSS for NodeTue, 09 Jun 2026 08:50:45 GMTThu, 21 Feb 2019 08:57:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Announcing a bot-free nursery on Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:09:55 GMT]]>Too often, you see a novice zone colonised by open source bots, which expand rapidly and leave no room for genuine novice players. As an experiment I would like to try out a player-created solution to this problem.

Having recently declared two sectors bot-free, I would like to announce the opening of a player-created novice area, that is guaranteed free of NCPs and open source bots, open to anyone of GCL 3 or below as with the usual novice sectors.

The area of this player-created novice area is approximately the top half of sectors E25S35 and E35S35 on shard 2. 0_1550739245336_ncp free zone.png

Compared to a traditional novice area:

Pros

  • Guarantee of no open source bots (or that they will be wiped out soon after spawning in)

Cons

  • No walls surrounding the zone
  • No protection from nukes

Let's see how this works out.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/12883http://screeps.com/forum/post/12883Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:09:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Announcing a bot-free nursery on Invalid Date]]>What happens once you reach GCL 3?

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/12884http://screeps.com/forum/post/12884Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to Announcing a bot-free nursery on Invalid Date]]>You can stay there, as you would a normal novice zone. If someone spawns into it and they're already above GCL3, they may get attacked.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/12885http://screeps.com/forum/post/12885Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to Announcing a bot-free nursery on Invalid Date]]>How are you detecting NCPs? If this works out it would be nice if others were set up, but I'd hate for a bug in the NCP detection to wipe out someone needlessly.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/12890http://screeps.com/forum/post/12890Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to Announcing a bot-free nursery on Invalid Date]]>@deft-code NCPs are detected via LOAN. So far this hasn't failed, but there is some minimal risk that things could go wrong with LOAN.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/12891http://screeps.com/forum/post/12891Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to Announcing a bot-free nursery on Invalid Date]]>@deft-code @wtfrank you can also manually do what LoAN is doing and look at creep names, structure layouts, and controller signs to determine if it's a bot or not...

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/12892http://screeps.com/forum/post/12892Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to Announcing a bot-free nursery on Invalid Date]]>happy to outsource

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