Posts made by awr000

Slight correction, checking again Tower has a cost of 100 in sim, not 1

I've been trying to do some testing in the simulator over the past few days and today when I place a tower construction site it gets built in a single "build" from a creep like PTR.   Is it possible to either revert back to the old way the sim worked or make it a toggle that is either build in normal ticks or build in single ticks?

Thanks

Agree, they seem to really have ramped up lately even when my bucket is well above 9000

I built a container in an SK room on PTR and the developer tools window for Chrome started throwing these constantly.   No errors in the screeps built in console.

48angular.min.js:117 TypeError: Cannot read property 'level' of null
at isStructureDisabled (build.min.js:5)
at fn (eval at <anonymous> (angular.min.js:1), <anonymous>:4:325)
at n.$digest (angular.min.js:142)
at n.$apply (angular.min.js:145)
at angular.min.js:158
at e (angular.min.js:45)
at angular.min.js:48

https://screeps.com/a/#!/history/W16N3?t=10196877

This was unpleasant.

Might only be repairs made by tower that isn't counted.

This seems to have made it to the live world now and is making managing the restart caused by the downtime truly painful

I've scoured my code and I have no instances of ConstructionSite.remove() at all.  Something strange happened.  I rebuilt the spawn but I definitely did not call remove()

Just started building another one next to the pile of energy the "poofed" one left on the ground.  Would still like to know what could have caused this.

https://screeps.com/a/#!/history/W16N3?t=10095968

Was about 1 more round of building away from completion and "poof" its a pile of energy?

Help?

nevermind

Executing:

flag.pos.lookFor('structure')  

in a room I have vision on returns an empty array when the flag is sitting on a container.

Is this the correct behavior?

https://screeps.com/a/#!/map?pos=-17.023,-1.622

I respawned here yesterday afternoon and it wasn't a newb zone.   Woke up and now it is.  Is this normal?

I thought this was a good read.  It won't get you details on the specific implementation for findPath... commands but helpful I think at least for me.

http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/AStarComparison.html

Would it be possible to show "Net energy +/-" for the room?

Energy Harvested - used on construct - used on control - used on  creeps

What sort of targets in regards to energy/hour/source and controller energy/hour should we shoot for? 

I know it's a bit variable since ticks vary in duration but are there any benchmarks people use?

Are there any notable differences between the two that one needs to be aware of? 

Thanks for explaining, I think the "no controller" part is what was confusing me

Starting to look at the world map to figure out where I want to try and start out.  Can someone explain to  me the color coding of each room?

Just getting started with screeps and am curious if most people have completely autonomous structure/defense planning and building or if wall/ramparts are done more by hand.

Also, is it typical to start in the live world without a fully functional AI to test out gathering/building before fully having defenses working.

Basically would anyone like to describe what they did when they were "getting started"?