Hi @JNark Best of luck on your investigations, it would be great to bring some closure to his family instead of leaving him as a nameless John Doe. Not sure what @MrFaul is ranting about dangerous knowledge, please don't take him as representative of the community here.

However, I have to inform you that the "Ben2" that MrFaul is talking about is very unlikely your victim, as his steam profile shows he unlocked a number of badges in the last year. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198004426967/badges/ This makes it very likely that that user has had activity recently (the last one unlocked, "power player", was 3 days ago and I think it represents owning 100+ games).

The notes are most certainly screeps related though. Let me know if there is anything else we can do to help. I should call out that these are the new forums here. IIRC there was some old screeps forums that had content prior to 2017 that could potentially have information, but I'm unsure as to what happened to them.

Isn't that the case where you can't respawn directly into the same room you just spawned into to prevent some abuse cases?

Can we have the nuke public.say something when it lands, and have tombstone-like text present on the nuke room object? Similar to https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/619776/Islamic-State-US-airstrikes-ISIS-targets-From-Paris-with-love-missiles Would be a fun flavor addition.

The resources drop to the ground in the form of a tombstone, same as a regular creep death. It will drop into a container if there is one there.

Right now it's an odd edge case that you can't rely on ruins/tombstones because technically they can be deleted with a nuke. It would be better if the .store of them was cleared but the objects left behind.

https://screeps.com/a/#!/history/shard2/W14N55?t=19934432 Look at the top road at this tick, then click to next tick.

Tick 19934432: Road Hits: 2008 / 5000

Tick 19934433: Road Hits: 1736 / 5000

Only thing that could have affected it that tick was RMA.

Edit: On checking, it also damages the containers.

A couple ideas:

Stronghold Loot Levels: Have greater variance in loot. Similar to mineral patches, lootboxes etc, you want to have highs and lows. If you very occasionally have a L3 SH spawn with a T5 commodity lower level players can get excited and try to crack something that might be a stretch for them. It also makes them less of a pure loot farm mechanic for a player who has "solved" them, they can do some math around expected expenditure vs reward etc.

An idea for a new L1 so that there is a reason to empower factories even if you don't want to take on the commodities.

Enriched Power (ER)

Factory T1 item: 100 power and 5000 energy, cd 700.

1 ER = 100 power and can be uncompressed in a factory (PS?) to gain processed power to their account. Give new players a way to acquire some early power levels for factories easier, and a new trade item. Alternatively, could offer a smaller energy cost than processing but an extremely long cd.

An odd behavior: https://screeps.com/a/#!/history/shard2/W24N54?t=19920555 Invaders killed off the ramparts of a stronghold deploying. Is this intended?

@deft-code I used to do this when I first started playing and only had <RCL6 rooms: "I've been curious for a while whether it'd be worth it to passively harvest the center room. Focus on smart pathing to get there and back safely, then retreat for 1500 ticks once invaders show up."

It's actually fairly trivial and quite profitable even if you just pause spawning for 1500 ticks, but ideally you should have a flee and reassign for those creeps.

@artch I like that explanation. However how does Shield fit into that? No energy spent, no energy returned, but dismantle works.

From a gameplay perspective the invader cores not allowing dismantle makes perfect sense to make them require a non-eco creep to deal with them.

Does dismantle work on tombstones/ruins? I always thought of dismantle as kinda like bulldozing everything down and picking up the scraps.

I'd make the L3/4 spawn additional ranged defender(s) if the core rampart is damaged below half health. Killing core first should be as hard or harder than killing towers and then drilling in.