This would fundementally alter the game. Screeps is very much about power projection and regional ownership. Increasing creep ranges by a factor of >4x would mean that players can attack from an incredibly vast distance around them, and from many bases as opposed to only the closest ones. While more combat isn't necessarily a bad thing, this would vastly favor older, more entrenched players with large sprawling empires.

I think the downsides of this are too much. We are already (probably) getting a power creep with the renew ability built in that should in a limited & controlled way extend ranges much further. Portals already provide windows of opportunity for extending ranges too.

Question: Is this equivalent to an engine? If one engine (move) is more powerful do you overwhelm the other creeps move? That could make for a super interesting aspect to combat.

1. You have more move than them. If you try force (unwilling) them with pull, you move them but get fatigue equal to your net move advantage (your move - their move). AKA if you had 20 move they had 10, you get to move them, but get fatigue as if you only had 10 move parts.
2. You have less move than them. Can't pull unwillingly, could maybe slow them down at cost of your fatigue?
3. You have more or less move than them, and they accept it willingly. You move them.

I misunderstood, I thought it was a shard3 only special to get 20 cpu

Awesome, really glad to have the additional cpu to stay engaged even when not subscribed!

Awesome! Quick question: how does this limit count against your total CPU for non-subscribers? Can you have a 20cpu room on shard 3 and expand to a 10cpu room on another shard?

Nice @artch. Lowering the cost for boosting, increasing flexibility, and adding room for future optimizations. My one complaint is that a boost shouldn't break the renewCreep, it would mean you can't renew anything boosted in a lower level room. Might be nice to be able to force a renew.

@Atavus Great idea, thanks for driving this! I highly recommend people tune in to watch, I run the server as fast as possible so in the beginning it'll run at multiple ticks a second. Very fun to watch the bots autoexpand at great speed.

Would be kinda interesting if there were periods of very high spawns of trains. Having a couple event days a month where there was 15 active trains per shard could be a cool community day and could incentivize people to write code/engage more on that day.

Overall, I'd rather see how power creeps affect the strategy side of the game before working on content that has a parallel impact. I think if after power creeps have been out for a bit it's worth looking into, although I'd rather have arena.

I think we need a screeps RPG. I want to watch the birth of a creep, experience their struggles in making to their source, the tireless effort they put into mining, and finally the sweet rest when a younger stronger creep comes to take their place.

I kinda like the idea, although tbh with power creeps coming we are unlocking enough new dynamic content that I feel no need for this. Also, if there were super structures, I'd much rather they were an upgradable structure like a controller that you can keep building and improving rather than 100million energy to turn it on. This gives players something new and cool, while retaining a goal to work towards. Basically another long-term energy/mineral sink that players can use to work towards an ultimate room.

Eg, for a teleport pad, range would increase and cd would decrease as you upgraded the building. Upgrading would have the same scaling cost increase, so level 1 would be ~10 mill, level 2 would be 20 mill, lvl 3 40mill, etc possibly forever. Makes rooms high value targets and makes players extra invested in them.

The idea of upgradeable towers with modules kinda falls into this. Eg you could have an in-room teleport with a bunch of speed modules but no range ones, so you can just port your creeps around your room. Or a ton of range modules and no speed to drop creeps off 5 rooms away.

Munitions factory is an interesting concept... I'd be interesting in seeing one that produces barricades/shield that are deployable, like on-demand weak rampart/wall creations. But all this feels very much like overlap with power creep goals.