@DoctorCat92 I'm quite happy with the prospect of frivolous additions. Ideally each player will find their own style and enrich the diversity of the Overworld. I assume the decorations will have sufficient variety and be visible to other players in world view.

For me personally I plan to use pixels to as a credit sink. I don't really want to become dependent on a credit stream to support my empire and it smells slightly of pay to win(1). Pixels gives me something else to do with my credit stockpile. I also hope pixels provide a meaningful way to long time players with lifetime subs financially support the game servers.

The commodity update was the first minor step toward world diversification. I think the devs are taking it slow. The #1 thing they can do to frustrate players is break their code. The #2 thing is not provide new content. I think it would be fun to play in a shard that geographically radically departs from the standard grid, but that would break soo many assumptions in people's code.

1. I think screeps is uniquely positioned to not be pay to win. There is no amount of credits that make you win a conflict. If you don't have the code it aint gonna matter. If you have the code and too few rooms it aint gonna matter. If you have the code and the size you don't really need buy to resources. I think @Atavus is the closest to finding a true pay to win scenario on Shard3. Though in his case he's just burning through his credit stockpile, so it's more of a save-to-win.

What do you mean "in order". If you mean order in the UI, I absolutely agree. But that would be much easier to sort in the client before displaying. I'm pretty sure we could craft a client abuse to make that happen. I'd rather see an official client patch though.

I suspect the old sorted-ness was a by-product of iterating over all the resource names on the object to build up a list of stored items. This caused a consistent ordering. Now we can just grab the contents of the .store property and the key order is arbitrary.

I think the best solution to indentation preferences is automatic formatters. I'd love a indent my code for me button, much more than the ability to customize with size indent it inserts.

My perception is probably biased and I don't have hard numbers to back this up. But in my opinion Shard0 is the most stable but it's the slowest and full of sleeping or zombie giants.

Shard 1 and 2 are about equally stable, though shard 2 has had a bad run for the last week or so. Shard1 is full of YP, so be prepared for world war if you start killing blue players. Shard2 is full of tigga and Overmind. It's an interesting shard if you want war.

Shard3 seems to have the most stability problems.

It would be ironic the instability was a single player and that player recently moved to Shard2. It would be doubly ironic if that player was @EdgarOSalas.

Can you repro the error and print out this.room.name for the claiming creep?

I think you're misrepresenting their reasoning.

Screeps Inc thinks they can serve the communities desire for a flavored seasonal server better than ScreepsPlus can. They've been reluctant to try before now because of the effort involved. An official clone of the ScreepsPlus seasonal server wouldn't really be worth it (and possibly risky optics). If they're going to compete with ScreepsPlus's seasonal server they need to make it better. They've defined better as resurrecting the World Review and adding seasonal flavors. They're checking with the community if they're OK with this. Would you pay for a better version of ScreepsPlus's season server?

They've been very consistent in their view on the CPU subs. You buy screeps to get access to the client which gives you access to private servers. If the community 3d clients every stabilize you wouldn't even need to do that. The CPU sub is the player paying for time on the Screeps servers whether that MMO or whatever. However Screeps Arena pricing plays out we will not need another CPU sub.

I think this confusion is partially why they're considering a Screeps Seasonal product. To help everyone grok that we buy the games and server time separately.

My feelings:

ScreepsPlus doesn't do flavors. We totally could. Custom leader boards aren't that hard. We could launch a World Review on ScreepsPlus. But we haven't. Would you bump up ScreepsPlus's patreon a bit if AGS agreed to do these things?

My hopes:

I'd like Screeps to offer services that don't make sense for the entire community but would work at a premium tier. Nickel and Dimeing? Kinda, but kinda ala cart. I'd love an official Logging and Monitoring feature, but few others do.

I'd also hope that Screeps Seasonal would add deeper changes or custom API tweaks eventually. ScreepsPlus could alter constants, or crank up the invader rate, etc. But I'd love something like all Swamps are lava and damage creeps and structures. Or a new FLY bodypart. These would be really hard to do well with mods on ScreepsPlus.

@DroidFreak I've have code to claimed rooms to avoid the upkeep of reserving them. I did it early on, but disabled it due to notification spam. I did it again a year later thinking the spam wasn't that bad. It was.

I have implement this feature twice and disabled it twice due to the notification spam.

@o4kapuk, You're correct. JPS is only for uniform cost grids and is fairly well researched. I've never found a paper about our odd A*/JPS combo.

Was the documentation incorrect or did you change the default heuristicWeight to 1?

While looking for original Heurisitic weight I figured out why heuristicWeight values above 10 act funny. They're capped at 9 in the code. We should update the documentation. (Or remove the cap if it isn't needed).

Most conveyor proposals would kill the processor but you've got something that works, it's intent balanced.

Some considerations:

• Make them decay so that they require energy upkeep. Don't make it obviously more energy efficient to use belts, only different.
• Allow them to also drop resources in a direction and use resources under them. Then it'd be possible to convey a resource without it decaying across a chain of belts.

The belts vs bots works great in Factorio. It might add richness to Screeps as well. Especially if they create a visual artifacts in the map view.

Something like this could easily be mocked up as custom structure on a private server. The difficulty is people would have to build code take advantage of it, (in my case it would enable some interesting base designs), so it might see little adoption until it got accepted into the core Game.