I thought screepspl.us already ran at 1 tick per second?

@tun9an0 Two quick solutions to the boring api problem:

• Add an auto renew option in the UI, so players can just check a box and forget about cpu management.
• Let the cpu tokens queue up. Then buy 90 and activate them all at once.

@mrfaul I have a lifetime sub. I very much like that the lifetime sub doesn't translate to an in game resource. I am personally not comfortable with a recurring cost. I find it puts me into a grindy mindset where I try to "get my money's worth". With a lifetime sub I can walk away when I get bored and play factorio for a month or two. Or in my case I run my empire at 100-200 cpu because it's easier/more fun.

I don't think it's fixed in the PTR. https://github.com/screeps/engine/blob/87b0ab5d332496b65c3626f81f0cfa0435adf7c0/src/processor/intents/creeps/withdraw.js#L15

This would have to be !(number >= 0) instead of number < 0 because NaNs suck.
Or _.isFinite would should catch any other esoteric edge cases.

I assumed the safemode would be room+account bound. I figured if I got wiped or pushed back I'd like a chance to use the protection is new rooms to build back up.

WRT to Nukes I didn't see a need to change the clear safemode + no cooldown. Now though I see that an alliance could use friendly nukes to work around safemode cooldowns. Though given a nukes multiday lead time this probably isn't a big deal.
As for letting nukes through a safemode, that would allow nukes to wipe out a new player. I was never hit by a nuke early on but my plan was to just pop a safemode when there was only a day left and wait it out. I hate to take that easy counter from new players.

I've experienced the reclaim effect in screeps.

I spawned into a young alliance and one of them had automated an MA swarm attack. It would have been devastating a few months earlier but I had good respawn rushing and tower energy management by that point.

They left the attack running for a few days. By the end they'd energy drained their 3 rooms and my single room built and filled a Storage and there was still energy on the ground. I don't think they'd ever had it fail before.

The reclaim effect becomes much less useful once a player gets even a small empire running and energy becomes essentially free.

On the topic of encouraging combat, that led to a month of some of the most frantic/fun coding I've had with screeps, They kept me pinned in that one room for quite a while we both tried to developed effective boosting code. More than once I had to hand steer some of my boosted defenders to narrowly avoid a disaster.

Thinking back on my experience safe mode saved everyone's hide a couple times. I chained once or twice to give me time to work out solution to their latest attack. 24 hrs was never enough. Given screepers preference for weekend play 7 day safemodes with a 1 month cooldown might be more in line with encouraging combat while giving players a chance to not get wiped at the first glitch.

Or slightly more flexible up to 7 days safemodes with exponential cooldowns. Keep your first safemode up for 1 day and you have a cooldown of 1 day. That doesn't work so you pop another safemode for 1 day, this time the cooldown is (2x) 2 days. Next time you keep the safemode up for 7 days. When it drops you have a (4x) 1 month cooldown.

I think that would strengthen safemode for the players who need it most while effectively removing it from empire warfare since the increasing cooldowns make safemodes a non-renewable resource.

@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.