Posts made by Eiskalt

@o4kapuk said in Season #2 is open!:

World sectors are isolated from each other by huge constructed walls on the season start, so you have to dig your way to distant players.

That will cause a ton of pathfinding issues, right?

So… you need to:

• upate grunt-screeps to version ^1.5
• generate a token if you don’t have one: go to ‘manage account’ ingame
• add the token in your grunt options
• add the server type ‘season’ to your options

options: { email: email, token: 'AUTH_TOKEN', server: 'season'

Did someone figure out how to push code using grunt?

It seems like the steam client is not creating a separate code folder for the seasonal server like it does for private servers.

I like it!

Might be important to make sure there is a visible difference between defeating an 'old code' player and defeating a player with his latest code. Maybe it's a good idea not to display player names at all when their old code is used.

Oh, will there be MacOS support? I saw it's tagged as Windows only atm

Just wanted to let you guys know that map visuals are absolutely amazing. My map visuals can provide an instant overview about what is happening in my empire. It is absolutely game changing.

Thank you for implementing it!

I really like the idea! Seasonal is really the best way to play screeps in my opinion. Starting with one room and try to grow as fast as possible is very enjoyable for me.

I do have the lifetime sub and don’t mind the additional payment to be honest. I would prefer active development and the changes in every season by a wide margin compared to a cheap but stale game.

I am very exited about this. Hope the majority of players feel the same.

Clearly it would not be fully automated for a long time. But I’d rather have some horrendous base building logic than have to check in and make decisions about the best place to put my roads and extensions, for example.

You can do basic build automation in a light version. For example: set a flag you use for the center of a standard blueprint of main buildings. And just place extensions every second tile in a chess pattern around it.

• Or looking back what do you wish you had planned ahead for?

It took me a long time until I mined minerals. But mining minerals and selling them is quite easy to get working. You can just save the credits you earn and be happy later on.

• The amount of things to consider is substantial and I’m not even totally clear about what’s most important at each RCL ?

In the beginning you can focus on energy handling. Increase the amount of energy harvested. Try to put all excess energy into the controller. And then try to optimize that process in term of energy lost for creeps and stuff.

• Are there particular design patterns or concepts that you’ve found work well for you?

State machines. If you use remembered states for your creeps, you will avoid running in a ton of silly bugs. Try to use states for all roles, even the simpler ones. Even basic stuff like 'getting energy from the storage' works best if the task is remembered.

The walk distance from terminal to labs could be shorter. But some players dont mind that. It would be an issue for me though.

The towers are not in the middle of your design. That results in a harder to defend part of your bunker. That could be an issue. But again, some players dont have issues with tower distance, mainly because of strong active defense.

@o4kapuk Yes, that idea sounds better. The wait time is way too long. And this way we will not see so many players just hunting level 0 cores.

I absolutly love the idea! This looks like a smart feature to engage most players and lure zombies back to the game.

I can't wait to try to find the most efficient tactic to tear down their defenses!

Yes, I saw that, too. First time I noticed is today though.

@davaned The power activation of a room is not permanent as far as I know. Unclaiming the controller will undo the activation. Its not too hard to automate that, I think.

I think the pixel approach is a very good idea.

That would let us spend money on screeps and thus help the dev team.

And please let us buy custom badged. I really want one

A really cool and useful feature. Thank you! I like it!

Shard3 would be cool.

But I am a bit concerned about the additional space that would bring us. Wars in screeps are almost always triggered by territorial disputes and are declining if there is enough space for everyone to grow.

I have the feeling, that the sharding feature added too much space to screeps, even with the size reduction of shard0.

The world of screeps needs to be crowded for alliances to form and wars to break out. And we do want wars, to keep people interested.

This would be awesome!

And with the low investment of only a new portal type.

Please consider this

Yes, this is bugging me for a long time now, too. Thanks for posting this

A mineral extractor should be harvestable every 5 ticks or we should change the documentation to 6 seconds. One could argue that harvesting every 6 ticks in valid with a 5 tick cooldown. But labs, for example, can react every 10 ticks for a 10 tick cooldown reaction.

Consistency in any way would be fine, really.

Wow! That sounds really awesome!

@eduter said in Help wanted: Source Keepers overhaul:

@artch It seems to me like you will have to pick 2 out of these 3:

• keep SKs exposed to melee attacks at all times
• make SKs' movement as simple as possible
• keep lairs where they are

I would take the first two options and move some lairs:

• keep SKs exposed to melee attacks at all times
• make SKs' movement as simple as possible

A vast majority of players will not even notice if some lairs are relocated.

Are you guys using the browser-version? If so: try Chrome. Works with far better performance compared to Firefox at my work laptop (and no, I never play screeps at work)