I had a presentation about Screeps and opened the tutorial which opened a new branch in my code...I decided to open a new tab to show them my existing code for comparison and it just switched branches I opened the wrong tap, copied the tutorial code...and bam
Everything lost during the presentation....
I played a game a long time ago which had a big world. In this big world every quadrant (+/+,-/-,+/-,-/+) had 1-2 big alliances which tried to win the world.
What happens is that in the end of the world every alliance gets to build its Miracle at the middle of the map (0/0). Whichever manages to do so and gather resources from everywhere else on the map gets to win.
My proposal is to make a tournament where you have Temple rooms (a term used by the community for rooms used for praising GCL)
In the center of the server in 1 sector you have these rooms and whichever alliance gets to them to control them and defend them and then get to GCL50 wins
To implement this you need a new server like the MMO one which has 20-30 sectors (something like screeps+ lets say)
And from any other shard on the MMO server players can get to this server via portals which will open in the middle of every sector in the MMO world
So this means that for 2-3 months or less (you decide) players from all around the MMO server (any shard) can gather in alliances (which already exist) and send resources to this Tournament world to try and conquer it all.
The shards on MMO will still be the same with the only added difference would be these portals.
That tournament world will have the following benefits
Easy to make and maintain(basically its screeps+ with a few rooms which have no RCL8 upgrade limit and no safemodes)
It will give players seasonal shards as it will reset every year or whatever timing you want (something like seasons in other games)
It will make the MMO server important again as some players just run private servers or play on #botarena #screepsplus and #swc not caring for MMO as it is stagnating.
It will bring back meaning to alliances
As mentioned - the costs are small for maintaining as the size wont be that big.
I am willing to sponsor such idea by paying to be implemented as a donation and I think that other people might do this as well.
Screeps community is already sustaining #swc #botarena and #screepsplus so I am sure that people connected with those will be happy to help for the making and sustaining of this project.
And it will make a lot of old players happy till Arena mode comes along as well as Power creeps
Also - the portals made for this mode might be used later for connection to some Arena modes
https://pastebin.com/FTyPrQXi this is my main loop code.
As you can see I have 4 console.log's
First 2 -> before anything else being executed in my script
Last 2 -> At the very bottom of my script's execution
This screenshot is the result of these console.log's after 2 ticks.
As you can see at the beginning Memory.remoteRooms['E16S37'] is undefined as expected.
Then at the very end it is set and it has information in itself.
Since the screenshot covers 2 ticks, one after another, there should be no code of mine being executed between the first last 2 console.log's and the last first (the blue line). So with no code of my own...Memory has been emptied.
Here is the information stored {"name":"E16S37","sources":{"59f1a42382100e1594f3c88e":{"id":"59f1a42382100e1594f3c88e","energy":3000,"creeps":[],"maxCreepsCount":1,"creepsMiningPotential":0,"container":"","link":""},"59f1a42382100e1594f3c88f":{"id":"59f1a42382100e1594f3c88f","energy":3000,"creeps":[],"maxCreepsCount":4,"creepsMiningPotential":0,"container":"","link":""}},"minerals":{"59f1c0de7d0b3d79de5f17ce":{"id":"59f1c0de7d0b3d79de5f17ce","type":"O","container":""}},"controller":{"id":"59f1a42382100e1594f3c88d","pos":{"x":41,"y":11},"reserved":false,"reservationEndTick":0},"underAttack":false,"threatLevel":0,"owner":"E16S38","containers":{},"constructionSites":{}}
As you can see there are no functions or anything else that is non JSON.
As you can see in this image I am restricted to 10 CPU but when I try to assign part of it to shard1 it says that on shard2 I have 57 CPU.
I was told that it is an issue with displaying the cpu, but if it is not (as 60 cpu is my limit by GCL) and I assign 3 CPU to shard1.... will I be able to use it or does it use 10/57?
I should also add that this is my code https://pastebin.com/2bkSfzGt and the console log was returning OK. Then during the taking of the picture with plain commands I disabled that part of the code...this is why my Miner didn't move even after the enemy creeps moved.
So this is my room - https://screeps.com/a/#!/history/shard2/E16S38?t=5064310
In this replay you can see that I am in safe mode...and the enemy creeps do block my miner.They also block my carrier.
Here is a screenshot of a command in the console to make my creep move top which returned 0 (OK). https://screeps.slack.com/files/U99R72MAA/FA3ULCTKN/image.png posted on slack as well.
