i was giving some thought again to this topic, and i come with some not code-breaking ideas:

• limit ramparts to 1M at RCL8
• give PowerCreep Operator PWR_OPERATE_RAMPART (can be instead of OPERATE_TOWER)
  • Range 3 usable on controller
  • Increase Rampart max Hits in Room to 5M/15M/30M/45M/60M level 1/5/10/15/20
  • duration 800 / 1600 / 3200 / 4800 / 6400, cooldown 900/1800/3600/5400/7200, 100/500/1000/1500/2000 OPS cost
  • ramparts with hits above hitsMax decay 1% of hits per tick

Lower max ramparts would somewhat prevent turtling behind multiple rows of 100M ramparts, nukes a more viable use case now, and defending against them requires a little more than just having 15M rampart, or spawning repairer or two to build them up.

With this change my expectation would be that there would be more combat :

• more breaches through ramparts (due their lower hits)
• more use of Power Creeps due to their new defense capability
• more use of nukes since no-one would have the default 5M/15M protection on every room 24/7/365

@artch Win10, I5-6600k, 16GB, NVidia GTX 1060 6GB, Chrome Version 83.0.4103.116 (Official Build) (64-bit)

@artch i see that no-webgl supported browser no longer render decorations - my bad here

regarding cpu/memory opening rooms with decorations (walls/floors) seem to add ~50-100MB to Memory of Screeps tab in browser, and bump GPU process around 100-200MB also (that fells down a bit later)

Seems also that there are leaking Dedicated Workers (hard to pinpoint from where/what action)

Also opening rooms with decorations feels 3-5x slower than opening other rooms

@artch regarding Selling Items: The 'possible' legal issue is not that You sell items that are random, but that the game creates possibility for a player to participate in gambling using real world money

I raised this on Slack, regarding some EU legislation, since "Loot Boxes" are for example completely illegal in Belgium (CS:GO had to make regional patch for that) and are quite grey area in other EU countries - not a lawyer but being able to

1. buy virtual currency (pixels) with real money (via steam)
2. get radomized loot (decorations)
3. sell decorations via real money (via steam)

fills all the checkboxes for definition legal definition of "Loot Box" / gambling, @o4kapuk answer was that they are not breaking any law and it's game feature.

Regarding decorations itself - I'd recommend looking through some rooms with multiple decorations:

• sometimes they lower readability of room and/or mask some features (walls/ramparts/etc)
• they are broken if browser does not support WebGL (make room completely unreadable)
• tend to lean heavy on browser GPU cpu and memory

Besides this - i like feature itself, i see it as good credits sink and i guess it gives developers some nice profits

in PTR

Its possible to apply Decorations to unowned rooms

1. Select room and spawn in it
2. Open inventory in another tab
3. in 1st tab go to Dropdown and choose -> Respawn
4. Go back to Inventory -> select decoration -> formerly owned room(s) are still available to choose
5. It's not possible to apply decoration (correct)

@atanner like the idea

only thing i'd be hesitant with "reservation", in my opinion there should be no reserved for X ticks etc

One thing that could be also viable is to scale decay damage with how much stuff is in container - depending whether devs intent would be to push towards more or less often transfers

In case 2 or more creeps try to transfer - i'd say the one with more WORK parts (or just bigger one) should take priority if both have same size/WORK amount, then can be age (priority for older one for example), distance/etc

@artch @U-238 did not do enough remote mining to have opinion how it might impact the economics of Creep.harvest decreasing decay timer

could the usage of warp containers be linked to how often and how strong invaders show up ?

in a way that the more often / bigger volume / more warp containers are built in room (up to 3) the more attracted (and bigger) invaders are ? also as a bonus, it might attract the steal-invaders that would not attack, just try to take away resources from closest warp container

in room without warp containers, there would be no breaking change, and for players wanting to utilize them (in remote rooms or claimed ones) there would be a drawback of more frequent / stronger invaders (should be a minor drawback for high RCL rooms)

Won't the limit on .send and .deal negatively influence market in itself by making ppl selling/buying less stuff due to desire to preserve bucket ?

I guess it might promote usage of compacted minerals but still it might impact market

room.find(FIND_MY_SPAWNS).filter((s:StructureSpawn) => s.store.getUsedCapacity(RESOURCE_ENERGY) === 0)

@likeafox

no it would not, since You'd need a squad to protect the SIEGE creep

Other ways to make sure that other / new squad compositions would be viable:

• limiting creep hits per SIEGE body part making it glass cannon
• creep using SIEGE is dealing creep-only AOE dmg to all creeps around and itself
• making creep fatigue after attacking with SIEGE body part (cannot move/perform any action for X ticks, but can be pulled for example)
• making SIEGE creep not being able to have any other body part except MOVE (so we do not have siege-heal-blinkies)

and i agree with what @Tigga said regarding edge walls/ramparts being possible to construct so close to edge