Seems to few market orders for the compressed minerals? Most of the bars dont have any active buy orders. Probably due to its now profitable to buy normal minerals, compress and then sell them again.

@artch said in Factories, new resources, NPC Strongholds:

Decreased lesser (level-0) cores spawn interval from 15k to 2k ticks. This means a stronghold can spawn up to 40 lesser cores during its lifetime if remained untouched. But they are now quite weak and can be handled easily.

In my opinion the lesser cores respawn to quick atm, yes you can easily kill them, but a new one pops up to soon to take its place so it feels not worth it to go after them.

EVENT_OBJECT_DESTROYED for structures seems to show up as one of the attackers id instead of the actual structure id itself.

The EVENT_ATTACK works as expected, here the ObjectId is the structure, but for the EVENT_OBJECT_DESTROYED the ObjectId is (one of?) the attacking creep.

For creeps the EVENT_OBJECT_DESTROYED works as expected, when a creep is destroyed the destroyed creep is in the ObjectId (not the attacking creeps).

Seems also the new .lastCooldown is not defined:

[16:35:54][shard1]{"room":{"name":"E0N28","energyAvailable":0,"energyCapacityAvailable":0,"visual":{"roomName":"E0N28"}},"pos":{"x":7,"y":43,"roomName":"E0N28"},"id":"5ce1bf1261ed4811bd6216b0","depositType":"biomass","cooldown":12,"ticksToDecay":49997}

@o4kapuk sending in a scout made them despawn, observers were not enough.

[12:14:50][shard1]{"room":{"name":"E10N22","energyAvailable":0,"energyCapacityAvailable":0,"visual":{"roomName":"E10N22"}},"pos":{"x":5,"y":33,"roomName":"E10N22"},"id":"5cd9769e18671c6dbd827d42","depositType":"biomass","cooldown":0,"ticksToDecay":-20050}

Deposits not despawning?

yeah, check out tunnels in this blog post:

https://blog.screeps.com/2018/09/changelog-2018-09-22/

Factories, the map dependent resources and production chains all looks really interesting and fun to implement, I just wish there was another use than to sell to NPC terminals for credits. Credits just dont seem that rewarding to me. Perhaps the produced items could be consumed for some bonus effects also instead of only sold to NPC's?

The map diversity they add also seem pretty minimal, you would just produce whatever chain you are currently located in, not really seeing much incentive to contest any areas if there are no real benefits of one type of the new resources above another.

I think both points can be improved if the products can be consumed for varying degrees of bonuses, maybe even account based bonuses. Would probably be pretty hard to get the balance right (if each production chain has a unique theme of bonus effects), but you could imagine the Biological chain could be consumed to be an Invader repellent (invasion free SK rooms?), Mechanical chain used to mine minerals faster etc. Just to add another layer of use for the end products to make them rewarding to produce and really have a competitive use.

@artch there is a problem when trying to "swap" places with power creeps and regular creeps. Normally when two creeps tries to move to each others position they just swap places, but it does not work for a pc vs a normal creep. At first i thought it was my code somehow not detecting the power creeps correctly to resolve traffic issues, but i also tested moving two creeps by console so that they would swap places, but it also does not work, even with an empty main loop.

@artch said in PTR Changelog 2019-02-01: Power Creeps:

This room indeed has a power-enabled controller. Didn't you enable it? I don't get what's wrong with this case?

I was just not sure if it was intended that you could use the regen_mineral in this case.

Renaming creeps also needs looking at, its possible to do, but you have to do it blind. When pressing the Pencil icon next to the PC name on the Overview page the name disapears. You then need to delete all characters by holding down backspace and then write the new name without seeing what you are typing.