im also getting this issue pretty often, when i attempt to change server. Usually i leave the client running for a long time, viewing some server. If i then log out to the Main Menu i sometimes (most times) get this behaviour where i cannot access the private servers menu. Pressing any other server shows the local server menu before the server i pressed is loaded. Restarting the steam client fixes the issue.

I had similar problems in the past solved by deleting the folder C:\Users\nnnn\AppData\Local\Screeps\User Data

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.