@tdxtor said in Requesting Update on New Power Creep Roles?:
Whoa, watch out asking why the dev team hasn't completed something they have announced. Certain members of the dev team like @artch have a real problem with people saying anything that might challenge their self-worth. He's threatened to ban people for less.
Can we have a ban on this guy please, he is just a troll seeking attention..
Removing Game.market (and all its method/properties), as was proposed on slack, is more game breaking than not being able to build the terminal in my opinion.
In my opinion, disabling markets should be done in a non breaking way, for example return some error code on creating orders. If the entire Game.market object is removed, silly things like access to Game.market.credits would error out.
Did you check the Game.market.incomingTransactions and Game.market.outgoingTransactions? They list you last transactions with credit price and quantity (amount) traded, just multiply those and you get the credit change for each transaction? Or are you asking for something else?
Transfer is the wrong direction, you are looking for creep.withdraw in this case. Although withdrawing energy from the spawn is generally not a recommended strategy.
Transfer resource from the creep to another object. The target has to be at adjacent square to the creep.
Withdraw resources from a structure or tombstone. The target has to be at adjacent square to the creep
Bumping this thread as the Screeps SC extension is no longer working.
Having more information on the Market History page is something i really miss. Instead of the text "Resources sold" please consider implementing more information here so you dont have to click every single order to see the actual resources and amounts that where sold.
Would also love to see my structures in the Choose room dialog, makes it a bit hard to recognize my rooms when its only displaying the terrain in the selection dialog
@deft-code said in Discussion: long-range logistics revamp:
I like both ideas of putting a minimum range from sources and decaying the containers from a harvest action. @U-238's idea of allowing the warp-containers to be closer but increasing cost seems like a good one (more remote mining options the better). I think the decay should be based on energy harvested from the action rather than the action/intent itself otherwise supersizing the harvesters could bypass much of the problem.
Even cooler if we get a new visualization in the client to "show" the sources reacting with the warp-containers when a source is harvested.
What if there is no minimum range for the structure itself, but the decay is dependant on the distance to the .harvest action, sort of like how towers are more effective on short ranges. This could allow WC directly adjacent to the source, but at a high decay cost, scaling down with the range to the source. Make it super expensive when close to the source, then lower costs based on longer distances.
Having to "man" the warp containers to cross room borders also feels a bit awkward. You would need to have a creep standing on the room borders and bounce between rooms, doing withdraws and transfers between them, sort of like a bucket brigade type system. Any way to make warp containers on room edges connect to each others without making it too OP?
I think the amount of warp containers in owned rooms needs to be higher than 2. You would want one at a central location, near your terminal/storage and that leaves just one at a room edge for connecting to other "networks" and makes it so you cant also use the warp container for other things like split bases, mineral harvesting, controller upgrading etc, sort of limits your options a bit with only 2 in my opinion. Maybe 3 for owned rooms and 2 for other rooms makes more sense.
Would need to be a fair distance to have much impact i think, adding a few carry parts to a miner to move 2 steps out to deposit would be pretty easy way to handle warp containers a few steps away from the source. Would probably see a miner/hauler hybrid of sorts if the distance gets a little bigger, which would be kinda cool i guess.