+1 for the MOBA leveling system.
I think the offensive abilities has to work even if a structure has been ramparted, else it will be far to easy to counter and essentially make these abilities useless.
How does the OPERATE_TOWER work? Does it reduce the range penalties somehow? Does it increase the max damage? Does it reduce the cost to operate?
Source Keepers are spawning, but not moving on shard 0. They will spawn in and just stay on top of the Keeper Lair.
I would really like an official arena, somewhat like the private servers SWC or BotArena where players spawn in and then compete for a limited time. Could be a free for all or tournament style with several 1v1 matches running in parallel.
I dont think there should be a limit on uploading code, with that rule it feels like you are discouraging people from actually playing the game. It will make more pressure on people, having to making sure each code upload is valid. Also imagine if your empire is under attack and you keep tweaking your defenses, 10 uploads can come pretty soon and a message saying "please try again in 1 hour" would be really discouraging during such a high stress situation.
I am seeing the same, average CPU dropped, especially the creep logic, but I am getting a lot more CPU exceeds after the update.
I think moving creeps between rooms was very confusing in the beginning. I remember learning that "all you had to do" is step on one of the exit tiles in a room and then you are transfered to the next room. This meant (to me) that I first had to locate an exit tile to the correct room i wanted to go to and only after i was transfered to the next room i could move to where i was actually going. Maybe some clarification of what functions works cross room, require vision etc could help.
Got some weird rendering when tabbing back into the client. Zoomed out just to take a screenshot.
Nuker seems to be offset to much, it looks to be placed in the pos below where it actually is, to me atleast. The rampart in the picture shows the actual position, but if you try to click the base of the nuker, you will select the wrong pos.
Edit: for reference, this is without the new graphics:
