@Gankdalf I agree that it's ridiculous that a level 4 room can spawn a group of boosted invaders. But there are also tactics to counter a invader spawn that are equally ridiculous.
If you're worried about the balance implications on a private server, I think the best solution would be to mod the server.
I believe that all invaders will suicide if all of your creeps are dead and they have access to the room's spawn. When a group of invaders spawns in a low level room, the most energy effective way to deal with them is to just kill all of your creeps and start re-spawning everything.
@artch I've been able to do a little more testing of this and I've discovered that:
rangedMassAttack does not damage an invader on top of my rampart and does not damage the rampart.rangedAttack does damage an invader on top of my rampart because it does damage the rampart.This is a surprising inconsistency between the two methods.
Part of my code automatically replaces ramparts when they are destroyed. Normally a hostile walking onto a construction site will destroy it but if you create a construction site on top of a hostile creep then it's still possible to build it. (This has been the case for a long time.)
What's new to me is that when I build a rampart on top of an invader, a mass ranged attack from a creep on an adjacent tile isn't damaging the invader and the rampart the invader is standing on isn't destroyed. I don't remember seeing this happening before so something seems to have changed.
Here's a replay link of it happening on shard2: https://screeps.com/a/#!/history/shard2/E19N3?t=4001420
@artch Is the time that it takes the client to download the data that needs to be rendered correlated with the server tick rate?
I don't have any data to back this up but it's always felt like first render happens faster when the tick speed is faster. I've been assuming that if the database is the main bottleneck for tick processing then it will also be slow to respond to the client's request for room data to render.
@artch A "read-only" token doesn't need to be a "read-everything" token. I don't know if there's a better description that's widely used for a token that's only authorized for read access to non-sensitive data.
When I turned the new renderer on, I found it very hard to visually distinguish empty extensions and construction sites that don't have any build progress.
@stillstate It looks like you've added the maxOps option on the call to findPath after moveTo has failed but you haven't actually increased the number of operations that moveTo can perform when it's looking for a path.
What happens if you add the maxOps option to the call to moveTo?
I must admit that I'm a bit nostalgic about the default names that were generated by createCreep. Is there a way to expose the function that it was using to generate creep names?
Having one of your creeps walk over the construction site should remove it. Have you tried that?