Could this be merged into Game.map.isRoomAvailable ?
It could return a number instead of the bool.

infinite loop crunching random numbers ftw...

@artch Are ops an actually "physically" resource in the game or acc bound like market credits?
That doesn't seem to be specified anywhere.

Side note:
I really don't like the idea of free to use "skills". All skill activations should spend ops regardless of PC type.
One universal resource called "Operations" is more than enough.

It shouldn't be cheap and add a significant cooldown based on the amount processed so that it disables the PowerSpawn for a while.
View it as a fast (should give the Ops instantly) but very sketchy way to get Ops if something is burning and you need them right now.

Yup the idea of the Ops is much better and since those are tradable, I think those will contribute to the market system.
But I wonder if generating them only via the power creep and some NPC terminals are enough, it would be cool if you could process power directly to ops at a reasonable rate and cooldown.
This should be done in the PowerSpawn so you have to make a choice

This gives also the players who don't want to use the power creeps a reason to farm power since it will be a good source of income for them.
Especially if they process power directly into Ops.

One solution would be to allow only one RoomVisual instance and give it an arry with all rooms that are currently subscribed, since it could be multiple rooms.

You can emulate that with a "info flag" as workaround

Ohhhh that was something that was implemented lol...
It struck me a bit odd the first time I saw that but I never actually researched it xD.

Basically went with "it works so whatever"

They mean a loop that spans over serveral ticks that does non critical stuff.
I think... Not sure either

This http://mikolalysenko.github.io/l1-path-finder/www/ is the l1 Pathfinder, does somebody use that or a modified version of that algorithm?

I'm curious of it's performance

You need a client software for that, the screeps.com has one build into it.
Otherwise, you need a private server which provides you with one (which is none to my knowledge) or a stand-alone client that connects to it.

Yes, the "steam version" is the official stand-alone client software based on the one used by the website, there are some others out there like bonzais 3d one but those are not yet fully featured like the official client.