That would require a significant additional efforts. Not sure if it worth it.

Guys,

It's hard to deny that slow tick could be a negative experience for some players. On the other hand, fast tick could also be a negative experience for another players, primarily for those who can't afford checking out with the game too often. Some people got a job after all.

Given the single shard, it's obviously not possible to satisfy everyone. Fortunately, the game now have shards system now so there is fast shard1 for players who want intense and/or interactive gameplay as well as slower shard0 for those of us who prefer to have more time to react on world's events.

Hello naskamal,

Thanks for reporting. It should be back to normal now.

Hi Davaned,

Thank you for your interest and your feedback. That was an interesting discussion, I wish I had the answers yesterday. But, I have some of them today.

1. Target tick rate supposed to be around 2 seconds for new shards and around 3-3.5 seconds for populated established shards.
2. Sometimes it just happens.
3. Screeps is the game about automatization. Of course we feel like automated code base should have the same abilities as UI. However, it's not an easy task sometimes. If you think about Power Creeps levelups, this is a perfect example of really complex API which is difficult to implement. So here we have two options: launch PCs with UI but without API as soon as they're ready, and postpone PCs until PCs, UI and API are fully ready (which can, obviously, take a long time to implement, test and debug properly). We'd prefer to deliver PCs without API sooner than launching them with API later. That doesn't mean that PCs would never have levelup API, it just means that we want to deliver them as soon as they're ready, and then work on levelups API to deliver it later.
4. I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. We don't have 'calm districts' for veterans and 'ghettos' for new players, everyone are free to live where they want to live (and able to survive). As for game machanics, it's always a matter of balance between exciting end-game content for veterans and accessible entry-level tasks for new players; of course, we'll do our best to maintain that balanse.
5. Currently we have no plans about different rulesets. Shards supposed to be an extension to the existing world, not entirely new worlds.

As for milestone rewards, currently we have no plans on it, but thank you for your suggestions anyway!

If you still have questions, don't hesitate to ask here or on slack, I'll answer if/when I can.

Hi,

Persormance issue for shard1 should be fixed now.

Hello tedivm,

Thanks for your report. We added the issue to our queue for fixing.

Hello Screeps world, let me introduce myself.

My name is Nikolay, and I am a programmer.

It’s been around 20 years since I execute my first “Hello world” so I’d say I do it as long as I can remember myself.

Some players may know me as ‘o4kapuk’. I started playing Screeps in December of 2016 primarily because I wanted to improve my skills in JavaScript (I work as .NET developer last years) but I have barely noticed how I was caught by the game. Now I have a passion for the game, and I’m happy to be a part of the team. As Community Manager, I’ll work together with Dissi to provide better connectivity between development team and game community. I will be also helping with everyday support.

Feel free to ping me in Slack (@o4kapuk) if you need something.

Hope to see you in-game!

Regards,

The novice protection isn't an individual thing, it affects the whole sector (9x9 area). Here are some advices on how to choose more or less safe place to start:

1. Browse all of the borders and choose a sector with maximum novice area timer left. When new sector became available, it has almost one month of novice time. But,

2. Pay attention to the sectors next to yours. Use LOAN to find out which alliance control the sector. Use common sense to predict when they'll want to expand. Probably it's worth talking with them first to know their plans. But it's best to find a sector without aggressive alliance/strong unaffiliated players nearby.

3. You may notice that some sectors are half-green/half-grey. These sectors must be avoided at all costs because half-novice status means that the sector was completely wiped recently, which means you'll probably face with the guy who did that immediately after walls fall.

4. Explore every room in the sector. Lots of empty rooms with some infrastructure (walls, roads...) is usually a bad sign, ask yourself what happened to those who built this.

5. You want peace, you prepare for war. Learn the game, develop your room(s) as fast as you can, write battle code.

There. Following the advices could give you enough time to get used to the game. The rest is up to you. Good luck.