I think you may be trying to repair a fully repaired road.  Some brackets may be useful to force the || to be evaluated before the &&.

I like this idea as it represents buying the energy at the location and then using part of it to transfer the rest.  It would make the energy market at least useful rather than having to filter by range first.

what about push creep 

- the power creep would move to where the existing creep was, and would gain fatigue based on the size of both creeps.  This might enable quicker creeps to move away if they were in combat, and it would also allow the movement into position of 0 move creeps.

If people are struggling to use boosted creeps, then perhaps a new building that could store both energy and resources, and spawn creeps would help bridge that gap, and produce more resource usage.

If the objective it to create more depth to the market, then perhaps a leader board with some measure of orders posted could be used.  The measure would need a bit of thought to avoid people puttting up orders that will never be used.

One thing that will improve the use of the market is more uses for minerals and compounds.  This could include

- additional NPC buy orders for compounds (particularly those that have no orders)

- requirement for minerals or compounds for the power creeps

- requirement for minerals to build some additional types of building

- ability to transmute minerals into something else (eg Z + L => U, Z+U =>K, K+L =>Z, K+U =>L)

- ability to transmute compounds into something else (eg ZO + L => UO, Z+UO =>KO, KO+L =>ZO, KO+U =>LO etc)

- development of more complex compounds.

I'm managing 3 rooms on 10CPU (kind of) and maintaining around 400th in the leader board (22k control per hr)  I have been dabbling more with labs and the market recently, so that might take a bit of a hit.

I'm managing 3 rooms on 10CPU (kind of) and maintaining around 400th in the leader board (although have been dabbling more with labs and the market recently)

Could we have points in last hr and points in last day shown on the leader board as well as the total in the month so far.  It helps motivation to know if you are catching or being caught!