I don't think there's any huge disagreement that the max hp for ramps and walls is a bit absurd. I propose decreasing the max on both substantially and having ramparts have a lower cap than walls.

This will help combat turtling/stagnation of the users that have max ramparts and aren't worth the effort to try and kill. Also by having ramparts being lower than walls it creates weak points in barriers and encourages the use of more intricate defenses rather than just surrounding yourself in ramparts. (A rampart is basically the gate in a medieval wall sense, the gate is typically the weakest part of a wall but obviously has the benefit that it's able to be used to pass the wall. Them having the same HP cap doesn't make any sense)

The "Alpha" map being absolute junk aside (very haphazard use of the term Alpha but whatever)

The floor/wall textures make some rooms literally painful to look at. Everything else is cool and lets the player customize, but the ability to change floor and wall textures doesn't seem like it was very thought out.

This just seems like one of those ideas where it feels unnecessary. Why not flesh out power creeps more or make commodities less useless. More depth there would help more than another min/max tool that a small percentage of your playerbase will use

I've created a new market mod that tries to simulate supply and demand.

Further info can be found - https://github.com/ScreepsMods/screepsmod-dynamicmarket

This is still in the ~Testing~ stages. So any issues please reply here or better yet jump in #screepsmods channel on slack.

@artch said in Draft: Seasonal server:

@systemparadox said in Draft: Seasonal server:

I would hope that the time spent on the chronicle, videos, etc would turn out to be really good marketing for you and end up paying for itself. Obviously that may or may not be the reality but I'm sure we all wish for screeps continued success

Unfortunately, we don't have resources to invest into marketing this way, and we have to consider this seasonal project paid work rather than investment. We're a lean startup with a small team and no outside funding.

Semi off topic, has outside funding been looked for? I'd imagine outside of the usual game investors you'd be able to sell the product well to educational groups, etc..

@artch said in Draft: Seasonal server:

@shibdib Your lifetime subscription will unlock full CPU on the seasonal server. Entrance fee has nothing to do with CPU, it just gives you access to the season.

So I get full CPU but still have to buy access? So I'm paying twice for the same game (everything you're selling here is already being done on private servers).

I love the idea of seasonal servers and think they're a long time coming. But that implementation just seems like you're nickle and diming users.

I've been clamoring for these for forever (finally poking ags enough to do it with S+)

My only complaint is I bought a lifetime sub for the base game that I don't actually enjoy that much because I appreciate the product.. But now I'd have to buy another sub just to play an iteration that I would enjoy?

This would break a lot of people's pathing code

You should push links to these updates to steam. It's been 6 months since the last "News" post on your steam page

I'm sorry but the new homepage is terrible. The scroll to get information design is awful and the removal of the menu that let you get to most key game functions via a single click was a massive mistake. Tons of wasted space with artwork that has nothing to do with the actual game. It's a great example of everything wrong with a scroll based homepage.

I have to hit sign in regardless of if I'm signed in just to get to the map screen? I have to load the map just to get to anything else? etc.. etc..