Wow. Ok. This is a great concept. You've clearly done your homework, here.

Sign me up!

But I noted that in one of the posts, the game is flagged as "Windows Only", but you indicated there would be a "Mac OS" version. I've never been a Mac fan, and dropped Windows completely when support for Windows 7 was stopped in January. I've used nothing but Ubuntu Linux since then. Will Linux be in there too?

@fantasticmark Then you store the object's data in the Memory object. The heap can go away at any time, you have no "hard drive", and you have no persistent "data base" outside of the Memory object, which is reconstructed every tick.

An example: the RoomPosition object. You can create new RoomPosition objects all day with the constructor, and it saves the data on the heap for use during that tick. If you save the object onto the Memory object, only the data is saved, the Memory object won't carry the actual object to the next tick, only the data. You would have to reconstruct the RoomPosition object with the constructor every time you want to use it.

Now, there are types of data that you CAN safely store on the heap, and that's data that's derived from other data as a convenient cache... you can store THAT on the heap, and not take any cost of serialization every tick, but you have to be ready to recreate the data if a tick starts and it's gone.

As another example, I have data stored about the colony. It's data that can't be reconstructed if lost, so I store it in the Memory object in an object called "Memory.colony." Any data I need for the colony is stored there as properties. If I stored it on the heap, it would be wiped every time the heap is deleted... which would be bad. So It's in the Memory object where it's rebuilt every tick and available.

What deft said.

I would also point out that you don't directly change the objects you reference with Game.getObjectById() anyway... you REGISTER AN INTENT that the system then uses to change the object AFTER your code runs. So at the end of every tick... any object you have stored is going to be stale.

You can't have direct control over these objects... if you DID, you could just do stuff like change their hit points on the fly. Your script is like a proxy, once a tick, it runs. It has a shapshot of the current state of the objects, then it orders changes to those objects by issuing intents (Through the API calls.) at the next tick, it gets a snapshot of the updated objects.

I was wondering where the color came from, it just arbitrarily chooses one of the badge colors? Yeah, that doesn't work.

There are ONLY A FEW COLORS to even display. Your units, enemy units, screeps units, roads, structures, etc. Don't be lazy with the UI! Store them as 32 bit color values the user can set.

Then, everyone is happy! Even that one guy with teal-chartreuse colorblindness can set the UI to something they can see.

Where the video?

Well, those are impressive rewards. And many are fungible to many millions of credits.

Also, the last prize, that says "top N" from 1 to 100? Does that mean the number 1 player gets 10 of each of the top 1..3 items, then on down to 3 of the "top 100" items?

Huh. My first thought was that your use of the "White Diamond" badge was using mind control to hide the units. So I tried it myself... I think what might be happening is your dark default badge is masking the normal unit color.

That or there are just bugs. I don't think I'm real impressed with the beta map either yet.

Any more particulars on that other than "100 CPU?" Is that 100 CPU max? Or always? Do we start with GCL 1? GPL 0? 2 months doesn't seem like very long to get any kind of colony up, depending on what the tick rate is going to be.

Edited to add: Who am I kidding! Even if it turns out to be a level 4 slap fest for snowball resources... I'm totally going to buy the 5 gold coins to enter with. Even at full price (Not the current sale price.) it's only 10 bucks for 2 months of entertainment.That's a bargain! It'll be fun!

It's 70% of THAT tough boosted part. That's why the tough parts are always first. This means that fully boosted tough parts have an EFFECTIVE hit points of 330 hit points. There is also a "stacking effect" between tough parts and heal parts, as heal parts heal base hit points. So one tough part requires 330 hits to disable, but only 100 heal to recover fully.

Short story: At level 6, you have 2 towers. That's a total maximum damage of 1200 hits. A T3 (Tier 3, the highest tier.) of boosted attacker needs 4 tough parts (1320 hits for those 4 parts.) and 9 heal parts ( 432 total healing) so it can fully recover all 4 tough parts in all cases.

TL:DR. T3 boosted creeps will steamroll a level 6 room.

Short answer, you can't.

The reason for this is your code only executes in tiny spurts once per tick, between ticks you could lose the global memory and it would have to be recreated.

Store data you need to be persistent in the Memory object, "Memory" that's part of your global memory set up for you at the beginning of each tick. Game structures have a shortcut to the memory object that is handy for storing the data pertinent to that game structure. For example, the Creep object has a property, "memory" that points to the place in the memory object associated with that creep, keyed off it's name. So the Memory object for creep "myCreep" would be "Memory.creeps.myCreep" and can be accessed through the creep as "creep.memory"

Data that you can just recreate can be stored in global memory, but know that it could simply "go away" and you will have to rebuild it.

Oh. And as long as I'm here. I like the range of images. Sure, I toss the goofy "stock line art" into the recycle bin, but what else is it for? The way I see it, Screeps is a "generic image game" with round and square shapes instead of styled, rendered images. It's very "indie" in that respect and i like that style. As such, there are no real "Screepsy" images TO put in there.

But a range of images like you are putting in will produce ones that appeal to people. For example, I really like the circular "Babylon ocean clock face" looking graffiti I have in that room. No way it's "Screepsy" at all, but it lends an artistic flair to the room. At least, in my opinion. And I'm the one that has to look at it.

So that part is fine.