This is an older project that would send SMS and Slack notifications from inside the game. It relies on an external service though.

https://github.com/screepers/screeps_notify

@zortea considering how far you have to go to get banned from this forum- basically alienating and annoying the entire community- I would say that the standard isn't really that high. You basically have to try to get banned from here.

Pyramid Challenge / King of the Hill.

Stack a few shards on top of each other, with each higher shard having less resources and space. Each shard has prizes associated, which each higher shard having more rewards, but the rewards end up getting split amongst all players with claimed rooms on that shard.

This can then incentivize later stage players to abandon lower shards for the higher rewards, which could help keep a balance in place (new players spawning on shard0 won't get wiped immediately as the more skilled players are already on shard 3). The shrinking shards helps incentivize battles at the higher levels, and since they're smaller they should hopefully require less resources. Top shard can be a single 10 by 10 block.

I know I'm a bit late to the discussion, but I think this feature set is great and the implementation was really well done.

The 100% return allowed to abuse this mechanic to transport energy via HEAL creeps, recycling them at the destination. And it seemed too much in general since they are "used" after all.

Dammit, you finally caught me

It's definitely expensive to do, but it's great for boosting up rooms that don't have terminals yet.

I don't really consider this "abuse", but I also have no problem with it being less efficient- this change makes sense to me, even if I am going to lose some of the benefits.

@wtfrank is the issue just that there's no CPU available? I do wish we had a base level of 10cpu on all shards no matter what.

I also would like to see all of the shards connected to each other.

Rerun the command to reset all data.

@black0441 does Memory get saved for you or are you losing it on the ticks where you trigger this? Are you getting an error when you call this?

The variance is fun, I think rooms like that have their place in the game.