@o4kapuk said in Season #1 announcement:

We decided to leave game API as it is because removing the source of credits looks enough for disabling the entire market.

Presumably with send auto-blacklisting other players?

Hopefully the official grunt can be updated for seasonal https://github.com/screeps/grunt-screeps (and hopefully this PR merged at the same time: https://github.com/screeps/grunt-screeps/pull/19 )

It's a simulator, not the real thing. This reload is one of the things where it differs from "real" servers.

https://docs.screeps.com/api/#Game.market.incomingTransactions

[{
    transactionId : "56dec546a180ce641dd65960",
    time : 10390687,
    sender : {username: "Sender"},
    recipient : {username: "Me"},
    resourceType : "U",
    amount : 100,
    from : "W0N0",
    to : "W10N10",
    description : "trade contract #1",
    order: {        // optional
        id : "55c34a6b5be41a0a6e80c68b",
        type : "sell",
        price : 2.95
    }
}]

What's wrong with amount * order.price?

@artch said in Screeps Arena Preorder:

Base mechanics will be the same

Although there will be classic base building and resource management in many arenas

That's cool. I was a bit concerned that with two examples of <1000 ticks games (one in text, one in screenshot) bases wouldn't really have time to exist. Maybe these examples were shorter than expected. I imagine a lot of base building type stuff is compressed - eg. if you make everything 100x cheaper in "regular" screeps then 1000 ticks to build a base doesn't sound nearly so short.

@artch said in Screeps Arena Preorder:

The matching system finds an opponent based on versions of code

This is really clever. Presumably the person who has their "old" code used doesn't suffer a ranking points loss for losing with their "old" code.

https://screeps.com/forum/topic/2963/optimization-for-checkstructureagainstcontroller

Throughput limits on the output would kinda work. I don't think they'd be quite so effective: you'd still be able to burst so long as your average was less than whatever the limit is set at.

Some things that were mentioned on slack, and I thought I'd repeat it here (though I know @o4kapuk saw):

1. A running leaderboard is a must-have IMO.
2. I think something to prevent hoarding the special resource will be good. If it acts as a normal resource and is the same order of magnitude as power/deposits in terms of quantity (or even 10x higher) then the only interesting combat will be on pickup. Drop-off can't be prevented as any static guards can be overwhelmed by bursts. You sit there for 50k ticks with x creeps, I arrive for one 100 tick burst with 5x creeps. I spent less, and you don't acheive anything.

So on the hoarding, what could be done. There were a few ideas:

1. Make the resource so plentiful that you couldn't hoard it. It'd just fill your storage.
2. Add a decay to the resource even in a store. Controlling drop-off routes now becomes important as it's time sensitive.
3. Make resources damage whatever is holding them every tick. Similar to 2). You'd want to get rid of it.

Do we have controller decorations today? Or was that a hidden announcement in the OP?