I like the buildings idea, though I feel they should be at the level of low boosted creeps. Powerful against unboosted, but not really going to hold back T3s for long.
I don't think Siege weapons work with the way that rooms work in this game. If you were guarenteed more space between the edge of the room and the wall it could work, but if they're actually useful people will just build walls around the edges and make them very hard to deploy.
@tun9an0 said in Power Era has begun!:
@artch some documentation only mention some constant like PWR_* requiring to basically open the constants document and ctrl+F it. It would be a bit more accessible to have a listing locally for say "usePower" and the capabilities method.
I think I also agree with this.For example in the creep API docs we have a table describing all of the creep body parts. There is no such thing for power creeps.
There's a few places where the implementation isn't entirely clear (though I may have just missed it in the docs):
I know all the answers to the above having dug through the source, but they could be a bit more explictly stated. We're all newbies again with power creeps!
@wtfrank said in Power Abilities Adjustments. Labs/Spawn/Storage/Terminal and Regen Mineral.:
What's wrong with regenerating mineral in a base and adjacent sk room or other nearby base? That will get quite higher uptime. And if you have X or H in those bases that will be quite high value return on that power...
No matter what you do it's still capped at one mineral/tick. You're right in that to make good use out of REGEN_MINERAL you have to roam (SK rooms, multiple owned rooms), but that doesn't make it go beyond one mineral/tick. Even if that mineral is X (which it won't always be) I'd say it's significantly less valuable than 50 energy/tick.
I do agree with the REGEN_MINERAL though, it shouldn't be inactive while the mineral is on cooldown.
One one hand I think i's good as good code will lead to an advantage. It forces your power creeps to roam to maximize their utility and optimizing that path is an interesting challenge. This is the only power where this is the case. I think that's a good thing.
On the other hand 1 mineral/tick maximum yield seems far too low given how much extra effort it is. Just mining out a mineral as fast as possible and waiting for it to regenerate naturally gives you about 1 mineral/tick, and doesn't require any power creeps. These are mutually exclusive - we can't both maximize natural regen and forced regen.
When you compare to REGEN_SOURCE which gives 50 energy/tick for lower effort, it's clearly way out of balance (just look at energy vs mineral prices on the market). If it was 20x higher yield it would be more interesting. Or maybe 10x if you could camp out a single room with it. I'm not really sure what the best solution here is, but it's pretty clear to me this is a very low value power right now.
https://screeps.com/a/#!/history/shard1/E23S53?t=16262323
I believe this is new behaviour. It's not clear if it's intentional or not.
Three tiles is not really enough to be in range of any towers in most rooms. Especially now that people know it's three tiles and can design rooms around that. If you look at Overmind bunkers, for example, no towers are vulnverable. In general it's pretty easy to design a base where you get good tower coverage and no towers can be reached by this power.
IMO range should be buffed to something closer to DISRUPT_SPAWN. Without that I'm not sure there's any point in taking the ability. Sure, once you've knocked down a few ramparts maybe you can disrupt one or two towers, but compared to the OPERATE_TOWER power which can be used to boost tower damage to 900 it's basically not in the game.
Yes, I am very happy with 5MB.
Not got to test power creeps yet... still hooking them into threat detection!
Limiting withdraw makes sense - makes it a lot less of a "burst" thing - sounds good to me.
