@tigga What if rampart decay rates (and therefore repair rates) were based on a formula that depended on the number of hits that they've been built up to? This way we have a smooth curve where players can select their safety-to-cost ratio rather than an on/off at 10 million.

@qzarstb @Tigga I thought that pound for pound, splash attacks would beat out repairers? I suppose that's only for the splash attackers are not chased off of the wall and if the wall has depth to it..

I also don't like the proposed tower RNG at all, please don't implement that.

That is an interesting "military maxim" that I hadn't heard before, it sounds about right. Safe modes are pretty powerful, we may need tuning changes there that continue to help out newer players but are less effective for players with large empires which can be hard to do.

I was always surprised that when a nuke lands, it brings down both the safe mode and after a short period of time, resets the safe mode cool down. Perhaps this could be tuned so that a nuke prevents a room from safemoding for longer.

@deft-code said in room.structureCacheKey:

Ruins closes that loop hole.

Nukes don't leave behind ruins

@artch Will this 10% variation on stronghold decays be added to the constants in the documentation?

Also the current value for stronghold_decay_ticks still says 150000 vs 75000 in the constants of the docs

Is it by design that un-owned power enabled rooms are possible? I was under the impression that once it was no longer owned that power would turn off. If this is by design is it possible to use power creep powers here?

And example of this is Shard1 W32S19

I mention this because I was working on some enhancements to the creep room claim assistant and in it, I was prototyping a red outline for power enabled rooms. [See image]

@artch As we think about newer players. It was a little counter intuitive to discover that reservation cores cannot be dismantled and can only be attacked. I understand why because you could just simply have all of your drillers engage reservation cores but a design theme for screeps has been to dismantle structures and to attack living things. It may be too late to change it now but if the reservation cores were a living (and stationary) invader vs a stationary structure then newer players more easily see that dismantling it won't work.

@davaned This would be helpful. Curently all invader rooms show up as rc8 in the ui even though they have not yet grown into full rc8 strongholds. Players would need this info in order to add cool effects to the room claim assistant tamper monkey script.

@eduter I don't know from first hand experience but I had always thougth that the shard centers and axis to be more active with combat due to the double highways. Isn't this still the case?

@tigga @Orlet Thank you for your responses.