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I simply had a flag on the portal which translated to send a claimer to this position. My initial move onto shard2 was done without the interShardSegment. If I can get my RCL up fast enough I should be able to prevent him getting a foothold. The portal is rather close to Rudykocur but I’m hoping he won’t come through. When shard2 opened up I was ready to pounce and claimed one of the corner rooms next to the portal in shard2. I’d been debating claiming a room on shard0 for a while but none of the areas I could appear in felt friendly enough. I had to optimise my claimer design so that they could get to the target before the TTL ran out and put a linear distance cap on my room pathfinder so it didn’t eat all my CPU. My empire is now spread out with 16 rooms on the X-axis between 2 of my rooms. This lead to some frustration as my creeps would fight him off and defend long enough to build a spawn only to have boosted creeps come and wipe it. His AI sends bosted creeps when it sees a spawn in the room. His creeps also went straight for the controller blocking my ability to safe mode, as a result I now have ramparts around the room controller so that an attacker can’t get to range 1.
SCREEPS STEAM CODE
I have some improved room defence code that has not yet been put to the test, I’m not going to describe it here until it has so that Rudykocur can’t prepare for it. These creeps can smash mine 1v1 and out heal a tower. My problems come when he sends boosted creeps. My creeps only use ranged attack parts which means they don’t reduce their damage whilst healing. A creep can heal and use a ranged attack in the same tick which is why he could still fire at my creeps.
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The need for his creeps to self-heal meant that they could not attack. My new rangers can win a one on one fight with his attackers no problem due to the way Screeps handles actions. Rudykocur has been poking at me pretty hard the last few weeks and it’s not gone very well. This is part 22 of my Screeps story, you can read the whole story here.
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2017 Screeps Screeps Part 22 – War and Claiming Another Shard