Changelog 2015-09-04

Comments

• chris September 04, 2015 13:02

  How can you put such changes into the Game without notice in advance? What if somebody went on a long weekend with a room - for whatever reason - having no upgraders? They come back on monday only to see, that their rooms downgraded by 4 levels?

• theAEmix September 04, 2015 13:08

  FYI Chris, the posted the changes a few days ago in an article. Might not be a week, but it was 2-3 days to prepare.

• fazan September 04, 2015 14:32

  NOOOOOO! How are we supposed to do profiling if we can't use Game.getUsedCpu?

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  Artem from Screeps September 04, 2015 14:34

  @chris This article has been posted on September 2. It has been also announced on Twitter and Facebook.

  @fazan Game.getUsedCpu is useless in the Simulation mode. Its results depend on your browser performance only, and have nothing to do with the server-side runtime performance. The only way to profile things correctly is to use Game.getUsedCpu in the World mode.

• strabino September 04, 2015 14:53

  I think Game.getUsedCpu was useful in sim mode. Even if the absolute value was dependent on the browser's performance, it could still help to find perfomance bottlenecks, and show the difference between two different implementations, right ?

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  Artem from Screeps September 04, 2015 15:03

  @strabino Not really, browser javascript engine is optimized in different way than the server-side one, also we are going to intensively use C++ native code for pathfinding calculations in the nearest future, so that it is very unreliable to measure something in the simulation. But if you'd like continue using this, you can simply make direct use of browser's Performance API, it will give the same results as old Game.getUsedCpu emulation layer.

• strabino September 04, 2015 15:25

  @Artem Good to know, thanks for your answer. Seems allright to me to remove Game.getUsedCpu then.

• fazan September 04, 2015 16:37

  @Artem Great, looking forward to pathfinding optimizations

• BoldLibrarian September 04, 2015 18:54

  Having the controllers flash red every single tick they are not being upgraded is a bit of an overkill.

• The_General September 08, 2015 06:16

  "They come back on monday only to see, that their rooms downgraded by 4 levels?"

  This is actually what happened to me. Was off the grid at Burning Man for the week and found a bunch of rooms looking really bad. Only lost a 3-4 levels combined, but still painful to have the rules changed on such short notice.