We develop unique content (event, metric) for every season. You can play in both worlds at the same time. This will be a standalone server cluster with its own hardware. Why do we charge for season access when you already bought the game on Steam and/or CPU subscription? For several reasons: This entrance fee has nothing to do with CPU, it just gives you access to the season. There will be an option to either pay for the current single season or buy a Season Pass for the entire year with all seasons included (the pass price will drop gradually during the year). Seasonal server access will be sold separately. It will contain a feed of short messages from us with an image/video/replay that will be posted every few days. On every season end, we will write a concluding post of how the season worked out, the final leaderboard, describe highlights of players' activity, probably including some videos.ĭuring the season, we will be covering the best moments in a new in-game section called Season Chronicle. With the seasonal server, we will bring back to life World Reviews format. Along with the event, this will allow for more gameplay variety from season to season, and also will create soft barriers for open-source bots, since they will have to adapt quickly. The season may also have slightly different global rules, like some modified constants, or a different map generator. This will be the primary metric for generating the leaderboard common GCL and GPL metrics will be either removed or made secondary. It will last during the entire season and will be unique for every season. This can be a content event like "go there, do that, fight with this thing, gather that thing and gain season score points". But even if you already have GCL 50 in the persistent world, your GCL will be 1 at the season start (and hence CPU 30), which gives more even playing field for veterans and novices. You can play in both official worlds at the same time. CPU is set according to usual rules: 20 CPU without the subscription, or 20+GCL*10 with the subscription. All these player attributes live their own life on the seasonal server and are not linked with the persistent server. GameplayĪ player starts the season with GCL 1, GPL 0, without credits and code. There will be one single shard, or probably two shards: one with 20 CPU limit and one without it. But it will share the user database with the persistent server, so you don't have to register twice. So it's not just a separate shard, it's a separate server. Technically the seasonal server will have not only a separate shard DB but also its own intershard DB, and users in-game properties. After this screen, everything else will look like normal. This screen will explain the differences and show the date when the current season ends. When you launch the client (either Steam or web), you choose which world to enter: Persistent World or Seasonal World. We will highlight the best moments during the season. Each season will contain some unique seasonal content event and some metric attached to it that we will use to generate the leaderboard and season results. One season will last, say, for 2-3 months.
It would be nice if this area were looked at and made more flexible so we could use our tools of choice.The idea: to launch a separate official server (the second one) where the world will be wiped on a season basis. I think there is a way to integrate with github but I don't want to upload everything to the cloud just to be able to track changes.
#SCREEPS GAMEPLAY CODE#
The ingame editor works well enough, but its idea of a "branch" is just a named copy of the code directory. The second issue I have is the workflow, which doesn't lend itself well to source control. I'm not sure if it is just poor optimization or the javascript runtime but it shouldn't make my machine hot. The first is that it is quite resource intensive considering its simple 2D visuals, both in the browser and the standalone client. Screeps is definitely worth trying, if for no other reason than to learn javascript at a deeper level if you don't use it extensively. It's really a game about you and your code and how it grows and evolves as your goals and strategies become more complex.
#SCREEPS GAMEPLAY FREE#
Beyond that you're free to set whatever goals you want and go about them however you wish, with the principles of other strategy games (harvest resources, build things, attack enemies, etc.) to give you ideas. There is a leaderboard you can try to climb but it is reset monthly and isn't really shoved in your face. A lot of comments here are focusing on the pricing and ignoring the 'sandbox' part of the game's description.
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