All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
- Only deserialize
Memoryon a global reset to save CPU. - Added a settings manager and several settings to customize the bot's behavior. See
settings.default.jsfor more information. - Remote builders (used when expanding) will not automatically harvest energy in nearby rooms when the target room's sources are depleted.
- Added a manager for segmented memory that loads on a new global and saves every 100 ticks.
- Room intel and room planner now use segmented memory.
- Added operations that are able to keep track of certain stats.
- Added room operations to track room CPU usage.
- Converted remote mining code to operations to keep track of spent and gained resources and CPU usage, and for better code structure.
- Structures blocking a remote mining path will now automatically be dismantled.
- Added a remote path manager that manages the paths for remote mining.
- Added the ability to place ramparts using mincut algorithm instead of at room borders (disabled by default).
- Operator power creeps can now boost spawns and extensions.
- More remote mining is possible in a room with a spawn-boosting power creep.
- Improved calculation of how many remote mines a room can handle.
- Improved drop harvesting for harvesters and mineral harvesters to save CPU.
- Expansion target is now chosen across multiple ticks to prevent CPU timeouts.
- Scout targets are now chosen across multiple ticks to prevent CPU timeouts.
- Bigger attack creeps are used to destroy invader cores more efficiently.
- Power haulers can now pick up power from ruins.
- Power harvesters attack nearby hostile creeps.
Caution: This release has an error caused in the map visuals process, which might limit functionality.
- Added
cache.jscontaining general caching functionality for use in other modules. - Added slightly modified version of
packrat.jsthat can deal with higher numbers in room names. - Added CPU statistics to daily reports.
- Some basic map visuals showing scout status, expansion scores and remote mining status.
- Creeps may push other non-moving creeps out of the way after a while.
- Much improved trade logic that utilizes market history instead of only current prices.
- Removed
utilities.getCache()in favor of new caching API.
- Added this changelog.
- Added xo for ensuring consistent code style.
- Added ava for automated testing, along with a small set of tests.
- Power mining can now be disabled by setting
Memory.disablePowerHarvesting = true. - Throttling to 20 cpu can be activated by setting
Memory.isAccountThrottled = true. - Added Hivemind class that functions as a kernel to start processes, handle throttling, profiling, etc.
- Added Process class that serves as a base for processes the kernel can run.
- Added LinkNetwork class that handles logic concerning multiple StructureLink objects in a room.
- Added Relations class that manages relations with other players.
- Added RoomIntel class that replaces direct accesses to data in
Memory.rooms[roomName].intel. - Added RoomManager class to supplement room planner and separate their concerns.
- Added CreepManager class for running all creeps' logic and throttling.
- Added creep role "gift" that takes excess resources and runs them around the map for other players to hunt.
- Spawn reserver creeps for rooms that are deemed "safe" by the room planner, because they cannot be accessed from outside our empire.
- Other nearby rooms will send remote builders to help out with expansion.
- When the controller of an expansion is not direcly reachable (because structures are in the way), tunnels are built to reach it.
- We start building roads and containers in new rooms even before they are claimed.
- Automatic expansion is now aborted if the room does not grow fast enough.
- Maximum scout distance is now managed dynamically based on memory usage.
- Remote harvesters try to dismantle structures that block their path.
- Creeps can now pick up resources from tombstones and ruins.
- Added some useful code snippets to
snippets.js. - Added support for operator power creeps, with automatic upgrades, assignment and spawning.
- Room planner places walls near spawns so creeps can no longer be spawned in a direction thar would cause them to be stuck afterwards.
- Cache some data (like cost matrices) in heap.
- Automatically remove graffiti (signs) from our own controllers.
- Abandoned resources (like old storaged) in scouted rooms are detected for later gathering.
- Added daily report emails to notify of GLC, GPL, Power harvesting and remote harvesting activity.
- Added the ability to scout through intershard portals.
- Added the ability to try and expand to an adjacent shard.
- Safe mode is triggered automatically when a room's ramparts are almost broken.
- Added the ability to automatically abandon and unclaim rooms with a low score in favor of much better rooms.
- Automatically detect and attack invader cores blocking our remote harvesting.
- Added a nav mesh for improved inter-room pathfinding, used by scouts and squad creeps.
- Inter-room pathfinding can now avoid source keepers and travel through their rooms.
- Claimers can now attack controllers reserved by other players.
- Added simple stats about RCL levelups for optimizing spawning on new servers.
- Game object prototype enhancements have been moved into separate files like
room.prototype.intel.js. - Several global and room tasks have been moved into new processes.
- A lot of things no ĺonger run at a fixed tick interval, but get throttled based on bucket an CPU usage.
- Link management is now more intelligent instead of only sending energy to controller link.
- Several function have been refactored for better readability and to reduce duplication.
- We no longer create a new instace of the Logger class for almost every log message. Instead, the Hivemind class has a factory method for getting a Logger.
- Observers may now observe multiple rooms during successive ticks if scout process deems it necessary.
- Expansions to other rooms will now be selected using more criteria:
- avoid being close to other players
- avoid expanding too close to our own rooms if it restricts remote harvesting
- prefer rooms that have many energy sources in adjacent rooms
- prefer rooms with mineral types we have few sources of
- prefer rooms with few exit sides and tiles
- prefer rooms that create safe exits for other nearby rooms
- prefer rooms with open space and few swamp tiles
- Expansions are now taken up to 7 rooms away (up from 5) and no longer have a minimum distance.
- Expansions are taken even at high CPU usage if a high level of remote harvesting is going on.
- Expansions are now only taken if a safe path to the target room exists.
- Spawn room for expansion squad is now chosen dynamically.
- Up to 5 nearby rooms may send creeps to assist in expanding.
- When the path to an expansion is blocked, a new spawn room is chosen, or expansion is aborted.
- Expansion Score is now cached for quite a while.
- Improved expansion score calculation.
- Expansion score is calculated and kept for owned rooms as an indicator of a room's potential.
- Military creeps will now attack unowned structures if a flag has been placed directly on it.
- Upgraders will move as close to their controller as possible for less of a chance of blocking other creeps.
- Remote mining will try not to run paths through rooms owned or reserved by other players.
- Handle rooms that have been downgraded (or reclaimed) and contain inactive structures much better.
- Walls and other structures are now removed more intelligently for newly claimed rooms.
- RoomPlanner will stop trying to generate a layout if it fails multiple times.
- RoomPlanner places some buildings differently, notably nukers no longer cover the room's center.
- RoomPlanner places extension bays with less than 7 extensions if in exchange they are much closer to the room's center.
- RoomPlanner no longer places towers outside of the area covered by ramparts, and places them (and their access roads) more intelligently in general.
- RoomPlanner places and builds links in a more reasonable order (at controller, at sources, then at storage).
- RoomPlanner places a bay with spawn, link, container and extensions around each source's harvest position.
- Roads to the controller are built much earlier in new rooms.
- Power spawns and nukers are only supplied if the room has a surplus of energy.
- Attack creeps that are not considered dangerous if they are in rooms we own / reserve.
- Optimized memory usage of serialized paths and room cost matrixes.
- Creeps for power harvesting are only spawned if there is enough energy for all of them.
- Checking if a structure is active is cached to reduce CPU usage.
- Room debug visuals are only drawn when requested.
- Ask room planner for positions of important structures instead of guessing.
- Creep roles have a new class-based format.
- E-Mail notifications use emoticons so they're easily distinguished from normal messages.
- Spawn manager has been rewritten, and spawn options live in their own classes named
spawn-role.*.js. - Room resources are evacuated faster.
- Scouts are much less likely to get stuck in a room or room border.
- When defending remote harvest locations, adjust to enemy power, and limit spawn rate of defensive creeps.
- Rooms with low amounts of energy stored will limit spawning and repairing.
pathfinding.jshas been removed in favor ofcreep.prototype.movement.js.creep.general.jshas been removed in favor of prototype files.manager.intel.jshas been removed in favor of RoomIntel.manager.strategy.jshas been removed in favor ofprocess.strategy.*.jsfiles.manager.structure.jshas been removed in favor ofprocess.empire.*.jsfiles.Game.isAlly()has been removed in favor ofRelations.isAlly().- Several older pieces of code that allowed interaction using flags was removed.