Creeps Overview

Creeps

Energy

• General creeps max cost will be 3.2k energy
• Starting from RCL 7 this can be used with 2.4k energy left over
• Restricting maxEnergy to only the full room capacity size is wasteful at higher RCL due to lost time for maxEnergy to max out at max general creep size

Max Size

• The "body" of a new creep is built out of 7 available body part types,
  • WORK – ability to harvest energy, construct and repair structures, upgrade controllers.
  • MOVE – ability to move.
  • CARRY – ability to transfer energy.
  • ATTACK – ability of short-range attack.
  • RANGED_ATTACK – ability of ranged attack.
  • HEAL – ability to heal others.
  • CLAIM - ability to claim territory control.
  • TOUGH – "empty" part with the sole purpose of defense.
• The resulting body being a sequence up to 50 parts.

Movement

• Each body part (except MOVE) generates fatigue points when the creep moves: 1 point per body part on roads, 2 on plain land, 10 on swamp.
• Each MOVE body part decreases fatigue points by 2 per tick. The creep cannot move when its fatigue is greater than zero.
• Empty CARRY parts don't generate fatigue.
• Creep [CARRY, WORK, MOVE] will move 1 square per tick if it does not bear energy, and 1 square per 2 ticks if loaded.
• Creep [TOUGH, ATTACK, ATTACK, MOVE, MOVE, MOVE] will move at maximum speed of 1 square per tick.
• Creep [TOUGH, ATTACK, ATTACK, MOVE, MOVE] will move 1 square per 2 ticks because of rounding up.

Creep Build Considerations

• Miner - Five work parts will empty a source in the refresh timeframe spawnCreep([WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, MOVE], 'miner' + Game.time, creepMemory) == 0)
• Lorry - Lorry has twice the move parts to carry parts numberOfParts = Math.floor(energy / ((BODYPART_COST["carry"]) + BODYPART_COST["move"]*2)) make sure that the lorry isn't too big (considering max size of 50 parts) numberOfParts = Math.min(numberOfParts,Math.floor(50/3)); then build Lorry

let body = [];
    for (let i=0;i<numberOfParts;i++) {
      body.push(CARRY);
    }
    for (let i=0;i<numberOfParts * 2;i++) {
      body.push(MOVE);
    }

• WORK,CARRY,MOVE, MOVE General Creep - Create a balanced creep as big as possible with the given energy, min parts group is a WORK MOVE MOVE CARRY

let minFloorRequiredEnergy = (BODYPART_COST["work"] + ( 2 * BODYPART_COST["move"]) + BODYPART_COST["carry"]);
let numberofParts = Math.floor(energy / minFloorRequiredEnergy);
numberofParts = Math.min(numberofParts, Math.floor(50/4));
let body = [];
for (let i=0;i<numberofParts;i++)
{
    body.push(WORK);
}
for (let i=0;i<numberofParts;i++)
{
    body.push(CARRY);
}
for (let i=0;i<numberofParts;i++)
{
    body.push(MOVE);
    body.push(MOVE);
}

// create a creep with created body part for the given role
let creepMemory = { memory: {role: roleName, working: false}};
if (spawnCreep(body, roleName + Game.time, creepMemory) == 0)
{
    return;
}