roomIntel request

[CarsonBurke]

Overview

• Notable information about rooms
• Amount of data communicated per tick should be kept to a minimum. Important rooms only!

Properties

• scoutTick - the tick when the room was scouted and the notable data collected. There should be a check to ensure data older than x ticks is not sent and a warning message is provided

[V1kingGit]

Big difference between sharing intel on enemy rooms, whereabouts of hostile creeps and neutral rooms without anything going on in them. I only consider it worth sharing the former two.

In that case limiting the rooms transmitted in any way seems unnecessary. You should be able to loop through the rooms provided and only update your intel if scoutTick is higher than your own. That's a very simple and cheap operation. Ideally you don't have to transmit all rooms, but you should be allowed to.

Intel on hostile creeps would also need standardization, so it may be easiest starting off with intel on enemy rooms. Here I think @Gadjung's suggestions work well as a starter, allowing further discussion:

rcl: number,
towerCount: number,
avgRamparts: number,
knownBoosts:
{
    [RESOURCE_LEMERGIUM_OXIDE]: number,
    etc...
}

[CarsonBurke]

I like it. I do have a concern with known boosts, however. The object could be potentially rather large, and we want to avoid sending too much data through the segment. This is because of limited space, but more importantly, parsing costs.

[Gadjung]

simpleAllies should provide method provideIntel(intel:Intel) method that handles the update of values with logic for scoutTick checks.

also if it is inside the Intel interface, it would make it easier on provider - segment logic - beneficiary sides

[CarsonBurke]

simpleAllies should provide method provideIntel(intel:Intel) method that handles the update of values with logic for scoutTick checks.

also if it is inside the Intel interface, it would make it easier on provider - segment logic - beneficiary sides

I think a default function to handle intel like this will clash too much with a bot's custom data