Spawning Into the World

Start Now - Not Later

So, you've started on your bot and tested it on a private server. If you're reading this, your code should be able to spawn creeps, harvest sources, and upgrade the controller. That's it. It doesn't matter if it's inefficient, if you can't build stuff, if you have no defence code or if your code runs every second tick because it uses so much CPU. This can be fixed later by working on coding for your bot, testing your changes in your private server, and the uploading them to git and MMO when you've made improvements.

There are two main reasons you want to start on MMO as soon as soon as your code can upgrade. First, you want to build up GCL, allowing you to claim more rooms in the future. This is definitely important, but the second factor is what really matters: you want to stay motivated. Seeing your little ant colony working away on the main server, slowly getting better as you work on it - it's awesome. It'll flood your brain with ideas on things to improve, problems to solve, making you a better programmer and giving you a fun time.

Now that you know why you're spawning in, let's start Choosing a First Room