see changelog

Upgrade.lua

@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ function upgrade.attempt(natives)
     	end
 
         natives.nextChunkSort = 0
+        natives.nextChunkSortTick = 0
 
         game.surfaces[natives.activeSurface].print("Rampant - Version 0.16.37")
 	global.version = constants.VERSION_72

changelog.txt

@@ -2,21 +2,24 @@
 Version: 0.16.37
 Date: 2. 10. 2019
   Improvements:
-    - During onslaught ai state player building destroyed credits x10 to the biters
+    - During onslaught ai state player building destroyed by biters credits x10 to the biters
     - Increased dispersion projection of pheromone by 20% allowing for further pathing
     - Reworked squad attack scoring to better account for death pheromone
     - Squads that kamikaze may now occasionally disregard death pheromone
     - Maintain sorted chunk array for processing in a radial pattern from origin
   Tweaks:
+    - Increased resource pheromone min from 9000 to 15000
+    - Increased resource pheromone max from 10000 to 20000
     - Increased retreat pheromone min from 1000 to 10000
     - Increased retreat pheromone max from 17000 to 170000
     - Increased player pheromone multipler from 500 to 2500
     - Increased bad squad movement penalty from 4000 to 10000
     - Increased death pheromone generator from 125 to 750
+    - Increased victory pheromone by x3
     - Decreased death pheromone generator persistance from 0.995 to 0.9
     - Decreased death pheromone persistance from 0.99 to 0.975
     - Removed arbitrary player gen multipler in retreat scoring function
-    - Increased default setting of player score attack contribution from 7 to 18
+    - Increased default setting of player score attack contribution from 7 to 16
   Bugfixes:
     - Fixed pheromone dispersion when non-cardinal directions receiving pheromone when it shouldn't
     - Fixed ai states of migrating and seige when expansion is disabled on the map instead onslaught state happens 10% more in place

libs/ChunkProcessor.lua

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ local SPAWNER_EGG_TIMEOUT = constants.SPAWNER_EGG_TIMEOUT
 
 local SENTINEL_IMPASSABLE_CHUNK = constants.SENTINEL_IMPASSABLE_CHUNK
 
+local MAX_TICKS_BEFORE_SORT_CHUNKS = constants.MAX_TICKS_BEFORE_SORT_CHUNKS
+
 -- imported functions
 
 local retreatUnits = squadDefense.retreatUnits
@@ -86,8 +88,10 @@ function chunkProcessor.processPendingChunks(natives, map, surface, pendingStack
 	end
     end
 
-    if (#processQueue > natives.nextChunkSort) then
+    if (#processQueue > natives.nextChunkSort) or
+    (((tick - natives.nextChunkSortTick) > MAX_TICKS_BEFORE_SORT_CHUNKS) and ((natives.nextChunkSort - 75) ~= #processQueue)) then
         natives.nextChunkSort = #processQueue + 75
+        natives.nextChunkSortTick = tick
         tSort(processQueue, sorter)
     end
 end

libs/Constants.lua

@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ constants.EVOLUTION_INCREMENTS = 0.05
 
 -- ai
 
+constants.MAX_TICKS_BEFORE_SORT_CHUNKS = 60 * 60 * 30 -- 1 tick = 1/60 sec * 60 = 1 second
+
 constants.RESOURCE_MINIMUM_FORMATION_DELTA = 15
 
 constants.AI_POINT_GENERATOR_AMOUNT = 6

libs/PheromoneUtils.lua

@@ -49,24 +49,22 @@ function pheromoneUtils.scents(map, chunk)
     chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] = chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] - (getDeathGenerator(map, chunk))
 
     if (resourceGenerator > 0) and (enemyCount == 0) then
-	chunk[RESOURCE_PHEROMONE] = chunk[RESOURCE_PHEROMONE] + (linearInterpolation(resourceGenerator, 9000, 10000))
+	chunk[RESOURCE_PHEROMONE] = chunk[RESOURCE_PHEROMONE] + (linearInterpolation(resourceGenerator, 15000, 20000))
     end
 end
 
 function pheromoneUtils.victoryScent(map, chunk, entityType)
     local value = BUILDING_PHEROMONES[entityType]
     if value then
-	-- chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] = chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] + (value * 1000)
-        -- FIX ME
-	addDeathGenerator(map, chunk, -(value * 3))
-	chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] = chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] + value
+        local scaledVal = (value * 3)
+	addDeathGenerator(map, chunk, -scaledVal)
+	chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] = chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] + scaledVal
     end
 end
 
 function pheromoneUtils.deathScent(map, chunk)
     chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] = chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] - (DEATH_PHEROMONE_GENERATOR_AMOUNT * 2)
     addDeathGenerator(map, chunk, DEATH_PHEROMONE_GENERATOR_AMOUNT)
-    -- chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] = chunk[MOVEMENT_PHEROMONE] - DEATH_PHEROMONE_GENERATOR_AMOUNT
 end
 
 function pheromoneUtils.playerScent(playerChunk)

settings.lua

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ data:extend({
 	    name = "rampant-attackPlayerThreshold",
 	    setting_type = "runtime-global",
 	    minimum_value = 0,
-	    default_value = 18,
+	    default_value = 16,
 	    order = "b[modifier]-c[threshold]",
 	    per_user = false
 	},