Published by Screeps
1. Hence, those players who want to share their resources with others can play Screeps as a free-to-play game! Subscription tokens trading is possible via the in-game market or Steam Community Market allowing to trade purchased tokens for real currency using your Steam Wallet.
2. With all the attributes of a full-fledged strategy game, you control your colony by writing real JavaScript which operates 24/7 in the single persistent world filled by other players on par with you.
3. As we designed the game, we were considering numerous options and finally came to a conclusion that justification of such expenses requires only one model: game time (or, in our case, CPU time) subscription.
4. Thus we avoid creating game advantages for certain groups of players since all are provided with equal opportunities to use server resources.
5. That's a perfectly fine way to play Screeps too, since we have a standalone non-subscription world shard, where you can compete with other non-subscription players on equal terms.
6. You can buy a subscription token the same way as a regular CPU subscription, but these items are tradeable, you can sell them to another player or buy for game resources.
7. There are numerous online games where your character exists in the game world only while you’re online and disappears after you exit the game.
8. This makes Screeps more like a hosting or cloud computing service rather than a traditional online game.
9. We offer you server CPU time and fixed amount of memory that you can use as you wish (though it’s still preferable to use it in relation with the game!).
10. It is an open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units AI.
11. As you conquer more territory, your influence in the game world grows, as well as your abilities to expand your footprint.