I love that you are working on this and hope for great success. I have doubts though.
I worked on http://www.globulation2.org which also has some higher level of command interaction. "No micro management" is one of its core ideas. While I love it, I guess people just don't get hooked that much to it than to those other games that mainly live from your click rate or your repeated attention.
I also worked for 2.5a at Travian and know a thing or two about successful game design and how travian deals with scripting and why. From that I can just say that Screeps will not be massive in the sense of user adoption. I would be surprised to see more than 20 people being online concurrently at any time beyond the first days of the game.
I worked on http://www.globulation2.org which also has some higher level of command interaction. "No micro management" is one of its core ideas. While I love it, I guess people just don't get hooked that much to it than to those other games that mainly live from your click rate or your repeated attention.
I also worked for 2.5a at Travian and know a thing or two about successful game design and how travian deals with scripting and why. From that I can just say that Screeps will not be massive in the sense of user adoption. I would be surprised to see more than 20 people being online concurrently at any time beyond the first days of the game.