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| 0s | so today we're gonna be demoing some eco |
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| 4s | stuff and talking about our new cultures |
| 6s | so I'm John Kay I'm CEO strange loop and |
| 10s | designer on eco and to my right is |
| 13s | Keegan their artist extraordinaire on |
| 16s | eco who does a lot of our biome design |
| 19s | as well and a whole bunch of other stuff |
| 20s | and we have Craig hi designer slash |
| 24s | programmer who builds out the tech tree |
| 26s | and all kinds of stuff on ego so yeah so |
| 30s | we're gonna be talking about the the |
| 32s | latest bill talking about what's coming |
| 34s | up and answering questions from you guys |
| 36s | so feel free to jump in and ask us |
| 40s | anything as you go we should get the |
| 43s | game plane as well while we're doing |
| 45s | this Hey so we'll just be showing off |
| 49s | you go while we answer questions so go |
| 51s | ahead and send some through well if you |
| 54s | wanna set us up for questions you can so |
| 57s | there's some general concern though from |
| 59s | fans just about the game in general and |
| 62s | specifically the length of time since |
| 64s | the last update so I'll just mention |
| 66s | that we are hard at work on some really |
| 69s | big updates to the game we're not |
| 71s | stopping anytime soon and you don't have |
| 73s | to worry about updates trailing off or |
| 75s | anything like that |
| 76s | the reason it's been a long time it's |
| 78s | because we've been working on some some |
| 79s | massive stuff so we hope you'll be |
| 82s | patient and I think we'll be excited to |
| 84s | see what we're working on when we're |
| 86s | finished with it cool yeah so we've got |
| 88s | our 8.0 builds coming out that's gonna |
| 90s | be a big biome patch gonna play sure so |
| 96s | that's going to be introducing all kinds |
| 98s | of new biomes to the game new animals |
| 101s | and it's gonna look really different so |
| 104s | that's that's the big one we've been |
| 105s | working on |
| 106s | suddenly it's kind of a minor patch that |
| 108s | we're just heading right now so the big |
| 112s | one is to come still seven eight is |
| 114s | about the launch later today I'll just |
| 119s | introduce myself so hey guys my name is |
| 122s | will is that we're not a will faceless |
| 125s | voice asking you guys questions |
| 128s | any questions to the team and I'll be |
| 131s | behind the camera so a question about |
| 137s | transportation stuff specifically trains |
| 142s | rails so are we going to be doing more |
| 148s | along that so trains and Reno's aren't |
| 151s | in the immediate future is something I |
| 153s | want to do eventually we had a big |
| 155s | vehicles patch which was a 7.0 that was |
| 158s | adding the steam tractor in and cranes |
| 161s | elevator and a bunch of other stuff so |
| 165s | probably not get on vehicles immediately |
| 168s | but eventually that's something we're |
| 170s | going to come back to this guy also |
| 172s | mentioned that when you build a powered |
| 175s | car its uses can the steam truck pull |
| 176s | the powered carts are actually chose to |
| 178s | be phased out |
| 179s | so when 8.0 comes out they actually |
| 182s | won't exist at all in the game so their |
| 184s | spot in the tech tree is actually |
| 186s | replaced by the steam truck so if they |
| 189s | see them they come to glows together |
| 190s | that's because that's intentional see a |
| 193s | question here and someone is sleeping on |
| 194s | the server could another player join yes |
| 198s | you can and it will actually interrupt |
| 200s | the sleep of the player so everyone on |
| 204s | the server has to be sleeping in order |
| 206s | for it to advance time so it's primarily |
| 208s | something for like private servers or |
| 211s | small groups of people where everybody |
| 215s | agrees to advance time and then you just |
| 218s | everybody gets in a bed and time will |
| 220s | start accelerating and as soon as one |
| 221s | person wakes up everybody wakes up so |
| 223s | it's kind of an all-or-nothing thing not |
| 225s | really used for public servers public |
| 227s | servers are keeping that approach where |
| 229s | the game is running continuously and you |
| 235s | come back over multiple days you know |
| 236s | just to give time for lots of players |
| 238s | that come in and have these you know |
| 240s | build up economies on their own schedule |
| 242s | and interact asynchronously so we're |
| 245s | still sticking with that with them but |
| 248s | yeah it's sure to make a single player |
| 250s | experience quite a bit different that |
| 251s | you can now you know you're never |
| 253s | blocked on waiting for anything you can |
| 255s | always speed things up |
| 261s | or will spawn the it will spawn only on |
| 268s | new ones currently yeah it's not just |
| 271s | adding biomes like the entirety of our |
| 273s | world generation is getting overhauled |
| 274s | so it will just be a good idea to |
| 277s | generate a new map because the way it's |
| 279s | laid out will be significantly different |
| 281s | yeah there's enough gigantic changes |
| 284s | that it would be pretty difficult to |
| 286s | reverse migrate biomes yeah so we will |
| 290s | migrate existing servers you can still |
| 292s | plan on but they won't have the new |
| 293s | biomes until you refresh |
| 296s | start a new world it's 8.0 in 2019 how |
| 302s | much does sleepy in advanced time yes |
| 305s | the goal is to get 8.0 in 2019 probably |
| 309s | early December yeah |
| 327s | biome king desert 8.0 yeah not seventy |
| 329s | one eighteen your honor just give us a |
| 335s | rundown of what's coming for the biome |
| 337s | changes sure |
| 338s | well we've we're basically going to be |
| 340s | adding some entirely new biomes to the |
| 343s | game one of the biggest ones this ring |
| 345s | is a rainforest biome we're also going |
| 348s | through and sort of splitting up and |
| 351s | better organizing the things that we |
| 353s | have I think 8.0 is not going to have |
| 357s | all of the biome update in one it'll |
| 360s | probably be a phase thing where we have |
| 363s | you know some some of the updates and |
| 366s | some of the new plants and animals and |
| 368s | everything like that and then we'll |
| 370s | continue that in another update |
| 372s | afterwards but I can say that yeah |
| 375s | there's going to be a rain forest biome |
| 377s | taiga and tundra will be two distinct |
| 380s | biomes with their own soil types |
| 383s | the other big thing that's happening |
| 385s | with biomes in addition to new plants |
| 387s | and animals is soil and rocks so rocks |
| 390s | will be basically split |
| 392s | into actual different kinds of rocks so |
| 396s | instead of just stone you're gonna have |
| 398s | different types of sedimentary |
| 400s | metamorphic and igneous rocks to start |
| 405s | with just a few it is probably one for |
| 408s | each category to start but we're gonna |
| 409s | have things like limestone so basically |
| 412s | the idea is with all these new biomes |
| 415s | they each have resources that are unique |
| 417s | to those areas that are encouraging you |
| 420s | to exploit resources that are located |
| 424s | within one biome and be forced to you |
| 427s | know travel there and extract it and |
| 430s | bring it back to wherever you're |
| 431s | settling so we really want to overall |
| 432s | the balance of the game in terms of |
| 435s | exploration and and in terms of where |
| 439s | you're building or settlements how |
| 440s | you're thinking about you know taking |
| 442s | resources from the world so there's |
| 445s | gonna be yeah big updates to to a lot of |
| 448s | a lot of the natural world basically |
| 451s | it's gonna get a lot of changes and |
| 453s | improvements Keegan is a hiker and biome |
| 458s | researcher he's designed a lot of how |
| 461s | this stuff works so yeah some pretty |
| 464s | realistic stuff some of them are |
| 465s | probably most realistic biomes you see |
| 468s | and most sandbox games so pretty |
| 471s | interesting they have that coming |
| 473s | through will also have other kind of |
| 474s | natural features like lakes deserts you |
| 478s | know different rivers everything's kind |
| 481s | of getting updated |
| 482s | yeah most everything with the world |
| 484s | generations being updated so it's going |
| 487s | to be a big big step up I think and and |
| 490s | you know it's going to be a large enough |
| 492s | change that I'm sure there's going to be |
| 494s | a lot that we're going to polish and |
| 496s | continue changing once we've got this |
| 498s | initial push out things are going to be |
| 500s | changing a lot in the next you know five |
| 502s | months or whatever at least going to be |
| 504s | a lot that's somebody mentioned Marvel |
| 505s | that's something I was thinking about |
| 507s | too you'd be really cool to have Marvel |
| 508s | especially for like government buildings |
| 510s | yeah Marvel is a metamorphic rock it's |
| 515s | on the list it's not it's not on the |
| 518s | initial push you want to go |
| 520s | absolute basics of sort of geology |
| 522s | having one sort of basement metamorphic |
| 525s | rock which is probably going to be nice |
| 527s | to start out with yeah |
| 530s | marble will be something that we can add |
| 533s | that later on from I believe |
| 535s | metamorphosed limestone so we are adding |
| 537s | limestone so once we have limestone and |
| 540s | you have all these basic building blocks |
| 542s | you can start to place resources such as |
| 545s | like marble you can add marble and |
| 547s | actually have it make sense in the world |
| 549s | you can have it you know beneath a bunch |
| 550s | of limestone as if that limestone you |
| 553s | know was putting the pressure on |
| 554s | entering into marble so so the more we |
| 557s | add the more we'll be able to place |
| 559s | things in an interesting manner and give |
| 561s | players ways to sort of make logical |
| 563s | associations that you look through the |
| 565s | world for for different resources like |
| 567s | that see somebody asks water and water |
| 571s | flow yeah we're actually doing a big |
| 573s | thing with pipes 48.0 so we're kind of |
| 578s | reviving those and making them more |
| 580s | needed in different crafting objects so |
| 583s | you expect to see that you have towns we |
| 585s | haven't set up plumbing for everybody |
| 587s | and kind of water systems for different |
| 589s | villages and things like that so another |
| 593s | interesting public works project that |
| 595s | you have to collaborate on and you know |
| 599s | you're going to be generating pollution |
| 601s | from these so that connects the |
| 602s | pollution side as well is that you'll |
| 604s | have started having this pollution |
| 605s | output from like normal everyday kind of |
| 608s | objects that you have to make and build |
| 610s | pipes and deals it or you can just leave |
| 612s | it and don't pollute the area or it's |
| 615s | basically a problem you have to solve |
| 616s | with your village and governments I |
| 618s | assume they were talking about the way |
| 620s | water flows in the world yeah speaking |
| 626s | of water there is a lot of interest in |
| 628s | both I have something on the list we |
| 633s | don't have it for the immediate update |
| 635s | but definitely it's gonna be a big |
| 636s | transport option where you can just |
| 638s | instead of building a road you just get |
| 640s | a boat and sail across the ocean that's |
| 642s | something that's always been a huge |
| 645s | transportation yeah and speaking of this |
| 648s | update somebody is asking what else is |
| 652s | going to be in 7/8 or some of the cool |
| 654s | features we can talk about besides sleep |
| 657s | it's really just sleep as the main |
| 659s | feature everything else is kind of minor |
| 661s | quality of life stuff we'll post the |
| 664s | patch notes so yeah so most of the past |
| 669s | couple months we weren't got an 8.0 but |
| 671s | we wanted to get a quick kind of mini |
| 673s | patch out before that one happens so |
| 676s | it's not representative over the last |
| 677s | two months there's just a small change |
| 680s | that we are we're pushing out while |
| 682s | we're working towards 8.0 is electricity |
| 690s | switches gates XOR and NAND nor is it |
| 693s | are part of the plans yes actually we do |
| 696s | have test objects for that already right |
| 700s | now but they should exist they're all |
| 703s | hidden yeah we have these little secret |
| 706s | objects right now that are not finished |
| 708s | but like here's a switch for example and |
| 711s | you can you know set this up oh it's not |
| 715s | I'm not authorized on it right now to |
| 718s | open doors for example or do other kinds |
| 720s | of things so it's kind of like redstone |
| 723s | if you're familiar with that but it's |
| 724s | basically the same way of setting up |
| 725s | mechanical objects and then we have a |
| 729s | whole object but working on the loop |
| 731s | tool connected the economy so you come |
| 733s | up with this and you have to pay a toll |
| 735s | to hit the switch for example and that |
| 737s | will open a door to a toll bridge for |
| 741s | example or let you into a house so you |
| 743s | can start having these kind of complex |
| 745s | machines that are actually part of the |
| 746s | economy see people asking about fps yeah |
| 754s | performance is something were kind of |
| 755s | just working on continuously so we're |
| 758s | gonna keep having patches that focus on |
| 761s | that you know we have people work you |
| 763s | know in performance 48.0 so just kind of |
| 767s | something's gonna have constant |
| 768s | improvements especially there's any |
| 770s | slowdowns or things where it's it's a |
| 772s | chain or disconnect |
| 773s | people those are top priority so expect |
| 777s | to see that keeps getting better |
| 782s | interested in more use for gold or |
| 785s | copper well I can definitely say that we |
| 790s | have a lot of ideas and plans and |
| 792s | designs for improving mineral processing |
| 795s | and earth resources so we're kind of |
| 799s | starting with the base of the pyramid |
| 802s | you could say with with the biomes |
| 804s | update you know where we're focusing on |
| 807s | what are the resources that we want and |
| 810s | what are the primary reasons we want |
| 812s | them for the technology so we're |
| 814s | starting to work out a lot more of that |
| 816s | with the biomes update as we consider |
| 818s | things like rocks and earth resources |
| 820s | which include all the different types of |
| 822s | ore copper ore we're actually looking at |
| 824s | adding new types of ore as well but |
| 827s | we'll definitely be looking at how each |
| 830s | one of those is used in the tech tree |
| 833s | especially you know in the coming months |
| 836s | as we implement more of them as natural |
| 839s | resources things like copper I know are |
| 842s | going to be getting a lot more use for |
| 845s | piping and things like that water piping |
| 848s | so there's there's a lot of there's a |
| 850s | lot of yeah plans we have for for the |
| 853s | use of earth resources for sure question |
| 855s | for crane okay what do you feel about |
| 857s | the current profession specialty balance |
| 859s | are you satisfied with it or what are |
| 861s | your ideas hence the balance between |
| 862s | them and making them work in coal |
| 863s | valuable well feel like the first part |
| 866s | is kind of like answer dry the second |
| 868s | when they're not obviously they're not |
| 869s | pretty guilty well balanced I mean and |
| 874s | so I've always been in the cooking was |
| 876s | like sort of up there and we've been |
| 878s | trying to slowly move the other |
| 879s | profession sort of in line with that |
| 880s | rather than taking cooking down we do |
| 884s | have a lot of skill changes coming into |
| 887s | eighth so I wouldn't expect any like |
| 890s | huge balance related stuff in |
| 892s | seven-point-eight because all that stuff |
| 893s | is going to be kind of shuffled up by |
| 895s | the skill changes that are coming after |
| 897s | yeah I want to talk about that great |
| 899s | like sure |
| 901s | so just in essence we're going to try |
| 904s | and we've always been trying to get the |
| 906s | other professions to sort of interplay |
| 908s | with the other professions more in a |
| 910s | similar manner to how cooking does with |
| 912s | the other profession so like right now |
| 913s | if you want to be like whatever a Mason |
| 915s | you still need to go buy food from the |
| 917s | cook because the cook gives you your |
| 919s | skill points to increase your skill so |
| 924s | essentially we want to make housing was |
| 926s | like basically the beginning of this |
| 927s | we're trying to sort of get the other |
| 929s | professions to play an integral role as |
| 932s | cooking and so we have some plans for |
| 935s | like just like disposable used items |
| 939s | from the other professions to sort of |
| 940s | try and tie them into like progression |
| 943s | for everybody as far as the skill system |
| 946s | goes we're reworking essentially on all |
| 949s | the skills work pretty much every skill |
| 952s | like the base level skill in the game |
| 954s | which would be like the efficiency |
| 955s | skills the speed skill and stuff like |
| 957s | that that are like inside the |
| 958s | specialties are all getting baked into |
| 960s | the specialties themselves so when you |
| 963s | take a carpentry you will just have |
| 965s | efficiency and then you will by doing |
| 971s | actions related to that profession |
| 972s | you'll level up your specialty this is |
| 977s | gonna be huge change the skill system |
| 979s | where your actions will affect what |
| 982s | you're doing or so you choose your |
| 984s | specialties but then you like increase |
| 986s | that specialty by doing yes and I like |
| 989s | crafting and yeah it's basically doing |
| 991s | anything related to profession so if |
| 993s | you're like a wood cutter you cut trees |
| 994s | down to gain experience so the main |
| 996s | worry here would be that we've always |
| 998s | been trying to keep it so that people |
| 1000s | who can't play as much can still |
| 1001s | contribute to the game so essentially |
| 1005s | what's gonna happen now is your |
| 1006s | specialties will matter more when you |
| 1008s | take like say you take carpentry your |
| 1011s | efficiency will immediately jump up to |
| 1014s | currently extended 50 percent that may |
| 1016s | change before the release but your as |
| 1019s | soon as you take carpentry you'll be |
| 1020s | good at it and then by doing it a lot |
| 1022s | you'll get even better so even somebody |
| 1024s | who like can't log on every day can |
| 1027s | still work with the skill at a degree |
| 1030s | that's a lot better than other people |
| 1031s | but you still have someone to work |
| 1033s | as you play this is kind of addressing |
| 1035s | an issue where if you wanted to be as |
| 1037s | efficient as possible the best way to |
| 1041s | play would be to unlock the skill and |
| 1043s | then wait until you get full efficiency |
| 1045s | yeah so now the only way to get |
| 1048s | efficiency is by actually doing it so |
| 1050s | you're not incentivized to sit there and |
| 1052s | wait so that kind of addresses that |
| 1055s | issue so you're still getting your skill |
| 1058s | points are still as you're getting XP |
| 1061s | while you're doing so multiplied by your |
| 1064s | your housing and food value so it's |
| 1066s | still a huge impact this you know these |
| 1069s | personal quantities here yeah yeah so |
| 1072s | basically what the old nutrition system |
| 1073s | still works pretty much exactly how it |
| 1075s | is like you'll your skill rate will |
| 1077s | still increase the rate at which you can |
| 1079s | get new specialties and then it will |
| 1081s | also influence the rate at which you |
| 1083s | gain experience for doing the actions so |
| 1084s | if you have like a really nice house and |
| 1086s | you eat really well you'll gain |
| 1088s | experience to get higher efficiency |
| 1090s | faster while doing those things yep and |
| 1092s | how do you think this will affect the |
| 1094s | society and like the distribution of |
| 1096s | skills will people be able to experience |
| 1098s | more aspects we came by testing out |
| 1101s | different skills I feel like for the |
| 1106s | most part it will remain roughly similar |
| 1110s | another thing that's happening with this |
| 1112s | is we're allowing some of the previously |
| 1116s | like profession blocks things to be done |
| 1119s | by other people but since their |
| 1122s | efficiency looks to be lower it won't be |
| 1124s | as good so if they want to try and |
| 1125s | experience those things while not being |
| 1126s | in that specialty they might be able to |
| 1128s | do that yeah I think that a lot actually |
| 1130s | was I'm just giving everyone more more |
| 1134s | things to do so we can ask you about the |
| 1136s | proceeds because you can actually get |
| 1138s | them in a game right now so for all of |
| 1140s | the seeds just all of them we're gonna |
| 1142s | move them to a new system where instead |
| 1145s | of whacking like the branches off trees |
| 1149s | or when you cut them down they leave |
| 1151s | debris you're gonna harvest the debris |
| 1153s | for the seeds and that will work with |
| 1155s | all the trees as opposed to just the |
| 1158s | original world graphics being seven |
| 1163s | eight |
| 1165s | yes I believe so yeah so they're kind of |
| 1173s | partially in 7a demographics so |
| 1175s | demographics is a feature where you can |
| 1178s | define sets of players so there's a |
| 1183s | default one which is citizen which is |
| 1185s | players who have spent more than two |
| 1187s | hours in the game and then when you you |
| 1189s | can designate that group in law so for |
| 1192s | example by default only citizens can |
| 1194s | vote so we have this you know it's going |
| 1198s | to be a pretty flexible system so 7e |
| 1200s | I'll have the very beginnings of it but |
| 1202s | the idea is that you can define all |
| 1204s | kinds of things about players like |
| 1205s | players who have as much property or |
| 1208s | contributed this or you know whatever |
| 1212s | you want basically and then have rules |
| 1214s | affect different people differently so |
| 1216s | somebody has like specialize in a skill |
| 1218s | maybe they're in a special like lumber |
| 1221s | person group and then they have |
| 1224s | different ability to force because |
| 1226s | they're more efficient and chopping them |
| 1227s | down things like that so let you have |
| 1230s | much more specific settings in your laws |
| 1235s | will we be able to artificially engineer |
| 1239s | a biome by say directing water to a |
| 1242s | desert then yeah that's interesting |
| 1245s | question and that should just work again |
| 1247s | change the moisture that will slowly |
| 1249s | change over time so what happens now is |
| 1252s | it will work but you won't see the |
| 1254s | species that would occur there unless |
| 1256s | they could get there naturally which I |
| 1259s | mean like if you create a rain forest in |
| 1261s | the middle desert you're not gonna get |
| 1262s | your rainforest plants species won't be |
| 1264s | able to populate there if you manage |
| 1266s | don't like connect that with another |
| 1267s | rain voice they'll slowly move into that |
| 1268s | area one of you can't you can't even |
| 1272s | plant them in there and like oh yeah you |
| 1274s | should actually be able to do that if |
| 1275s | you do a farming plan of a species where |
| 1279s | somewhere where they can grown a |
| 1280s | population grow naturally someone asked |
| 1283s | if recipes will still be unlocked in the |
| 1285s | new prevents you |
| 1285s | system or is a room like everything it's |
| 1288s | still logged correct it's a combination |
| 1290s | of both it's a little bit more free now |
| 1293s | but there are definitely some stuff |
| 1294s | that's going to be locked but yeah it's |
| 1301s | definitely less so than it was before |
| 1304s | see someone asked government and |
| 1306s | contract screen still looks daunting |
| 1308s | anything to adjust that so government is |
| 1311s | going to be the next big update after |
| 1314s | biomes so I haven't talked a lot about |
| 1318s | that but we're going to be doing some |
| 1320s | really cool stuff with like Constitution |
| 1323s | so you can have you can actually design |
| 1325s | their own government and create like how |
| 1327s | to elections work how who can vote for |
| 1331s | what what actions require votes what can |
| 1334s | just be done by Fiat you can have like |
| 1337s | impeachable roles and then how does the |
| 1339s | impeachment process for so it's gonna be |
| 1341s | this really flexible system so you won't |
| 1343s | start the game and go with the |
| 1345s | government but you will actually have to |
| 1346s | build up different parts of it so you'll |
| 1349s | need to create like a building that |
| 1352s | gives you access to elections and voting |
| 1354s | and you'll need to make a building then |
| 1355s | let you have you know a constitution |
| 1358s | that like she designs the government |
| 1360s | itself so that's gonna be really big |
| 1363s | change I know we do want to make it |
| 1364s | really easy to use but your point about |
| 1367s | about it being daunting that's something |
| 1369s | we're gonna have like you know make it |
| 1371s | really streamlined to use lots of help |
| 1373s | while still being really powerful so |
| 1377s | just given a lot of players kind of |
| 1378s | design these crazy like communities that |
| 1381s | they're they're creating Weaver's came a |
| 1385s | lot of about 78 ladders yes ladders are |
| 1390s | coming in so that can really change how |
| 1393s | you move around your environment that's |
| 1394s | going to be good he else keeps asking |
| 1396s | about vehicles too so I don't think |
| 1399s | there was any major updates to vehicles |
| 1401s | there's a nice shot fix and bugs |
| 1403s | wouldn't fly up into this guy so I mean |
| 1405s | to fit the physics with vehicles is |
| 1406s | something we're constantly looking out |
| 1407s | right like it's gonna get better yeah I |
| 1411s | don't know if you have any plans to |
| 1412s | anymore |
| 1414s | not only immediate horizon I think |
| 1416s | there's definitely yeah like like we |
| 1419s | were talking about earlier votes there |
| 1420s | are definite plans for more vehicles in |
| 1423s | the game but just not immediate horizon |
| 1425s | yeah another big update and change to |
| 1429s | existing vehicles and new vehicles salt |
| 1432s | it's all on the fire plan the chorus was |
| 1436s | asking about electricity they would love |
| 1438s | to be able to sell power to a city that |
| 1441s | would be pretty awesome I feel like at |
| 1443s | Enron level corporation yeah I mean I |
| 1447s | think power is definitely one of the |
| 1449s | things that's in in our minds and most |
| 1452s | of the developers Minds is something |
| 1453s | that will definitely get focused in the |
| 1455s | future as well and a big update we can |
| 1460s | turn them on and off yeah yeah that was |
| 1464s | always the original goal is to have |
| 1465s | power be something you can connect to |
| 1467s | the economy so definitely want to make |
| 1469s | that something you can charge for and |
| 1471s | have your kilowatt hours or whatever it |
| 1473s | is |
| 1474s | so in general kind of this comes down to |
| 1476s | like the design direction of ego and the |
| 1479s | things that we still want to add to it |
| 1481s | before considering at one point oh and a |
| 1484s | lot of that is the kind of community |
| 1486s | based systems like building a power |
| 1491s | Network building a sewage system |
| 1493s | plumbing system building like a library |
| 1497s | or something for the community so these |
| 1500s | projects that take a lot of |
| 1502s | collaboration they take a lot of |
| 1503s | resources and they're just challenging |
| 1506s | to organize that you have to you know |
| 1508s | use laws use taxes use all these things |
| 1510s | at your disposal in order to make them |
| 1513s | possible so we want to keep fleshing out |
| 1516s | those kind of aspects of the game and |
| 1518s | that's that's kind of the the idea of |
| 1520s | what we have to look forward to as we |
| 1522s | move forward any code satsuki |
| 1525s | was interested in non-player body |
| 1529s | corporations and public property |
| 1532s | including mints and dance so |
| 1534s | corporations yeah so we're introducing |
| 1538s | the title system it's going to be an 8.0 |
| 1542s | so players can have right now there's |
| 1545s | one title in the game |
| 1546s | we're a leader but we're gonna be |
| 1548s | changing that so that you can create |
| 1549s | your own and define how they relate so |
| 1553s | you could make a new title which is you |
| 1556s | know the Duke and the Duke has access to |
| 1559s | these specific deeds that I give them |
| 1561s | rights to so you'll be able to select |
| 1563s | them in the property rights for example |
| 1565s | now they'll be part of the government |
| 1567s | system where you can have these elected |
| 1568s | titles so that fits a lot of the |
| 1570s | corporations where you can have you know |
| 1573s | kind of this this entity which is |
| 1575s | consists of other people right now we |
| 1578s | just have like voting and things are |
| 1581s | specifically for the government but I do |
| 1582s | kind of want to extend those controls to |
| 1585s | corporations and then we have bank |
| 1588s | accounts another another big feature |
| 1590s | that's coming it's already in you know |
| 1593s | and the idea with that is that right now |
| 1596s | everybody has one bank account in the |
| 1597s | future you'll have multiple and you can |
| 1599s | define who has access to them and then |
| 1601s | you can have a government specific |
| 1603s | accounts as well so you could have like |
| 1607s | an account just for taxes that only the |
| 1610s | tax Minister titled has access to so you |
| 1613s | can have these much more complex kind of |
| 1615s | systems that are all going to be |
| 1617s | designed by the community and you'll |
| 1621s | kind of unlock these as you create |
| 1622s | building so in order to get the title |
| 1624s | feature you have to build this like |
| 1625s | title building in order to get the bank |
| 1627s | count feature you have to build a bank |
| 1628s | and then they have all these rich |
| 1630s | interactions between them so there's a |
| 1631s | lot more just like civic creation the |
| 1634s | ability to kind of guide this this |
| 1635s | community that you're growing one step |
| 1638s | at a time it's the you know bank |
| 1641s | accounts |
| 1641s | Suzuki also says that at the moment |
| 1644s | servers without a good background |
| 1646s | economics have trouble with making |
| 1648s | currency liquid in the market so how can |
| 1651s | we address that interesting I suppose |
| 1656s | they were asking like just the ability |
| 1657s | to like trade currency is less when |
| 1661s | people don't understand economics I mean |
| 1664s | I would say that that is kind of like an |
| 1665s | opportunity in the server if people are |
| 1667s | using currency efficiently you playing |
| 1669s | that server and use it efficiently and |
| 1671s | you're gonna have this advantage to get |
| 1672s | more economic activity there but we do |
| 1677s | want to add more tools for just |
| 1678s | understanding how the economy works |
| 1682s | one thing we just marked for the task |
| 1684s | today is like on the economy viewer you |
| 1687s | can see who has enough money to actually |
| 1689s | buy your goods before you go all the way |
| 1691s | there who has a source page for it so |
| 1694s | just thinking well you know kind of area |
| 1695s | on the side of giving lots of |
| 1696s | information and letting players to make |
| 1698s | decisions about that I think makes the |
| 1702s | economy a lot easier to kind of |
| 1703s | understand and plan for but it is very |
| 1706s | much a tool that players build you know |
| 1708s | they decide how much stuff is worst and |
| 1710s | so on and are there improvements |
| 1715s | scheduled for the laws web interface yes |
| 1719s | definitely yeah that's definitely in |
| 1722s | need of documentation and that's |
| 1724s | something that I'm actually the feature |
| 1725s | I'm working on right now is laws and |
| 1727s | government so we'll have a lot of |
| 1730s | changes for that we're gonna have it so |
| 1731s | you can mess with them in-game as well |
| 1733s | we have it so it mins can like set up |
| 1736s | laws and government if they wants it can |
| 1738s | build scenarios there just give me tons |
| 1740s | of power to serve room ins and letting |
| 1742s | them have these kind of different |
| 1743s | scenarios but then making the vanilla |
| 1746s | experience where you're creating them |
| 1748s | yourself really engaging also so the |
| 1750s | players have to really work together to |
| 1752s | do this so yes definitely some are |
| 1755s | focusing on will there be improvements |
| 1759s | to the contract interface along with |
| 1762s | government yeah that's not something I'm |
| 1766s | doing for 9 oh right now but it is |
| 1769s | something I want to revisit it'd be |
| 1772s | great to hear people's ideas on how to |
| 1773s | improve that but basically I want |
| 1775s | contracts to be used a lot more |
| 1778s | frequently so one way to do that is to |
| 1780s | make them more powerful and also to make |
| 1783s | them easier to use and understand so a |
| 1785s | contracts pass is definite |
| 1787s | in the cars I think that's one of the |
| 1790s | more interesting things about the game |
| 1791s | is just the ability to like buy and sell |
| 1793s | labor not just goods and jacob we have a |
| 1797s | bug-fix question is the contract or |
| 1800s | things now previously Darren's diversity |
| 1804s | currency reset you need users currency |
| 1808s | this limits the usage of the contract |
| 1809s | board yeah pretty sure that bill got |
| 1812s | fixed thank a few weeks ago that should |
| 1814s | be inseminate |
| 1815s | I see somebody asking there they wanna |
| 1818s | hear more about 7/8 |
| 1819s | so yeah the big the big feeders |
| 1821s | inseminate our sleep ladders performance |
| 1826s | fixes bug fixes ones the other big one |
| 1829s | we'll have to pull up the the change |
| 1832s | list so there's a lot of like little |
| 1834s | stuff in 7a so this is yeah kind of |
| 1838s | point of this stream is to talk about |
| 1840s | that but also kind of the direction that |
| 1842s | you go while we're working on next and |
| 1846s | we don't participate in the discord |
| 1847s | channels quite a bit so if you have like |
| 1849s | feedback feel free to message us in |
| 1852s | there or chat to our moderators but we |
| 1856s | do read all that feedback and a lot of |
| 1858s | it does end up getting implemented so |
| 1859s | it's great to have that Emma graphic see |
| 1862s | demographics thank you I guess we also |
| 1865s | have item filters and 7/8 oh yeah |
| 1867s | filtered through fun one with show |
| 1889s | everybody so we can still have audio on |
| 1892s | the stream people there might be worth |
| 1900s | just reiterating but you know the big |
| 1903s | reason that 7/8 is not a huge update |
| 1905s | despite the number of months that have |
| 1906s | passed since the last update is because |
| 1909s | we're putting in a lot of big overhauls |
| 1911s | 40 point out so for anybody who's new |
| 1913s | that's that's why it's been so long it's |
| 1915s | where we're doing a lot of big stuff for |
| 1918s | the the update that's gonna come after |
| 1919s | seven eight yeah just a few disseminate |
| 1923s | updates for new and improved chat |
| 1925s | commands things like slash time slash |
| 1929s | fast-forward and then ran improvements |
| 1932s | like Avatar animations they're changing |
| 1935s | their hair and clothes updated meteor |
| 1938s | intro things like that so we'll have a |
| 1941s | full changelog up we can read all about |
| 1944s | the little pieces |
| 1946s | I think cover them okay when I asked |
| 1952s | that we could show the 7.8 you know I |
| 1955s | think you just jump in there it's kind |
| 1957s | of risky to do midstream maybe we'll |
| 1960s | leave that are there any plans on |
| 1964s | splitting land claim vertical to make |
| 1966s | skyscrapers in housing I think that's a |
| 1969s | colicchio thank you tower yeah a little |
| 1972s | bit idea that's a tricky one to have |
| 1975s | like vertical like 3d property |
| 1978s | definitely something I'd like to do |
| 1980s | though some things I've already kind of |
| 1982s | been toying around with are the idea of |
| 1988s | collateral so that to support loans |
| 1991s | based on your houses so that you can |
| 1996s | take a loan where if you fail to pay |
| 1998s | back the loan then your property goes to |
| 2001s | you the person you owe it to so as far |
| 2008s | as that goes that something to keep |
| 2011s | looking at we also want to do like a |
| 2013s | rental market so you can like |
| 2015s | property people through the contract |
| 2017s | system and then have like share like |
| 2021s | residency the idea of residency so if |
| 2024s | you're a resident in a particular |
| 2024s | district that might give you privileges |
| 2026s | as far as laws of government go it is is |
| 2033s | it possible later to index shops |
| 2035s | immediately to the Treasury connect |
| 2039s | shops to the Treasury and not sure of |
| 2041s | the name each one down we had a question |
| 2047s | from lo what are the plans for the mod |
| 2051s | kit will he go support custom scripts in |
| 2053s | unity and how will clients download mods |
| 2055s | and future is there any plan for |
| 2058s | changing the current system will it |
| 2059s | remain the same or have a different |
| 2061s | approach we're continue to expand it we |
| 2064s | added a bunch of dynamic dy from on so |
| 2067s | that you can inside of a modded object |
| 2070s | you can just say the the things you want |
| 2073s | to get for the object and it'll render |
| 2075s | them in the client so you won't need to |
| 2077s | create any script you just say like the |
| 2079s | how the players like the currency you |
| 2080s | have the player select a number so |
| 2083s | that's kind of the direction I'm going |
| 2084s | right now is having these auto-generated |
| 2086s | UI I'd also like to get modded UI in |
| 2089s | their passing script is more difficult |
| 2092s | because you get the security problem or |
| 2094s | you will get past like malicious scripts |
| 2097s | but we have thought about having some |
| 2100s | kind of like layered scripting sandbox |
| 2104s | or something where you can have more |
| 2105s | flexibility in there |
| 2106s | yeah modding is always gonna be a huge |
| 2109s | part of eco it's something we want to |
| 2111s | fully support especially as we continue |
| 2114s | to grow the engine you know we're making |
| 2116s | a ton of investments into the core tech |
| 2118s | here because we want to you know keep |
| 2120s | growing and expanding it over the years |
| 2122s | so there's it's gonna be lots more to |
| 2124s | come there and it's really great to have |
| 2125s | feedback from autres you got a cool idea |
| 2131s | from FNG Maison he says go the full Syfy |
| 2136s | route and allow you to have an |
| 2138s | electricity back to currency |
| 2140s | Cheng's get Bitcoin in there that'd be |
| 2143s | pretty cool to have like half the power |
| 2145s | the worlds we use on like bitcoins and |
| 2148s | it pulled into the planet yeah that |
| 2151s | would be interesting |
| 2152s | Maison has another good question rental |
| 2155s | properties such as rental factories |
| 2157s | would there be the possibility for |
| 2159s | workers to seize the means of production |
| 2161s | huh yeah it's not about like how would |
| 2165s | revolutions work in the game how do we |
| 2167s | want like should there be a way to |
| 2170s | circumvent the existing government and |
| 2173s | that's part of the feature that's always |
| 2174s | been on our docket of being able to |
| 2176s | break laws but I was singing in the |
| 2181s | system where the this is all just kind |
| 2184s | of you know not developed you have this |
| 2186s | concept stage where we have a you know |
| 2191s | the size of the ear government building |
| 2193s | if someone builds a bigger one they |
| 2195s | would be able to like take over it so |
| 2197s | there's like a way to seize control in |
| 2201s | that way because right now like laws are |
| 2204s | unbreakable you know you can never |
| 2205s | change them you know without like it in |
| 2210s | commands or something so things like |
| 2213s | that I think it'd be pretty interesting |
| 2214s | to get a lot of the game |
| 2222s | get anything else you want to talk about |
| 2224s | art what is this coming off the top of |
| 2232s | my head |
| 2232s | one thing I'll mention that's a big |
| 2235s | thing that will that will be a big part |
| 2237s | of a point now is also not just more |
| 2239s | animals and more plants and biomes but |
| 2242s | also animal behaviors getting a good |
| 2244s | update put into it we're adding a lot |
| 2248s | more complexity behind the way animals |
| 2250s | behave in the game |
| 2252s | getting getting them access to a lot of |
| 2254s | their estates and animations that we've |
| 2257s | actually had for a while but just |
| 2258s | haven't plugged into plugged into them |
| 2260s | with a iron or whatever yet so yeah |
| 2263s | that's another thing that's going to be |
| 2265s | coming is going to be really nice |
| 2267s | working on animal animations are going |
| 2270s | down to play well just like things like |
| 2272s | different types of behaviors that the |
| 2275s | otter for instance is one that right now |
| 2277s | is really really simple in the released |
| 2280s | build but what could be getting a lot of |
| 2282s | updates like it'll be able to crawl and |
| 2284s | land and flow that's back and we'll have |
| 2286s | activities like diving for food we're |
| 2289s | going to be adding states like that that |
| 2291s | are individualized to each animal so |
| 2294s | that you can really you know start to |
| 2296s | see more of the behaviors you would |
| 2298s | expect when you're looking at different |
| 2299s | species and that's something that can |
| 2301s | really be just continually improved upon |
| 2304s | over time give the creatures a lot more |
| 2306s | life and not about their animal |
| 2309s | interactions with the player well I mean |
| 2313s | there's not I think hunting is getting |
| 2315s | some updates as well he was also working |
| 2318s | on improving different things that |
| 2322s | happen when you want to think into one |
| 2323s | of the states for example is like an |
| 2325s | alerted state so that you know when |
| 2327s | you're sneaking up on something once it |
| 2329s | sees you will get go into an alerted |
| 2331s | state and then run so improving those |
| 2333s | and their timing so that hunting becomes |
| 2338s | you know more interesting and realistic |
| 2340s | it's as part of it as well for sure cool |
| 2343s | let's wrap it up and call the stream |
| 2346s | through today excited for the 7a release |
| 2348s | and lots more to come |
| 2350s | so send us your feedback and suggestions |
| 2352s | and we'll see in the game |