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| 0s | good um hello everyone and it's not a |
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| 2s | Friday stream for for once um it's |
| 5s | slightly later than usual but um we are |
| 8s | coming up with Midsummer um tomorrow and |
| 10s | during the weekend so I'll be a bit |
| 12s | preoccupied with that but uh for today |
| 16s | and tonight we have with us our CEO |
| 20s | John been a while hey |
| 24s | guys been a while since you were on |
| 26s | stream but I managed to poach you in |
| 28s | here now that we're going to be talking |
| 30s | about |
| 31s | some |
| 32s | of the more probably a little bit more |
| 36s | kind of controversial thing I don't |
| 38s | really want to use the term but it's |
| 40s | going to hopefully incite some |
| 42s | interesting discussions um as well as |
| 45s | our general progress on 10.3 and new alt |
| 48s | server and a whole bunch of other fixes |
| 51s | changes improvements on our path towards |
| 54s | release of |
| 55s | this |
| 58s | um yeah hope everyone's stoked because I |
| 62s | am kind of eager to get things get |
| 65s | things going and get this update out but |
| 67s | we're not entirely there yet um so for |
| 71s | if we start with what has been a problem |
| 74s | with 10.2 that showed up uh viciously um |
| 78s | a service and there's been some some |
| 81s | code some code snippet discoveries |
| 84s | regarding potential offline stuff do you |
| 86s | want to talk about |
| 88s | that uh sure yeah so with Eco 10.3 we |
| 93s | are going to make the game uh playable |
| 97s | offline or without you know if Steam |
| 99s | servers go down or if strange tube |
| 101s | servers go down uh the game will be |
| 103s | fully playable um and that's something |
| 105s | that bothered some of our players |
| 106s | because they don't like that they can't |
| 108s | play with these drms up uh but this |
| 110s | allows people to play offline you know |
| 113s | if our servers go down it's not going to |
| 114s | block you uh so just a nice nice little |
| 118s | addition to uh you know kind of the |
| 121s | fundamentals of how you |
| 124s | connect yeah and hopefully our new Au |
| 127s | server is also going to be a bit more |
| 129s | rigorous there's been a lot of old Cod |
| 131s | Ling around with the old one and a full |
| 133s | full new rebuild |
| 136s | basically yeah we're calling it strange |
| 138s | Cloud so we have uh kind of a lot of our |
| 141s | new features are going in there we're |
| 142s | going to start recording data for worlds |
| 146s | so uh previously we weren't doing that |
| 148s | but now worlds will have a history in |
| 150s | there you'll track how many hours are |
| 152s | being played on these worlds and we can |
| 154s | start to do interesting things with that |
| 157s | um with unlocking stuff or changing |
| 159s | stuff when uh when they have more hours |
| 162s | um to like connecting servers together |
| 165s | so kind of the very beginnings of this |
| 168s | idea of like having a network of Worlds |
| 171s | that can connect to each other uh so our |
| 173s | strange Cloud is supporting that as well |
| 175s | as uh our new uh premium items that |
| 179s | we're going to be talking about too yeah |
| 182s | we we have we have some some new fancy |
| 185s | things going on um that we want to |
| 187s | reveal today we we also have some sneak |
| 190s | peek into the new crafting UI that comes |
| 192s | with it as they had we had some |
| 194s | preconditions for making this work and |
| 196s | and make it presentable and usable in |
| 198s | game um and I think we can just kind of |
| 203s | kind of take it away into uh maybe since |
| 206s | we're on the topic on o maybe we should |
| 209s | transition into uh |
| 210s | into my screen here um with the new Au |
| 214s | server and and Au system in |
| 218s | general um you are going to need to log |
| 220s | in from a server management perspective |
| 223s | or a server owner perspective because |
| 225s | the server is going to be linked to an |
| 227s | account because of those statistics and |
| 230s | also |
| 231s | related um IP |
| 235s | things so when you first start up your |
| 238s | server now |
| 240s | uh do I want to do that now is it gonna |
| 242s | go absolutely crazy on |
| 244s | me it should work test it live should |
| 248s | work to restart yeah it want me to |
| 251s | restart um so when you first start up |
| 254s | the server it's going to prompt you to |
| 257s | log with your with your SLG username and |
| 260s | password at the moment we were talking |
| 261s | about switching that out to somehow use |
| 263s | like a token registry from the website |
| 265s | instead |
| 267s | um but at at the moment right now now if |
| 270s | you try to get in um it'll prompt you |
| 273s | with a user password |
| 275s | thing but it's a bit under revision |
| 277s | still and as with all of the things that |
| 280s | we're showing here everything's going of |
| 281s | work in progress It's not the final |
| 283s | thing um things may change back and |
| 285s | forth up and down as always with |
| 287s | development um so take things with a |
| 289s | little bit of a grain of |
| 291s | salt yeah the basic idea is that now |
| 294s | will have your user accounts will be |
| 296s | associated in Two Worlds so every world |
| 298s | will have Eco user account which might |
| 301s | just be your Steam account you don't you |
| 303s | don't you won't have to set up a strange |
| 305s | Loop account um but uh either way you'll |
| 309s | have an account tied to the world so |
| 311s | that just goes into the fact that |
| 312s | they're you know tracking these worlds |
| 315s | as more persistent objects in the Eco |
| 319s | Universe |
| 322s | basically yeah so we do |
| 326s | this get some get some terrain going |
| 332s | get a bit of a playground |
| 334s | um so with this I market place and some |
| 339s | of the other things that people have |
| 340s | been seeing on uh in the code stream |
| 344s | um do you want to mention it or should I |
| 347s | mention it yeah let's uh let's unveil it |
| 350s | do you want to just open the the Eco |
| 353s | store or Marketplace probably so when |
| 357s | you hop in on a server and this is |
| 359s | something that you can only do |
| 360s | on a world you're not going to be able |
| 362s | to access it in offline mode you're not |
| 364s | going to be able to access it through um |
| 367s | just in the main menu because references |
| 370s | are tied to the world back and forth so |
| 373s | you have a new a new interaction here |
| 376s | which is an Ecco |
| 378s | store and when you first open |
| 381s | it um you get presented with the some |
| 385s | general new information on things |
| 387s | happening yeah this kind of a good place |
| 389s | I can kind of give the rundown of what |
| 391s | we're we're thinking here yeah go |
| 394s | forward uh so can you close that |
| 396s | dialogue box in the middle |
| 398s | there so basically we've been thinking |
| 401s | of uh our our business model our core |
| 404s | business model and what it incentivizes |
| 407s | us to work on you know so right now we |
| 409s | have just a single purchase $29.99 on |
| 412s | Steam and once you you buy the game |
| 415s | there's nothing more to spend which just |
| 417s | results in the fact that the only |
| 420s | economically meaningful player activity |
| 422s | is when they buy the game but with Eco |
| 425s | lots of our players are playing hundreds |
| 426s | of hours sometimes thousands of hours |
| 429s | actually quite often thousands of |
| 431s | hours and we're not incentivized |
| 434s | financially to support those players but |
| 437s | those are some of our biggest players |
| 438s | and the ones we we really want to |
| 439s | support that's kind of The Guiding uh |
| 442s | idea behind this uh this idea that we |
| 444s | want to have ways that long-term players |
| 448s | can still uh contribute to Eco and uh |
| 453s | you know get some new value in there |
| 454s | give them things that are really |
| 455s | interesting without corrupting the game |
| 458s | so what we're going to be selling is |
| 460s | blueprints for different |
| 463s | objects so you can buy blueprints to do |
| 465s | variant on certain objects so for |
| 467s | example uh a canoe if you have the |
| 471s | Viking canoe blueprint that you buy in |
| 473s | the Eco Marketplace and you can make it |
| 475s | look different uh but it'll be |
| 477s | functionally identical to the canoe so |
| 479s | that's kind of our our guiding design |
| 480s | principle is that these are only |
| 482s | cosmetics and it's just ways to have |
| 484s | cooler looking stuff in the game and you |
| 487s | know give those long-term player |
| 488s | something to uh you know add to their |
| 491s | experience in the game as well as |
| 492s | supporting |
| 493s | Eco so we've got a bunch of different |
| 496s | variant set up for all all kinds of |
| 497s | different objects in the game uh |
| 499s | including these uh these signs that are |
| 501s | very tied to professions like see you |
| 503s | see a tailoring sign there uh so lots of |
| 505s | cool ways to kind of express your |
| 507s | identity and personality in the game as |
| 509s | well as have the like really beautiful |
| 510s | things like a fish pond or like a fancy |
| 514s | chest um as well as we'll have Avatar |
| 517s | upgrades clothes and things like that as |
| 519s | well so lots of different cosmetic |
| 521s | options and then down below you see this |
| 524s | uh approach for taking where we want to |
| 527s | share what's spent on the on in this |
| 530s | store with the Eco |
| 533s | community so every time a purchase is |
| 536s | made with these Eco credits we will |
| 539s | divide it up among a variety of part |
| 541s | parties everyone who's kind of providing |
| 543s | value to uh the the chain that is Eco so |
| 547s | the person hosting the server will get a |
| 551s | percentage yet but we want to |
| 554s | include oh you're you're warping out a |
| 557s | little |
| 560s | bit did we just lose |
| 565s | John maybe I'm still here or you |
| 570s | towns or |
| 571s | federations they can get a |
| 575s | percentage is it working yeah yeah yeah |
| 578s | it's working |
| 580s | again that was |
| 585s | weird where is |
| 592s | it video having a Fritz here I can I can |
| 596s | sort of hear you but it was warping in |
| 599s | and out but |
| 600s | seems to be back I think |
| 602s | it can you hear me now |
| 606s | y |
| 608s | okay not sure what happened |
| 612s | there uh where where did I |
| 616s | get um allocation distribution |
| 621s | and kind of where we're going with |
| 624s | it yeah so we give a percent to everyone |
| 627s | who's supporting the the Eco value chain |
| 629s | basically so the World host modders |
| 631s | who've created mods will get one get a |
| 633s | percentage streamers who are supporting |
| 635s | the streamer will get a percentage uh |
| 637s | actually settlements will eventually get |
| 639s | a percentage you know long running |
| 640s | countries and towns we'll be able to |
| 641s | kind of share in that and then we want |
| 643s | to include a portion to support the |
| 646s | actual Earth you know as part of the |
| 648s | value chain of Eco everything is |
| 650s | connected to that uh so we've picked out |
| 652s | a great charity called uh the ocean |
| 654s | cleanup and we want to give 5% of all |
| 656s | the Eco credit spend to the to this |
| 660s | [Music] |
| 661s | charity so the idea with this is that |
| 665s | you know we're one on one hand we're |
| 666s | changing the business model a bit so |
| 668s | that we have a way for long-term players |
| 670s | to support us and we also want to |
| 672s | connect that to everyone else who adds |
| 675s | value to Eco all the Eco citizens who |
| 676s | are hosting worlds who are making mods |
| 679s | you know who are running these like |
| 680s | settlements in the game who are |
| 681s | streaming the game they those people add |
| 684s | a ton of value to the economy of Eco and |
| 690s | you know this this gives a way to reward |
| 692s | them so Eco credits are credits you buy |
| 695s | with real money and then you're able to |
| 697s | spend them uh on these different |
| 699s | items and eventually we'll have a way |
| 702s | that you can you know pull them out back |
| 704s | into real money so if you're hosting |
| 708s | this and you vanished |
| 712s | again actually vanished on the video as |
| 715s | well for a short second |
| 725s | I think we can blame the uh Florida |
| 732s | internet there we |
| 734s | go sorry internet's |
| 739s | misbehaving wonder if Steve's trying to |
| 741s | download a giant file or |
| 745s | something um hopefully hopefully not um |
| 749s | but yeah I think people people in |
| 751s | general are appreciating it and and |
| 753s | seeing the um been seeing the gist as |
| 757s | well um yeah I'm really hoping that the |
| 760s | customers kind of see it as you know a |
| 762s | value ad it's not something we don't |
| 763s | want to affect the game with these uh |
| 766s | it's something that'll be interesting |
| 768s | for people but not corrupt the |
| 769s | experience and you don't you don't ever |
| 771s | have to buy anything |
| 773s | yeah um so and this this general info |
| 777s | screen with like more details and |
| 779s | probably clickable links to like just in |
| 781s | in information and legal stuff and |
| 784s | everything else surrounding it is |
| 785s | probably going to be updated when things |
| 788s | are being implemented as well but this |
| 789s | will be you'll see this on the first um |
| 794s | when you first open the store for the on |
| 796s | on you know your first launch of 10.3 um |
| 798s | it'll pop up and and in infosite and |
| 801s | then it'll probably pop up if we do any |
| 803s | changes to it in the enal or things like |
| 806s | that |
| 807s | so um coming into the this |
| 810s | store we have the latest iteration of it |
| 813s | so you know once again bear in mind |
| 816s | things are are working progress and |
| 818s | things are being updated and changed |
| 820s | quite quite frequently in the last |
| 822s | couple of days and weeks |
| 825s | um might be some further touches on it |
| 828s | when we uh as we go along here um so |
| 833s | here's the store in general where you're |
| 835s | interacting so this is where you are uh |
| 838s | browsing through b selecting things um |
| 842s | and just in general and then as you |
| 845s | would normally have it you see your |
| 846s | wallet with digital |
| 848s | currency uh this is at the moment tied |
| 851s | directly to steam so the the acquisition |
| 853s | and the interaction is happening through |
| 856s | uh the steam API so it's going off and |
| 860s | take in mind all values are placeholder |
| 863s | as well so this is just stuff to be able |
| 866s | to visually show |
| 868s | things um |
| 870s | when you go through the motion of buying |
| 873s | virtual currency as as general expected |
| 877s | it'll pop up we also have a fraud |
| 879s | protection system in |
| 882s | place um anything you want to bring up |
| 884s | with that or just it's a general pending |
| 887s | thing it's recommended steam best |
| 890s | practices for accounts that are brand |
| 892s | new you you it's a good idea to just |
| 894s | hold off 72 hours so that you don't get |
| 897s | credit chargebacks and things like that |
| 899s | so we do detect that uh but most players |
| 901s | won't encounter that if their Steam |
| 903s | account is old been around for a while |
| 905s | and it's made you know once you've made |
| 906s | a purchase on Steam you become a trusted |
| 908s | account so it's really just weeding out |
| 910s | like Smurf |
| 914s | accounts and then you have that thing |
| 916s | goes into your regular kind of steam |
| 917s | purchase |
| 919s | order um cart thing and then just like |
| 923s | the regular card checkout for uh |
| 926s | currency it doesn't really show properly |
| 928s | when I'm in the editor |
| 932s | but so I see some questions in the chat |
| 934s | about how are these skins going to work |
| 937s | can you share them to other people uh so |
| 939s | the idea is that these are yeah these |
| 942s | are all variants so they're essentially |
| 943s | skins but you still have to craft them |
| 947s | so if you have the Egyptian canoe uh |
| 950s | recipe for example then you're able to |
| 952s | start a crafting project for that canoe |
| 956s | and you're able to specifically select I |
| 957s | want this special canoe for this |
| 959s | and then you create it and it just |
| 961s | becomes its own item which just happens |
| 962s | to be identical to the canoe uh but |
| 965s | you're not going to be changing the |
| 966s | items back and forth once they're |
| 968s | created and someone raised a good |
| 970s | question can you sell these in the store |
| 973s | like so could someone make an Egyptian |
| 974s | canoe and sell it in their store and |
| 976s | allow other players to use it uh so we |
| 979s | actually have a server setting for that |
| 981s | uh which defaults to |
| 983s | no uh just so that it's you don't |
| 985s | necessarily get an economic Advantage if |
| 987s | you have this uh special can it's just |
| 989s | for yourself uh but we do allow servers |
| 992s | if they want to experiment with that and |
| 993s | allow people to kind of input those into |
| 995s | the economy they can so it'll be inter |
| 998s | to see how that kind of plays out what |
| 1000s | effect that has in the in the uh the |
| 1003s | economy but we are we are leaving that |
| 1005s | off to start uh so the idea is that by |
| 1008s | default it's just something that you |
| 1010s | build that you can use and you can give |
| 1012s | it away to somebody if you want but you |
| 1014s | can't like connect it to the ecosystem |
| 1015s | unless the server options selected |
| 1021s | so in here we have um we have a quantity |
| 1025s | limit for it as |
| 1027s | well um which is essentially you're |
| 1030s | buying the right to produce x amount of |
| 1034s | copies of this entity on a server to |
| 1037s | server |
| 1038s | basis yeah the idea with this is that we |
| 1041s | couldn't allow unlimited creation of |
| 1043s | that because then one person could buy |
| 1045s | something and just give the entire give |
| 1047s | it to the entire server and it's |
| 1050s | basically like pirating a game or |
| 1053s | something uh so but we also didn't want |
| 1055s | to limit it to just one like players |
| 1057s | might want to create more than more than |
| 1059s | one so we have this quantity that and |
| 1062s | that will actually limit how many you |
| 1063s | can craft in a given |
| 1066s | World So when you buy this recipe you |
| 1068s | have it for every Eco world uh but |
| 1071s | within each individual world you're |
| 1072s | limited by the quantity so I could build |
| 1075s | 10 ship right signs in you know white |
| 1078s | tiger I could build another 10 in sea |
| 1080s | otter |
| 1082s | Etc so that's how we prevent it from |
| 1084s | being just spammed and given given to |
| 1086s | everybody yeah and we have we have a few |
| 1089s | things listed in here that are straight |
| 1091s | up and and this is as you mentioned |
| 1093s | previously um a very very big Focus was |
| 1096s | to avoid kind of any any kind of |
| 1099s | relation to pay to win things so at the |
| 1101s | moment the recipes are tied up with you |
| 1104s | use you you'll always be targeted to |
| 1107s | having a vanilla version or the default |
| 1109s | stock |
| 1110s | version that will always be attributed |
| 1113s | towards that end so in case of grab the |
| 1116s | outdoor thing here so this the friendly |
| 1119s | scarecrow for example it has a |
| 1121s | new um default version which is just a a |
| 1125s | regular scarecrow and then you use that |
| 1128s | regular Scarecrow in the recipe to craft |
| 1131s | the fancy one or you know the specop |
| 1134s | deluxe version of it but they'll still |
| 1137s | do the same thing they'll have the same |
| 1138s | points still count as the same category |
| 1141s | for housing when it comes to furniture |
| 1142s | and so on um so there's not going to be |
| 1145s | any deviation in value worth for the |
| 1148s | entity some cases the the the pretty up |
| 1152s | version will be slightly more expensive |
| 1156s | because they might have additional costs |
| 1158s | to them to make them um but overall the |
| 1161s | goal is always going to be to have like |
| 1163s | a a regular version anyone can craft |
| 1166s | that is in the same kind of category |
| 1167s | style theme as anything that we're |
| 1171s | adding to the |
| 1173s | store and with that maybe maybe we |
| 1176s | should show them the new crafting UI can |
| 1178s | of go over some of the uh quality of |
| 1180s | life changes things here |
| 1184s | so which one do we want to grab let's |
| 1187s | just grab the workbench have the canoe |
| 1189s | in |
| 1191s | there so to fit with this |
| 1195s | um we were running over our old crafting |
| 1198s | UI and I wish I had a screen a blank |
| 1201s | screenshot of the old one to just kind |
| 1202s | of overlay and show the differences um |
| 1205s | and this is still being revised tweaked |
| 1208s | and kind of polished up so it looks as |
| 1210s | good as we wanted |
| 1212s | to um but one of the things that were |
| 1214s | really really frustrating with the old |
| 1216s | one and I think a lot of players will |
| 1218s | agree with me is that when you wanted to |
| 1220s | do variations of |
| 1222s | types and it was hard to find the button |
| 1225s | for it it was difficult to set the |
| 1228s | quantity you were crafting thing and it |
| 1230s | was it was like a puzzle game trying to |
| 1232s | do specific things if it wasn't just |
| 1234s | blanked out one type so with the |
| 1237s | introduction of the I AP things we're |
| 1239s | going to be having a whole bunch of new |
| 1242s | variants and and and different types of |
| 1244s | things so we wanted to do a few things |
| 1246s | to increase quality of life on it one |
| 1249s | thing that stands out obviously the |
| 1251s | layout is |
| 1253s | changed um all the recipe ingredients |
| 1255s | are removed from the crafting item lists |
| 1259s | itself so those are listed in just on |
| 1262s | the selection for |
| 1263s | it um the variants also have a new |
| 1267s | column for when you're crafting things |
| 1269s | so you can immediately right here |
| 1273s | interact and click see changes in |
| 1275s | recipes um without being obstructed by |
| 1278s | other |
| 1279s | elements we also added a search |
| 1283s | bar um which is absolutely fantastic I'm |
| 1286s | hoping it works now yeah there's still a |
| 1288s | few like f changes and and color things |
| 1292s | on the text that needs to be sorted out |
| 1295s | but it's uh quite neat quite nice and |
| 1299s | I'm |
| 1300s | hopefully uh hopefully seeing pretty |
| 1303s | pretty substantial use for |
| 1304s | it um another thing for the |
| 1308s | generalization and quality of lighting |
| 1310s | that we wanted to have in there at least |
| 1312s | I really wanted to to be in there um is |
| 1317s | the addition of being able to create |
| 1319s | custom lists for categorization of |
| 1323s | things so when you say you have like |
| 1326s | five different items or 10 different |
| 1329s | items that you want to be having as |
| 1330s | switch quickly be able to |
| 1333s | find um across servers or you know if |
| 1337s | you're doing carpentry you might want to |
| 1338s | be having these things available through |
| 1341s | not having to search for them every time |
| 1342s | or not having to see half the recipes |
| 1345s | that you're never |
| 1347s | using um you can create new custom lists |
| 1351s | so say boards and |
| 1354s | blocks oh yeah |
| 1358s | the still have a slight bug with enter |
| 1360s | not being |
| 1361s | confirmed so now you have a boards and |
| 1363s | blocks list |
| 1365s | here and in the all you can just select |
| 1369s | once you have |
| 1370s | toggleable custom searches you can add |
| 1374s | these things to that specific list so if |
| 1377s | you want to go through |
| 1379s | boards and then we might want to be |
| 1382s | adding a the |
| 1384s | storage and then we can just select that |
| 1387s | list and it'll only contain these |
| 1390s | things and obviously you can just remove |
| 1393s | it and it'll disappear and we also have |
| 1396s | a craftable here so if I do this and |
| 1400s | give let's see let's |
| 1404s | give mind blank completely |
| 1407s | [Music] |
| 1411s | I do that see if this works there we go |
| 1415s | it's it's not updating on on give |
| 1418s | commands but it is when you're dragging |
| 1420s | dropping so now it will Al it will |
| 1423s | detect whatever you have in your |
| 1424s | personal |
| 1426s | inventory and it will also show anything |
| 1430s | that is popping up in your linked |
| 1431s | inventories as well so if we do this and |
| 1435s | let's give a |
| 1437s | stockpile drop that in there drop some |
| 1439s | logs in there we link this |
| 1443s | up and it'll still be it'll find those |
| 1447s | materials out of linked inventories as |
| 1449s | well so now you can have a little bit of |
| 1451s | a a quick check through |
| 1454s | in um will the list be persistent from |
| 1457s | server to server or will you need to |
| 1458s | remake them every time you go to a new |
| 1460s | one uh it should be saved under player |
| 1461s | preferences so it should be contained on |
| 1464s | that local machine but not be it's not |
| 1467s | going to transfer over in |
| 1469s | between system differences but it will |
| 1473s | if you hop servers but still on the same |
| 1479s | PC can you click the canoe let's see one |
| 1481s | that has a yeah has a premium |
| 1487s | varant yeah so you see that one has a |
| 1489s | little icon on it the icon icon graphic |
| 1493s | is pending just just yeah this is just a |
| 1496s | placeholder um as the r team is kind of |
| 1499s | sifting out what what we uh what we want |
| 1503s | there so that's kind of a way people |
| 1505s | discover there's these different skins |
| 1507s | available if they want to have like a |
| 1509s | special looking canoe or different |
| 1511s | objects like that |
| 1512s | that and then if you don't own it it'll |
| 1515s | pop up with hey check it out in |
| 1518s | Marketplace you pop it in there and |
| 1520s | it'll automatically route to the |
| 1521s | marketplace with that selected for |
| 1526s | you very cool so that is hopefully some |
| 1530s | some upgrades to the crafting thing that |
| 1535s | um that you'll uh be dealing with that |
| 1540s | um please can the new account stuff end |
| 1543s | up syncing with those kind of settings |
| 1545s | bindings list preferences and anything |
| 1548s | else uh will be annoying for those |
| 1550s | players who move between machines or |
| 1552s | chair machines in |
| 1555s | specific it's a reasonable request |
| 1558s | probably wouldn't be too hard to |
| 1560s | do store it in your account setting |
| 1562s | somewhere it's like a steam steam has |
| 1565s | some specific steam preference settings |
| 1568s | right probably yeah either put in steam |
| 1571s | or just put in the SLG strange Cloud |
| 1576s | yeah yeah it's definitely something that |
| 1578s | we can look into it it's a it's a sound |
| 1581s | thing to uh take a look |
| 1583s | at be nice to use cloud saves as well |
| 1585s | but I don't think we can fit an Eco |
| 1587s | world in the cloud save |
| 1589s | no no that that' be a little bit too |
| 1592s | Hefty I |
| 1595s | think um are the fractional ingredients |
| 1598s | cost visible when modules are inside |
| 1600s | workbenches no and it's |
| 1603s | been it's something that I've been kind |
| 1608s | of questionably looking at it it maybe |
| 1612s | you have an idea on that John um so when |
| 1614s | you have an upgrade |
| 1616s | module we so if we just grab one car |
| 1620s | corpentry |
| 1622s | table here basic |
| 1627s | upgrade we do this just to |
| 1631s | uh just kind of deal with that um so |
| 1634s | when we have a module up and it reduces |
| 1636s | the cost of |
| 1638s | things um you end up with that like |
| 1641s | fractional cost of ingredient input but |
| 1645s | we're we're summarizing we're rounding |
| 1647s | up the value |
| 1650s | because we're not entirely like if you |
| 1652s | if you just make one but you have 75 |
| 1655s | cost it'll still consume a whole unit |
| 1657s | which is why we're representing it as a |
| 1659s | whole |
| 1662s | unit yeah maybe we just show the |
| 1664s | decimals there and like inform people |
| 1667s | that it's it's going to round it up yeah |
| 1670s | maybe it's it's easier if like people |
| 1672s | will notice that hey |
| 1675s | 75 and then it eats one if you just make |
| 1679s | one yeah so they can add a few to get |
| 1682s | that to more of a round number yeah they |
| 1685s | want P padman's commenting on that that |
| 1688s | new players are often overpricing stuff |
| 1691s | because of it as they calculate based |
| 1693s | off what they see on the UI and not the |
| 1694s | actual cost for |
| 1697s | things |
| 1700s | interesting um so that's our crafting UI |
| 1704s | change hopefully we can get some some |
| 1706s | good feedback um estimation for 10.3 |
| 1710s | release we |
| 1712s | have play tests kind of looming around |
| 1714s | the corner don't want to give an exact |
| 1716s | date for it yet but we are getting very |
| 1719s | close I think is is the |
| 1722s | best kind of statement you'll get for |
| 1726s | it um but it it is it is getting closer |
| 1730s | it is definitely getting closer um we're |
| 1733s | at the moment um people who are working |
| 1736s | on the strange Cloud Things Are digging |
| 1739s | through the account migrations to make |
| 1740s | sure that our old database is moved over |
| 1743s | to the new one so all the U all the |
| 1746s | general information um and making sure |
| 1749s | that everyone can log in on staging once |
| 1751s | we do play test launch so we don't run |
| 1754s | into General problems with that um as |
| 1757s | well as bringing over all the all the |
| 1758s | old information with like icons and |
| 1760s | everything else that was tied to that |
| 1762s | like back a rewards and and all the |
| 1764s | other details um so it's going to be a |
| 1766s | whole new set of databases for for that |
| 1769s | information and hopefully everything |
| 1770s | will run a heck of a lot better than it |
| 1772s | is |
| 1773s | currently um you know knock on wood um |
| 1778s | as you should be doing in this |
| 1781s | case |
| 1783s | uh uh so that's the off system we got |
| 1787s | the IP hopefully addressed most of the |
| 1790s | potential like pay to win concerns |
| 1792s | people had um outdoor room furniture and |
| 1797s | new block sets maybe something to bring |
| 1799s | up since we're on the marketplace |
| 1801s | stream uh let me |
| 1804s | grab grab a Dev |
| 1807s | tool |
| 1812s | um we can do let's do some so as we're |
| 1817s | talking about the IP thing and and on |
| 1818s | the on the topic of pay to win uh switch |
| 1822s | that over so the field types works |
| 1824s | properly um I was mentioning that we |
| 1826s | want to make sure that each each thing |
| 1828s | that you're adding and each thing that |
| 1829s | you're interacting with from a |
| 1831s | Marketplace standpoint has an equivalent |
| 1835s | version um of kind of interaction |
| 1838s | default wise so this is one of our |
| 1842s | new Garden type blocks that doesn't |
| 1845s | really have a point value to it but just |
| 1848s | something that you can |
| 1850s | add |
| 1851s | uh add some things we still have some |
| 1854s | some some minor build glitches going on |
| 1856s | with uh with interactions you might want |
| 1859s | to take a look |
| 1861s | at um I got coming yeah we do that and |
| 1866s | then give garden pond as one of |
| 1871s | the going to have oh yeah it's |
| 1875s | 3x3 so this is default stock vanilla |
| 1880s | enabled so everyone's going to be able |
| 1881s | to grab this and just craft it build it |
| 1884s | if they have the profession for it and |
| 1886s | then we also have some world the objects |
| 1889s | that we're cooking up that is kind of |
| 1890s | matching in with the environment don't |
| 1892s | mind the material missing um Toby has |
| 1895s | fixed that I just it's it's pending |
| 1898s | Shader update so that'll be nice |
| 1902s | green cutesy |
| 1904s | setting um and this brings us into kind |
| 1907s | of the coziness improvements that we're |
| 1909s | looking |
| 1914s | for yeah we got some other pretty |
| 1916s | exciting stuff coming for that too |
| 1919s | um one big thing we're going to have in |
| 1921s | 10 three is the same way that you can |
| 1924s | give reputation to paintings you'll be |
| 1925s | able to give reputation to |
| 1928s | properties uh so you can rate it and |
| 1930s | it'll start to generate culture so this |
| 1932s | is like if someone makes a really cool |
| 1933s | piece of architecture you can put this |
| 1935s | plaque object and people will be able to |
| 1938s | interact with it and rate the |
| 1939s | architecture which will then generate |
| 1942s | culture uh and for settlements that |
| 1945s | culture will you know be treated as |
| 1947s | normal and increase the total value |
| 1949s | increases the influence uh but you can |
| 1951s | also get culture bonuses on your |
| 1953s | residence too so you make a really cool |
| 1955s | house and people are rating it highly uh |
| 1958s | you'll actually get some housing value |
| 1961s | boost it'll apply a multiplier there |
| 1963s | based on the the culture value that you |
| 1965s | generate yeah I was I was hoping to have |
| 1967s | that done prior to the stream but we |
| 1969s | didn't really have a a good |
| 1971s | placeholder object to kind of shove that |
| 1974s | component in but |
| 1976s | yeah it'll be a also outdoor objects are |
| 1979s | going to start generating housing points |
| 1982s | too yeah and that that was bringing me |
| 1985s | into what I was going to do here let's |
| 1988s | grab give Homestead claim |
| 1992s | Stak so as we uh as we really wanted to |
| 1997s | looking at the IP things and and just |
| 1999s | like Decor in |
| 2001s | general um one of the things that we uh |
| 2004s | we have been wanting for a while I think |
| 2006s | at least me you've been on the verge as |
| 2008s | well quite a few times is we have |
| 2011s | General housing and progression benefits |
| 2014s | from cramping Furniture indoors and |
| 2016s | building you know rooms and houses and |
| 2018s | and kind of upgrading with different |
| 2020s | Furniture escalating for giving you |
| 2023s | higher experience gain back and forth |
| 2026s | but it was all indoors and it was all |
| 2028s | things that you generally just hid |
| 2031s | away and we wanted to increase a general |
| 2035s | Ambience feeling outdoor and kind of add |
| 2037s | value and give rewards for people that |
| 2041s | did kind of beautify their area which is |
| 2043s | bringing which brings us into that all |
| 2046s | be able to rate people's homes basically |
| 2049s | uh which adds another benefit to |
| 2052s | it uh but also straight out straight out |
| 2055s | from from the housing mechanics |
| 2059s | system um directly give you rewards for |
| 2063s | adding things and one of the |
| 2066s | clearcut um things we wanted to do there |
| 2069s | is just uh we already have some of the |
| 2072s | things some of the assets that was |
| 2074s | related to being placed Outdoors like |
| 2076s | really big fountains or street lights |
| 2079s | and and outdoor decor in general but it |
| 2082s | wasn't really utilized in the way we |
| 2084s | wanted it to so having some new Garden |
| 2088s | blocks and some new visual background |
| 2091s | stuff that you can build um but we also |
| 2095s | straight out improved and and made a |
| 2098s | system to deal with outdoor as a housing |
| 2101s | room uh so we could |
| 2104s | do what do we want to do Granite uh what |
| 2109s | was that thing called yeah let's grab |
| 2111s | the Terrace |
| 2112s | Fountain so one of the new default stock |
| 2116s | items in |
| 2118s | here um and it's properly |
| 2126s | not oh yeah it it's got |
| 2128s | it's got General outdoor penalty because |
| 2130s | outdoor is currently tied to the rest of |
| 2132s | the the house value itself similar to |
| 2135s | how bathroom works uh but here you can |
| 2137s | see that outdoor is actually a new room |
| 2141s | that acts in uniform with the rest of |
| 2143s | the house so if you |
| 2145s | build if you build up your house and you |
| 2147s | add a garden you add a bunch of things |
| 2149s | in your garden related to outdoor values |
| 2154s | which we can go in here and go |
| 2156s | housing and we have the outdoor thing |
| 2159s | here so these are all the things that |
| 2161s | have been moved from being like generic |
| 2163s | decorative things to being specifically |
| 2166s | giving points towards an outdoor |
| 2169s | value and things like the buntings the |
| 2172s | banners we've got new uh window Planters |
| 2176s | and some other stuff the brazers and and |
| 2178s | kind of the the big Open Flame lighting |
| 2182s | has been moved out uh we got the garden |
| 2184s | pond that I placed down we also have the |
| 2186s | premium version of it which is should be |
| 2188s | showing here |
| 2189s | but cor bond which it's a bit sad |
| 2193s | because it's got non non-proper material |
| 2196s | fish in it they look really nice in with |
| 2199s | the new Shader |
| 2200s | updates radioactive fish yeah right now |
| 2203s | it's it's it's purple radioactive |
| 2206s | fish |
| 2208s | um but those gives you those are giving |
| 2211s | you |
| 2212s | direct or did Unity just freak out no |
| 2214s | there we go um so they give you direct |
| 2217s | outdoor |
| 2218s | value um and Furnishing value for |
| 2221s | placing stuff outdoor so that's another |
| 2222s | kind of point of bonus amplification |
| 2225s | that just making things pretty |
| 2227s | interacting with your outdoor |
| 2228s | environment not just in your house gives |
| 2230s | you a value as well um and that's kind |
| 2233s | of building into that one of the yeah go |
| 2237s | one of the big kind of design directions |
| 2240s | that I've always liked for Eco is that |
| 2243s | we want to tie together the fact that |
| 2244s | making something look |
| 2246s | cool benefits you in the game game so |
| 2249s | that was one part that I always thought |
| 2250s | was missing is you can make your outdoor |
| 2252s | area look really awesome but it didn't |
| 2254s | tie into your housing value at all uh |
| 2257s | and similarly uh the architecture and |
| 2260s | the style that you do wasn't really |
| 2261s | tying into the housing value but now we |
| 2263s | have this ability to rate the |
| 2264s | architecture which will tie directly |
| 2267s | into the housing value so it's really |
| 2269s | you know as we're adding to Eco we're |
| 2271s | kind of connecting these things together |
| 2273s | so that the creativity that players are |
| 2275s | doing in the game is reflecting in |
| 2278s | actual uh gameplay uh advancements |
| 2284s | too and then we have some of the things |
| 2288s | that we have in mind for uh for later on |
| 2292s | with animal |
| 2293s | husbandry um they're making an |
| 2296s | appearance um at the |
| 2298s | moment but uh we are going to want to |
| 2301s | tie some actual functionality into the |
| 2303s | scarecrows as |
| 2305s | well |
| 2306s | so you have the the the default kind of |
| 2309s | stock version which is the Scarecrow and |
| 2312s | then you have a little bit touched up |
| 2317s | um happier scarecrow he's trying to give |
| 2320s | you a big hug |
| 2325s | here uh so yeah there's there's a lot of |
| 2328s | a lot of new assets coming with this |
| 2330s | there's a lot of new cool Decor |
| 2332s | stuff |
| 2334s | uh and while on the subject of the Cor |
| 2338s | as painting has always been a pretty |
| 2341s | pretty big topic since we brought it up |
| 2345s | um we're continuingly to experiment with |
| 2348s | some |
| 2349s | new uh |
| 2352s | to |
| 2354s | paint what is that thing |
| 2359s | called the paint tool |
| 2362s | yeah uh and I I don't know have you seen |
| 2365s | this yet John we were me and me and M |
| 2368s | we're cooking around with the new |
| 2369s | painting upgrades so we're dealing with |
| 2372s | one of the things that we came up as an |
| 2374s | as an issue that I was going back and |
| 2377s | forth with Toby about was General color |
| 2381s | density and like the the general layer |
| 2383s | opacity of the color itself so if you |
| 2387s | had depending on the material you were |
| 2389s | running into problems where some colors |
| 2391s | would having a really big Impact versus |
| 2394s | other colors of the blocks that would |
| 2397s | completely kind of cast out the |
| 2399s | detailing of the |
| 2400s | block |
| 2403s | um and it was |
| 2406s | causing like basically |
| 2409s | you turning an object Black versus |
| 2412s | turning it tinted black had such a |
| 2414s | profound difference with the Shader |
| 2416s | settings that we were experimenting with |
| 2419s | so and with that experimentation came |
| 2422s | out um coding |
| 2424s | setting we're looking at so instead of |
| 2427s | just having a default stock as we're |
| 2430s | dealing with the the just the dev paint |
| 2431s | thing here |
| 2434s | um you would in with the regular tool |
| 2437s | you craft the paint using the paint |
| 2440s | mixing table and then you drag it into |
| 2443s | paint gun that you're |
| 2445s | using uh but with the dev paint tool it |
| 2447s | works similar to the dev block Builder |
| 2450s | but for painting |
| 2452s | instead uh but on the paint tools now |
| 2454s | you have a coding selection so you can |
| 2456s | select the opacity of the paint you're |
| 2460s | painting which gives you a much much |
| 2463s | higher degree of interaction even with |
| 2465s | the same paint that you're using to kind |
| 2469s | of view it as different layers of |
| 2472s | thickness to |
| 2474s | it uh while still wanting to maintain |
| 2477s | kind of the same shade that you were |
| 2481s | after that's great I havn't seen that |
| 2484s | yet and and that's kind of sprung just |
| 2486s | from The General mentations we were |
| 2488s | doing kind of getting the colors shaders |
| 2491s | and everything to be tweaked correctly |
| 2493s | we realized that hey this is just a |
| 2495s | super super simple addition that we can |
| 2496s | just throw in and gives players that |
| 2501s | direct element control where they might |
| 2503s | just want a a smidget of the color or |
| 2507s | they want it really really thick but |
| 2509s | still see the kind of have the |
| 2511s | background material gleam |
| 2514s | through um we see some Mona Lisa is |
| 2517s | getting painted with this thing pretty |
| 2520s | quickly yeah there there's there's a lot |
| 2522s | of a lot of potential and a lot of voice |
| 2526s | people can be using it and |
| 2529s | uh really looking forward to uh to |
| 2531s | seeing that so hopefully hopefully |
| 2533s | people appreciate those changes you can |
| 2536s | also run paint |
| 2539s | mixing um the changes |
| 2542s | and more of the finalized UI for it so |
| 2547s | we had mixing station there's I think we |
| 2550s | still have one more pass that Mike is |
| 2552s | looking for UI wise they do like a reset |
| 2555s | save reset button switcher so this is |
| 2559s | not entirely final so when you're mixing |
| 2562s | a paint you can interact with it um and |
| 2566s | you can see the preview for it and then |
| 2568s | you also see the quantity of base paint |
| 2570s | is required to make it and it'll fetch |
| 2574s | stuff out of your linked inventory and |
| 2576s | out of its internal or it's internal |
| 2578s | inventory I believe we settled |
| 2580s | for um and then you can just change the |
| 2584s | color gradient for it you can save it as |
| 2588s | different shades so this is also one of |
| 2590s | the things that we're saving in player |
| 2592s | preference as |
| 2593s | well um so you are retaining this over |
| 2597s | different |
| 2601s | servers um and it you can clear it and |
| 2606s | can of do whichever and once you have a |
| 2607s | mix you're happy with and you want to |
| 2608s | make a whole buttload of buckets you can |
| 2610s | just ramp up and it'll scale the cost |
| 2613s | and it'll go up to 500 I think in one |
| 2617s | batch um and then you just have it in |
| 2620s | your inventory or have it in in the |
| 2623s | object inventory and off you |
| 2626s | go I like about this is that the paint |
| 2630s | is represented by items uh so you can |
| 2633s | you can imagine paint stores that have |
| 2635s | just like a bunch of different colors |
| 2636s | for sale you know color palets that |
| 2638s | people have kind of uh customized and |
| 2641s | put out there so you'll have some pretty |
| 2643s | interesting little connection to the |
| 2644s | economy there |
| 2645s | too yeah so that's another kind of |
| 2649s | element added to that whole coziness and |
| 2651s | making sure people can make their own |
| 2653s | kind of touches on buildings and and get |
| 2657s | things going even just expanding the |
| 2660s | creativity |
| 2663s | level um and as as per you do have like |
| 2667s | from from a server setup perspective or |
| 2669s | if you want to do like just play |
| 2670s | creatively and just do massive artworks |
| 2673s | because you like the paint interaction |
| 2675s | or whatnot you have the dev paint tool |
| 2678s | that just doesn't consume paint when |
| 2680s | you're dealing with it and can kind of |
| 2682s | play |
| 2684s | around |
| 2687s | um |
| 2689s | yeah pretty happy with that the only |
| 2691s | thing that we have kind of left on the |
| 2693s | agenda for this stream |
| 2695s | was was some of the prev stuff but I |
| 2698s | have not I have actually not toggled |
| 2700s | that on and tested it properly yet and I |
| 2703s | also haven't gotten to was going to do |
| 2706s | this this week but then I was pretty |
| 2709s | pretty bad last week so things kind of |
| 2711s | got pushed um off grid placement um or |
| 2716s | you know off off tile placement is a |
| 2719s | crazy new Endeavor that we're diving |
| 2723s | into um uh not sure what I need to do I |
| 2727s | think |
| 2728s | is it going to be live or I need to |
| 2730s | restart I made a change today that's not |
| 2733s | in staging yet so have to Dem yeah so |
| 2736s | that'll that'll get its own proper |
| 2738s | stream but it's not entirely done for |
| 2742s | 10.3 so it's it's kind of earmarked to |
| 2745s | ship and go live on |
| 2747s | 10.4 but we do have plans for Like An |
| 2751s | Early Access preview package of it so |
| 2754s | you can toggle it on to test it out and |
| 2757s | see how how and what and and how again |
| 2762s | um as noticed so inside um the gameplay |
| 2765s | category under features or in the |
| 2768s | feature config file if you don't have |
| 2769s | access to the GUI you have that |
| 2772s | placement on Surface |
| 2774s | Boolean and it is set for faults for |
| 2777s | default for 10.3 it will it it will be |
| 2779s | flipped on for |
| 2781s | 10.4 um and it allows you to have free |
| 2784s | reain placement on objects so |
| 2788s | things like rugs includings too so you |
| 2791s | can lay down like a big rug and then you |
| 2793s | can arrange your furniture at any |
| 2795s | rotation you want any position you want |
| 2797s | so you can just get a lot more creative |
| 2799s | with how you lay out your uh your houses |
| 2802s | and your items also tabletops you can |
| 2805s | put all kinds of interesting items on |
| 2806s | tabletops including food so you'll be |
| 2808s | able to see the food out there uh you |
| 2810s | can also set up stores so you can put |
| 2812s | items out on a table and Mark each of |
| 2814s | them for sale so now you have a store |
| 2816s | where all the items they're not in |
| 2818s | chests they're actually on this table so |
| 2821s | it'll be some uh pretty cool looking uh |
| 2823s | new stores will come out of this too I |
| 2826s | think |
| 2827s | yeah so one of the one of the big |
| 2832s | conundrums we had or or you know we're |
| 2834s | still kind of having is what do we deal |
| 2837s | with a lot of the general Decor that we |
| 2840s | have in some of the |
| 2843s | objects um and kind of how far do we |
| 2846s | want to take placement allowability |
| 2850s | because it's also a matter of kind of |
| 2853s | showcasing and and instructing the |
| 2855s | player in they can do this |
| 2857s | here but why can't they do it over |
| 2861s | here so leaning towards if we wanted to |
| 2865s | just kind of rip out some of the assets |
| 2866s | and make like book books and more |
| 2870s | knickknacks Decor wise surrounding it or |
| 2874s | if we just want to have kind of some |
| 2877s | some things where you can't place it and |
| 2878s | some places where you can't so say the |
| 2880s | bookshelf might have one empty shelf |
| 2882s | that you can place stuff on but not on |
| 2884s | the other three um if you have thoughts |
| 2887s | opinions and questions surrounding it |
| 2889s | and just want to give feedback |
| 2891s | surrounding ideas of that pop in mod on |
| 2895s | Discord you also have the address for |
| 2896s | the canny uh feedback section please pop |
| 2900s | in there and drop whatever feedback you |
| 2904s | might have it's easier for us to track |
| 2906s | it over there uh that way doesn't get |
| 2908s | lost in kind of the Myriad of other uh |
| 2912s | of other channel feedbacks we |
| 2916s | get um yeah I think a lot of the people |
| 2919s | in this you know watching our streams |
| 2921s | will probably be turning on this preview |
| 2922s | feature so it'll be great to get |
| 2924s | feedback on it uh prior to its full |
| 2927s | release uh we kind of we wanted to |
| 2929s | improve a lot of the World objects too |
| 2931s | like right now the tables are up to |
| 2934s | they're meter high just because we had a |
| 2936s | limitation with putting stuff on can |
| 2939s | only be placed on grid but with this |
| 2941s | change you won't have to do that so |
| 2942s | we're going to shrink them down to be a |
| 2943s | little more realistic size so it'll just |
| 2946s | kind of make things look nicer and more |
| 2947s | appropriate uh size based as well so |
| 2950s | that'll be part of the 10.4 uh release |
| 2953s | for that |
| 2954s | feature yeah um padman has a Marketplace |
| 2959s | question on will Community hosted |
| 2961s | servers be able to add servers specific |
| 2964s | unique items to the marketplace store or |
| 2967s | even moders adding their kind of content |
| 2971s | there eventually yes that is the goal um |
| 2975s | for this first release it'll just be our |
| 2977s | store where we make Cosmetics but I |
| 2978s | absolutely want to get ugc in there get |
| 2981s | people able to create stuff uh try some |
| 2984s | interesting business models too like you |
| 2985s | can make a mod and then any server that |
| 2988s | uses that mod you the modder will get a |
| 2991s | percent of uh Eco credits being spent in |
| 2994s | that |
| 2995s | world so then there's a you know a nice |
| 2997s | incentive for modders to create cool |
| 2999s | stuff that could get used |
| 3001s | widely so yeah lots we want to do with |
| 3004s | that this is really just the beginning |
| 3005s | of |
| 3008s | that and yeah a bit of every purchase |
| 3010s | goes to |
| 3012s | charity um people should check that out |
| 3014s | the ocean cleanup is this really cool |
| 3015s | charity that's basically removing |
| 3017s | massive amounts of trash from the |
| 3020s | oceans yeah they they |
| 3022s | are they are they are kind of among |
| 3025s | among my favorite content in general |
| 3027s | they're doing some pretty pretty nifty |
| 3029s | things and the the big important |
| 3032s | part for us looking at it was trying to |
| 3035s | find a good charity that deals with |
| 3038s | improving technology to help with that |
| 3041s | cleanup or or help mitigate General |
| 3044s | damage cost um rather than kind of |
| 3048s | restricting limiting and and just |
| 3050s | removing things from people lives we'd |
| 3053s | rather opt to focus on helping people |
| 3057s | instead and help you generally improving |
| 3059s | the environment um with |
| 3063s | that is is any of the percentage credit |
| 3066s | profit going towards the game master |
| 3074s | teams you it's not a bad idea we should |
| 3076s | throw them a |
| 3077s | tip but yeah in terms of the charity |
| 3080s | that we're choosing we it's exactly as |
| 3082s | you said we want something that's kind |
| 3083s | of matches the Eco Vibe which is you |
| 3086s | know you're you're still progressing as |
| 3090s | a society you're still building and |
| 3091s | creating but you're doing in a way that |
| 3093s | is mindful of your environment you're |
| 3095s | not trying to just stop creation |
| 3097s | entirely you're you're using technology |
| 3099s | and advancement to improve it so I |
| 3101s | thought this one matched up pretty |
| 3105s | well |
| 3107s | someone's my door alpen glow um you |
| 3112s | won't be able to access the store in so |
| 3115s | question being don't know what happens |
| 3116s | if you buy things when you're not on a |
| 3118s | server or not in a settlement um the |
| 3120s | settlement thing is still kind of being |
| 3123s | revised and and looked at because it's |
| 3125s | going to be pretty hard to get in a safe |
| 3130s | functionality |
| 3132s | wise um but as for General purchases |
| 3136s | when it comes to the server registration |
| 3137s | and everything else um you can't access |
| 3140s | the store if you're not on a server so |
| 3143s | you cannot make that purchase unless you |
| 3145s | have that world reference |
| 3150s | yep yeah so you got to you make your |
| 3152s | purchases inside of a world uh we do |
| 3155s | have something that we wanted to avoid |
| 3158s | people creating their own server or |
| 3160s | their friend creates a server and then |
| 3162s | they purchase stuff in there just to get |
| 3164s | that you know 15 or 20% back to them |
| 3167s | we'd rather have it go to actual server |
| 3169s | host so it doesn't need to be a public |
| 3170s | server that has you know some people |
| 3174s | that have played for a little bit of |
| 3176s | time |
| 3178s | yeah |
| 3180s | um Pondo purchases server bound or |
| 3183s | account bound they're account bound per |
| 3185s | server so if you have 500 I you know 500 |
| 3189s | blocks You Can Craft You Can Craft those |
| 3192s | 500 blocks on each server you |
| 3195s | visit um Can unrestricted in that |
| 3200s | manner uh Mishka on with servers moders |
| 3205s | Etc receiving a cut of purchases are |
| 3207s | those coins only going to be spendable |
| 3209s | for further Eco coin items or are they |
| 3211s | convertible back to steam credit IR |
| 3213s | money |
| 3215s | um running a server and getting 500 |
| 3218s | coins due to players purchasing things |
| 3220s | does this mean I just have continuous |
| 3222s | free fancy scarecrow Supply or can I |
| 3224s | convert those coins into RL money to um |
| 3227s | to somehow pay for server upkeeps and so |
| 3229s | on |
| 3238s | um did I lose John here for a |
| 3241s | second uh I think he had he had he had a |
| 3246s | door doorbell ringing um but yeah the |
| 3250s | answer is is that's the general |
| 3253s | goal |
| 3254s | um and we were also looking |
| 3258s | into |
| 3260s | um contributing and attributing that |
| 3264s | to uh like direct server fee cost and so |
| 3267s | on depending on Services you |
| 3269s | use um so there are a few a few kind of |
| 3273s | networked paths that we're investigating |
| 3276s | how it would be done |
| 3278s | overall um as well as over what time |
| 3281s | period we're talking about so it doesn't |
| 3283s | it might not happen once a month it |
| 3285s | might be |
| 3285s | quarterly um I think that was the |
| 3288s | information that was on on the general |
| 3290s | info |
| 3292s | screen um the charity distribution no |
| 3295s | the just in the the distribution in |
| 3298s | general so if we attributing to server |
| 3301s | owners as well as uh moders how those |
| 3306s | would be received |
| 3308s | and the ability to convert them into |
| 3310s | somehow managing to pay like server |
| 3312s | upkeep and so |
| 3314s | on yeah we'll have a way that you can |
| 3316s | directly spend Eco credits for |
| 3319s | hosting um we won't have a way to |
| 3321s | extract them into actual money at least |
| 3324s | for a |
| 3325s | while but that is a longer term thing we |
| 3328s | want to look at um but basically now |
| 3330s | you'll be able to spend it on a few |
| 3332s | things like uh the Eco Marketplace that |
| 3334s | we showed you uh you'll be able to spend |
| 3336s | on hosting and I want to also allow it |
| 3338s | to buy uh copies of the game so you can |
| 3341s | buy friends who don't play the game |
| 3343s | copies of it if you've made a bunch of |
| 3345s | Eco credits through mods or |
| 3348s | hosting so |
| 3350s | yeah be a nice foundation for future |
| 3354s | stuff yeah |
| 3357s | I think is there any any general |
| 3359s | question |
| 3360s | that |
| 3364s | uh uh something not clear can you please |
| 3367s | explain again how to avoid fake servers |
| 3369s | created only to get shares from |
| 3372s | Marketplace yeah so we detect if a |
| 3375s | server is public and if it's had players |
| 3377s | on it um right now if you've had four |
| 3380s | players who played more than 5 hours |
| 3383s | each or you have 10 players who played |
| 3386s | more than two hours each then you become |
| 3388s | eligible uh for the tax I we're still |
| 3390s | kind of working out those numbers but |
| 3392s | basically if you have an active public |
| 3394s | server then you're eligible for that |
| 3396s | kind of 20% cut of everything that's |
| 3398s | purchased inside of that |
| 3403s | world um how how does it get split in |
| 3407s | between mods like how would the server |
| 3409s | know which mods are installed and which |
| 3411s | would which would get which cut but I |
| 3413s | think that would be related |
| 3414s | to it's a bit hard depend depending on |
| 3417s | the mod the type of mod like if it's an |
| 3420s | interaction mod versus here's a new |
| 3423s | object kind of thing so there's there's |
| 3426s | a lot of kind of pitfalls that we're |
| 3428s | looking into and investigating to make |
| 3430s | sure that we don't fall into |
| 3433s | everyone um yeah that's going to be |
| 3436s | something we still got to figure out |
| 3437s | specifics for uh but general idea is |
| 3440s | that we have we have some path that |
| 3441s | modders can get cuts of this ego credits |
| 3449s | uh do we have |
| 3453s | any I think that covers most of |
| 3457s | it got a quite a few quite a few good |
| 3461s | questions and I think we answered most |
| 3464s | of it and as always you know if you have |
| 3466s | further questions don't hesitate pop in |
| 3468s | over on the Discord |
| 3470s | and um got the dev hangout where I |
| 3474s | usually make a daily appearance in some |
| 3476s | Capac |
| 3478s | um also get a hold of some of our other |
| 3482s | developers running into things and or QA |
| 3485s | team when when we run into |
| 3487s | issues |
| 3489s | um yeah it's been great to having you |
| 3492s | here |
| 3493s | again um fun do these more often yeah |
| 3497s | you're you're definitely most welcome |
| 3500s | um great to hear people's feed too and |
| 3503s | I'm glad that people are you know |
| 3505s | recognizing that this is something I was |
| 3508s | a little nervous about anytime you add |
| 3509s | Ina purchase to a game people can get |
| 3511s | upset about it but at least people on |
| 3514s | the stream seem to be |
| 3515s | very recognize that this is going to add |
| 3518s | a lot of value to Eco it's going to add |
| 3519s | a lot of long-term support for us and |
| 3521s | just open up supporting the game in a |
| 3524s | much broader capacity uh so I think it |
| 3527s | should be great for |
| 3528s | everybody yeah and I think just an just |
| 3532s | just the important kind of transparency |
| 3535s | of when we're doing this we're also |
| 3537s | trying to deal with |
| 3540s | just avoiding the whole notion of just |
| 3544s | because you pull in a bunch of money on |
| 3545s | on something you get immediately |
| 3547s | successful at it kind of you know |
| 3551s | evading that with making sure that you |
| 3553s | still need the original items to craft |
| 3555s | the things um so they might they're |
| 3558s | never going to be cheaper they're never |
| 3560s | going to be better |
| 3563s | um like I mentioned early on a lot of |
| 3566s | the times they might be more expensive |
| 3567s | because they might have an additional |
| 3569s | thing um each new array of Ip things |
| 3572s | we're aiming to have make sure that we |
| 3574s | have a base variant that it is coming |
| 3577s | off on so we're never just going to drop |
| 3579s | out and just do like 40 new IP items and |
| 3583s | not a single one that just like |
| 3587s | non-paying uh players don't have access |
| 3591s | to um so making sure that we can tiptoe |
| 3594s | that balance between building up the |
| 3597s | base game versus just adding like |
| 3601s | premium content that not everyone can |
| 3603s | take a part |
| 3604s | of um I think just having that having |
| 3609s | that balance firmly affixed in what |
| 3612s | players can expect out of it um it's |
| 3615s | just going to be very |
| 3618s | um very helpful going forward with |
| 3623s | it yeah definitely be a new era it'll |
| 3627s | will it it definitely will um but yeah |
| 3630s | thank you so much for coming and uh |
| 3633s | everyone else I will catch you on the |
| 3635s | next stream hopefully we'll have the bit |
| 3637s | more to show up with the with the |
| 3639s | offgrid thing that for testing we also |
| 3642s | have um we also have a new attachment |
| 3646s | for the steam tractor that we can show |
| 3649s | off then I'm |
| 3651s | hoping |
| 3653s | um and some other cool stuff um some |
| 3656s | more out Door furniture and whatnot |
| 3659s | um yeah have a great weekend everyone |
| 3664s | and uh catch you on the next one take |
| 3669s | care great ch |