[2020] Tweets by Strangeloopgame on 29 Dec

@NoakseyV1 Sorry to hear, but indeed Eco has a extensive law system that allows people to reclaim abandoned property which is quite normal in any game. (See CE or Ark) This requires following the law creation process on your server, though and can hardly be missed. (1/2)

Such laws can be seen in the law overview in the game and i guess there was quite a bit of discussion about those. If you do not wish to have overly short such laws, the official servers limit the minimum unclaim time to five days. (2/2)

@PCurd Eco simulates a society over 30 days, hence it is a game in which you should login at least every few days. While I get your frustation, that stuff is made very transparent on servers and our games description is also quite clear about what game Eco is. (1/2)

This has nothing to do with 'anti-consumer bullsh*t', games are different. Ours is a time-limited simulation (you can play it differently, but thats how it is currently intended) and that comes with great freedom for players to self-govern their server. (2/2)

@NoakseyV1 It can be found in the law menu that you should frequently check and notifications are made as well. It's not in the server browser, as it's not a server setting, but a player-made law based on the player made government that can look however they want.

@Belzie_Gaming Choosing one of the official servers or one of the big community servers with good admins and active discord communities is indeed recommendable :)

@GWLUX Actually just part of our holiday update :)

@F_Senio Yes, it's planned to be :)

@snarkipelago That's definately a nice idea, but I'm not sure if this alone could help given laws can be changed at any time, even when you are offline. For Eco on multiplayer servers it's key to check the legislation regularily. (1/2)

I get that's hard to know for new players so I'll suggest a point in the tutorial for this. (2/2)

@NoakseyV1 That's what we did, but given Eco is meant to be extremely player driven it is very hard to 'game-design' this. Laws may be changed at any time and with enough majority immediately and even into a dictatorship - while you are offline. (1/2)

That is intended gameplay, hence checking regularily on the server is indeed key. For now I suggested a tutorial point that raises awareness for this. (2/2)

@nightblade99 There is no general limit, if there is one then the limit is decided by the admins and no limit is intentional as different servers run for different times. (7 or 14 days for example) (1/2)

In the end we do not want to impose forced limits on this, as the voting majority typically has good reason for this. On the official servers we just use 5 days as a comprise between being able to be take a few days off and active players needs. (2/2)

Maybe another addition: Especially the official servers are quite intensive and most players login every day and have good amounts of play time each day, hence being offline for more than 5 days sets you back a lot and damages the economy.

@Shane_Partlow As in any game of this kind it's up the admin to decide what's fine and what's not on their servers, that is true. Community servers with active discord typically keep you up to date as well so they're usually a good choice.

@NoakseyV1 Did you try to talk to the government of the server? I've seen governments giving stuff back or setting you up (depending on your stuff is already being reused) on request a lot.

@snarkipelago Well, that's good feedback. Being honest, laws are such a key part of Eco I was under the impression people know of that key feature. I was wrong and am sorry for that! We'll make sure it's made more prominent.

@NoakseyV1 That's miserable behaviour by that government official. They have every tool available to get you back setup if they wanted. Official servers typically start each friday, so maybe try one of those next time, people are usually very helpful there. (1/2)

You might want to avoid Coast Redwood though, as that's a 'near-zero rules' server where everything goes. (2/2)

@Leaderkilla Singleplayer shouldn't cause that very same issue, as legislation plays no role in singleplayer. With low collaboration settings, half the recipe costs and speeding up of plant growth (for that mail us / check discord, too long for Twitter) it should work very well.

@NoakseyV1 Depends on your timezone, I'm in CET. :) Where are you?

@Leaderkilla Time to get back to it! ;)