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Yes, sorry, I confused you with u/SoopahCoopah there, that is my fault.

Your calorie idea sounds like different approach to our in-development stamina / exhaustion (not to be confused with the server exhaustion feature) feature that is doing a very similar thing. There the problem is much more though that there is and will be massive resistance from our more 'invested' players against this feature set as the last thing they want to do is being forced to put their mining equipment out of their hands for even a single minute to do something else. I can sense a bit of a possible "Cart Controls debacle" there, so it's a feature we take especially long time and will do several extensive playtests on before we even consider presenting more details or releasing it to the public.

Let's spin that further:

In such case we also shouldn't have talents like allowing players to pick up all rubble in an area for a cheap single click. We still have it, because it is convenient and we like the collaboration aspect when two people collaborate. We're currently finishing up the talent rework that will provide unique talents for all our professions and we do have several other convenience things, but also a lot 'realistic' things.

I also saw you mentioned elsewhere that just mining by hand may be more calorie-efficient. I did not do the math myself and hence need to trust the work the balance team did, but they state that is not the case. Even if it was, the way to address that would be to make the manual labour less overpowered in comparison to machines that are supposed to feel like giving you the option to quickly and efficiently do things - they're not mainly intended to save calories. We actually do have changes coming adressing the fast levelling f...

I don't really see how it doesn't make much sense. Operating heavy machinery is a very hard job consuming lots of calories compared to an office job. But even if you believed that isn't the case, Eco has a lot of things it does for sole balance reasons, less for sense. (The way we 'wear and tear' barrels or in 9.6 the much shorter spoil rate for basic foods for the very same balance reasons are just some examples - at some point we need to abstract, typically players tend to point on the very fact stuff shouldn't always make sense as well)

It goes without saying that implementing a system like you suggested is a whole new feature that will take months to be correctly implemented, functioning, balanced and tested, while smaller changes are much more effective in that regard without introducing unecessary complexity, especially when we already have other plans for that:

In regards to storage, as I have mentioned a few times, the whole option to transfer things via UIs...

We at least have no plans to do so, but the calorie use is pretty minimal. We plan to monitor it and adapt the amount of calories it takes if it turns out too little or too much.

It is a very helpful change, as those machines are the main reason for reduced calorie usage in the later game. And yes, we're aware of what someone else had already said on Steam, the current workings of late-game making people only eat cheap food, but that is not effecting the quantity of calories being used, just the quality.

Next to food spoiling for basic foods being very restrictive in Update 9.6 we also plan to implement changes further down the road to fix this food quality issue, but the mentioned change here was tested both on normal servers of varying sizes and the one with WT logic, where the problem doesn't exist as much, given players are required to keep their food score up to a specific level to be able to add labour to mid and late game professions.

The feedback tow...

No worries, that is already planned as well.

That is what has been intended, yes.

For friends. They can only be gifted to other e-mails.
Using the licenses in a ToS and rule-abiding way is up to the user, not us.

The changelog is a bit misleading there, it's the bonus damage that was reduced. The base damage of headshots was also reduced.

Oh, don't get me wrong - I specifically avoided saying 'you', but 'one'. The problem is that as soon as other people are involved on a server - even just a few, there guaranteed is someone that does play competetive or would not like other people to have an unfair advantage, they probably also cannot 'balance odds out' themselves, as they don't have the money for it. What is 'amusement' for you, might be a severe hit to their gameplay that they expect to be on common, fair grounds without shenanigans. Hence for me it's the same as cheating - do happily in your single player and co-op games where everyone knows, but as soon as public servers come into play, don't do it. (Other than if everyone is fine with it)

The hermit living on it's own just liking to have a bit of interaction with others, but mostly playing for themselves without any ambitions for any of the made up 'winning conditions' by other players does exist, but they're extremely rare. The typical case of multi-ac...

The effects (and in nearly all cases the intention) are the same - one is trying to get an unfair advantage over others and is doing so by methods the developer (in this case we) did not intend, basically introducing "Pay to Win". That is exactly what cheating is, no toxicity or bigotry is involved in day-to-day cheating, only unsocial behaviour. Most cheaters you don't even notice, as they have no desire to brag with their results, they're just trying to get that edge over everyone else.

In the end the goal of these rules is to provide a fair playing field (and as such a protection of everyone else, not a punishment of the single one), so the punishment is tied to the effects and the intention, not the moral wrongdoing which definitely is not on the level of cheating. The effects - in opposite to most griefing - extend to many players on the server though, especially if such methods are used to 'win a meteor race' or 'government-' or 'market domination' - don't forget you...

It is the most severe rule violation on all official servers after typical -ism violations, leading to an instant ban for all involved accounts. Most of the bigger private servers I know aren't dealing much different with that, but especially smaller servers or unadministrated ones don't seem to care a lot.

I personally dislike it heavily, given the advantages it gives that have already been explained by other people here - in the end I'd check the rules of the server you are intending to join and / or ask an admin there and go with the individual rules of the community you actually want to play with. For me, it's the same as cheating and always warrants a permanent ban.

You need to copy the .db and .eco file from one of the backup folders to the main storage folder, then start the game again.

Ba1ab and rev's group on our discord would probably be your peeps, they've done several of them and share records, solo and in a group online respectively. It works great, so great it makes everyone else on the server leave. ;)

I think it changes the savegame itself, so it's not revertable without backup.
It's also a developer command, those shouldn't be used unless you know what you do.

I was defending the german and canadian flags, lol.

Nope, fair game. (At least where I play / my opinion) :D

Ah yeh, it is part of the game :)

Overcrowding actually was used by a game mechanic and still is, it just was removed temporarily from player planted plants, it still affects natural ones.

ALT + Z, as the comment I commented on said. You just need to add the CTRL, as otherwise GeForce Experience will open and it won't work, if you do use it.

Official server White Tiger. :)