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We actually have always seen the exact opposite behaviour of players, trying to spread out as much as possible, when asked about the reasoning often to not be bothered by others - leading to typical issues with trade distances and cooperative requirements later on. It was one of many reasons for the settlement system requiring players to make settlements. But those are designed in tandem with resource generation, so a single settlement would likely be unable to actually finish the game from a location perspective already. I'm also not seeing that being done anywhere I have recently visited or on any official server - where are you playing to actually see that happening? Would be interesting to take a look at that server.

As for maintenance, a maintenance station is an option to be considered - something similar is planned for electricity / water distribution. There was a inherent goal of making this a profession option, though, so we'd need to see how we can keep that inten...

Yes, we'd need to see how we can make "Craft until" fit Eco. I play a lot of Rimworld myself and use that functionality a lot as well, but there I'm a colony overseer giving orders to for my pawns to do - Eco is fundamentally different to that gameplay and intends the player to deal with things, not through UI automation.

I see you are getting downvoted for this, but that is actually true - managing production to avoid spoiling is indeed part of the design concept of spoiling and a pretty big real life issue depicted in abstraction. The thing is that we can very likely make this a bit less tedious and based on manual control without loosing the whole intent behind it.

The roadmap and internal project planning to Update 1.0 is already fully lined out and in process, outside of that we're at this point only adding smaller suggestions with a good resource use / benefit ratio until final release (like the button for storage auto-linking in the last hotfix or the changes to default prices). So currently it doesn't really have to do something with priority, but with getting the game out of Early Access. Afterwards we'll have better capacity for more major player suggestions as those collection ones are.

Animal husbandry will be the last major feature before Eco leaves Early Access, there is still two minor updates scheduled ("Cozy" with decorative objects and grid-free object placement as the next) before that and current planning is end of Q1 2025 for the final release. One of these will already contain a major rework of animal behaviour (including offering food to them, necessary for Animal Husbandry) and some other changes like a module, talent and pollution system rework are coming with them.

Anything that isn't in the Configs directory is not a settings file and changing would hence be considered modding for everything where that is relevant (like support). That's definitely "config" variables in that file, but they are intended for developers and not given to users purposefully - hence my recommendation to check with the modding channels, as understanding these may require deeper knowledge or source code access.

That is a code, not a config file. You may want to ask in the modding channel on our discord.

See my explanation here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/382310/discussions/0/4434443557915421326/#c4434443557916271250

Even if you set the XP refund rate to 100%, it's not giving you a star back to take, but just XP towards the next one which is always "pricier" than the one refunded.

No, skill refunding doesn't exist since the skill system was reworked. The button you noticed is "Abandon Specialty" which is for use in conjunction with maximum profession limits that were introduced at the same time.

Refunds can only be achieved by usage of admin commands or with for example Nid's PlayerManager mod.

We found the issue appears if you have multiple identical tools in a storage and use the consolidate button, as workaround don't use that button in such cases until it's fixed.

Any mods?

There has been three reports about this total so far, and one of them mentioned that it's not actually spoilage, but that all tools share the same durability, e.g. when a tool gets used, the other seem to be "spoiling" - is that something you see as well? (The user noted it only happens for tools crafted in batches, like 4+ - not when singularily crafted)

The amount of reports for this is very limited and official servers don't seem to be affected, but there could just be a condition (like the batch crafting) not fulfilled, hence my questions.

There's a suggestion people can vote on for that as well: https://eco.canny.io/feature-suggestions/p/minecarts

Thanks for the feedback! I've noted a few things from it :)

I guess you already know, but for the mining talents they are intended to be used by two players in tandem, e.g. one does the mining and the other the sweeping. Merging the sweeping into the mining action is certainly convenient, but wouldn't fulfil the intention, as such we are rather unlikely to do that - we generally want to put a collaborative focus on more talents in the future as well. The extra rock has always been a debated topic, I personally like them as they give a in-world representation to the "+1 hit" that feels more lively - but I get that others see them as tedium instead. Design-wise, we'd rather have the livelyness than hidden numbers.

Stockpile chaining is indeed something we want to get rid of generally, but better options that are convenient enough aren't there yet. If that would be conveyor belts I don't know - I think we have made clear in the past that automation is not going to play...

What do you think is the most frequent spam to our company mails?

It's bots offering or requesting from us oil products and skid steers - and since Update 10 - boats, lol.

As others mentioned, you want to change the Sleep.eco file. The template file exists so administrators can update their configurations based on them after a game update without us overriding their settings. The non-template file, if existing, takes priority over the template file.

Good to know. Honestly, that addition was even a last-minute one that I just pulled over into playtest near its end, it wasn't even planned to be added in that update.

I guess we might have underestimated the popularity of the addition. It was a rather small one though, as such it wasn't mentioned in the release notes - for major updates we only note big ticket items. Sorry!

The character experience setting grants XP when the player gains specialty XP - it should hence be set to very low values, otherwise you'll level up extremely quick.

Jens is working here as designer for more than 4 years, we simply didn't have regular streams before that year and decided he'd be the best fit to do them. The company is also still owned and led by the same two people founding it over ten years ago - John and Milenko. It is natural that there is personnel fluctuation in over ten years.

Would be great if you stopped spreading such nonsense.

/Steam/steamapps/common/Eco/Eco_Data/Server/Configs that would be.