Eco Dev Tracker

We have released patch 0.8.0.2 with the following fixes and improvements:

Fixes:

• tweaking for view distance and chunk loading
  
• fixed completed tutorials list layout
  
• fixed "?" as balance string in treasury
  
• fixed DefaultWorld to one with valid Citizenship law
  
• fixed dead-lock with steel (when pump was needed for steel and steel needed for pump)

Improvements:

• graceful shutdown for Windows servers. If you close it (Alt+F4 or with close button) then it will try to save state (Windows will only provide 5-10 seconds for that) or you can configure your software to send Ctrl+C to console app and configure own timeout for shutdown.
  
• added ping retries if for some reason ping was last for first attempt

Performance:

• minor performance improvements

We have released patch 0.8.0.1 with the following fixes and improvements:

Fixes:

• vehicles crossing 0-coordinate should behave less obstinate
  
• fixed some "Alice in Wonderland" effects (world titled issue)
  
• fixed problem with unfair deals when you get full price for part of sold/bought items if destination inventory has not enough space
  
• fixed links to previous elections in Web UI
  
• fixed starting New Game from clean Steam installation
  
• fixed incorrect ping calculation
  
• fixed crash while connecting pipes through zero point
  
• fixed redefine District action to take into account existing Districts
  
• fixed issue with large world generation and ore amounts - low sample size sometimes created inadequate amounts of ore in worlds 200x200 or larger

Performance improvements:

• memory optimizat...

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Fellow Eco-Players,
the Big Eco Game community event with Jeff Grubb and friends started this night.
They're playing through Eco 8.0 all month long with 70+ players and three major factions!

Multiple people are streaming this event, so here are some of them you can follow to get a look on Eco 8.0 in action on a highly populated server:

- GamesBeat on Twitch http://twitch.tv/gamesbeat/
- Jeff Grubb on Twitch http://twitch.tv/jeffgrubb
- DrJonez on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/drjonez
- Rinderblock on Twitch ... Read more

We're blown away, it's so great to see people 'get' what we're going for with the game, and this is just the beginning, still in Early Access, so much more to come.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/27/jeff-grubb-game-of-the-year-2018/

"Eco made me realize that games are actually crucial for understanding our relationship to all kinds of natural and man-made systems. The thing that gives me chills is that I think it is only in games that we can play with economic systems. And I walked away from my experience in Eco feeling like I learned so much even though we had no instructor. No one was connecting the dots for us. We simply learned through play."

We have released patch 7.8.9 with the following changelog:

Fixes

• Fixed annoying issue with resetting Store public access permissions after server restart

Backups

Backups logic fixed and reworked to be more predictable. There are now following options (default value in brackets):

• MaxBackupsInLastHour (2) - max number of backups for last hour (if backup frequency less than 1 hour)
  
• MaxHourlyBackups (24) - hourly backup is a first backup in a hour, in average it is one backup in a hour
  
• MaxDailyBackups (3) - daily backup is a first backup in a day, in average it is one backup in a day
  
• MaxWeeklyBackups (10) - weekly backup is a first backup in a week, in average it is one backup in a week at Monday
  With default settings it will keep hourly backups for last 24 hours, daily backups for last 3 days, weekly backups for last 10 weeks.

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