Eco Dev Tracker

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Всем привет. Надеюсь, вы наслаждаетесь карантином, если он у вас есть, и находите много времени для игр. Берегите себя и социализируйтесь в виртуале. Сегодня мы расскажем вам о новой системе районов, которую добавили в Eco 9. Расписание на сегодня:

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Hey Citizens, hope everyone is staying safe with the global pandemic going around, here at Strange Loop we’re a remote team already so there’s no interruption in our development (if anything an acceleration as we all become shut-ins).  Stay safe and take care of yourselves and those you care for. Our small contribution is providing a game world where you can socialize remotely and slow down the spread.

Today I want to debut our latest update on what’s coming for 9.0, with one of the new features I’m most excited about: Work Parties.

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This week we’re going to take a break from Civics to talk about another feature coming up in Eco 9, the Ecopedia.



Jumping around in our schedule a bit, here’s the series so far:

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Hi citizens, our Eco 9 series continues with a look at Elections and Elected Titles:

1. New Gove...

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Hey Eco citizens, we’ve been heads-down working on getting Eco 9.0 ready and it’s getting close, REAL close, date to be announced soon! Don't miss todays stream at 2pm PST / 23:00 CEST (in about two hours from the time of publishing this blog). One of the main focuses of this update is the government system.



So to start the hype train up for 9.0 (choo-choo) we’re starting a series of blogs and streams, launched each week on Friday. We have a LOT to share, here’s the tentative blog and demo schedule:

1. New Government system: Constitution (This blog)
   
2. New Government system: Elections and Elected Titles
   
3. New Government system: Demographics and Wages
   
4. New Government system: Laws Part 1: Using the system
   
5. New Government system: Laws Part 2: Taxes, Ownership, Pro...

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As we are approaching release, the first of a series of livestreams about the upcoming Update 9.0 will start this Friday, 2pm Pacific Time (23:00 Central European Time). We'll be showing everything you need to know about the new Constitutions feature and answering all questions about this feature you may have.



The stream will be broadcasted mainly on Twitch[www.twitch.tv], but will also be available on our YouTube channel and Facebook page. Additionally we try to stream it directly here on steam.

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We have released Patch 0.8.3.3 with the following small hotfixes:

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue with money transfers not working if some accounts in the list have special symbols in their names.
  
• Temporarily removed "Exclusive Full Screen" mode from the game due to it crashing on some user configurations. (Will be reintroduced after Unity has released a fix)

We have released patch 0.8.3.1 with the following fixes:

Fixes:

• Using specific markup on signs and vehicle license plates can no longer crash clients around the object, not allowing them to reenter the game.
  
• Giving reputation to a player with a unicode name (shown ingame as "?????") will no longer crash the client of the reputation giver.
  
• We added a potential fix for leaves and vegetation on Mac and Linux not being displayed, please give us a heads up if it works.

State of Update 9.0:
As you know Update 9.0 has been in development for quite some time now and while we planned to have it released this year, we feel like the Update needs some more time to be what we want it to be. We already started weekend community tests for invited members of the community some weeks ago and want to take time to implement their feedback and fix as many reported bugs as possible before release.
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Today we are releasing Update 8.3.0, an update that was entirely focused on internal changes in order to improve performance short and long term.

Performance Improvements:
Our developers have been working hard on countless internal changes for this update in order to increase the performance of Eco on a wide range of different hardware configurations. We have noticeably reduced memory consumption on clients, optimized network code, reduced the frequency of FPS spikes (micro lags) during movement and you should now have a smoother experience playing Eco. Please note that there is still more to come in the 9.X updates, as we do have other optimisations prepared and in mind that require more work and / or breaking changes that are better to be introduced in a major update.

Relay Servers:
For this update we added relay server support for cases where connections between client and server cannot be established in a normal way. This should fix most of t... Read more

Vivox Proximity voice chat

We added Vivox proximity voice chat to the game. Now you can talk with your fellow citizens about the latest news, in town debates or just barter with them directly. The chat is based on proximity, so you’ll only hear people that are near to you. Of course, you can also disable the voice chat completely or mute specific players. With that, we also introduced a new face animation for people talking.

Reworked controls for vehicles
On popular request we have improved and redesigned the controls for the excavators and skid steers and made sure they are explained understandably. The excavator got a new UI toolbar, you can look around freely in both skidsteer and excavator now, ... Read more

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