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Indeed, it's only considered a server ad if it is posted unsolicited or advertising a specific server. Looking for group / Looking for server and similar posts, despite regularly reported as well, are currently considered fine.

Especially the settlement system has caused an increase in players looking for someone with specific professions for a settlement on some server, without being related with the server directly, so we think that should be allowed.

Well, we would need a copy of the savegame and logs, can send to [email protected].
A database starting point save and one that grew "massively" later to compare would also be useful.
Also a full list of mods.

By not assuming malice with anyone, e.g. not considering someone that posted constructive and polite feedback (no matter if I or we personally agree or not) insufferable to begin with.

In text, especially on Reddit with it's somewhat "No Emojis" stance, it can be very hard to recognize any rhetorical devices that aren't conveyed through simple text. I didn't get it as what you intended it to be, but also not as malicious. :)

Is there any additional information available? The only "logging" as in "archiving" mod I know is Chronicler and that works fine on all five official servers without issues - that doesn't use the game db for any saving, though and hence couldn't explain OPs "database is growing very quickly" thing. Custom mod?

There is a server ad thread and a much more active discord channel on our official discord (https://discord.gg/eco) that is currently more suitable to get a first impression than the server list that we want to develop into that direction. A real feeling for if a server is for someone can mostly only be gotten by trying, though.

I guess the simple but honest answer would be "c) they didn't have anything in regard to "pacifist" playthroughs in mind". That's ultimately what is the case, we never accounted for "pacifist" in that sense at all. It's the first time I have ever seen that someone actually does something like this, though I have heard about it before :)

We actually abstract nearly everything in Eco - the food system for example requires a simple "balance it out perfectly", which probably depending on which science paper you consider isn't very correct for one or the other reason. I do remember someone asking for the ability to get a perfect balance just with plants once, which was a interesting idea we still have tracked, but isn't really a focus or priority of the game. That some playstyles provide a specific challenge is also technically a interesting thing to have.

We also don't make any statements, in opposite to what some reviews about "fearmongering democrats" note, Eco has al...

Probably the chat, haha. No, I don't know, probably not playing where everyone else plays. We definitely have no wish to add any PvP though, general feedback is very clear about conflict being sufficient or already too much as is.

On a typical server you don't really get to make 99% of what you need yourself, especially on larger servers. The independence with grouping you cite is also a frequent reason for conflict in servers with other players.