Eco Dev Tracker

The possibility to get it cheaper on the SLG site is there since years and logical, because we promote collaboration - buying a multipack for friends (and the 4 pack lets you save even more money!) is and has ever been a great way to save money. We would also have done this for steam - but unfortunately Steam does no longer support Multipacks for games since quite some time. Only games that had the packs before Steam dropped support for it, could keep them. Buying multiple games at once is something that is typical to give a discount for multiple buys and has nothing to do with buying a single game - so it indeed is a sale.

And no, i'm not telling you that, nor do i have the slightest idea how you come to that thought. We have never done sales before, communicated we don't plan to do them, and don't plan to have any more sales until the end of early access either.

We did this sale to specifically take part in the World Environment Day as Steam sends a share of sale...

The people that develop the game unfortunately actually need to eat to push out updates and fixes. Not even a mass sale could sustain that when the discount is somewhere at 70% like some people seem to suggest.

We wanted to give you the possibility to get the game a bit cheaper and participate in the World Environment Day sale specifically. It's very likely you won't see any other sales in the forseeable future, especially no bigger ones.

So if you are tempted to get it, now is the best time to get it. If it's too low of a discount for you, that's fine, but it won't get better any time soon.

Get it while the sale lasts: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/worldenvironmentday

I can see horrible accidents happening already. ;)

Hello everyone,
it's true that five people had to leave the company on Monday, which i would not consider a "mass layoff" though.
I've got clearance to give you some insight into that, but I ask for understanding that i will not be able to go into any more detail and won't comment any further than this:

One of the five was let go for cause, another one was a contractor whose contract was not renewed and the other three were employees that were laid off.
The reason for the layoffs and the contractor not being renewed is both financial as well as a restructuring of the working positions and therefore a very hard but not unusual business decision.
Before these measures we also hired a new artist, several new developers and two people working in a dedicated quality assurance team that we didn't have until then but was definitely required.
These changes made sure that we have a complete and fitting team that works on Eco and that we can sustain it long-t...

Do you really want trains that are around as fast if not slower (to avoid issues) than trucks that are extremely expensive and limited to tracks?

No, there is no way to do this.

You could either shutdown the server via automatic schedule (though time does not go on, which probably is wanted for limited playtime) or manually set a password whenever the time is over.

It's unfortunately not, but one of the many new law possibilitites in 9.0.

This is due to Eco being originally developed as an educational game only, where the WebUI is very useful for school use. Actually, the creation of laws will be moved to ingame in 9.0.

Yeh, that's Eco. xD

I still don't know which large features you are talking about explicitly, despite boats which for sure have been asked for since a long time, but i also already stated why those are not top priority right now. We're constantly developing the game and constantly posting updates about what we are working on and thinking. Scrolling through the posts i also do not find anything else than boats being an obvious shared request.

9.0 will definately expand your options in gameplay quite a bit. Keep an eye out for more news on it in the following weeks.

You are doing nothing wrong, this is a bug that is fixed in 8.2.

I did not remove any comment. The last removed comment as of mod log was from 28 days ago, which was a mere advertising post. I know that a comment is missing though, as i actually replied to it this morning with my response being gone, too. No idea where it has gone, i'm not experienced in reddit, so i don't know where i could look that up.

I know it was about you wishing us good luck, considering there is an exit button for games when they become boring and there is no way to give feedback to reallife or something like that.

I pretty much responded that we're aware of this, but if that would stop us from developing the game, we could have done one of the 20 minute round games, which we didn't. I also said, that thankfully not everyone is bored by the mechanics we implement.

All in all, as i stated - the game is not for everyone but it is clearly communicated about what the game is. I'm sorry you don't like to seem the direction, but i'm glad that a lot of ...

As i said, i'm also quite unhappy with how it was named, but that was long before my time. I've forwarded that feedback and we'll see what the people caring about it will decide for it for the future.

But you also need to see that this roadmap does not state dates for the features anywhere like a normal roadmap would do. I'm sorry that your decision to buy the game was mostly due to the roadmap and two of the top-most voted features and that those are not yet in the game, but i'm still wondering how people could get the feeling that the only thing we do is working the roadmap from top to bottom, we never communicated we would do that. Actually, at least i didn't even think people would expect that, as i never would myself. When i started playing Eco and saw the roadmap, i read through the points, found a lot of them interesting and some not, voted for my favourites (which are all more to the bottom of the page) and forgot of the roadmap. I never saw it as something that tel...

That's totally clear. But if that exit button would be a reason to stop us, we wouldn't have needed to develop Eco at all but could instead have made some kind of 20 minutes lasting game. Thankfully, the systems we implement are not boring for everyone.

The list on the roadmap is a list of things we ultimately WANT to have in the game, not what WILL be in the game. It seems this is not clear enough, so i'll make sure that our web developers adapt what the roadmap says for this to be understandable.

The roadmap is there to show you where Eco could head to, what we think that we want to implement over the course of development - not only early access, but in general. Eco will never be stopped to be developed and get more extensive as long as people play it. You likely see new major features in five years, just like now. There is unlimited possibilities on what you can add to Eco given it resembles real life and real life is limitless. Trains are a thing we think is cool and want to have in the game. But it's also one of the hardest and most time consuming things to do. But that does not mean it will be in the game soon or at all, nor does it mean it will never be in the game. And as far as i read the roadmap it's not stating...

That's not my argument but the reason for the choices we make and therefore i need to make this aware to you. I cannot refrain from telling you this, given it's the exact reason why we do some things. Our design is based around realism, with simplifications of course, but many of them over the course of development will be gone, too. Obviously for different reasons some parts are more realistic while some are less. The sweeping hands talent for example is as unrealistic as the carry weights - but still way more realistic than other games offer. The production chains is something we want to make more realistic than other things, giving the benefit of a use for a lot of different professions and the economy and the impact for ecology - which are two important pillars of the game content.

Sure, you don't need robots to make light bulbs, but in the future we are going to introduce different tiers of machinery to do things. For the ore processing we'll introduce that and have s...

That's what i see working best ingame too. On some servers i play on some players that are loving mining, mine stuff, sell it and offer tailings storage as a company for the whole server. That works best and the miners are mostly rich given what they sell the ores for and take for the tailings. Still, i'm totally aware not every server has such dedicated people that are into mining anyway and don't feel any tediousness, so we'll surely try to balance it out so it is fun for most people.