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25 May

Boats cancelled?

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    SLG-Dennis on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Hello Staines,
i can understand your opinion, but actually do not have the same feeling.
Building bridges and transporting things with the goods with vehicles work very good for me and the players on my server.

Do you probably play on especially big worlds with low playercounts? When you choose the recommended world sizes for different player counts you usually should not have a problem with transportation and bridges indeed are a big project, but nothing too hard. Building infrastructure is also something we want to encourage.

Boats are a feature that require massive changes, from implementing water physics to adapting world generation once again - making old worlds no longer compatible - for in my opinion little benefit. The only point in time where i ever thought of boats being useful for me (and i have at least 1500 hours actually played this game) was the early-game, when no roads are established and boats could be used for early game transportation... Read more

24 May

Towns, Nations, and United Nations: Multiple Governments in Eco

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    WAVES on Steam - Thread - Direct
Hey all, for this week I want to go into some big ideas we have for Eco 9 with levels of government.

We’re exploring ideas about how to bring multiple levels of government to Eco, and how their growing and combining would work within the game. Along with that comes a new approach to property. Check it out and let us know your feedback, this is an initial concept so lots more to be designed still.

Eco will be changed to have the following new features:

  • Multiple governments will be allowed in tiers: individuals, towns, nations, global.
  • Governments start bottom-up, with growing towns merging into nations, and nations merging into a global government.
  • Property is controlled by the governments (no longer affected by reading skillscrolls).
  • Multiple governments will compete for citizens, offering incentives when new players spawn into their region, or w...
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23 May

Boats cancelled?

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    SLG-Dennis on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Hello Staines,
the only roadmap we have at the moment is this one: https://accounts.strangeloopgames.com/roadmap

It displays what is in progress at the moment, as in what the focus for the next update is. (In this case 8.2) We don't have a long-term roadmap at the moment, the listed points below "In Progress" are things we all want to do and want to know your opinion on, but they do not represent the order or likelyhood of if and when they get into the game - that is also stated on that page.

Boats aren't cancelled, but - as we've been stating since quite a while - will come later. Don't expect them in 9.0 or 10.0.

The focus on 9.0 lies on a new mining concept (see our social media for more details) and improvements for the law and government systems. Other notable changes will include fleshing-out work on professio... Read more

Problems with the WebUI

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You cannot fix this, it's caused by Require Auth being disabled which causes steam players to be displayed as a Hash. We removed the Require Auth option for 8.2, so this is no longer a problem. If players can't join with require auth off and you are not a cracked server, you should try to get that fixed. Support will gladly help you with that.

ANOTHER 'no servers in the server browser' post

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To clear this up: The master server died.


15 May

Beta version

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You can login to your SLG account and link it with steam, then it appears in your steam library.

The SLG version can be played with people from the Steam version and the other way round, too.


14 May

Mining with Realism - Wet and Dry Tailings

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    WAVES on Steam - Thread - Direct
Hey folks, this week I wanted to show you the fancy new mining system we’re creating in Eco:







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EcoSim.eco missing values, where did they go?

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Originally posted by xavia91

but now I ll have to configure every tree manually, that's not so nice.

This might not be so nice in your case, but allows you to easily adapt only specific plants that you want to change and customisation is something we really want to offer, so having more options is something we see as an improvement.

Feedback after playing 250 hours during April

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Hey there,
thanks for your feedback. I'll also give you some dev-feedback :)

Stores:

As some people have already said, they are an essential feature of Eco to be able to bring people with different playtimes, timezones and other things together in a very basic, but at least some form of collaboration. Eco is not a MMO and forced socialisation is not what we want - we want to promote collaboration, in an as easy as possible way. Sure, not everyone will talk in the chat, not everyone wants to do, but still everyone can participate in basic collaboration by selling their goods and taking part in the economy. A game like Eco - that you can shutdown at any time and still tries to resemble real-life in quite some ways - couldn't work if we didn't offer options for players that do not have as much time to actually participate and have fun in the game. So while i understand your suggestion and see where you come from, it just doesn't fit the game as we are envisionin...

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11 May


08 May

Do players look for long-term servers?

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I personally don't. I prefer the cycles.


07 May

Tree growing and daytime

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You can change the growth time in Mods/Organisms for every plant. The config option is called something along "MaturityAgeDays".


30 Apr

The Design Pillars of Eco

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    WAVES on Steam - Thread - Direct


This week I’d like to dive into the core of Eco’s design a bit, and talk about the principles that guide the design and development of the game. These are things that go way back to the beginning ideas of what Eco would be, and are used to this day to determine what we choose to bring next in the game.

Game Mission
Eco’s design mission is to have players “Solve the Tragedy of the Commons,[en.wikipedia.org]” taking place among real people. That means creating conflicts among people with the same end goals, where a collection of self-interests is not enough to succeed, you need some representation of collective interest.

To implement that, the game e... Read more

Diggy Diggy Hole

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External link →

Unlearn a Specialization Skill

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That is no longer possible, we've added an explicit warning to 8.2 for better knowledge on this part.

ECO: Underground Complexes

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26 Apr

Does SLG post patch notes for the smaller updates anywhere?

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Originally posted by uaMarshall

They post it to steam news.

Somewhat regularily at least, sometimes we just forget to do so *shame*


25 Apr

Any active servers where people actually play the game for the reasons I bought it?

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Originally posted by temporalmlu

There is one called GodOfWars or something that is pretty active. Always a few bunch online. Peak is (what I’ve seen) around 20-30 players. Great economy and helpful players.

Edit: SLG-Dennis is admin there. :D

Ssssssht, that's my personal server. :D




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