Eco Dev Tracker

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26 May 11:13 /u/SLG-Dennis on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by PM_ME_STUFF_N_THINGS

It's awesome you guys are constantly expanding and improving Eco, sadly that seems rare these days with EA games.

Can you please also increase focus on bug fixing, there have been several annoying bugs in the game for months now, almost years.. some spanning 0.7 and 0.8.

Rubble behaviour, unstuck/stuck weirdness, performance issues to name a few. Performance is getting better in recent versions but still needs focus.. and keep up the good work lads :)

That's the focus of the current updates in work.

Bugs do have a priority you can look up on GitHub, we nearly cleared all high priority bugs recently.

Rubble is some portal magic, we've tried fixing that a hundred times now, but some issue keeps getting back, this likely will require more in-depth changes we cannot do with a single patch.

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26 May 10:37 SLG-Dennis on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Hey both of you,
i'd like to join one of the server you play on in the future, i feel like there is very little use made of the features ingame, as you just told me if i ever have seen the road builders tearing down the forests - no, i actually haven't. (Though we never do roads with hewn logs, people don't get paid for using those - regulations) I play on a high population server with even more than high collab setting (and therefore even higher player loss) that is medium communicative (but STILL does only play 30 day cycles and actually it dies off way earlier, too!) and where people discuss where roads are going to be and lay out a district and road-laws in planning. I have the feeling you don't use these tools?

We usually pay for the infrastructure projects by government - that's a good reason it is there for. The people planning to skill in cement and basic engineering ususally start from day one with roadmaking and earn their money through that, so roads are p... Read more

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25 May 21:22 /u/SLG-Dennis on Reddit - Thread - Direct

With the upcoming changes to laws and government, introducing constitutions in Update 9.0, we also thought about ways how several different governments could exist next to each other and even how different tiers of governments could be implemented into the game. Check out our newest newsletter to get to know what our vision on that is:

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25 May 21:19 strangeloopgame on Twitter

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25 May 07:31 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

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24 May 22:59 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 10:15 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

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23 May 09:44 /u/SLG-Dennis on Reddit - Thread - Direct

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.

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23 May 09:42 /u/SLG-Dennis on Reddit - Thread - Direct

To clear this up: The master server died.

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15 May 09:02 /u/SLG-Dennis on Reddit - Thread - Direct

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.

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14 May 23:59 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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14 May 05:02 /u/SLG-Dennis on Reddit - Thread - Direct

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.

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14 May 04:59 /u/SLG-Dennis on Reddit - Thread - Direct

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...

26 May

Competing governments and different tiers of governments

Boats cancelled?

25 May

Competing governments and different tiers of governments

Boats cancelled?

24 May

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

23 May

Boats cancelled?

Problems with the WebUI

ANOTHER 'no servers in the server browser' post

15 May

Beta version

14 May

Mining with Realism - Wet and Dry Tailings

EcoSim.eco missing values, where did they go?

Feedback after playing 250 hours during April

11 May

Some time ago we've shown new machines for ore processing that we plan to implement into the game, today we are ready to show you our concept of how mining and ore refinement will work in Update 9.0:

ECO - Mining with Realism – Wet and Dry Tailings – Strange Loop Games

08 May

Do players look for long-term servers?

07 May

Tree growing and daytime

30 Apr

The Design Pillars of Eco: This week we dive into the core of Eco’s design, and the principles that guide development. These go back to the beginning ideas of what Eco would be, and are used to this day to determine what we bring next in the game.

Eco :: The Design Pillars of Eco

The Design Pillars of Eco

Diggy Diggy Hole

Unlearn a Specialization Skill

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