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That's what our focus was on for all patches since 8.0 to 8.2. We cannot only do that stuff, either, though, as we need to cater to the people requesting new features, too.

The chunkloading in 8.2 is way better than it is now, but Eco is and forever will remain a extremely CPU heavy game (by design - it is a big simulation with underlying databases that accumulate gigabytes of data in no time) that requires a lot of resources. Optimizing stuff at this stage of development is hard and a lot of the work lost on every new feature. We know it's running too bad for now, but you shouldn't expect it to run "good" before the main features are finished and working. Of course you can expect it to run "okay". That is what we're trying to do.

Then you have to give some publicity on that regard. Yes, talking about bugfixing and game stabilizing is not as fun as about new features, but it's important to make players sure you pay attention to them as well.

I don't have the feeling we don't do that. We've acknlowedged the issues in the changelogs since then, it's written on the roadmap, i'm answering people accordingly on all our channels and doing anything i can to make sure people know. The only thing we do not do is making a whole blog post or newsletter about the issue (but they did include information to that, too!). And that should be understandable, given those are mainly marketing, not information.

It doesn't mean it will be like this on the majority of the servers. It just proves you are capable to do that.

Eco is not about the majority of the servers, but about the capabilities the game offers. It's totally intended that every single ser...

Performance and bugs are number one priority at the moment, which is why there have been nearly no new features from 8.0 to 8.2.

Governments are not a decoration though, but one of the major game pillars and they work quite well with less than hundred players - i'm doing all that stuff with my server since at least a year already, just with manual work and imagination. And yes, the server has a 30 days reset cycle and the same bugs than anyone else.

In regards to bugs you might want to report them on Github or at least go into detail which already existing bugs are most annoying to you - we have a lot of minor bugs with different priorities and often some players extremely dislike one bug, while others don't care at all. I've been making sure all the bugs that were reported to me as extremely annoying by several players in the past were treated with priority.

Regarding crashes - i never had a single crash in a release version of Eco since im playing i...

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.

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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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.

To clear this up: The master server died.

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.

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.

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...

I personally don't. I prefer the cycles.

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