Please send the full server log and the savegame (.eco and .db) to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) so we can have a look.

This means your antivirus software has deleted the server executable, that unfortunately tends to happen with updates to some people until it understood it's fine. Add an exception for Eco in Windows Defender or whatever software you use and then verify files in Steam to get the executable back. It doesn't affect your save games.

No, that was in regard to "I suspect that I'm not in the minority on this among the small-population servers".

Those sliders we have as well, but it's config options - I assumed the whole thread was about modifications, and those start at modifying .cs files which already allows you to do tons of stuff - like changing all recipes or adding your own, or removing some. Or move them to other tables, or whatever else. Basically you can edit nearly every single item.

And then there is mods that download files for new content (though tons of stuff can be added without that as well, it's only required for assets) - those we can easily identify and display in the future, but showing you a good overview of all those manual changes admin can make is hard. Some servers have 200+ files changed to balance the game to the amount of players they have and the typical playstyle of people playing there.

That's near impossible to do with any senseful UX, as admins can change every single file and recipe - all of that is considered a modification that will ultimately change your experience. It will show in the recipe tooltips on the server anyway.

That's a very one-sided view I don't want to let stand uncommented. Not debating Eco is a grindy game given manual labour is supposed to be depicted and valueable in the economy, but while it's true there is many servers that just make things easier (or even into what I'd _personally, not as staff_ call "cheat mode", which is great for those for who it's fun, as that is all that matters), there is many servers that make things even harder and just rebalance things to fit better together, especially the high population ones to ensure good economy and fairness. Those, as all servers do, adjust things - but not for reducing the grind. And hardcore and casual players play there alike, like White Tiger - which comes mostly from support programs and good laws supporting casual and less experienced players through the help of more experienced ones. It always needs a full server concept to make things work the best possible way, but that doesn't need to include reducing difficulty or grind...

Most modifications are simply changes to some server files, so it's hard to even show you what was changed in any specific capacity. We plan to display mods in the future (mostly anything that downloads), but not simple changes to core server files, given we consider that to be _necessary_ to be done by admins anyway, to adjust the experience to the specific server population. The idea of there being one vanilla experience is one that people shouldn't fall for - that vanilla experience is only suitable to a specific corridor of player amount and time usage. I can't repeat often enough that Eco is mostly a framework that admins can use to make their own experiences that work with their server population. They're doing god's work and it is necessary for a good admin and server to think about this.

All official servers run Chronicler, DiscordLink and parts of the Nid toolbox. They don't contain any gameplay changes though, aside of White Tiger and Dusky Robin.

You are likely absolutely not, but that is why everything can be adjusted to your liking - aside of T4 being special, I think the costs are perfectly suited for the server size we balance around (which never can fit everyone). And T4 generally needs a factor to be used at all.

That is already basically how it is done via a mod by the community, there is a wiki discord linked on our discord that you can check out. We don't manage the wiki and also don't have the resources to do so in the future, it is community run.

Of currently 755 entries, 48% have voted for Animal Husbandry, 25% for Trains and 12% for Minecarts. (So a total of 37% if you take both together, though for us it's two distinct features that wouldn't be done together) It's unlikely we'll do trains before EA ended, this just supports what we've been communicating already.

That is obvious to us, but the amount of feedback actually voiced in this survey allows us to better align our goals with what players have for most pressing issues, which is the whole point of it. It's not going to be the only determining factor on what we're going to majorly focus on, but there is already plans we will drop and others we will prioritize based on it.