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Eco works a bit different to that, with settlement legislation being able to override any "settings" a player makes purposefully, as they are governmental actions - that means that things that are against the will of a player are specifically intended to be possible. Hence every settlement has a specific jurisdiction that applies either based on location or on who owns something and if they are a citizen.

Given vehicles aren't stationary the location based approach that is generally the case for deeds (as you can have deeds in a town without being a citizen) would be extremely abusable, as you can easily get into a jurisdiction without noticing and the law will apply instantaneously once you are there and you could suddenly be thrown out of your vehicle when you cross the border and find your truck has a new owner - most frustrating experience.

It's why if we change that the citizenship of the owner would likely be the determining factor on who can interact with a v...

Eco at its core is a social experiment all about players finding together and dealing with different personal opinions, goals and behaviour - including all disagreement about them. The society building necessary due to that is inherent part of the gameplay and as such to be expected on a vanilla server - the whole law system was specifically created as the means to deal with undesired behaviour by self-policing based on majority opinions on a given server.

Toxicity is a generally very subjective term, my personal experience for more than 15 years is that the term has a wildly varied use that makes it hard to talk about it, as one can't actually know for sure what the other person considers toxic to begin with. I often see that people simply unhappy about something express a sentiment of others behaving in a toxic way (often at each when in dispute) despite there not being any objectively classifiable misbehaviour. That often also includes admin actions, no matter if they...

I don't think that's dumb to say - that's exactly what we plan, Eco has always be intended to ever expand similar to a live service game, just not in the form of seasonal content, but permanent content. There is so much one can add to a game like Eco to explore.

Of course that is a plan - means it depends on if people are even interested in more stuff coming later to play with and if and how long we can do it financially. Many games that aren't subscription based or even have any other cash flow than new sales add more stuff after release in free patches, we always wanted to do that as well.

Vehicles cannot be transferred anymore, their deeds are not linked to any specific settlement and as such no settlement has jurisdiction. This prevents the abuse that some towns did where people lost their vehicles as soon as they entered the town. We do want to look at this again in the future (mostly because this is also the reason why taxation of move-in fees and rents for vehicles doesn't work), but the result would likely be that only the town that the vehicle owner is a citizen of would get jurisdiction. For now it's working as intended.

That's some big number, congratulations - and you seemingly haven't even made use of architecture ratings yet!

We did that because it was a common request and with the necessity to create a new backend system with the old one regularly falling apart it just made sense to implement that when we start from scratch anyway.

I think it might not be very obvious that credits don't actually cost us that much to give. We still retain the money that a purchase made aside of the shares we spend on charity and systems where credits can be used to interact with third-parties (like hosting, which is not there yet), the vast majority of the spent money hence remains with us.

I'll just comment on those with quotes:

them removed the update tree from the website(which was the main way to see what they were working on)

The tree on the website broke a good while ago after it became outdated from a technical standpoint over the years of backend updates, it was no longer possible to view the details and as such it was removed until we have the resources to fix it up when we released the website update for the new cloud backend. I'm pretty sure I said that elsewhere. We only have a single part-time backend and web developer that currently needs to take care of the cloud integration and still has multiple items to bring back, given we said in the release notes of Update 11 that the new backend is rolled out in stages (Tiers, Tokens, Icons, etc.), so that will still take a while.

The last News on the website is from Jan 2023(v10 reveal) but they did add a way to purchase the new eco credits.

The relevant metric is the clock speed (and the CPU being recent), the server doesn't make much use of multiple cores outside very few tasks like the world generation. It is specifically recommendable to use common high-frequency desktop cpus.

Reporting a bug from ingame does nothing else than creating a GitHub issue, but given there was none before this manually created one, something went wrong. We received no mail either. Sorry :( But now it's tracked! :)

Hey berkfoliage,
sorry you weren't able to reach us - unfortunately I can't find any support mail nor a bug report relating to this problem.

Please note that while we are pretty active in Discord, we don't actively monitor it, the official way to receive support is [email protected]. Please send your client logfiles there as noted here: https://github.com/StrangeLoopGames/EcoIssues/wiki/Getting-the-Eco-game-log-file

You can also sen...

Yes, but if you play in a way where noone creates settlements, the server should have the option for outpost stakes and claims on reading a skill scroll active.