SLG-Dennis

Conveyor belts for small-range transportation in factory buildings is something we consider for the bit of automation we want to do, but aside from other games, the focus in Eco will never be in automation and instead will ever also focus on good old manual work.

For the mines we expect players to use the elevators. Transporting stuff via trucks and the elevator of course is not as convenient as just teleporting it to the top, but it's the intended way.

Well Rimworld to my knowledge did not do sales during EA and that's what was stated.

Eco does take part in the the major Steam sales with a maximum discount of 15% that we will not surpass during Early Access. The next major one would probably be spring sale sometime in May.

The magically appearing free tools have been removed a good while ago - the wiki is community run, so you can update it yourself, if you want.

Well, what the fix is going to prevent is large scale stockpile transporting, especially mineshafts up or over larger distances. It's not about you sorting your storage area, but teleporting your ores up or your stuff to another base.

That has never been intended to be possible and that's the definition of an exploit.

Not yet, no.

2 will be fixed though, as it's considered an exploit.

Official servers only start on Fridays, typically every week at around 21 CET. That time can vary and on some Fridays it is possible that no server starts, such information can be found on the discord.

It's a known issue that is already partially fixed. There have lately been additional changes for a full fix that probably will make it to 9.3. I'm not aware of any 'workarounds', unfortunately.

The server size is limited by the three coordinates multiplied going higher than the maximum integer value. This means, the bigger the world is the more limited is the maximum height until it reaches a point where the maximum height is lower than the highest mountain to generate and the server hence crashes. The maximum supported size is 4km² (200 x 200), any size above will not get support when issues arise.

For a 4 km² world you want at least 16 GB of RAM if you plan on having an active public server, scaling beyond is not tested, as it's not supported.

There are no PvP mods to my knowledge. If there were, you couldn't find them on the official modding pages, though, as we do not endorse those.

No, Eco does not have hot springs or thermal power currently.

Yes, /fin passes elections. It can also be done more fine-grained with commands.
They're listed on the wiki: https://wiki.play.eco/en/Chat_Commands

Sole focus will be on finishing EA on PC, might look into it after that.

Cutting Edge Cooking is indeed not yet implemented.

You can put the discord server into your Network.config and it will be shown as part of the tutorial and in the description overview of the server in the serverlist, but the other two things are not possible without a mod.