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SLG-Dennis



26 May

Competing governments and different tiers of governments

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Originally posted by hitzu

Performance, performance, performance, bugs, bugs, bugs. That's what should be your number one priority. And then the economy foundation should be stable. You can of course make decorations like govts on top of that but it will be a huge disappointment when it will turn out to be unplayable. There will be no real politics in the world with less than hundreds of active players. It will by just fluffy decoration or annoying content gating depending what benefits all of this should bring. But your game is currently built to be at best a month or two long session for a couple of friends who get will eventually get bored and annoyed by everpersistent bugs dated since 0.7, repeating crashes 10 times a play session, memory leaking, incomplete base mechanics, broken professions, absolute imbalance in XP gaining, storaging, and goods production, not even mentioning of a total game logic inconsistency across the whole game. And do you really think anyone could play politics on top of that un...

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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...

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Competing governments and different tiers of governments

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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.

Boats cancelled?

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    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

25 May

Competing governments and different tiers of governments

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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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Boats cancelled?

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    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

23 May

Boats cancelled?

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    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

Problems with the WebUI

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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.

ANOTHER 'no servers in the server browser' post

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To clear this up: The master server died.


15 May

Beta version

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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.


14 May

EcoSim.eco missing values, where did they go?

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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.

Feedback after playing 250 hours during April

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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...

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08 May

Do players look for long-term servers?

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I personally don't. I prefer the cycles.


07 May

Tree growing and daytime

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


30 Apr

Diggy Diggy Hole

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Unlearn a Specialization Skill

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That is no longer possible, we've added an explicit warning to 8.2 for better knowledge on this part.


26 Apr

Does SLG post patch notes for the smaller updates anywhere?

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Originally posted by uaMarshall

They post it to steam news.

Somewhat regularily at least, sometimes we just forget to do so *shame*


25 Apr

Any active servers where people actually play the game for the reasons I bought it?

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Originally posted by temporalmlu

There is one called GodOfWars or something that is pretty active. Always a few bunch online. Peak is (what I’ve seen) around 20-30 players. Great economy and helpful players.

Edit: SLG-Dennis is admin there. :D

Ssssssht, that's my personal server. :D


23 Apr

Spouses and animal husbandry

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Yes, we plan to add animal husbandry.

Interview with mmorpg.com on the development of Eco

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Ore Processing Work in Progress Machines

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Originally posted by uaMarshall

How it will impact a life of a smelter? Will it make it easier or harder? Whats the point.

That depends on if he still only does the job of smelting - in that case he would use the concentrated end product. But with the production chain getting longer, there is more that needs to be done and opens up a new profession space.