SLG-Dennis

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.

I would assume tomorrow.

It actually were multiple problems and given they only really appear on multiplayer servers, QA was having a hard time to check them, as hotfixes only get PR testing due to going out asap. We have no way to test such changes on multiplayer servers outside of playtests for minor and major versions.

At first, the problem reported was that any change, no matter how small, did give a notification - which was addressed by requiring a more notable change. Then we noticed that culture going down (which was brought to our attention by admins, happens very frequently on servers due to room changes invalidating cultural objects for short moments) also causes them. So it was changed to not put out notifications when it goes lower and only when it reaches a new threshold. Now there is the problem you mention (that gets more severe the more active the server is), but there is also a problem of sending a notification when nothing changes at all in regular intervals that ...

Major updates of this type don't release frequently and breaking changes are kept to those. The game is in Early Access, it's not avoidable if the game is supposed to be getting new features and being continously developed. There is tons of game developers who mark their savegames as incompatible even after normal updates on a release version (Paradox for example, though you can try to load on your own risk for most of them, afaik).

To our surprise, only 5 of 603 people so far were of the same opinion in regard to T4 and did state it.

The results are so far mostly as expected, but with some interesting surprises.

Saves from pre Update 10 are unfortunately not compatible with Update 10, as with all major version number updates. We only ensured loadability, but the many changes to mechanics (especially such that aren't saved on a savegame level and could be preserved as-is) were massive.

This is the case.

We have prepared a little survey on action items for a potential version 1.0 and would be happy for you to participate: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5E0Z2ZhOrwdBLQAzI7FzUbXVoDEf3LCq-bQOx8NA4ikMr5A/viewform