this bug seems still to be unfixed in June 2023.
Yes, we're unable to reproduce it ourselves and as such have been unable to find the cause so far :(
Did a full reinstall already. I've got it barely playable now, managed to avoid the framerate drops - but I'm gonna wait a bit until I get a new PC. This laptop used to run this game great, but whatever stability improvements have come - they've clearly also banged the requirements up.
We have increased the minimum requirements several times over the course of development and that is likely going to happen again, as we want to make use of new technology and have changed some substantial things that require more power. Laptops have never been a good idea to run Eco on, so I can imagine it's not running well there - but as far as performance goes our last Performance Update series has mostly fixed issues aside of special cases we're still working on and will be in Update 10.
While I understand the idea behind, we're not really fans of restricting server creation. Many of nowadays successful servers have once started as small public servers or servers made just for your own play with friends (including White-Tiger). Given we love and want people to come up with new ideas for server concepts, this would just deter from exactly that. Hosting a server already is linked with a fee of some kind, if you're not hosting out of your basement.
Update 10 with its changes to make civics a core part necessary for normal gameplay nontheless helps your goal, given smaller servers will likely want to disable the new system and as such not use the new features or be incentivized to merge with others independently on one server, as some people have been making plans already planning - might be worth looking into that to consolidate servers.
It should always be up to whoever wants to open a server on if they can do that, though. Financial gatekeeping doesn...
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