SLG-Dennis

See my answer to Kyxoan7 above, whenever people just state dollar amounts and some "upgrades" instead of rough hardware pieces I'm not sure what they are actually buying and assumption goes to being at a GSP, so saying anything concrete would just be speculation.

Feel free to keep me updated on user numbers, though. Unfortunately this reddit post didn't get a lot of upvotes either, which could have been a measure of interest as well. (Plus make sure that you don't mimic the official server names and description too closely, that is violating our ToS and has gotten servers removed in the past that tried to deceive people)

That calculation seems off, it seems to assume we could use some Game Server Provider that offers 'slots' - we do generally advise against using such GSP's, but rather use some that give you guaranteed hardware. The best offer that PingPerfect for example has (which caps out at 8 GB memory) will be able to host - free of issues - about 30 people online at the same time on a medium sized world, if people don't use a lot of civics - it costs around 100 € already. Unfortunately it doesn't allow us full server access, which we need, as we do use custom builds and settings for official servers.

Our official servers are hosted on dedicated bare metal servers with Ryzen 5950X Processors, PCIe 4 NVME SSDs and lots of memory. White Tiger uses around up to 32 GB of memory typically, when it's 100 people, mid-game and lots of civics it can easily be another bit more. That's numbers a GSP - especially offering slots - does not give you, they share much weaker servers with multiple peop...

I can of course only tell of data we have and my personal experience - west coast players on White Tiger did not tend to exceed the 200 ping notably, neither on the other official servers. Exceptions will very likely exist.

You also state that the US players mostly play on community servers - that's what they did when an official server was available as well, which was a major part of the reason the official was not being used. I still see lots of them on our official servers as well, though, just as before on the EU officials even when the US one did exist.

It is unfortunately very unlikely there will be another official US server anytime soon though - we do not get many requests for that (yours being the third I noted for this year, I got more requests from australian players) and the US population seems to be pretty happy with their community servers, especially considering the use you described, because US players do make the biggest single sales group of Eco, ...

Well, that does fit with our state of knowledge and my experience. (There should be two Aussie communities, though?)

I've not seen any US players having a ping surpassing 200, and that is absolutely fine to play Eco without noticeable issues. Peeps I play or have to do with also do not report any issues due to ping of that value. There is several of server side lag issues though that will be prevalent, but are not ping related. (See the Steam announcement on what we are working on)

Where ping kicks in was mostly the australian players at 600.

And as for the edited in money comment: We do plan a whole culture feature for Eco and bringing people from different countries together on the same server is super interesting. US and EU players on the same server typically give a good fight about taxes and governance.

There could be if there would be sufficient interest, which is not there at the moment. We had an official NA server, but that was barely used with people instead playing on popular community servers for the region. Hosting there is also five times as pricey as in the EU and most US players have fine ping to our EU servers (the lag issues are very unlikely to be caused by your ping), so we decided to discontinue them. We also noted that despite NA server available, a good bunch of US players still chose to play on the EU server - which is something we encourage as well, as people from a bit different cultural backgrounds together is great for playing Eco.

I did have such a monitor as well. Back then I was a kid and got my first computer. The next already was a flatscreen, haha.

A that long-time linux user that does not use docker a lot? That's new. I'm still getting hyped by others for that every day and my friends tell me how they put EVERYTHING into docker containers for easy deployment. I prefer the old ways, lol.

Ah boi, that was long ago - we already had to do with each other in the past, haha! I must sound like a repeating disc to you.

As for Docker I'm not sure what was there. We made those docker containers for cloud worlds specifically (which we have discontinued by now) and never supported those either, but they'll stay around. They should work as well as native linux now, though?

And even the challenge for space is intended. That's why we try to keep our official servers at a number that balances out all intentions. Nontheless, you can use any size you want, that's why we have it. I just feel that some people would probably have a better experience if they got away from that seemingly very prevalent "Bigger is better" feeling that I absolutely exhibit myself when playing games. I always find myself to use the biggest map with the most resources, just to find I never need them. (In Sandboxes) I still do it.

The pink issue actually wasn't there for quite a bit longer than you stated, but that is barely any relevant, as it was there for way too long :)

Our current main goal is to keep the builds generally working, but living with the fact that some stuff is off or not working well, as we're missing the resources to fix that up. We have no linux users or people with dedicated experience outside of devops in the company, no testing means and - I know Linux peeps (and those so far tended to be some of the most helpful and welcoming people in their communities I ever met, as a former system integrator and using linux for all my servers) hate it when I say that, but potential users for Linux is under 1% economically. There is often the 'more support would make more users' hen and egg problem, but I'm not in a position to make decisions on that and as a indie game studio funding is always an issue, so I can only tell you that I personally would love to give you the full support you de...

It saves every 60 seconds and on shutdown, if that is done gracefully. The game runs on a dedicated server, so it's not like any singleplayer game.

The default size of 72x72 is fully sufficient for 15 players. Any higher size for that amount would not provide the game experience we intended, at least.

I'm sorry, I forgot to post a link to you, you shouldn't need to search for that: https://github.com/StrangeLoopGames/EcoIssues/issues

Trains are also extremely popular, actually number 2 in feedback and requests, also before bugs and performance. It's always a juggle to fulfill peoples wishes. (Especially as Eco's playerbase is very diverse with people having totally different interests and motivations why they play.) I have stated before that new features sell the game, while fixing issues keeps the existing ones. That wasn't very popular the last time I said it, but it's true. We need to balance both things to survive as a company, even though I can totally understand reque...

For the animations the only reports about motion sickness we have gotten was the running animation, which is going to be addressed in the next Update. There has not been any notable reports about such issues with animations in general, as such the effect on population is deemed very low aside of the mentioned animation.

Multiple animations still need polish, as that was only the first pass, but at least issue wise there is nothing out of the ordinary to be seen. Please feel free to describe your issues on a GitHub issue, priorization and what we look on also always depends on what feedback we get from players and typically using that feedback gives a good approximated overview for what issues are there.

Complaints for animations were rather that they slow down some things compared to what people were used to, but that was a fully intended effect and food animations have been adjusted to address complaints during playtest. No doubt that still isn't good enough for so...

We don't support the Linux and Mac clients, only the Linux server. There is no active development on these builds currently, we unfortunately don't have the resources to do so. The pink issue has been fixed in 9.6.4 though and we had confirmation from linux testers on GitHub for that, have you tried with that version? If you still have it there as well, we can take a look if you send us your client logs to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]): ...