SLG-Dennis

That's precisely the problem people have been abusing, which is why we had to raise the prices. Just that it's even cheaper than that calculation, especially for Argentina. Plus in both countries it's super easy to get steam cash via VPN without needing a local credit card to make purchases, so anyone can basically do it in one two three.

See this statement:

I unfortunately also have to announce some rather disappointing news for our Argentinian and Turkish communities:

Effective immediately, we're raising the price for Eco in these regions to mitigate abuse via Steam region changes.

As other development studios have recently observed, we also see a very notable increase in purchases there while the player counts from these regions don't raise accordingly.

We are really sorry that we need to take this step and hope that Steam will soon address the problem, so we can keep the effects on all the players living in those countries as low as possible and lower the prices to what they were before again.

At least for LATAM region we work with Nuuvem who sell region-locked keys for still affordable prices (though notably more than the three USD it was before), so there is an alternative for users living there.

You could notify the support about this issue if you wanted, for some reasons several GSPs seem to be at odds with updating their config managers or at least telling their users to check the templates on new Updates for added and changed settings, as dedicated server owners are asked to.

Well, we actually don't. I stated a while ago somewhere else we prefer to focus on actual development resources with the resources we have, but have plans leading up to 10.0.

The animation change is scheduled for a hotfix, but due to requiring art work, it won't be too soon.

We do intend to address the issue on running, but after discussion not with a disable option, but instead making it more fluent and not showing the hands when you don't look down, as how it's currently it's not natural.

You really should have added an option for "Don't like the animations", cause "I can play for a little while but then have to stop" and even the other options can likely be chosen by people that just don't like them, which isn't helping a lot for actual motion sickness issues.

It's not about the technological progression IRL mirrored in Eco though, but rather about the collaboration efforts balance-wise and to somewhat display of the impact of them given our abstractions in the game, where a full train would likely literally transport a whole town to another place.

The first (and maybe only) train I'd imagine we'd have would likely be an electric one at current development level. It might be rather unlikely we'd make several of them, as Eco is not a train simulator and the impact of several train classes would not play well with the idea behind them.

But given there is no plans for trains during EA that's all pretty moot, as there is no design work going into them anytime soon.

Maybe due to you probably actually playing on smaller servers with about recommended world size, while many servers use way too big worlds, plus the ones mentioned by the other comment on yours about bigger servers that use bigger sizes, but as recommended size?

If there isn't much room, people are more or less forced to live together (that's the intention of the small sizes on all official servers but White-Tiger for the very reason of what I'm talking about here, otherwise they would be bigger given their usercounts), but once there is more room, my experience has always been the same: People settling as far away from each other as possible (probably to exactly not have someone claim their free space), leading to issues with infrastructure needs to get to everyone else, but also ultimately over the course of the cycles leading to several towns as we had intended.

It's supposed to be the next one, but I don't think end of the year will be realistic. We generally don't do ETAs though, so not much more I could say.

This change was indeed fully intentional, it was never intended for gathering being as quick as spamming E while walking by until vehicles come in to begin with, but animations were planned for later on. There is several parts in Eco that just got a simple implementation to start off and that will change over time.

As usual it's a subjective thing. I'm aware people generally don't tend to like change and that some think it's annoying, but it's not news that Eco has a focus on manual labor and making the progress to newer technology very noticable.

The thought for gathering animations game-mechanically indeed went into the direction of /u/Praecipitoris though, we actually consider that as a buff for the profession. In opposite to you I usually see too much stuff on the market though, e.g. a o...

The maximum world size has already been limited to 2.56 km² in Update 9.5, so that is already in effect. As usual you can make as big worlds as you like and happen to technically work, but anything beyond that is not supported and doesn't provide the intended gameplay boundaries and for purposes of coming ecology changes probably never will - you can still play on whatever size you want though.

The swimming change is something I can imagine to happen and would surely help the row boat out a lot, I do fear that some players will not like that additional limitation of their options though. It's an idea I personally like a lot though.

Valheim Stability rules is something I like a lot as well, but given we do want to support the many extreme monumental builds we have, making a system that effectively prevents weak bridges while not limiting the monumental creative builds would prove difficult or impede each others goal. In the end, we would still want bridges to be poss...

I just mean the distribution of resources in the world, which is intentional for that purpose and going to be expanded further in the future. We want to encourage people to settle in different biomes depending on what they do, but not really to just move as far away as possible due to 'land ownership' concerns, as many people do. The forming of local communities that need to interconnect was the general idea.

Yes, that's a known bug being worked on. We actually have tweaked these a few times and somehow they broke in different ways after each.

As described in our "No Namecalling" rule in the sidebar, if there was an actual ToS violation you can report that directly via mail to me with sufficient and conclusive proof.

That requires a ToS violation to have happened though. I understand the behaviour of some administrators might be frustrating, but from my experience every story in the end had at least two, if not even more sides and all that public shaming does is creating more fighting and drama without anything coming out from that. Which is we decided that at least on our channels we'd prefer to not see such things. It's up to the community if they want to keep a list of servers elsewhere that they do not recommend, but I wouldn't recommend doing such one.

We do plan to introduce a system for dev recommended servers in the server list, just like other games have and are thinking about a rating system as well, but as you have already noticed the moderation efforts that would need to go into that would pro...

Let me extend on that. For all features we add we of course have an idea what they're supposed to do - but given Eco's "Framework Style" the most interesting part is what players will actually ultimately do and come up with on their own.

The hype about boats is massive, so massive the idea behind it seems to be much more limited than the expecations for change via boats actually seem to be to a degree I'm personally not super sure what everyone is ultimately going to do with them that improves their life so much.

A main, very obvious point from us is boats for fishing, that's what we wanted to do. Another is early game get-around quickly with the row-boat instead of swimming or having confusing ways with ramps only. But once infrastructure kicks in, Trucks will be typically more useful aside of when you really want to transport a lot (like multiple trucks with the ferry boat) to specific points reachable by ocean. I just don't see that happen very often or be needed...

I'm not sure how boats (I omit trains, as that's not going to happen during EA) can help with that exactly, given it will be unlikely there is water access to everyone and boats will be distinctively slower than trucks - which will also get trailers as an addition for road transport. Trucks can be put on a type of boat, though, the idea is indeed the mass storage, I just personally never understand why people want that, given it seems many people cheat their stacksizes up anyway. I'm not sure those would swap to boats. And if you just up the stacksizes, you certainly don't need them at all.