SLG-Dennis

Hey Citizens,
it's time for another Update 9.6 sneak peek!

Today, expanding on the immersion improvements from last week, we're presenting you a video compilation that focuses on our brand new first person view with character hands and eating animations. Enjoy!

https://reddit.com/link/w5bkkk/video/p826mylcn4d91/player

And if you want to take a first look on Update 9.6 yourself, our public playtest starts later today and all information for it can be found on our discord: https://discord.gg/eco (Check #news)

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Steam forums have a specific board for pre-sale questions that can be used by people that don't own Eco yet.

Hey Citizens,
for Update 9.6 one focus of our team was improving immersion of Eco in multiple areas.

We added several new animations and tweaked behaviour like harvesting, but we'll go into more detail about that in a future post.

Today we're giving you a glimpse on Eco's revamped desert with new cacti models, terrain material improvements and Dust VFX - our art team has been hard at work for 9.6!

https://preview.redd.it/n9hsknbe0rb91.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=b758ce5ada48699dbdc94a4345f449ae5eb4d640

An official server would know the rules of this sub ...

Nitrado tends to be a bit outdated on configs. Just keep in mind that bigger stockpile ranges are pretty performance-heavy, especially the bigger the server is.

Turning off Global Illumination will also help with some issues.

Yes. Our recommendation is simply due to us not being able to guarantee for it to even run on those, we don't do any testing on mobile hardware at all. Happy it works for you and I guess it will for many others, but official word is always most cautious.

It's below our minimum specs and we generally don't recommend playing on laptops, but you can always find out and refund - the requirements are set higher than necessary, as we don't have the resources for intensive testing at every Update.

We have a lot of taxes on WT, but I haven't seen that issue lately. As I said in another post, we implemented a mechanism rounding such stuff to the full value latest on a server restart, I guess this isn't working for everyone?

Let me be more precise:
I'm not aware of any issues still happening with that, most of these issues have already been closed and I just closed a few more that are already fixed. (We don't use GitHub anymore for issue tracking internally)

The system actually rounds currency to two digits in the background since a while, as you can notice by some of the server log entries for that. The only one I've been able to reproduce is getting account values, but those are autofixed on a restart. That issue would be considered very low priority, which is why I assume it's not tackled at this time. I can't tell you the reasons for that, though. I'd assume changing the saving type requires changes that make it not desirable to do so and is hence avoided for other solutions.

But that ultimately is so detailed developer related, it's not part of the information I have. When I get a chance I can ask, though.

Actually, it's been one of the most often requested mechanics (after boats, trains and animal husbandry for the major ones) and is part of Eco Infinite adressing the issues you're describing. A major issue on every server is the point where several professions just stagnate, as everyone bought what they needed. Upkeep costs work against that.

As for the performance I can only state what I've been stating before: The people working on performance do not work on features and vice versa, as the required skills are vastly different. Hence features don't take anything away from that.

Ssssht, don't spoil it for them.

As I've stated before, we don't intend to have any kind of that type of PvP in Eco - sorry.

I'm not aware of any plans to change that, unfortunately. I'm also not aware of any problems caused by that either, though. Anything specific you stumbled upon? At least I've not seen currency exploding on any of the officials.

It was always part of our vision that you can use Eco to make whatever you want with it, so the ability to modify nearly everything will never go away. We just need to find a balance between what do we actually add as 'official option' and what do we not.

That is also relevant for our achievement system in Update 10.0 - both for players and servers. Some settings will disqualify the server and the player from getting such achievements and "Big Shovel" would certainly be one of them. Of course we could add additional systems to specify what official options exactly give eligibility for what achievements, but we always try to keep things as easy and straightfoward as possible to start with.

I also do totally understand that many of these things we need to think about aren't public knowledge and hence cannot be taken into account by players when they make their ideas - the achievement system for example hasn't gotten any public information so far, as it's simply in a v...

Given Germany alone has 16 of those - one for each state, I fear that will be a hard task.