guru800

again network issue? servers are down again.

No, they actually crashed due to a game issue.

guru800

Idk how u know that, but thx for the info.

I'm the Community Manager of Eco :)

The servers are up again.

The official servers are unreachable due to a network issue that needs work by the datacenter operator. It should be available again tomorrow.

The seize property feature somehow slipped into the release unfinished, it will be included in a working state in 9.0.

Orisi

Please tell me you're going to do something about the nicest stone in the game, all those new mortared types, all being Tier 1? And Gneiss and Basalt don't even have a stone type to be tuned into, and heyve got such lovely colouring...

There is stuff planned for this, too, not necessarily in 9.0, though.

We do not have a central location for information on 9.0. We'll have a new roadmap later this year and some announcements on steam, too. Until then, we only release bits of interesting information on stuff that is finished across our channels.

Urbautz

Problem with wood construction is that it ends with tier 2.

Not any longer in Update 9.0 :)

Yes, we used a currency called Emission Permits and simulated the EU "stock exchange" of the real-life pendant. (Obviously not how it does exactly work, but a cool representation) Everyone got a limited amount of them, that was refreshed daily to a lesser amount. (E.g. you start out with 10 and get refilled to 5 per day) We built a building where we offered claims for a currency exchange and people had to buy their emits from other people that defined their price for them, giving non-polluting people a bit of control about pollution via pricing. Concept worked great, but it's a hard thing to balance what should cost how many emission permits. (And depends greatly on how many people are participating in the stock exchange)

People also got permits for doing good things - planting trees, removing wood pulp. Like in the EU system you can get certificates / not need to pay them when you make your co2 usage good via other means, for example planting forests.

faaltek

So is it or is it not a file per plant in he same way as the EcoSim file?

It's neither of that.

The files for changing growth time are in Mods/Organisms and there is no template for them. Everything that can be in the files is already in there. I thought you were asking for a template for the EcoSim.eco.

faaltek

is there a template example somewhere I can take a peak at?

EcoSim.eco.template in the same folder ...

Plant Growth rates are handled by one file for each plant in Mods/Organisms.

Despite the values that are already in EcoSim.eco, nothing else put in there will work anymore, as it has been moved elsewhere.

iOwnAtheists

Having technological progress without aggression/combat is like baking an apple pie without apples. Sure, it still tastes good and is still a pie, but why leave out the apples for no reason?

I don't care about combat that much at all (and indeed, I do NOT want to play a game focused around it, that is why I chose Eco). But there really should be at least a bare minimum of it in the game. Clearly I'm in the minority here but the game will feel unfinished until combat is implemented

It will feel unfinished for YOU - and in this case probably forever. ;)

It wasn't overlooked. It was designed like that. The PvP in this game is solely rhetoric in trying to build a society that works. And a lot of players are already failing in doing that *g*

WorldWarRon

I have joined a good number of servers in this game and I haven’t been able to find a consistently reliable server in regards to player commitment.

It can be played on single player just fine with the collaboration settings on low. In fact I recommend playing it that way at first to get yourself aquatinted with all the crafting and skill sets.

Weird. There are quite some big community servers that are reliable.

Hey there.

'When attempting to unclaim property where (performed on property Bridge) - allow)

Only the owner of a property can unclaim it. This law is the default, it does not do anything, only prevent would do something, otherwise it's allowed for the owner anyway. You cannot allow others to unclaim plots from other people via laws yet.

'When attempting to Abandon Specialty - allow'

Same here with the addition that abandoning specialties was removed from the game in update 8.0. But before that everyone could abandon specialties by default, only prevent had an affect.

'When attempting to run for office - prevent'

This will work.

We do plan to have laws allowing to override authorisation for objects and deeds in the future, but so far this is not possible.