AdmiralDino

Maybe not the most constructive, but still a review. Censoring it is bad, because it artificially inflates the impression the reviews give in total. Instead devs should have asked why and tried to defend their prices based on the responses. Then someone reading the reviews could decide for themselves if the review seems baseless and/or irrelevant to them. Removing it for no other reason than "we didn't like that review" is dishonest to new potential buyers.

What OP said never happened to my knowledge. He'd need to send me his name and his review to investigate what happened. All i would have said is that we're sorry and feel the price is reasonable based on playtime per buck. He might have said that there is so many other cool games out there he can get cheaper and i'd say that he is free to get those games, but they're not Eco and we need to pay our employees. He might have said that selling more copies at less price would be more beneficial for both of us and i would have said that this is not the case, given support and refunds cost money.

That's how such a "discussion" would look. It's actually how one looks in one of the steam threads. It's fine if you don't like our prices, it's no issue for us. But we won't change it either. It's calculated to work.

The only reason we flag reviews for is stating wrong information or personal information as per steam community guidelines. (And those must be severe) We do not flag reviews for disagreeing with your feelings for price, nor for nonsense reviews or offensive language. (Which there is a lot of reviews of this type that are all still there) I can't remember your name, hence i can't remember flagging your review either, i'm the only one flagging reviews, that happens maybe once every few months.

The_butsmuts

Play a smaller world, other then that I don't think you can do anything other than waiting for the developers to optimize or to buy better hardware. Sadly as the game is indeed incredible.

In that case getting better hardware is the way to go, this does not even slightly fulfill the minimum requirements and never will. We'd also recommend to get a stationary PC, as most Laptops will not be able to power Eco.

Hylianer04

Sorry, didnt see your question.
But yeah I live in a very small village in Germany and we dont have any better internet connection here. Besides those better connections which wont function very stable on bad weather days. So yep its shitty for me. But it worked for all games so far. And 2 years ago it also worked for Eco, but yeah probably the updates have made it more connection heavy.

I assume that the speed isnt the initial issue, because i would only have to wait longer for those layers to download. I think eco or the servers, just give me a disconnect or time out, cause they cant send enough data in time.
Once when i am online and dont open the map, it works perfectly. I see what my friends do, they see what I do without lags.

Interestingly, when I open the website for the eco server (This website with all the laws and the world), i have no problems, everything loads, even every layer to show on the world loads almost instantly.

Just to be sure, it could not be a problem with ports or anything like this? Cause I read, that you have to forward Ports on your router/PC if you host one but also if you want to play on one? Cause the "Website" of our world uses a different port than the game itself. And the website doesnt need that long to load the whole world and all those layers.

I live in a small village in Germany as well and got GBit, lol.

Transferring Map data is already chunked, but also very bandwith heavy, that connection is simply too bad to play Eco reliable, that has nothing to do with ports, you don't need any open ports to play.

Hylianer04

But then why do I have the same problems to the recommendend Servers or even the offical Test Servers?

Hence i asked what crappy internet you have.

I saw you posted on discord as well, only having 240 kb/s - that's not enough for Eco, world layer updates can burst to 1500 kb/s easily. (Hence system requirements state a broadband connection, this seems to be some very ancient internet.)

In case it is mobile internet, that also won't work reliable.

It's a known issue with Nitrado on their side that connections can be bad. I'd recommend using a different hoster. You could try sending them a ticket but so far they haven't been either helpful nor cooperating with other clients that i know of.

As you wrote it happens everywhere though, what crappy internet do you have?

Reddit is not really a good place for support requests.

Send me your latest logs to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), you find them in /Steam/steamapps/common/Eco/Eco_Data/Server/Logs.

Most likely either your database got corrupted or your mods folder is.

Looks like something in the config could be wrong. If you use a panel to edit it, trying via FTP if possible would be good, otherwise chatting with your host might work.