Name | Eco | ||
Developer | Strange Loop Games | ||
Publisher | Strange Loop Games | ||
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Release | 2018-02-06 | ||
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Controls | Keyboard Mouse | ||
Players online |  1356  | ||
Steam Rating | Very Positive | ||
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Owners |  100,000 .. 200,000 +/-   | ||
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Average playtime (forever) | 4822 | ||
Average playtime (last 2 weeks) | 0 | ||
Median playtime (forever) | 5447 | ||
Median playtime (last 2 weeks) | 0 |
Eco is a game that has a huge scope, covering a massive section of human development and history, and through that time humanitys powers have increased exponentially. Thats what we want the arc of Eco to be: the progression from powerless to massively powerful, and the increasing need for management of those powers to prevent them from becoming self-destructive.
Weve got the broad-strokes for the technology arc already, but its something were continuing to build through early access. Vehicles are a huge part of this, and with 8.2 were tuning up the use of the existing vehicles, and in future updates we will be adding more and making them more useful and flexible. This growth in power will put enormous pressure on the ecosystem, and thus follows the purpose of the government, to regulate and decide as a group how those powers should be used. As your powers grow, so must your regulations, ideally leading that progress rather than playing catch-up, but that is not so easy. Government, then, is a tool to manage the powers you are gaining as a society and keep them pointed towards sustainable growth. Thus, there is an arc of government that mirrors the arc of progress: from free-reign at the beginning of the game when powers are meek, to complex regulations when powers are extensive. Going through this whole process should be an illuminating experience, and different every time, with tons of potential problems coming up that youll need to solve as a group. With our 9.0 government upgrades, the ability to do this will become much more flexible and powerful. Well need the communitys help with this as well. When we get the 9.0 test server up well need lots of feedback. And ideas you can submit to our suggestion database here. So many great ideas come from the community, and developing it in tandem with them has been a great experience. We also have a dev tier available on our website for those that want to dig into the code. Thanks for following Eco and looking forward to lots more to come. |