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After a year in the pipes were pleased to announce Eco 9 will be launched on September 9th.
The short list of whats new: [olist]

Performance Much improved GPU and CPU performance.

Government Create constitutions, elections, laws, districts in-world.

Work parties Collaborate on projects and share rewards.

Mining upgrade Prospecting drills and new processing path for ore.

New animals Predators with new behaviors.

Crafting upgrade Labor and flexible ingredients added.

Ecopedia In-game wiki.

Cloud Worlds hosting service SLG run hosting service.

New biomes Wetlands.

New building system Hammer and material types and shapes upgrade. Bulk actions.

UI upgrade Full pass on all UI.[/olist] And the long list:

Government

Law system moved to ingame with a variety of improvements to help ease of us
Vastly expanded options for laws and government types
Constitutions that decide the the foundation of how a government is set up
New government buildings each with their own function
Customizable election processes that can be used for different aspect of government
Districts can now overlap and are viewable with new in-game district map
Customizable government titles with optional wages
Government bank accounts that are exempt from personal wealth calculations
Citizens now have the option to overthrow a government

Ecosystem

New animal species and predator behaviour
Updated Geology with new ways for ores to spawn in more compact deposits
Prospecting drill for locating ore
Unique log types for each type of tree
Wetlands biome has been reintroduced
Adjustments to pollution so avoiding climate change requires more effort from society

Crafting

New labor system for calorie powered crafting
Expanded mineral processing system with additional depth and byproducts
Work Parties that enable collaborative work and hiring skilled labor
Upgrade modules for crafting efficiency
Crafting costs reductions are more trade based
Tagged ingredients for recipes that can accept a variety of inputs
New crafting recipes, items, and world objects
A variety of balance changes to expand on the depth of specialties and encourage more interaction

Building

New tier 4 building materials: Ashlar Stone and Composite Lumber
Lots of new building forms for existing materials
Different variations of Hewn Logs and Lumber based on the type of wood used
Visual update to Asphalt Roads including the ability to have lane lines
Improvements to the building system so multiple blocks can be placed at once.

Quality of Life

A detailed Ecopedia explaining most game concepts and mechanics
Expanded lighting system and additional graphic improvements
Revamped UI
Audio improvements with new interactive music
A new minimap that is visible at all times by default
Map now has an optional 2D mode and additional filters for information
More flexibility with claiming and dividing deeds

Optimization

Fix for performance degradation over time (memory leak)
Decreased RAM usage
A variety of server optimizations
Massive improvements to FPS and overall stability

Weve been releasing blogs with lots of details on how it all works, check on our past updates for the gritty details and a tour of features. I speak for the team when I say we cant wait to get this out to the Eco community and see what amazing societies people build. And even still, were only at the beginning of where we want to go with Eco.

[ 2020-08-03 17:44:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Eco

Strange Loop Games Developer

Strange Loop Games Publisher

2018-02-06 Release

Indie Simulation Multiplayer Coop Tags

Game News Posts: 193

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (10380 reviews)

https://www.play.eco

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Enter the world of Eco, where you must team-up to build civilization and prevent a disaster, using resources from a fully simulated ecosystem, where your every action affects the lives of countless species.

Will you and your fellow builders collaborate successfully, creating laws to guide player actions, finding a balance that takes from the ecosystem without damaging it? Or will the world be destroyed by short-sighted choices that pollute the environment in exchange for immediate resource gains? Or, do players act too slowly, and the world is consumed by a disaster that could have been avoided if you developed the right technology? In Eco, you must find a balance as a group if the world is to survive.

A world-survival game

Eco is a survival game in a global sense, where it is not just the individual or group who is threatened, but the world itself. The world of Eco will be home to a population of thousands of simulated plants and animals of dozens of species, each living out their lives on a server running 24 hours a day, growing, feeding and reproducing, with their existence highly dependent on other species.

Enter humans into this equation, and things get complicated. It is the role of players to thrive in this environment by using resources from the world to eat, build, discover, learn and invent. However, every resource they take affects the environment it is taken from, and without careful planning and understanding of the ecosystem, lands can become deforested and polluted, habitats destroyed, and species left extinct.

In the extreme, the food supply of the ecosystem can be destroyed, along with all human life on it, resulting in server-wide perma-death. Eco is a game where the player’s actions have meaningful consequences.

Everything you do affects the ecosystem, and players can destroy their food supply and world (server-wide permadeath)
Create a player-run government to make decisions as a group, proposing and voting on laws
Use data gathered from the world to propose and vote on laws as a group. Debate with scientific argumentation.
Create a player-run economy that allows you to sell not only good but services in the form of server-enforced contracts (simulating a player driven quest system).
Your food level determines your skill-increase rate, making food very important and tying players directly to the ecosystem from which it comes.
A game with goals higher than entertainment. We plan to build it for schools as an augmented classroom world students share.

MINIMAL SETUPProcessor: Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHzMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 or AMD Radeon HD 5850 or Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 512 MBNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 2 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPProcessor: Intel Core i5-2300 or AMD Phenom II X4 940 or betterMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 or AMD Radeon HD 7750 with 1 GB VRAM or betterNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 2 GB available space

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