Eco
Strange Loop Games Developer
Strange Loop Games Publisher
2018-02-06 Release
Game News Posts:
200
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(10636 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Maintenance Update 11.1.12 released!
[ 2025-05-29 15:16:45 CET ] [ Original post ]
Hey Citizens, we have just released Maintenance Update 11.1.12 with the following changes:
Civics:
- Fixed: A server crash that could happen when a secession election ended successfully.
- Fixed: A citizen of a higher-tier settlement that placed the foundation of a lower-tier settlement would lose the citizenship of the newly placed draft settlement when moving their homestead, also losing the draft Mayor title - this led to the settlement becoming unconfigurable. Instead, the player can now keep the citizenship of the draft settlement as long as the homestead was moved within its theoretical influence.
Gameplay:
- Fixed: Authorized users on a table could change the repair bounty settings, allowing them to set the price the owner pays for a repair bounty and fulfill it for that price.
- Fixed: An exploit that allowed to retain an outdoor room despite industrial objects being present by placing the outdoor objects on top of the industrial objects.
- Fixed: Authorized citizens were unable to consume items stored inside a storage object.
UI:
- Fixed: The crafting UI didn't display set crafting fees to the player.
- Fixed: Item tooltips didn't display the names of stores buying or selling the item.
- Fixed: The reputation tooltip did no longer display its contents when a reputation message exceeding 80 characters was present.
Miscellaneous:
- Fixed: Server achievements didn't persist through server restarts anymore.
- Fixed: Marketplace purchases could fail on servers with specific currency denominators.
- Improved: Introduced simple culling for lights, improving FPS in crowded towns.
Server & Configs
- Changed: Rebalanced defaults for "WeightCultureByPercentOfNeighboringPlotsChildSettlement" and "WeightCultureByPercentOfNeighboringPlotsSiblingSettlement" in Settlements.eco to make annexation of properties at borders much harder. Administrators that want to apply these changes need to update their Settlements.eco file.
- Added: "MaxGenerationHeight" config variable, determining the maximum height terrain will have after world generation - defaults to 120.
- Added: "MaxBuildHeight" config variable, determining up to which height players can place blocks. Changes take effect even after world generation, but this variable cannot be reduced below a value once it has been set. The value underlies limits depending on the world size and must be set with care - defaults to 160.
- Removed: "WorldHeight" config variable, as it has been split into the above.
[ 2025-05-29 15:16:45 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
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.
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 SETUP
- Processor: 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
- Processor: 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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