Игрок 5113·Не рекомендует·1811 ч в игре

Eco is a social experiment based on the premise, "How do we develop a loyal, dedicated, motivated playerbase and then see how much frustration and tedium we can pile on them until they leave?" The game was going very well. A few bugs here and there, particularly revolving around performance issues and memory leaks, and some features were not fully fleshed out. However, that can be expected of an Early Access game. And the things that were actually done were done very well. While definitely a complex game to jump into, it does a good job of showing you all the information you need. You can clearly see what items you need to make something, who can make them (if applicable), whether there are any on the market, and otherwise where to find them. The map will show you the best spots for crops, areas to avoid due to heavy pollution, and where are the most populated. Infrastructure such as power, pipes, and others can take a while but once you've done it once you're basically a pro. And it is truly great seeing a server start from mud houses and progress to towering structures. That is, if the server lives long enough. Eco is not a game where you can slack off, even for a day. A lot of it has to do with the people you are playing with. It is truly Tragedy of the Commons: The Video Game. Disputes over territory, over pollution, over prices, and more are common-place and will happen in any collaborative multiplayer game. That is not necessarily the fault of the game. To say that the playerbase has the attention span of squirrels is putting it lightly. They will happily play through their preferred phase of the game and then jump ship when they feel "complete," or they tire of waiting for their preferred phase to arrive and will hop to another server instead. These are issues that no game developer can necessarily solve...however they can be mitigated with proper design. Eco lacks that design. What was once a game about setting up a server with your preferred playstyle in mind to take down a meteor within a specified timeframe has become a game focused on grinding and grinding only. Modules, which reduced costs of materials and calories and crafting time, were nerfed heavily in update 14. Now everything is more expensive to make, setting off massive inflation across servers that have lead to frustration, boredom, and abandonment. No longer can a group of people reasonably progress the server at a decent pace, making enough materials, food, etc. to satisfy the server as a whole. Now, every single player has to essentially be playing nonstop in order to get enough materials to make even a meager amount of what's needed. Not only that, the modules are now gated behind earning stars, which are earned after hours of real-time waiting. This feeds into the problems listed above: The playerbase does not have the patience for this style of gameplay being forced on servers. They will get bored. They will get frustrated. They will leave. The updates themselves are, quite honestly, half-baked as well, and the excuse of it being early access is becoming a meme at this point. This game was released almost 10 years ago, and yet it took until this year to flesh out the perks for the most basic logging specialty. Recycling is locked behind spoiled food, which takes days to show up unless you mod it (basically fixing their game for them). The new garbage and pollution systems are unamangeable with how big and resource-intensive the sorting machines and their required components are, and how late you can finally address all the garbage and tailings that have driven up. Recycling doesn't even get talents to help things along at this current stage. Paper Milling and Painting are so near-useless that they still don't have updated useful perks. Everything that people want in the game is at the very end, when the meteor is only a day or two away from being destroyed. And don't think you can just mod things to your liking. Every update will break your mod, and the development team will not always tell you what code changes were made so that you can work around it. You want access to the code, good modding tools for your server, and more that other games freely give? Better be ready to shell out over a hundred dollars. Got suggestions, complaints, or questions about trying to make your server actually enjoyable? Tough luck, the developers only care about their official servers. They regularly disparage players that don't play on them. They only take suggestions from the ones that do. They wave their hands and tell people to use mods if they don't like how things are going, forgetting that every update breaks it entirely as mentioned above. The results are plain when one can see the player count history. Eco was strong. Eco was thriving. It'll get little spikes of activity when new updates come out from people curious about the changes and additions, but they are short-lived as people realize, once again, that the game has gotten more grindy, more punishing, and further and further away from its premise: Strangers coming together to collaborate as a team to achieve a common goal. The devs have forgotten this mission statement, and their antagonism to their players is evident with each successive update. I wish I could recommend this game. It fills such a unique and special niche. But it's become harder and harder to justify the cost, both in terms of money and in terms of time and dedication. This update was, for me, the final straw and I will no longer be recommending it to anyone.

Игрок 9425·Не рекомендует·722 ч в игре

I have over 600 hours in the game, and its a great game until the most recent update. The devs make the specializations into stupidity. Want to select a talent, star. Want to put in a upgrade module in a table. That'll be one star PER STATION. I wouldn't play this much anymore. They have taken the fun out of the game and turned into star microtransaction hell.

Игрок 7608·Рекомендует·1682 ч в игре

Over the past couple years of playing this, I've found some really fun/cool communities that i've spent a few seasons with. It's an economy simulator too lol, and omg the drama that comes up with that -- he used my mine! she harvested my rice! the cotton is overpriced! -- it sounds so small but wow does it get heated :D 99% of the time tho it's chill, you're just playing, building stuff, crafting, staring at your store.

Игрок 2437·Рекомендует·61 ч в игре

you can play this in singleplayer, just choose "no collaboration" when starting a new game

Игрок 0169·Рекомендует·328 ч в игре

Офигенная игра, не понимаю почему она не настолько популярна как майнкрафт. Я бы ее детям в школе показывал, и прям чтоб классом проходили на уроках. в свои 33 времени особо нету, но затягивает дико, картинка с лучами прекрасна. Буду с сынок строить локальную планету

Игрок 5725·Рекомендует·186 ч в игре

プライベートサーバを立てて10人ほどでプレイしました。 まず、このゲームはマルチ前提のゲームです。ソロだと魅力は10分の一以下になると思います。 縛りとしてそういうプレイもいいとは思いますが、役割分担とその役務をこなすRPがこのゲームの本質だと感じています。 この手のゲームでありがちな「開発しっぱなし」という要素が「●日後に隕石が落ちる」と「汚染」の2要素によってバランスとられているのがこのゲームの本質的な魅力かと思います。 とりあえず1ゲームセットやろうという気持ちになりますし、gdgdと続かないのが却って良いです。 そのほか、他のサンドボックス系のゲームで軽視されがちなインフラ周りがプレイの中で重視されているのもよい点です。 道を引く→移動速度アップ　家を充実させる/ご飯を食べる→経験値取得アップ これらを序盤からやるとやらないとでは後半のプレイ快適度合いが大きく変わってきます。 「X日後への投資」を、ゲーム内で取捨選択が用意されているのは非常に満足度が高いです。 一方、細かいゲームバランスはデフォルトだとかなり渋め。00年代初期のMMOみたいな倍率してます。 これについては自分でサーバを建てるかホストして、設定を緩めにするとプレイしやすくなります。 デフォルトはあくまで30～100人規模でのプレイ想定の数値かと思います。 また、30日毎日3時間拘束するデフォルトの設定も現代の生活リズム的にはかなりシビア。 このあたりはサーバ側で最大プレイ時間の設定ができるためじゃんじゃんいじってしまいましょう。 クイックにやるなら経験値やアイテム取得倍率を増やして日数を減らし、逆にガッツリやりたいなら伸ばせばOKです。 とにもかくにも現代のﾄﾞﾊﾟｶﾞｷ向けゲームとは違い、頭を使ってプレイするゲームで、サンドボックス系ゲームの中でもその要素は随一です。 「マイクラ経済MODじゃものたりない」「開発しきると飽きちゃうんだよな」という方には唯一無二、これ以上ないゲームだと思います。

Игрок 5796·Не рекомендует·73 ч в игре

It's great if you can get an actual community of AT LEAST 4 players. Minimum. Sadly it's an extremely niche game and it's way too highly priced for how niche it is. I would love to start a community but most people dont own it and Im not going to encourage friends to buy such a niche game.

Игрок 1869·Не рекомендует·242 ч в игре

This game would be a lot of fun if the community wasn`t so toxic. It`s a perfect example of what happens when you introduce forced peace into a game with a hell of a lot of competition, League of legends ain`t got nothin on this one. I have led wars that numbered a thousand. I have fought in server wide dueling competitions among the top 30. I have cleared raids where a single boss took 18 hours, where the top whales couldn`t pass it even a half a decade of power creep later. I have held server first titles for years with literally no mechanical comeback for anyone else. I have farmed skills that require you to stay alert for 6 hours a day for a full week with a full retinue of guards with no safe zones. I don`t have what it takes to play this game...