You are correct that there's a lack of dangers, but it's a very good "cooperetitive" experiences - where players both cooperate and compete in a simulated economy, and yes, there can be politics/laws as well.
I'm currently having a good time on a community server called Creameyy-Fudgelandia (most of the servers are community-run so ... yeah... you get some interesting names.) It's definitely more geared for beginners. I would recommend doing Gardening + Tailoring as your first two skills, as those areas are kind of lacking on the current server and have the money $ opportunities.
Official servers are definitely more towards the competitive side, sometimes overly so.
This is not in anyway a single player game.
This is an economy game where you are a single cog in the wheel. You must collaborate to grow your civilization enough to be capable of destroying the meteor without killing the planet in the process.
Seriously though. Go join a new world, find a fresh server with 10+ population, hop in and setup shop AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to other people. Then investigate (or ask) for the most needed profession, become that professional, and try to optimize how you do business. Build your house as a side task to get yourselves more stars needed to unlock the next branch of your profession, repeat.
You will have to restart a couple of times before you learn the ropes (worst tutorial, and overall interface of any game ever). But as you play you will meet some cool people that you will probably play with for multiple play throughs. Very small but devout community in this game
Sounds like I've been playing the game wrong then haha, thanks. I don't even understand how to get to the point that I can destroy the asteroid, to be honest. I will try follow your advice, I've been playing with 1 friend but I did read 5 is a hard minimum to actually win the game.
I would treat 5 as a minimum to even play the game, and at that if one of them dissappear for a week then you are stuck in the mud. You need a number of ACTIVE players to progress. Even if you have a small group, you are better to take then with you and form a town on an existing populated server.
I've been on a small server with extremly high collab setting, after a week, many player left, but we manage to keep the economy alive for another 2week with around 10player and i would consider it a minimum, because then we lose a few more player and it wasn't working anymore, we were so close to the end so we turn socialist and complete the game with 5 player.
So i would say 10player minimum for a capitalist gameplay(which is how the game is supposed to be played) and 5 minimum to be able to complete the game as a socialist community
It's free to play. WO has been around since 2003, and was the product of two devs nicknamed Rolf and Notch. And if Notch sounds familiar, that's because he left Wurm Online to make Minecraft.
There is a subscription if you decide you want to go past beginner levels in WO. But to just check it out won't cost a thing.
>Then investigate (or ask) for the most needed profession, become that professional
Whatever you do, don't become the 2nd best at any profession or you will never be able to thrive. A capitalist monopoly is designed into the game.
Sadly this is true and was likely the cause of many of my restarts. Hard to compete with someone that already knows what they are doing. Fortunately I think their changes toward townships help with this a lot
As others have said, this is 100% a multiplayer game. My best suggestion would be to do as others have said :)
First, join a newer server with at least 10 people online and ask what kind of profession people need in a town or on the server. Sometimes there might be 3 Campfire Cooking players but NONE of them are actually playing! So you can't just look at the profession counters on the Z screen.
Second, live CLOSE to people! This is not minecraft where you want to live out in your own corner. Live next to other active players, especially someone that cooks food.
Third, be social. Don't be quiet. Say hello, ask people if they need anything, and just be helpful. People will help you in return and it'll be a great way to make friends.
Fourth, don't neglect the creative side of the game. You can definitely build some amazing structures in Eco. Maybe not as in depth as Space Engineers or a modded Minecraft, but definitely cool things!
I can spend hours grinding and crafting but sometimes it's good to take a break and just make a cool looking house or workshop.
The game isn't so much a PVE experience as there are no dangers other than polution. It's a cooperative experience where you work with other players to get the goal of saving the planet from the asteroid (if that's being used). It can feel disheartening at first because with a low population count it becomes very hard to achieve what you need to reach the goal.
Animals like wolves used to take away your calories, but that was removed so there is no real danger other than drowning now, which only puts you back on shore at the end of it.
It’s pretty empty by yourself. We have a private server with 5 people where we turned off the meteor and are just having fun playing the economy and government stuff filling roles and it’s super fun. Like a more advanced Minecraft
For me, it depends entirely on the multiplayer server. It really shines on very high collab servers, because everyone is needed. I only look for those kind of settings. Otherwise, people don't communicate as much and you are just one of many, many people. They likely wouldn't even notice if you left.
THIS IS NOT A SOLO PLAYER GAME.
Now with that out of the way, I have played well over 2K hours into ECO. Most of my gameplay was in large RP servers where there were around 70+ players with another 100-200 players coming in and out. The game was originally made to be used in schools to teach kids how economics, scarcity of resources, and laws work. It gained a cult following among the RP community and took off.
Find a good multiplayer server and learn from there. In most cases the servers make it so you have to hyper-focus on 1 job area to make it more co-op then I can make everything all by myself. You will see it is important to find a way to make income so you can buy and sell goods. This is the main game-play IMO.
After that, you will see groups forming towns with zones and laws. All in all it is a super fun game but it does require you to work with others.
This is a little misleading, many people sell the game as an ecologic game and yes its part of the game, but its mostly an econmic game
For a full experience you have to join high collab server and the usual way to play the game is to build a succesfull business
Reading some of these comments makes me want to jump back into the game!
I was fortunate to be on a very active world, only for it to die out shortly after joining. My hopes were high, so I kept grinding until the meteor countdown strike zero… It was heartbreaking for me to have spend so much time for it all to go to waste (which is ironic since videos games do this), but I didn’t give up hope and found some new servers.
The food spoilage was implemented and it turned me off even more. I freelance as an audiovisual technician, so my schedule can be whacky and won’t play a game for several days or weeks. Having to grind out gathering food in the game only for it to spoil because reality keeps me away from it became annoying REAL fast.
Are there servers that don’t use the food spoilage, or rather limit it to when the player is online if stored on their property?
The game shines on a good multiplayer server
Sounds good, I'll try it tonight with a friend. Thanks :)
You are correct that there's a lack of dangers, but it's a very good "cooperetitive" experiences - where players both cooperate and compete in a simulated economy, and yes, there can be politics/laws as well. I'm currently having a good time on a community server called Creameyy-Fudgelandia (most of the servers are community-run so ... yeah... you get some interesting names.) It's definitely more geared for beginners. I would recommend doing Gardening + Tailoring as your first two skills, as those areas are kind of lacking on the current server and have the money $ opportunities. Official servers are definitely more towards the competitive side, sometimes overly so.
Hah! I'm on there too.
This is not in anyway a single player game. This is an economy game where you are a single cog in the wheel. You must collaborate to grow your civilization enough to be capable of destroying the meteor without killing the planet in the process. Seriously though. Go join a new world, find a fresh server with 10+ population, hop in and setup shop AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to other people. Then investigate (or ask) for the most needed profession, become that professional, and try to optimize how you do business. Build your house as a side task to get yourselves more stars needed to unlock the next branch of your profession, repeat. You will have to restart a couple of times before you learn the ropes (worst tutorial, and overall interface of any game ever). But as you play you will meet some cool people that you will probably play with for multiple play throughs. Very small but devout community in this game
Sounds like I've been playing the game wrong then haha, thanks. I don't even understand how to get to the point that I can destroy the asteroid, to be honest. I will try follow your advice, I've been playing with 1 friend but I did read 5 is a hard minimum to actually win the game.
I would treat 5 as a minimum to even play the game, and at that if one of them dissappear for a week then you are stuck in the mud. You need a number of ACTIVE players to progress. Even if you have a small group, you are better to take then with you and form a town on an existing populated server.
Nice to know. Thanks!
I've been on a small server with extremly high collab setting, after a week, many player left, but we manage to keep the economy alive for another 2week with around 10player and i would consider it a minimum, because then we lose a few more player and it wasn't working anymore, we were so close to the end so we turn socialist and complete the game with 5 player. So i would say 10player minimum for a capitalist gameplay(which is how the game is supposed to be played) and 5 minimum to be able to complete the game as a socialist community
I'd argue Wurm Online has a worse tutorial and interface for a complex multiplayer economic game, but yeah... it's almost as bad. :D
Havnt even heard of it, will have to take a peek.
It's free to play. WO has been around since 2003, and was the product of two devs nicknamed Rolf and Notch. And if Notch sounds familiar, that's because he left Wurm Online to make Minecraft. There is a subscription if you decide you want to go past beginner levels in WO. But to just check it out won't cost a thing.
Be prepared to be in awe of the possibilities, and then colliding with the worst UI, and a ghost-town world.
>Then investigate (or ask) for the most needed profession, become that professional Whatever you do, don't become the 2nd best at any profession or you will never be able to thrive. A capitalist monopoly is designed into the game.
Sadly this is true and was likely the cause of many of my restarts. Hard to compete with someone that already knows what they are doing. Fortunately I think their changes toward townships help with this a lot
How could they have fixed this? Seems to be a cursed problem with no good solution.
As others have said, this is 100% a multiplayer game. My best suggestion would be to do as others have said :) First, join a newer server with at least 10 people online and ask what kind of profession people need in a town or on the server. Sometimes there might be 3 Campfire Cooking players but NONE of them are actually playing! So you can't just look at the profession counters on the Z screen. Second, live CLOSE to people! This is not minecraft where you want to live out in your own corner. Live next to other active players, especially someone that cooks food. Third, be social. Don't be quiet. Say hello, ask people if they need anything, and just be helpful. People will help you in return and it'll be a great way to make friends. Fourth, don't neglect the creative side of the game. You can definitely build some amazing structures in Eco. Maybe not as in depth as Space Engineers or a modded Minecraft, but definitely cool things! I can spend hours grinding and crafting but sometimes it's good to take a break and just make a cool looking house or workshop.
The game isn't so much a PVE experience as there are no dangers other than polution. It's a cooperative experience where you work with other players to get the goal of saving the planet from the asteroid (if that's being used). It can feel disheartening at first because with a low population count it becomes very hard to achieve what you need to reach the goal. Animals like wolves used to take away your calories, but that was removed so there is no real danger other than drowning now, which only puts you back on shore at the end of it.
It’s pretty empty by yourself. We have a private server with 5 people where we turned off the meteor and are just having fun playing the economy and government stuff filling roles and it’s super fun. Like a more advanced Minecraft
For me, it depends entirely on the multiplayer server. It really shines on very high collab servers, because everyone is needed. I only look for those kind of settings. Otherwise, people don't communicate as much and you are just one of many, many people. They likely wouldn't even notice if you left.
I chose this game exactly because there are no dangers. Was looking for this for a long time.
THIS IS NOT A SOLO PLAYER GAME. Now with that out of the way, I have played well over 2K hours into ECO. Most of my gameplay was in large RP servers where there were around 70+ players with another 100-200 players coming in and out. The game was originally made to be used in schools to teach kids how economics, scarcity of resources, and laws work. It gained a cult following among the RP community and took off. Find a good multiplayer server and learn from there. In most cases the servers make it so you have to hyper-focus on 1 job area to make it more co-op then I can make everything all by myself. You will see it is important to find a way to make income so you can buy and sell goods. This is the main game-play IMO. After that, you will see groups forming towns with zones and laws. All in all it is a super fun game but it does require you to work with others.
This is a little misleading, many people sell the game as an ecologic game and yes its part of the game, but its mostly an econmic game For a full experience you have to join high collab server and the usual way to play the game is to build a succesfull business
Reading some of these comments makes me want to jump back into the game! I was fortunate to be on a very active world, only for it to die out shortly after joining. My hopes were high, so I kept grinding until the meteor countdown strike zero… It was heartbreaking for me to have spend so much time for it all to go to waste (which is ironic since videos games do this), but I didn’t give up hope and found some new servers. The food spoilage was implemented and it turned me off even more. I freelance as an audiovisual technician, so my schedule can be whacky and won’t play a game for several days or weeks. Having to grind out gathering food in the game only for it to spoil because reality keeps me away from it became annoying REAL fast. Are there servers that don’t use the food spoilage, or rather limit it to when the player is online if stored on their property?