eco-game-notes

Documentation of the changes i made to the default eco game to make it more enjoyable.

Chat Commands

There are quite a few chat commands in eco.
The most helpful ones i found are:

/openserverui: Opens a server gui to tweak server settings (host only command)
/mark: Creates a waypoint marker at the current player position (very useful to find back home ;) )

Plant Growth

Plants in eco can take multiple real-life days until they're fully grown. (Smaller plants like Beans are fully grown after 19 hours, but large trees can take up to 6 days until they're fully grown)

I divided the plant growth time by 10, so every plant is done in less than 1 real-life day. This can be accomplished easily by going to your eco installation folder and from there into Eco_Data/Server/Mods/AutoGen/Plant.
Each file in this folder is a plant available in eco.
Search for the line this.MaturityAgeDays = x.xf; - MaturityAgeDays is the variable that defines how many real-life days a plant needs to be fully grown (1.0f = 24 hours, 0.5f = 12 hours, etc...)
I just divided each of these values by 10, e.g. for Beans: this.MaturityAgeDays = 0.8f / 10.0f;.

To speed up this process i used Notepad++'s Search and replace in files... function

with (this.MaturityAgeDays.*)(;) as search regex
and \1 / 10.0f\2 as replace

Mining Skill

When you reach Mining Level 6 you can choose between 2 Talents:

SweepingHands: Picking up rocks also attempts to pick up similar rocks in an area
LuckyBreak: Mining rocks no longer has a chance to create large chunks

However i felt the game would be far more enjoyable if one could get both perks at once (no more large rock pieces + auto pickup).
This can be easily accomplished by editing the 2 skill files:

Eco_Data/Server/Mods/AutoGen/Benefit/LuckyBreak.cs
Eco_Data/Server/Mods/AutoGen/Benefit/SweepingHands.cs

Both initialize the set of talents you will get in the TalentGroup, e.g. for SweepingHands.cs:

Talents = new Type[] {
  typeof(MiningSweepingHandsTalent),
};

Simply replace this section in both files with

Talents = new Type[] {
  typeof(MiningSweepingHandsTalent),
  typeof(MiningLuckyBreakTalent),
};

Now you'll get both perks regardless of which one you pick :)

Experience Multiplier

You can change the experience settings in your servers config (Eco_Data/Server/Configs/Difficulty.eco). For my single-player playthrough i went with

{
  "CollaborationPreset": "NoCollaboration",
  "UnlearnRefundRate": 0.5,
  "SpecialtyCostMultiplier": 0.1,
  "SkillGainMultiplier": 15.0,
  "SpecialtyExperienceDivisor": 20.0,
  "SpecialtyExperiencePerLevel": 25.0,
  "PlayerExperiencePerSpecialtyExperience": 0.001
}

Altough these settings will probably be way too high for a multiplayer server.

External Mods

Additionally i can recommend the following mods: