Eco is a revelation The thing that gives me chills is that I think it is only in games that we can play with economic systems. And I walked away from my experience in Eco feeling like I learned so much even though we had no instructor.
No one was connecting the dots for us. We simply learned through play. Recent Events in Eco's Development. Graphs Heatmaps Mini Map Elections. Nutrition Housing Town Buffs Research. To run an Eco server through Steam, you must also own the game on Steam.
First, download and install the server. There should be an entry in there called "Eco Server". Installing this will provide you with a copy of an Eco server that you can launch through Steam. The server is installed to:. The server can be launched like any other Steam game. It will show up in your recently played games if it has been run recently, or it can be launched through the Tools section of your Steam library.
You are also able to navigate to the server's install location and launch EcoServer. To use other versions besides the current release, you can opt into "betas" like other Steam games. If the drop-down menu has no options available, leave the code blank in the box below the drop-down and click "Check Code".
You might need to close out of the properties window and re-open it to see the betas list after entering the blank code. Updating a Steam server will not wipe the world, but may wipe configurations.
Make sure you back up your configuration files before updating. Finally to download the server itself type:. This will download the server. Or when you want to update the server will start downloading the latest version overwriting all the files of the downloaded server. Please make sure you do not run your server from the same directory just in case you decide to use this method to update and forget to back up your data.
If you want to use a batch file. These commands assume the. These commands will automatically download the eco-server and place it in a folder named "Eco Server". Inside the SteamCMD folder. Please copy the new folder and the server data in it to the location you want to host your server from. When needing to update that server just run the. Do not run the downloaded server inside the SteamCMD folder itself.
You want to keep that version as a backup and reference to an unedited server. To run a server locally without Steam, you first need to grab the server files from Strange Loop Game's website under "Account". This requires you to sign in to your SLG account and to have purchased Eco through that account or a linked Steam account. On the account page, there is a section that lists the current version of Eco and the current staging release with download links for both.
Clicking on the "Server" link for the version you want will download a. When the server is done downloading, move the. It is recommended to install the server into an empty folder. When you have the. At this point, your install folder should have a handful of folders with various files and the EcoServer. You are now able to run your server but to make the server publicly visible, you need to do port forwarding. We also have a separate list for the cheapest Eco server hosting provider.
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