Eco Strange Loop Games - tips and tricks for cooperation

This new V.10 of  Eco by Strange Loop Games  is full of new opportunities. As always, the uninvited guests to this party are fear of change and concerns that our comfortable way of playing no longer works. 

What should I do in Eco ? This simple image will give you hints about preparation, first misssions and next step tasks.

While you entertain the best way to upgrade your house bonus in Eco, the easiest and fastest solution is actually sharing a house with another player...

    Here is a practical, complete and  already tested  package of planning tools for admins and leaders in  Eco by Strange Loop Games . It is meant to make your job easier when planning your world.

So far, I have found no better graphics to illustrate how economic inequity in Eco game translates into abandon and server failure. 

Tired of people giving you "tips" for your server while they never tried them, or worse, used them on a single server that failed ? This one is for you: detailed observations about two successful servers that lasted for several cycles.

Money in Eco by Strange Loop Games  is a vital tool to mediate the exchanges of items between players. But what new players don't expect is there are at least 5 types of money to look for.

I got on the server few hours after start. There are already 3 people with the skill I want to take. All the other skills seems taken too. Bummer, let's find another place.

One of the most common mistake you can do in Eco  by  Strange Loop Games  is to apply real life economic concepts (or what you think you know about them) directly to the game. We should rather keep an open mind and adapt these concepts to help collaboration. Here is one tricky example: a logging players who sells with negative profits.

Empty world with wood huts. Newbs asking if trucks will be available today. Alright, let's hit the road again....

Welcome in our fair world, friend. I am about to take a chocolate cake from the oven, but you can take a plate and forage in my garbage: there might be some old cheese for you.

This is a common and a very important question for new players who discover Eco by Strange Loop Games .

In Eco by  Strange Loop Games , close teams of friends have an advantage over those who are alone at the beginning. Is this really unfair or can we learn from teams to improve our cooperation strategies and reach the same level? Here are some practical tricks and tips for cooperation...

In Eco by  Strange Loop Games , most servers have 30 days to destroy the asteroid. However, it is not rare for worlds to be taken over by enthusiast players who attempt to defeat it within a week.

Smooth exchange of resources is probably the biggest challenge a community of strangers can have in Eco by Strange Loop Games. Upgrade modules availability is a particularly hard one, except if you use module upgraders.

Eco, by Strange Loop Games is a simulation, sand-box and cooperative game were players begin at stone age and rise to a modern society in order to destroy the asteroid. Understanding the path and caveats of technology in Eco is the first step to a better experience.

A great aspect of the game Eco  by  Strange Loop Games  is the ability to make laws. This one is about a clever and quite sound taxation law aimed at frequent problems on servers.

It seems there are two dominant approaches to cooperate with other players in Eco  by  Strange Loop Games : the cautious trade from distance and close team. This post is about something in between that works very well in Eco.

Just for fun. Can we translate the real laws of thermodynamics in the Eco world ? Turns out the result is pretty interesting to guide server management.

In Eco by Strange Loop Games, I stumbled few times in communities of players who defined their group as communists. While this has little to do with communism in the real world, here is what I learned with them.