Feature Suggestions

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The idea is to have additional housing bonus rooms that are provided to everyone in the town. Think of it like a Culture property but you can have a "Hospital" property type that you put bedroom/seating/lighting furniture into and new "Hospital" type furniture. Some other property types could be Library/School and Courthouse. Think town infrustrastructure, like how people in real life want to live near a good school and hospital. Something a town can invest in that benifits all players in that town through the housing bonus system. For Countries and Federations, you could apply the property to all members as well with the normal additional room bonus reductions with the best providing the full benefit.

I am loving the new boats.... can we have trains next please!

There isn't very much to hunting at the moment; you take a bow/tool and go smack an animal. So I had a few ideas to toss at the wall here, and I suppose we can see what sticks! Advancements in hunting tech: Bows are nice, but a society that is in its industrial era is still hunting with bows? I was thinking something like a musket could solve this! Higher range, higher damage, more expensive, and has a long reload. Tracking: Animals now temporarily leave behind small signs of their presence, such as footprints left every so often that eventually wash away. Bait: Leaving out foods like raw vegetables/meat can attract animals.

It would be really nice if there was a way to track statistics on players as a small competitive aspect to the game or to just see how much some players have achieved currently. Examples of listable stats. Total Rocks mined Total Trees Chopped Total Clay Scooped Total Sand Scooped Current Food Bonus Current Housing Bonus Current Total Bonus Total Experience Earned Across All Skills Total Calories Consumed Total Transactions Made Total Money Spent Total Stumps removed Total Garbage Picked Up Total Pollution Generated Number of Animals Killed Most Liked Paintings Then the addition of a Leaderboard Structure craftable in the Town Settlement as a way to display. The leaderboard could have a settings feature to display similar to how Laws are setup where you can add requirements. An example of some settings you could enable on the Leaderboard Structure. Must be online with the last 7 days. Must be within your town. Only display the last 10 results What this could allow is each town could display their own highscores or put competiting leaderboards next to each other. This can also give more objectives within the game or goals for players to shoot for. The display could be something like [ <<<< ] - Viewing Highest Housing Bonus - [ >>>>] #1 - Player1 , 152.4 Housing Bonus , Town: No Settlement #2 - Player2 , 148.9 Housing Bonus , Town: SomeTown8 #3 - Player3 , 89.2 Housing Bonus , Town: NeverTown6 #4 - Player4 , 73.7 Housing Bonus , Town: AlwaysTown4

While eating spiced foods shouldn't add to the food variety bonus in any way it could be an interesting way to help players find the foods they like by giving them one of four preferred spice levels: plain, salty, peppered, and spicy hot. Of course, not all dishes would benefit from all spices. How can you make salty salads without them wilting in the bowl? No one would add pepper or jalapenos to porridge, and so on.

Some kind of UI indication that you can pick up more then one dirt as you upgrade your shovels to the next tier.

Why I made this suggestion: I played a server quite a long time ago that had Bone Ashes used as an alternative Quicklime method. I decided today to look at Primitive methods for making Limestone, Limestone Putty, Quicklime, etc.. and found a possible way we could integrate these methods into the game without going as crazy as those methods consisted of but allowing several skills to partake in a highly demanded resource. Overall Goal: Clams have minimal usages, but are very easy to obtain for all players thus creating an easy entry to obtaining the first stage of this creation process as there will be a cooking process of them to generate Ash Fragments. Animal Carcasses will now provide Bone Fragments giving Butcher's an additional resource to sell which can aid in lowering their cost of other materials like Hide, Wool, and Meats or Raising the amount they pay for Carcasses which in turn creates more opportunity for players to hunt for them or alternatively keeping food prices lower which is needed on servers. Campfire Cooking will have a primitive way using their Campfire Station to create Ash Fragments which will be more cost efficient for Shell Ash Fragments, but less efficient for Bone Ash Fragments and overall significantly slower compared to the Masonry's method of doing it. Campfire Cooking Recipe - Level 4 - Campfire Station 16 Shell Ash Fragments - Requires: 32 Clams , Craft Time: 20 minutes 16 Bone Ash Fragments - Requires: 16 Bone Fragments , Craft Time: 20 minutes Masonry Recipe - Level 6 - Kiln 12 Shell Ash Fragments - Requires: 32 Clams , Craft Time: 5 minutes. 12 Bone Ash Fragments - Requires: 16 Bone Fragments , Craft Time: 5 minutes. 4 Dried Crushed Limestone - 24 Ash Fragments , Craft Time: 5 minutes. Butchery Recipe Adjustments Small Creatures now give , 4 Bone Fragments Medium Creatures now give , 8 Bone Fragments Large Creatures now give , 16 Bone Fragments Masonry Recipe - Level 4 - Pottery Station 1 Ash Quicklime - 3 Ash Fragments , Craft Time: 5 minutes. Masonry Recipe - Level 6 - Blast Furnace 1 Ash Quicklime - 2 Ash Fragments , Craft Time: 12 seconds. Let me know if any tweaking that might be needed I tried to make the "cooking times" a bit longer so the quantities used had to be higher to suggest there was a length cooking/drying process involved.

Goal: Ways to create more ways to generate Clay into the game outside of the few people who live in Jungles and that's if Jungles even exist in the world created. Several skills involved in this process starting with Gathering to produce the Wet Clay Chunks and Campfire Cooks / Pottery with the Clay production through an a very slow method and a faster more advanced method once pottery is unlocked. However with no cost difference both skills can partake in this production with one requiring Basic Upgrades and the other requiring Advanced Upgrades. Possibly the Campfire one can be a static recipe like Mortar, but I feel it shouldn't be or Gathering wouldn't have much of a reason to sell the Wet Clay Chunks. Gathering Skill - Level 2 - Pottery Table 4 Wet Clay Chunks - 16 Dirt , Craft Time: 15 seconds. Campfire Cooks - Level 4 - Campfire Station 1 Dried Clay - 1 Wet Clay Chunk, 0.25 Sand , Craft Time: 5 minutes. Pottery Skill - Level 4 - Kiln 4 Dried Clay - 4 Wet Clay Chunks , 1 Sand , Craft Time: 1 minute.

For a game that has such a rich focus on government and politics, I was very surprised to find out that flags are not something that you can make in Eco. Flags are a big part of government and politics because they give a symbol and identity to an otherwise very abstract thing. This is why every country in real life has them. They give communities something to connect with and be prideful in. Introducing customizable flags and flagpoles would allow players to design unique banners that represent their government, whether it's a small local council or a large national body. Players could create and fly flags for different levels of government—settlements, nations, federations—giving their political structures a visual identity. Implementation Features: Flag Customization Interface: A flexible design interface allowing players to choose colors, shapes, patterns, and symbols, allowing a great deal of creativity in designing flags. Tiered Government Flags: Different levels of government (local, regional, national) could have distinct flags, reinforcing the hierarchy and helping players visually distinguish between political units. Flag Recipe Items: Players would have the ability to create a flag recipe that can then be applied to a blank flag, ensuring standardization. This would be particularly useful for groups, governments, or organizations that want to maintain a consistent flag design across different locations. Multiple Display Options: In addition to flagpoles, players could display their flags in various forms, including short and long banners, trifolds, buntings, and other decorative formats. These different displays could be placed on buildings, along streets, or used in ceremonial locations to further enhance the game’s immersive government and community experience. Interactivity: Flags could be raised or lowered during events, giving players more opportunities for roleplay or symbolic actions (e.g., celebrating new laws, mourning events, or showing solidarity). Flags for Alliances and Guilds: In addition to government entities, players could design flags for groups like trade unions, environmental organizations, or alliances between governments, adding another layer of immersion. Culture Implementation: Flags could contribute greatly to culture and serve as a decorational outdoors piece.