Setup for one or two players

[EL YUNQUE]

Helo guys, i played the game when it came out with many people and it was a complete mess even tho the game was really good.
So is it possible now to play as 2 players only ?

[EL YUNQUE]

Or even as a solo player

[Shimazu]

If you set low collaboriation you should get skills pretty quick

[EL YUNQUE]

Ye i know that the devs told me about that when it came out, but i don't really know how to set it so the game stays challenging enough

[Fnomenal]

I had the exact same problem, its a mess.

[EL YUNQUE]

Originally posted by Fnomenal:

I had the exact same problem, its a mess.

Did you find any solution ?

[Cat Supremacist [SM]]

You could use commands to lower the XP rates and such as time goes on, though the point of leveling up is to make things easier (though also more impactful)

[Schokoheld]

or try to get a eco player friendslist and play toghter or try ecostasia fresh start at 9.0 relase but they never finish a game ...so far

[b0nehead]

This game is meant to be played with others.

It's your game though so play as you wish, but from experrience it sucks and is totally not designed to be played that way...even if you have the customization option.

You'd be better off with minecraft since you have more creative freedom. If you want to play this game it was clearly designed to be played by many people interacting and creating their own issues/solution to the problems that arise.

[Cat Supremacist [SM]]

It's certainly designed for a larger group but personally I enjoy solo and co-op quite a bit, all it takes is a little tweaking.

[Shimazu]

Devs mentioned a new slider in 9.0 to tweak recipes costs and stuff for low playercount

[EL YUNQUE]

Originally posted by Wanted514:

This game is meant to be played with others.

It's your game though so play as you wish, but from experrience it sucks and is totally not designed to be played that way...even if you have the customization option.

You'd be better off with minecraft since you have more creative freedom. If you want to play this game it was clearly designed to be played by many people interacting and creating their own issues/solution to the problems that arise.

Ye i guess you're totaly right on that, i just wanted to try and explore the game mecanics with a friend that's it.
But ye for sure it's meant to be played with many people and encounter the problems that a community create.

[Vanii]

jaa

[Eventide]

Originally posted by EL YUNQUE:

Ye i guess you're totaly right on that, i just wanted to try and explore the game mecanics with a friend that's it.
But ye for sure it's meant to be played with many people and encounter the problems that a community create.

If you want to explore the game's mechanics, you want to play with as many people as possible. It's less of a game and more of a world simulation. Playing with one or two people gets extremely boring very fast since there's no collaboration. I don't just mean the collaboration setting but the actual feeling of community. If you play with like 7+ people on high collaboration, you really do have to all work together to make things happen. You really want to have at least 1 of every specialization.. so like 1 carpenter, 1 smith, etc. However, the really interesting part of the game comes in when you have 3 or more of each because then you get competition. With 1 of each you won't really get to experience currency since if you do set up a currency at that point, everyone has a monopoly.

As was said before though, it is your game and the option is there to play with as many people as you want or even solo it. However, the game is completely designed around having as many people as possible.

Another reason it's great to have so many people is that the world is constantly changing then. It's really fun when you can log off to take a break, sleep, etc then get back on and your neighbors have built more, tech has progressed, and so on. That's one of the entire points of the game.

[EL YUNQUE]

Originally posted by Eventide:

Originally posted by EL YUNQUE:

Ye i guess you're totaly right on that, i just wanted to try and explore the game mecanics with a friend that's it.
But ye for sure it's meant to be played with many people and encounter the problems that a community create.

If you want to explore the game's mechanics, you want to play with as many people as possible. It's less of a game and more of a world simulation. Playing with one or two people gets extremely boring very fast since there's no collaboration. I don't just mean the collaboration setting but the actual feeling of community. If you play with like 7+ people on high collaboration, you really do have to all work together to make things happen. You really want to have at least 1 of every specialization.. so like 1 carpenter, 1 smith, etc. However, the really interesting part of the game comes in when you have 3 or more of each because then you get competition. With 1 of each you won't really get to experience currency since if you do set up a currency at that point, everyone has a monopoly.

As was said before though, it is your game and the option is there to play with as many people as you want or even solo it. However, the game is completely designed around having as many people as possible.

Another reason it's great to have so many people is that the world is constantly changing then. It's really fun when you can log off to take a break, sleep, etc then get back on and your neighbors have built more, tech has progressed, and so on. That's one of the entire points of the game.

Thanks for your feedback dude, very interesting to read !

[Eventide]

You're welcome. The other thing I didn't add is that because you do have to work together, there's a more positive community than you'd get in most games. Like you don't want the smith doing any carpentry since they aren't efficient at it and get nothing out of it. With high collaboration setting (or custom settings) you don't get xp fast enough either to make it so everyone can be everything. So like the smith would have to work with the carpenter to get things. The carpenter works with the smith. Everyone works with the farmer/cook. There's an entire chain that happens and everyone has to actually help out.

Progression on this game is slow, but extremely rewarding. It took me like 3 days playing about 5+ hours a day to get a road system done (doing it alone). However, once it was done it made everything so much easier for everyone. If you play with just a handful of people, you won't really get that feeling though in my opinion since you'll progress so much faster due to not having enough people. Oddly, you do progress slower with more people due to having the higher collaboration setting.