What is a "Steam ID"? Just about everything that is on Steam's game launcher has a unique ID number associated with it, like the license plates on cars. Every game, every mod in the workshop, every community group, and every player account. Many games can use those Steam ID numbers for player accounts to quickly and easily identify players on your server. Those...
To assign yourself as admin in Eco, you'll need to edit a configuration file on the server. Head to the File Manager and into the Configs directory. From here, edit the Users.eco file. It should start as something like this: { "UseWaste": false, "RequireAuthentication": true, "AllowDebugCalls": false, "WhiteList": { "System.String": { "$type": "System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[System.String,...
Finding and Joining your Eco Server To quickly find your ECO server, it is necessary to add your IP address in one of the in-game menus, so that the game will detect your server. Then, you can join your server. From the main screen of Eco, click the Join button: The Main Screen of Eco On the following screen,...
Introduction With the latest Eco server 0.8.0.0 and higher (tested up to 0.8.0.3), you may find that your Eco server doesn't start the webserver up correctly, breaking a lot of essential in-game functionality. It turns out it's significantly more difficult to save the world without scientific data, laws, or a basic government (who would have known?). Without the global impact created from this UI,...