Sep 4
Disable plant population map filter for better gameplay
There should be a optional 'official ECO server' variation that disables the map's population filter viewing either broadly, or specifically to disable searching for existing populations of fruits, grains & vegetables that typically get ravaged early by some players who do overly aggressive searching and scouring of the world's biomes in the first mins and hours of a world start, often taking nearly all the better crops very soon in the world history (days). For private games or hosted this could/should be an 'advanced setting' option. For the official servers I see no good reason why players need precision map indications of plant populations (maybe late game if they had some tech or something) (?) . The Ecopedia tells the player which biomes the plants are in -where they can generally be found. That should be enough. Improving the chances of wild crops remaining findable by late joiners who hope to have some luck with gathering to still be possible, is in the best interests of improving ECO gameplay imho.
Pending
This can be an interesting variation of gameplay and lead more to exploration. i like it. I mean for ores, we have also to do a search. Some other Threads demands this for oil too.