Single player?

For singleplayer we generally recommend No Collaboration. You can tweak it around to your personal liking, but the main problem is that we don't know your or others personal liking, which is why we give these detail options. No Collaboration fits most, but for some it's still too long to get new professions, while for others (granted, less people) it's not challenging at all.

We are actually very active in responding here, as I sometimes hear, too active for some. Feel free to reach out whenever you need something :)

Please note that doing that will loose you any support for your world - singleplayer worlds are not intended to be increased in size and the settlement system is always enforced on singleplayer servers, as it being off is a legacy setting that may go away at any time. Given the setting cannot be changed once locked in, you could lose your world later on. Settlements in singleplayer do no harm, as in singleplayer with the default settings or if configured manually you gain claim papers that are unrestricted just as in Update 9 and using the features it brings is fully optional - there is hence no reason to turn the system off and using a legacy code base, when you can instead use the current supported codebase and have everything behave just like it was before, but be save for any future changes. Especially given singleplayer worlds tend to be around much longer than multiplayer servers.

That is the case - but you do not need to use them, as you get normal claims that work outside of them just like in Update 9.