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Do not turn the settlement system off for local and coop games that intend to run longer than a public server - that option is a legacy option that can go away at any time. Just setting the collaboration settings to "No Collaboration" will enable you to get claim papers like in Update 9 and also use those specific claim papers and stakes like in Update 9 (not bound to any settlement), additionally to the ability to make settlements if you ever wish. You can also enable the gain of claim papers in the custom settings for any other collaboration setting. Once the settlement system is turned off, that cannot be reverted and such saves will break unrecoverably if the legacy option is ever removed.

The respective settings are:

"ClaimStakesGrantedUponSkillscrollConsumedAndSettlementsEnabled": 0.0, "ClaimPapersGrantedUponSkillscrollConsumedAndSettlementsEnabled": 0.0,

Yes, though starting with Update 10.2 foundations can only be moved in a very limited radius around where it was originally placed and the influence does not move with it anymore.

That's a known bug that will be addressed in Update 10.2.

No, we have never considered to start looking into this before EA is over.

You can just use the Steam Beta feature and set it to 10.1.4.

The server list already had been working again when this post was made?

That will be possible only with Update 10.2 when limits for exhaustion per specific day are possible. (Aside of a few modded servers that already have that, of course) I'm not sure how many servers will take a limited time during the week and unlimited on the weekend approach, though. Our official server with exhaustion will aim for 3 hours per week day and about 6 hours on weekends, time not used during the week days being able to be played on weekends.

Dadspeed is a great server and offers a truly unique experience, but I wouldn't call it the most popular server - the severe restrictions on the skill system is something the vast majority of our audience actually doesn't like. It certainly is one of my immediate candidates for the upcoming recommended server list, though, and I have been recommending them personally on several occasions.

We do hope that our improvements to the exhaustion system will allow servers that offer a similar experience without being as limited in the future, which can cater more towards players that have limited time available to play, but don't want to be limited to a very small selection of skills. We'll see soon enough, Update 10.2 is going into playtest soon.

In general feedback we tend to hear that players select such servers, but at the same time aren't happy about how fast the game experience ends, specifically due to those mods. It's a bit of a paradoxon.

The game is made with collaboration being necessary in mind, progress being achieved through the whole community coming together for that. Making all tasks easy to achieve for individual people just makes the game end quicker. That doesn't affect all of those modifications, but many of them.

Thanks, mail was received. We just need this for diagnosis, so I can't yet tell you what is going on to your latest post asking for that. It is clear that the client setting is not the only factor, as we don't get it. We try to see if we can get it if we pretend we are exactly your player on exactly your server with exactly your registry. (And if not, we'll call Merlin to help, as that'll be magic)

No, just the savegame, game.eco and game.db.

Can you send me the savegame where you had that issue and your exact ingame name? Send to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) or add to that issue. (We need .eco and .db file)

Read my answer above. You get the extra claims through reading skill scrolls when the setting is active.

Turning settlements off in singleplayer is not possible without editing config files directly and doing so will make the world unsupported if you have any issues, as settlements off is a legacy setting that may go away at any time. Never turn settlements off in singleplayer, just use the settings that are there to give unrestricted claim papers and which are enabled by default when starting a world with No Collaboration.

With default settings (No Collaboration) you don't need settlements to get more land claim papers, you will still get unrestricted ones like before in Update 9. You can reduce the amount of players needed for a town in the Settlements.eco config file, located in /Steam/steamapps/common/Eco/Eco_Data/Server/Configs.

Change the 3 in "MinCitizensToFoundSettlement" to 2.
The fastest way to apply default settings to your world in regards to the first thing I said is just creating a new world with default settings and any adjustments you may have made in the game, then delete that world and load the old one. The configuration will also apply to that one.

The version is an identical build, just with development mode on.

It's not easy to replicate. Contrary to common belief these issues do _not_ happen for everyone. I don't get any of them, for example. My memory build up was solved with 10.0 and the microstutters I once had were fixed in 9.0. Issues we experience ourselves we address as quickly as we can. The survey we lately did also showed that while a notable amount of players undoubtedly get such issues, the vast majority noted explicitly that they do not have any.

The only way we can identify these issues without getting them ourselves is what I mentioned in my comment above. We need players actually experiencing them to use a development build and provide investigation data to us. That is a complex task to do, but there is no alternative to it. So every player willing to get their hands onto that is extremely appreciated and likely allows to address another performance issue for multiple people. It's just important to see under which circumstances and which server environments issues...

To the reporters of this post:
It does not technically violate rule 4 as it is not a server advertisement. It is kind of a new type of posts we see here lately where players that play on any server not owned by them search additional people for a settlement they are part of on a server. Such posts would not fit into the megathread. We have not yet decided how to deal with such posts, but for example posts by users to find a server were allowed so far and only actual advertisements by server staff (or the same but hidden through a third-party user) are requried to go into the megathread. Feel free to comment on how you would like us to deal with them.

https://preview.redd.it/dq537mmmq6mc1.png?width=1451&format=png&auto=webp&s=854acb28283193be2fb676ecd07518dd90df1748

If you want to help getting such issues fixed, you can follow the steps lined out in that screenshot, it's the only way to get any useful data.

Delete your /Steam/steamapps/common/Eco/Eco_Data/Server/Configs/WorldGenerator.eco file, maybe that helps.