how many players do you need?

[Shazzi]

How many players do you require to play this properly?

[Other]

It depends on the settings you chose. There is a preset "no collaboration" that is designed for solo play, and that works fine, but you do lose out on the government and economic interactions. The more people you have, the higher you would set the collaboration level so that the game is still interesting for a reasonable period of time. Two or three people might still use "no collaboration", while the largest official servers use the highest collaboration setting, and can have as many as 500 people log into the server at least once during a run (although the number of folks who play regularly and long-term tends to be lower).

[Afrozzi]

You should play with 5+ players.
Anyone is saying that solo play is still fun has not tried it in the new update. It has become unplayable with the new change. You see everyone who has tried it in the new update is posting about it

[Cmdo.Delta]

Originally posted by Afrozzi:

You should play with 5+ players.
Anyone is saying that solo play is still fun has not tried it in the new update. It has become unplayable with the new change. You see everyone who has tried it in the new update is posting about it

omg you must be kidding? I wanted to play again but i'm solo player :(

[Engineer]

Don't bother Cmdo even two people was a rough go. Solo is just beating your head against the wall.

[SLG-Dennis]

The issue with missing claim papers on levelup for singleplayer will be addressed with the next hotfix, note that you do not need to claim anything but your house for housing bonus in singleplayer. Feel free to let us know what other changes you have problems with in singleplayer - but make sure you use NoCollaboration preset for difficulty and changed the settings to your liking. You can configure everything from resource cost multipliers to skill gain speed for your sessions :)

[Mr DocMarten]

I am not sure how many you need to be to have a good time but my experiences so far is that it is a wee bit disapointing. I have played on a server for 5 days with a constant population of 10-20 people. Let me explain:

Logging is more fun now. Some items have moved into the logging skill from the carpentry. You can now do much more as a logger but still no specialization for level 6 which is kind of pathetic after all these years. You still have to go around chopping debris and stumps while miners sweep the floor.

Carpentry is much harder to level up now and is a bottleneck when it comes to the BU3-upgrades. We had Engineers at level 7 days before our first carpenter could make bu3. And the fact that they need the oil to make lumber is just another bottleneck in the logistics.

Basic engineering is mostliy like before the v10 with one surprise. On our server engineers had a ton of problems finding fabric (linen) for the windmills, preventing both power generation and development. More on this later.

Tailors were in for a big surprise and grew tired and left in a constant stream due to the fact that they could do pretty much nothing at all. Carpenters could do tailoring tables, logger did the new machine to clean flax. Looms could not be made because they need stuff from the tailors. Flax had to be farmed and processed by gatherer/farmer and thats where the main bottle neck was. Farmers did farm, but not very much flax. Took days to get the reserach books for mech/pottery/glass done - and thanks to really good people they weren't hoarded.

Smelters have an easier time in this version. The cost to make iron stuff is pretty much halved so it seems there is an intention to cater for the people going the traditional miner->smelter->mech - as if they already didn't have the most easy moneymaking path.

What's more. Research is a p.i.t.a. since you now need to actually have level 1 in a skill do research in a subject. As a miner you can reserach masonry, but to do adv masonry you need to be a mason. This holds back development alot and on a very well crowded server this might be fun and desirable, but on a smaller server its a neither fun or desirable.

Anyhow, this is just my first impressions from 5-6 days of playing.