Single player?

[GrungeBro]

Yes can you play this game single player and if so what settings would be best for single player play through?

[_KC76_]

Yes you can, but your settings will depend on your Goal. What do you want to do, or get from the game?

[GrungeBro]

Originally posted by _KC76_:

Yes you can, but your settings will depend on your Goal. What do you want to do, or get from the game?

To be able to stop the meteor before the time runs out.

[_KC76_]

"before time runs out" ... the "time" until the meteor impacts is one of the things you can change .. You can make it any amount of time you want. If you don't want the game to be "easy", use the default settings, and see where you end up after 30 days.

If you want the game to be "easy", you can make the meteor last 60 days, and play the rest normally, or you can change the "cost multipliers" to increase the rate you gain Skills and Experience, and also to reduce the amount of resources it "cost" to craft items.

[SLG-Dennis]

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.

[GrungeBro]

Originally posted by SLG-Dennis:

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.

wow a dev. thanks for the information. did not expect a dev to answer. Im ecstatic you took the time to answer.

[SLG-Dennis]

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 :)

[ttr]

My 2c on single player:
start server manually (form game dir) and change all settings to your liking, then delete saved world and re-start it. This way You can get much more from it.

I do this for those things:
1) map size - SP will start smallest map and you can't change it - I do like to play 1-2km^2 ones.
2) fine tune of difficulty settings - build in UI does not allow to set float values with resolution bigger than 2nd decimal place - i do have one setting (the XP added to star progress) as 1/10000.
3) disable settlements (not sure if they are disabled in SP) - they make no sense if you're playing with less than 5 people, let in single player mode.
(see below comment why You should not disable it)
4) enable time acceleration while sleep (again, not sure if SP does enable this by default).

Downside is (and would dev confirm this) that You will need to always manually start server - AFAIK loading save from in-game menu (your worlds -> local worlds) will reset some of those settings back to single player template.

[SLG-Dennis]

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.

[ttr]

Good to know. I though that settlements do need specific amount of people to be created - this is why I did suggest to disable them.

[SLG-Dennis]

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.

[BNE]

Personally I did enjoyed over 500 hours with a local dedicated server / alone and with a friend and a son. The smaller worldsizes are defnetly not a preferable option, the medium ones are "already small enough" - at lest if you want the feeling on a little "world" with some nice bioms and some room for them.
The game is grindy if you play alone or as a duo, so it might be a bit late to notice that the world feels "too small" at some point.
I rather would recommend the other way - there is no downside from having even ithe biggest world - if you have the performance (weak spot of the game - though its some years past), I strongly recommend an stand-alone dedicated (linux) server and not a background task.
Regarding the meteor, set its time 200-300% up , maybe adjust skillgain a bit if your alone, that may lead to a big speedup. and less grind.
The setup of the server itself was "unconfortable" as can be, and the documentation was lacking, but after mastering that its best way to play.

[ttr]

@BNE, quite the same - also, small planet have too choppy terrain.
One thing to notice it that bigger planet means more trees per smaller player group, so much easier to deal with co2.
My 2c on server config - start it on windows, it will spawn config window and most of option do have tool-tip so You can easy to understand. Fiddle with settings to try best values for Your liking and then copy config to your server.