u/sabinoplane

Perpetully behind on the posting footage front vs the developing the game front, but still wanting to share.

I'm very confused. All my settlements are caravan-connected via the vanilla caravans system, but in a few specific ones the game claims there's "no building resources" to build SS2 plots, while in others there are? Some are kinda softlocked straight up due to this, cause i cant buy an industrial plot for them to get building resources.

What's going on here? Do i have to create smth for them to be interconnected other than vanilla supply lines?

Friends and I have been playing this on our emulators together and battling as we progress using link through wifi and using the level caps to be even, but as we start to delve into the post game and past the level cap, I really miss an option to level every mon to 50 like you can do in the battle frontier. Is this possible in multiplayer somehow?

We added planes and new areas in the last update and currently it's big enough that it needs like ~20 players to fully utilize the entire map

I'm so pissed I just had to complain somewhere

The dang shorts. It used to be where you could just say "Don't recommend shorts pls" and then it'd be gone for good, then, they changed to "We won't show them for 30 days" (wtf?), then, they said "We'll recommend less shorts" and it actually does nothing since they're back immediately after the page gets refreshed!!!

What is this? They know this sh*t is addictive, they know some people don't want to be distracted with them, and they slowly and deliberately take away people's choice to avoid it? Yes, I know extensions exist, I know there's a setting somewhere hidden in the settings for a "shorts watch time limit" (which they added for compliance so politicians wouldn't get on their case) but still, this is genuinely disgusting and clearly in bad-faith. There should be genuine consequences for behavior like this. But nope.

The friggin auto-dub. I had to change my browser language to english to stop videos from starting with those horrible AI voices by default, and now I have to suffer them on the few videos I watch in my native language. No option to leave it off permanently, nothing. You will consume the slop.

And the newest and most insufferable of all... Post abuse channels.

I cannot even begin to describe the hatred I feel for those channels that just post a random unrelated image (obviously not original content either) that they know whill drive reactions or a catchy poll and add the same text every time like "Sub for tons of daily content xD"

Or worse. AN AD! There's this channel that I can't get rid of in my recommended that just posts clickbaity star wars polls and in the description of the polls every time is an add to buy lightsaber toys. I've NEVER voted on the polls or clicked on them and yet youtube gives ZERO tools to blacklist this channel from appearing in my recommended. I went as far as to google the name of the channel in my PC and click the "block channel" button just to remove it and i'm STILL getting recommended it on my phone!

At least star wars is something I watch sometimes, but why is there another channel i keep being CONSTANTLY recommended that's just super salty posts about american politics? Like, I'm not american, I've never engaged with american politics, I've never subscribed to channels about them, but I guess youtube used something I watch to profile me and because my browser is set to english well now I must really be interested in american political drama, and as always, no opt out, no "don't recommend", no "block channel" and what tools exist do nothing!

So first they make everything algorythm-based, they make sure you can't avoid it. Heck, they even shoved algorythm into the subscriptions page that people used precisely to avoid the algorythm, and now, they are deliberately removing any tools that we can use to configure and tailor the algorythm to our preference.

TL;DR It feels like they go out of their way to give us less and less ways to choose what we want and what we don't want to see, down to missing the most basic features like a working "block channel" button, and it is frankly gross behavior