Improvement Suggestions

The Skills menu currently shows all the different specialties in the game and how many players are specialized into that specialty and what level they are. A common question I see asked on my server is "what skill should I pick next" and often times they will use this menu to gauge how many players are working in a specific specialty. The problem is, if someone is abandoned they still show up in this list even though they clearly aren't doing any work with that skill (because they are abandoned). I would like to suggest that when a player becomes abandoned, they are not shown on this menu (they are filtered out). This includes both on the general list showing how many players of each level there are for that skill, and the more detailed list that appears when you hover over that first list which includes player names. Screenshots are attached to make it clear what UI element I'm talking about. Removing abandoned players from this list would quickly make it more clear which skills have active players, and which don't. And if a player returns and leaves the abandoned demographic, they can appear on the list again.

Before ECO 11 I could use the Electrical Wall Lamp outside. This was nice to have it placed next to the entry door of a building. But know this lamp has to be inside a room. Same thing with the Steel Ceiling Lamp which I used in road tunnels. Either the restriction to use these lamps in rooms only should be removed or some more lamp types added for exterior use.

When cooking, it seems to take items from left to right in the containers, so if you put the lowest shelf life first, they will get used first.

One thing that is very slightly annoying when vehicle sharing is that only the person who placed it can pick it up. It would be nice if there were an option to allow everyone who is authorised on it to pick it up.

It feels like a bit of an odd choice that nearly all lights need to be in rooms. It must be very dark where you all live :) Sorry, joking aside, can we please use lights outside of rooms.

Skid Steer or something similar should be available the tech tree above steam wise. It currently takes a really long time to mine and this would really make the mid game easier.

Additionnaly to the room tier, adding a maximum culture/housing based on the room volume could avoid people from creating very small houses filled with furnitures, and it could reward people that create big monuments (it could avoid very small & quick built museum in a culture war)

As i Play alone and refuse to play with others I DO NOT WANT TO BE LIMITED ON HOW MUCH LAND I CAN CLAIM :(( change this for those who play as single player. You surely know how to destroy the "FUN' in a game, too much realism is not how i want to play it. Also I wish you provide in the setting menu an option to not create tailings or other waste.. even if that means it the game isn't achievements enabled

Those papers are game changer for farmers, I love those so much! To improve them and make them safer, it would be nice to have a timer of example 1 day to fix our own property crisis if a town get deleted. Yesterday, a town got deleted on Giant Panda and I lost 15 papers, it could have really been bad if I would not have catch this in time before someone harvest all those plots. P.s It would also be good to be able to set buy order for those. Currently you need to choose from which settlement you want to buy the support homestead from. If you don't, people can't sell it to you.

A setting to be able to turn off the ghosts that appear when holding things would be great. Often, you don't place things in the world like this and it just gets in the way and is rather distracting/frustrating. Seeing the attached screenshot, I am just trying to mine and put things into my cart but everywhere I look I have these ghosts in my face just in case I want to place something on the ground (I don't). If I do want to place something on the ground, I don't need a ghost to tell me where I am looking. Perhaps, it would be good to have an option to turn these off for those of us who don't want/need them.