Originally posted by ReZero_Eclipse:

Stamina recovery would need to be at least triples since the stamina system acts like you have friends drawing aggro and health regen similar for the same reason.

Sail to a new spot and are constantly bombarded by large groups of greydwarves so often you can't even establish anything without having to spend 10 minutes running around fighting and regening stamina to have 3 minutes to build and gather resources before having to repeat with a new group but with 4 dwarves, a 1 star shaman and a brute.

Hopefully when they add difficulty settings they add options for pretty much everything, Metals through portals, stamina and health settings, skill gain/loss, material gain, inventory limit, etc.
For me personally, i don't find solo hard, just tedious. All these restrictions and limits may make sense in coop, but in solo it is just a slog. I dealt with the games systems in my first playthrough, back when the game first released, but i couldn't deal with it the second time through.
I modded the game afterwards to reduce stamina usage, increase skill gain/ decrease skill loss, add backpacks, improve inventory management, make mass farming easier and a mod to allow metals through portals. In the end I enjoyed the experience so much more, even if i still spent a crap ton of time running back and forth.