heeeydevon Just to be sure, you're saying neither playing while offline nor setting useappdataforscratch to zero changes the loading times? I want to make sure you tried or at least checked both. And did you test a new user folder as well? I'd test the same new folder twice just to be thorough.
Does the longer loading time persist after you've saved your progress and reloaded? I could see a single longer loading time happening while the game recalculates family trees, as you've mentioned, but it shouldn't keep happening. And a new save shouldn't have much of a difference either.
I've only seen one other report of an excessively long loading time since the patches that wasn't due to a broken save. As in, you and one other person report the time has been doubled, and more have reported that they get infinite loading or something in the range of 5-10 times normal. The latter group is mostly fine after one of the e-patches though.
Point is, I'm curious as to what's going on and would appreciate any more data you have, but I don't think all the reports you're seeing are relevant to your particular setup.
