Did I get griefed?

Storytime:

I joined a Nexus mission to kill monstrosities, one other person initialised it, so I got transported to one of their systems.

We left off to one of their systems, where they had a base.

As soon as I landed, it weirded me out because it was an extremely violennt heat planet with heat storms & volcanos. Not the best place to build a base.

I couldn’t properly locate the facility where the eggs where, so it took me a while. I ended up following the mission leader to a spot with 2 landing pads and a short range teleporter. He pointed me there, basically, and I thought he was about to help me (having built a base at the facility maybe).

When I stepped in I teleported into an area full of either landing pads or flooring (couldn’t tell properly), with the other end of the short range teleporter having no power, and me taking extreme heat damage (I saw it was very high up, might have been the top of a vulcano?).

Next thing is I died, and was back at the nexus.

I’m a very new player, what happened?

• TL;DR: Did someone built a one way short range teleport and grief me by baiting a nexus mission?

Edit: Spelling.

The important, totally legitimate, exception: you don’t want an S-class because you NEED a freighter that’s bigger, goes faster, goes farther, etc. You want an S-class because it feels good to have an S-class. You want to see the big orange “S” emblem when you open your freighter screen. That’s its own reward. This is a totally legitimate, understandable, applaudable reason to spend as many reloading saves as it takes to get exactly the right one. It’s your game, and you are having fun pursuing what you want.

For everyone else, who just want to use the freighter to play the rest of the game, although there are potential downsides of settling for a C or B, you save time in the end. Potential downsides and limitations: There could be a time when you cannot warp all the way to the next desired destination, so you have to jump twice. There could be times when you cannot store a stack of something because your freighter inventory is smaller, so you have to make two trips or something. Maybe a mission takes a few minutes longer?

The time and effort dealing with those inconveniences does not add up to the length of time and boring effort it takes to get an S-class if you’re not lucky.

If I try to do anything more that a cube of walls with a roof I’m constantly fighting the snap system snapping to anywhere but where I want to place it.

Free build just doesn’t work nicely either, it is always just slightly skewed or slightly higher than what you placed it next to.

Would really like options like rotation locking, X/Y locking, nudging, manually putting in position etc. just so I can tell the game where I want something without needing to attempt placing it for forever.

Is there any way to make building less painful or should I just give up on that part of the game and make a square box to do all base stuff inside?