PVP is turned ON by default and while most of the community is pretty chill there is always that one troll that doesn’t know when to quit. Remember if you die 3 times in a row you’ll lose your suit inventory and the inventory of your current ship, even if you recover your grave.

So if you want to play in Multi-player but don’t want to live dangerously go into the game’s menu and under the Network tab set PVP to NO ONE or FRIENDS ONLY.

Edit: Some civilizations have PVP events/areas so setting PVP to Friends only will allow you to join in by adding “enemies” to your friends list, at least temporally, without leaving you open to attack by random strangers.

Though the community is so wide and ranging in play styles thanks to this brilliant games’ design, I shout from my tiny hilltop in the corner; The frigates with their empty interiors and invisible walls in front of sealed doors, the capital ships visual presentation starting to look outdated compared to the rest of the game, still lacking a sense of crew, and retaining technical bugs and issues, all reaching back to when it was introduced around 2017, going on 4 years ago.

In my humble opinion, it’s time, Hello games.

It’s time.

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(which is not to say they haven’t relatively optimized the experience aboard them, HG has certainly put in time on that front)