This desire to achieve some kind of competitive game play in a single player game that has finite resources is strange at best. Multiplayer alone already is miserable as i hanging in the screen for 2 hours and being constantly kicked by hosts for no reason what so ever. What is the point of making competitive gameplay when you are kicked the second you join the game? And for people that argue just play with a friend, well the game should advertise Lan rather than multiplayer then shouldnt it? I saw a multiplayer tag on the steam page and co-op and i expect at least some what functional multiplayer experiences.
It is incredibly important that the dev can fix the current multiplayer experience and promote a healthy, less trolly environment so the multiplayer is actually active rather than play with friend or nothing.
The multiplayer FUNCTIONS fine, people just prefer playing with their friends to random strangers, and playing with friends doesn't equal playing in the same house, or on LAN. After all, Discord is a thing, and so on. Just connect to other online friends who have it, or ones int he same town but not the same house, or etc. At the same time people do, here on the forums, pretty frequently advertise looking for group things after new patches and then people join together and game despite not knowing each other outside of the forums / at all, really.
