Why does chaos level increase so fast/how to decrease it?

[Raxus]

So, every time my friends start this game, the Chaos level, within 30 minutes, is at 7/whatever max is. We don't do anything particularly adventurous, and we maybe kill one transit guy for free repairs (lol); otherwise, this just happens to us. So, how do we lower it?

It's annoying to be early game and dealing with drones that can blow us out of the sky 30 minutes in, and going into star systems and dying instantly.

[Richard02]

Killing the transit people increase chaos by a lot, you cannot lower chaos once it's raised, it's basically a scaling difficulty to make the game harder the more you progress and get better equipment.

[Raxus]

we played for 30 minutes today, killed some bandits, and got chaos level 4? It goes up too fast imo

[obvious]

The game is not easy, but it is also not hard. Once you learn the ropes you will actually hope for it to g up faster and beyond 6 :D

[Richard02]

Originally posted by Raxus:

we played for 30 minutes today, killed some bandits, and got chaos level 4? It goes up too fast imo

it increases every time you jump after a battle.