How does multiplayer work?

[RizzanoGaming]

I am very interested in picking up this game for me and a friend, but how does multiplayer work? Do you share resources and defend the flag together or do you have your own seperate bases / flags. Do you share colonists or again, does each player have their own?

Also, do you need a server or can you just invite a friend and play that way? Are there rented servers or do you need to host your own? Does progress save on a server because I am seeing people reporting bugs that their progress is not saving.

Any information would be most appreciated.

[AvilerED]

What I've found.

"Currently, multiplayer is just singleplayer with more players. You can’t really interact with other players: you cannot trade with them, you cannot kill them, you cannot declare war on them, you aren’t protected from grieving by other players. We want to improve player interaction in multiplayer." from http://www.colonysurvival.nl/2017/06/roadmap-things-we-want-to-add-during.html

and

"Is there multiplayer?

Yes! Though the interaction between players is basic, all features of the singleplayer are in the multiplayer. It works mostly like a coop, where you can each build a colony wherever you want including within the same walls. There is no real hard limit on the amount of players, but performance-wise it'll be about 5-20 colonies at the same time, depending on hardware, colony size, colony location and upload bandwidth. Upload bandwidth of the server is likely the quickest bottleneck (A large colony of ~100 colonists seems to take 50-100 KB/s)." from http://steamcommunity.com/app/366090/discussions/0/1354868867730682564/

One of the players' computer does the hosting.

Beyond that, I have no clue, as I never quite figured out how to get a friend to join.

[RizzanoGaming]

Originally posted by AvilerED:

What I've found.

"Currently, multiplayer is just singleplayer with more players. You can’t really interact with other players: you cannot trade with them, you cannot kill them, you cannot declare war on them, you aren’t protected from grieving by other players. We want to improve player interaction in multiplayer." from http://www.colonysurvival.nl/2017/06/roadmap-things-we-want-to-add-during.html

and

"Is there multiplayer?

Yes! Though the interaction between players is basic, all features of the singleplayer are in the multiplayer. It works mostly like a coop, where you can each build a colony wherever you want including within the same walls. There is no real hard limit on the amount of players, but performance-wise it'll be about 5-20 colonies at the same time, depending on hardware, colony size, colony location and upload bandwidth. Upload bandwidth of the server is likely the quickest bottleneck (A large colony of ~100 colonists seems to take 50-100 KB/s)." from http://steamcommunity.com/app/366090/discussions/0/1354868867730682564/

One of the players' computer does the hosting.

Beyond that, I have no clue, as I never quite figured out how to get a friend to join.

Thanks for the info.