Tons of failed Missions becasue the questgiver ship sends all crew on sucidal mission

[Stardustfire]

before quest can be turned in, sometimes so fast that i take the mission, fly to the target right away, and even before boarding the derelic the mission giving crewed managed to wipe themself out at that moment.

[Death Approaches]

yeah we know, it happens a lot. I'm sure they're aware too.

in station mode with all the derelicts warping in early, I mean on a space start just deploying my base starter/barracks/solar array, there's 1 here already and one drifts in before I even run power conduit to the battery box in the base starter cube. it's like, dude can I pee first?! and here comes hero visitor, boldly committing suicide where no one has suicided before.

(and where you place your temp docking platforms matters, cause they stay until you build a landing pad. if you put em 8 squares out, well, that's a lot more suit air shuffling crap.)

my advice is just ignore them all. ignore derelicts, visitors, everything... if you're gonna make a trade, a little bit of mined rock for some food? do it the second they warp in while they're still broadcasting their "hello" message, get that shuttle tied up quick. and once they derelict, send a single guy to explore the ship and steal everything from their bins. it's a good "starting out bonus" honestly, let em die. just don't take missions from them.

I wait til at least 2nd week. maybe even 3rd. :-) get my ops console and a PDT for rock defense, hopefully not bots just yet! get a shield up, get a shield console when you can (it'll slowly charge as you know, but if when still on solar, you kinda want that slow charge so it doesn't plummet you into backup power every second, and you only need 15-30 shield unless you're really unlucky, your base is tiny as long as you didn't spread out planning on your future expansion, you can go a good while without defenses or protection - usually.)