Give us the option to spawn into an NPC trade station

Parker Mitchell shared this feedback 2 hours ago
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Space Engineers is entirely possible to play with nothing but a spacesuit if you spawn into a trade station. And this is a very fun way to play the game, starting with literally nothing and do contracts until you have enough money to buy a starting ship and bootstrap your own industry. It's certainly challenging, but in a way that I think is fun to work around.

As it stands though, the only way to play this way is to cheat your way into an NPC station, get really lucky at spawn, get help from other players on a server, or build a rudimentary ship to get you to a trade station when you spawn which you then destroy. This is clearly not an intended starting scenario.

I think the devs should embrace this playstyle though. Make it an official option on the spawn location selection screen. There are many ways to implement this. Perhaps some NPC stations could have medbays that show up in the spawn selection screen, this would give you a way to respawn in your "home" station if you die before obtaining a survival kit. Perhaps it just chooses a random NPC station and plops you there, this would make death way more consequential before you get a respawn point of your own. There are many ways to do this.

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