How do WE want StoneHearth multi-player to work?

[SteveAdamo]

@LordNevs

I have seen a good deal of posts that focus on the question of “How will SH multi-player work?”. But I have seen no posts on how WE as the community want multi-player to work.

at this point, given what we know about the feature, its really one and the same… as multiplayer is such a distant objective, and given that what we want is what will be discussed (and what will likely help shape the direction of this topic), this should probably be merged here:

How will coop multiplayer work?

I cannot think of a way the coop multiplayer would work if you can only control what player A controls also. What I was thinking on how it could work would be similar to maybe DF + DayZ. You would start in an area with your settlers in a random location on the map or you can choose to start off next to your friends. Your friends cannot control your own settlers unless you give them “permission.” The settlers could also help other settlers that are allied with you to build certain structures but…