I honestly feel like the balance in this game is based on single player and it becomes super easy w/ more people added.

The devs did say when the game blew up that they were surprised that so many people were even playing this game in multiplayer, so that kinda makes sense.

Pretty sure that there is scaling for mobs at least, but their AI is such that they can't really do anything against attacks from multiple directions (not that most players can either lol).

All of the metals / farming / grinding etc is the same as one person as for a group, as the materials required for everything don't change, but if you have 10 people mining a copper node, it's going to go a lot faster than just me plinking away at a big rock, but you also need 10x as much copper so it evens out.

It's good solo. It's good w/ friends. It's a good game.

But if there's anything you don't like about it, there's probably a mod that "fixes" it. If you're playing on PC, isn't customization the whole point of the platform?