Admittedly I never did like the resource "scarcity" when it comes to multiplayer. It's not an issue in single player, but it can become incredibly apparent on certain resources in multiplayer (especially in larger groups). When I first started I started on a multiplayer with friends and most of us started in separate bases but ultimately had to converge just to have resources for everyone. Of particular note we had issues with cores super early in progression (not enough crypts on the starting continent for each person to have at least 5 cores for their ore setups (even with swapping between kiln and furnace as needed), until one of hit swamps and made a core farm to share with everyone else. Then came the swamp crypts where everyone basically needed their own personal swamp to supply enough iron for at least the armor and long ship (and those have seemingly gotten rarer since then). Then silver was another issue where each player needed their own decently large mountain for the same needs (those are more common now thankfully since way back then was before the caves update). Our original server setup was intended to be a "no cheat" setup, which included not world hopping with your toon, but that just proved unreasonable when you have more than like 3-4 players on a server. Possible, perhaps, but not worth the effort.