Would it be possible to add an option to land as though it was a normal first time drop pod landing on chosen planet. This would allow both people to generate their own spawn with starting resources or play as default.

Using this default landing option would really only work with single team or close group. Should be disabled by default with a note that states as much.

Additionally a option of merge forces would be good. allowing people to play separately and combine later.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure what you mean though, in the options you can enable/disable custom spawns for each planet. If it is disabled, everyone spawns at the center. If it is enabled, you get a custom spawn point (if you started your own team, or if you joined someone else's you will spawn at a shared custom spawn just like Nauvis).

Merging forces is possible but tricky to implement once you have shared based. It means when you land on a planet, you might go to a different place and would allow building multiple landing pads. I think there are already a lot of other good COOP mods similar to mine that let you merge forces later if that's what you want to do as well.

At this time, I'm not really updating the mod anymore. I might pick it up again later but not sure at this time.