[2019] This game could be a lot of fun - But the community is too nice.

I started playing eco with a few friends and after building trough the tree for the first time and the excitement of seeing new things was gone, i struggled to find the fun in the game. I came to the conclusion that i had the most fun in eco with the social interactions and pretty much playing as ruthless capitalist. Trying to corner markets. The problem is, unlike in real life, people are far too nice.

A few days after server start, depending on the server settings, there are usually auto-crafters for pretty much everything along with tons of free sh*t and public crafting stations. So there's no real incentive to do much aside from waiting for the next star.

I also never saw the environment go bad or any other diffliculty in 'completing' the game. Did i just pick the wrong servers or is this simply the current state of the game?