I'm not sure how easy traveling mechanics will be but have you guys any plans to prevent people from simply building a boat the first hour and head for one of the world borders. Cause this would just defeat the whole idea of forcing everyone into solo mode. Don't take it the wrong way, I'm heavily relying on it cause I can't even stand the idea of soloing haven for any lengthy period, did enough hermiting W6. But if there are heavy mechanics to prevent us from actually finding each other it looks as if the few that have a perfect mapping tool will sit on top fairly quickly.
Edit: Was watching this demo on no man's sky and they had the same idea of enforced player scattering. Guess we will see if this genre will make it or not.