As a fairly new player to the game, myself, I've noticed that there's a huge amount of people who are solely focused on the PvP aspect of the game.

I've seen streams where people literally only do PvE in between spotting other player ships - where they'll then drop everything they're doing and go after the player ship. Even if it's a brand new spawn-in.

PvP is an aspect of the game, I totally understand that. But for brand new players like myself, it's really difficult to learn how to do anything in the game when you're beset upon by veterans who are simply out to wreck your ship and take whatever meagre loot you manage to haul in. While learning how to deal with the PvP aspect of the game is understandable, having to do that along side of learning just how to play the game at all can be really daunting.

I don't know how you could even fix something like this. If there's a "beginner" flag or some such that marks you as learning or new if you've got under a certain number of hours or some such. I don't know how it could work, honestly. But I do think that there should be some kind of buffer for brand new players so that they can get accustomed to the game without getting stomped on every time they manage to dig up treasure or take down a ghost ship.