Question about multiplayer (PC)

After NMS NEXTwas launched, I managed to convince my friend to buy a game and try multiplayer together. Well.. roughly after few big patches into Next.

We started a game, I was hosting and he could always join without issues. He did enjoy the game and we had fun playing together. We knew that we can’t have two freighters in same system, but as we never heard similar restrictions about bases we pretty much built them side by side on on same planet.

Things started to turn bad if he actually decided to refine things himself. At beginning to save space we used all time my portable refiner and I did refining. But of course he built proper refiner in his base and then we noticed how using two refiners doesn’t work. His materials just kept disappearing from refiner. Sometimes felt it’s connected with me doing something with my refiner - if I take materials out, all his materials disappeared. In end he quit playing because of this. He didn’t like an idea of me having to do all refining for him through all game because he couldn’t do it.

After that game had more patches, but I never heard anything about fixing this kind bugs. Could anybody with newer/later multiplayer experience have info about this issue? Is it still in game? Is it fixed? It was deal breaker for my friend and I’d like to play with him again, but I can convince him only if issue with machine use in MP is fixed.

Wow that turned into looong post and thanks for reading.