as my title says ...WHY cant i host a ship? i have my twitch linked and everything?

I just started playing the game last night with a streamer friend and his chat, and BOY was it fun!! I did have a few suggestions, though, that might make things a little nicer. I'm not saying they're absolutely needed- just merely suggestions! -I was playing as a Hamster specced in speed for collecting gems and getting to repairs quickly; however, it commonly felt like no one wanted to drop any gems if they got to them before I did during a battle; I would commonly go toward a gem next to a station, and ...

Yesterday on ThatsSoMeana's ship we had a short run, we failed (after like 2-3 battles) because not enough people so just to get on the leaderboards, but the run is not there. Got a proof in VOD on Meana's Twitch channel that the run was happening. Normally it wouldn't matter but because of contest's random roll, not being in one of 8 days basically removes You from the chance to win the random participant roll....

Hi, What is the max number of crewmates, who can join? I recommended this game to PirateSoftware, and if he starts a game with his 10k+ viewers, that might break the game, so I expect some form of max number of crewmates set, but I can't find any reference to that....

First off, I can understand why you would kick in some cases. But the kicking has begun to be way too strict. I got kicked when I was getting a coffee. I join back, no fights are happening so I alt-tab for a minute > kicked due to inactivity. Got kicked due to inactivity 5 times in 15 minutes. I was a turtle on a shield station! This is supposed to be a chill game to play with streamers no? Streamers often take (long) breaks for whatever reason. Many streamers that play this also play other stream games...