An option that puts all the players on the ship of the host so they only have one ship instead of 4+ different ones. So you can have a captain and his crew members instead of everyone spawing on different ships. It could be an option you select like "Skip Intro Mission"
That's an interesting idea. My friends and I might appreciate this since any time we try to play Starbound together it ends up with us mostly ignoring each other while racing to endgame.