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Hello. I'm newbie. My question is: more players make the game difficulty increase?

Number of players doesn't directly affect difficulty.

Indirectly, more experimented players tend to builds faster, which creates pollution faster, and lessen your ability to "control everything at your pace" if you have never played the game, 10 of them joining at the same time will make things feel out of control very fast , but they should also helps with advices and defense and is easy to copy or learn from what they do.

bunch of newbs makes the game easier most of the time like in MMOs where you learn from others mistakes too and not just your own, but that also means more mistakes are being made

Number of players dont influence the difficulty of the game at all. Btw, it can get sometimes laggy because of amount of people.