firstly, the game is not even 1.0 yet.
secondly, good point about the friend thing. choosing your server first with a note that each server has different planets before you start at the sanctuary would be nice in the future.
lastly, while i understand youre new and that maybe you arent quite familiar with how ‘under construction’ the game still is, there are ways around the distance between you and your friend.
for example, a player like myself can simply visit either of you and give you a location marker to the other friends planet… which would allow you then to simply build the warp blocks which cost nearly nothing, and the coin to travel there.
assuming of course they make the warp travel affordable in a different way