Riepah

Don't have to look to voicechat for that, the kind of names people have or they things they say in global chat... well, it's kind of what I have come to expect from Steam multiplayer, anyway.

No. You can have a character on multiple servers, I have one on NA PvP and one on EU PvE, creating the second did not delete the first.

Not to mention when you finally arrive at some island, you may well end up getting shot in the face by people who were lucky enough to already develop guns.