Conciser separating cosmetics from ship progression. In the demo while you are the host you have to either get cosmetics or upgrade your ship. And your friends can only get cosmetics so the host is the only one that does't have any cosmetics. I would suggest splitting the cosmetics or letting everyone upgrade the ship. Besides the letting everyone upgrade the ship this doesn't matter if you add specific boosts to the different suits.
#Split cosmetic progression from ship progression
formal knot
woeful lichen
The host ship belongs solely to the host, it would be what you use when you're playing Single Player.
The upgrades for whoever the host is, follows whoever the host's ship is. You upgrade your own ship, your friends upgrade /their own/ ship.
If you want to earn cosmetics, you can earn those pretty easily just playing solo.
arctic spoke
We are going to do that ship upgrades uses a different resource than credits so the host can get some nice clothes too