Sure, have everyone aboard bind a different key to that function.

This is why I unbound that function from Y. In MP it gets hit by accident way too often. You think you are in chat but you are not.

I guess my problem is more complicated: Having a key bound to power on/off makes sense because players are going into and out of small vessels and don't want to have to open up the menu just to toss power on or off. Is there a way to do it without having all the players in the game unbind the power toggle?

Just use a less used key than Y. But I have no problem opening the P menu to turn stuff off.

Could try rebinding it to ctrl+Y instead, if it's causing that much trouble.

I had this problem with the shield key rather than power. I ended up adding X as an additional control panel key. Much more useful, I can tell you. I also put autolevel on middle mouse and both autobrake and jetpack toggle on a mouse thumb button. Don't feel weird about playing with bindings so they serve you better.

thanks for the advice guys

Now I feel so stupid ..... 2000+ hours in-game and I never did figured that one out -.-
Will remap this now lol