So here I am reading all these negative posts lately about the game being “boring” and I am trying to grasp why it is so boring to some people. Maybe it is because I just started playing in January this year, but in that time I have amassed something like 1300 hours so far so I am very familiar with the game and what it has to offer, so I wanted to run down what I go through and while I am sure many of you know all these events, goals and tasks that I list, but I just wanted to explain what I go through and see if it is the same as everyone else, because right now I am anything but bored.
Group Hunts
I go on group hunts… as many as I can. They are usually quite fun and quite lucrative (trophies, oort, etc.) they can pay the bills while also being a good time. I highly suggest them there are quite a few of them but I regularly attend the Tesseract hunt and @Miaii puts on a great, smooth hunt.
Gleambow Hunts
This is my JAM! I love colors… I can’t get enough of them and gleambow colors being so rare makes these hunts a must for me. I attend these as much as possible as I have built (and continue to build) a huge color storage for every type of block in the game. These hunts are fun and fast and not super expensive to join in on. If you have never been on one I highly suggest it. Lots of oort and lots of colored blocks from all over. @Larky puts on a great hunt and has them every week alternating on Tesseract and one on Valhalla.
Solo Hunting and Gathering
Being in a small guild (3 people) I always gather. I usually gather on a few select planets that are T5-T6. This allows me to gather (beans, orbs, lamella, etc.) and while I gather if a meteor happens to drop I go clear it. This allows me to gather a lot of things all at once and it tends to be lucrative if I don’t just drop it all off in the guild storage. While gathering can be tedious, fighting an occasional meteor helps and throwing on some music really helps too, but by no means is any of this boring to me.
Building
This is one of things many of us love about the game. I took on a challenge of building a huge color storage … while not nearly as big as many of the builds around it is currently at 590 plots and this is only for Gleam, Rock and Wood, but I am in the process of adding storage for foliage, ice, soil, sand…etc. It’s going to be huge and it is one of my long term goals. I have finally built a base of operations where I will do most of my crafting but it too will be an ongoing project as most bases are.
Shops
This is a little touchy subject for me as I still battle on just how useful a shop is, but I want to sell stuff that helps people and not just sell them to request baskets. I have found I really have to undercut to actually make sells quick, but that is not always the case and in the end I am kind of a hoarder of many things so a shop helps me ease that. Needless to say, shops can keep me pretty busy too.
Forging (FU RNG)
Ok this one can replace boredom with anger/frustration if you aren’t careful. I for one have not gotten angry at this, but I have gotten frustrated with this just due to the RNG nature of forging. I got tired of buying all my tools and also just wanted to see what forging was all about to my surprise it really is it’s own little minigame for the most part. I take it as a challenge and while I do feel I can produce what I need pretty much every time now, there is enough RNG there to keep it interesting.
Exploring
Ok this one is awesome …it was one of the things that did and still does amaze me about Boundless. There are tons of builds…EVERYWHERE … I love it. Sometimes they are small and sometimes so huge I am amazed at the time and details and it just inspires me. Even just going to a Sovereign is fun, checking out the colors and gather some blocks that maybe I can only get from that sovereign. Just the biomes can be amazing to look at.
This is just a quick list of things I do … I could probably even make a list of what I do on a daily/weekly basis if need be…but I think this gives a good idea of the many things that I find fun and I suppose if you have done this since the games release you might be a little bored doing it over and over, but for me I could see myself playing this for a long time regardless of any updates.
Plenty of it is addictive, but if I find myself growing a little restless with one thing I can jump to another.
On solo hunting, what I’ve been trying to plug to people, is try out my hunting grounds in the Pakaverse. Roadrunner and Hopper hunting on these flat, high tier areas is fun and very rewarding, having good terrain for it makes it go a lot faster and keeps it from being frustrating than in rougher or more overgrown spots. These things are great to just zone out with. Put on some music and relax!