Forum game: Boundless survival scenario, pick a planet

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Picture it: Boundless in some near or distant future. Resources are abundant, but (perhaps because) people are scarce. The once thriving mall markets and portal hubs spread out across the universe are now desolate. Cities that teemed with life are ghost towns. Estimates suggest there are 20-30 oortians left in the universe but you rarely see them. Seemingly every day a portal goes down, a mining planet expires, a shop that supplied your AOE tools ashes. The price of Oort skyrocketed months ago when the hunts dwindled. The B.U.T.T. has gone offline. You need to survive.

You make a difficult choice: you will gather everything you can, leave your current home beacon behind, and settle on the most livable, sustainable planet you can find. You know you can’t rely on others anymore for portal connections or forged goods. There will be no malls, no hubs, no guilds. You need to make a sustainable life for yourself, learn to forge, gather materials from your own vicinity. Without portals, you will rely on totem travel and you keep this in mind for your new home. Maybe you’ll get lucky, and attract a few other wanderers who want a simple, sustainable life and a little company. Even better, perhaps a great forger will hear about you and take solace in your settlement.

The forum game:
Tell us which public permanent planet you would choose to settle on in a scenario where you have to get most of what you need from the planet you live on, obtained by yourself, with only totem travel available to you to go to other planets. Assume that there are no current hubs or malls to live close to as your choice, and you might have a little stocked up items but it won’t last forever. Tell us your rationale, like resources, vicinity to other things, planet tier, color choices, etc. Share as much or as little detail as you want, such as how you will fuel your beacon, how you would obtain coin for local transport through the sanctum, how you would stay fed, whether you would hunt, how you would obtain advanced items liked forged tools, what unique skill you think you would offer your settlement.

Anyone can play, just thought it might be fun to channel our fears about Boundless’ future into a little game! :sweat_smile: My only request/rule: nothing about current ownership or the powers that be, specific real players, imagined or actual drama, or about the potential fate of the servers. This forum game assumes that Boundless is up and running, there is enough room for everyone, and trolls/bullies or your biggest nemesis are not a thing.

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Circ or Ceph, I think

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I would hide out in the Serp gleam ■■■■■ slowly getting exp to plot out the whole surface so as to not get hunted down by those evil hoppers (why kill yourself just to hurt me!)…

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Here is ChatGPT’s answer…

In this desolate universe, my choice of settlement would be on the planet Trior. Here’s why:

Rationale:

1. Resources: Trior offers a good balance of resources. It has a mix of metals like iron and copper, which are essential for crafting basic tools and structures. The presence of coal ensures that I can maintain a steady fuel supply for my beacon and other needs. Additionally, Trior has diverse biomes, providing access to various plant and animal materials necessary for survival.

2. Vicinity and Travel: Being a lower-tier planet, Trior’s environment is relatively safe compared to higher-tier planets, reducing the daily survival strain. Its location in the universe also means that it has reasonable proximity to other planets for essential totem travel when needed.

3. Sustainable Living: With its lush forests and ample water bodies, Trior is ideal for agriculture. I can cultivate crops to stay fed and breed livestock for additional food and materials. The planet’s diverse flora and fauna will support a self-sustaining lifestyle.

4. Aesthetic and Environment: Trior’s scenic beauty, with its vibrant colors and serene landscapes, makes it a visually pleasant place to live. This helps with morale and provides a peaceful environment to attract potential settlers looking for a tranquil life.

Survival Strategy:

Beacon Fuel: I would focus on coal mining and gathering foliage to create beacon fuel. Renewable energy sources like compacted coal blocks will be crucial.

Coin Generation: Crafting and selling basic tools or resources at sanctum-connected beacons will provide a steady income. Hunting for creatures and trading their drops can also generate coin.

Food Supply: Establishing a farm with a variety of crops and livestock will ensure a stable food supply. Hunting local wildlife and fishing in the rivers and lakes will supplement my diet.

Tool and Item Production: Learning to forge will be essential. I’ll set up a basic forge to craft and maintain my tools. Mining and collecting local resources will help me upgrade my equipment over time.

Community and Skills: My unique skill will be as a master builder and farmer. I’ll construct a welcoming settlement with efficient, aesthetically pleasing designs to attract other wanderers. My farming expertise will ensure a surplus of food and resources, making my settlement a hub for trade and collaboration.

Conclusion:

Settling on Trior ensures a balance of safety, resource availability, and aesthetic appeal, providing a sustainable and enjoyable living environment. By focusing on self-sufficiency and community building, I hope to create a haven for myself and any like-minded wanderers who come across my path. Together, we can thrive in this new, quieter universe.

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I would be the king of Finata.

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Aside from ChatGPT, personally, I’d build on Circa due to it being one of the most central planets with ease of access to resources and with it being central the chance of running into other people at some point would be more ideal.

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Sure thing :joy:

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Yea that amused me as did fishing… one could wish.

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I’m more inspired to work on stuff when I see people running around in the HUD. :smiley:

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Personally, I think I would probably choose a tier 5 planet to live on because of the wide variety of resources available. I could set up my own little mine and resource farms, use saved locations to travel via sanctum for gathering around the planet. There would definitely be decent mobs for those kinds of materials. I think as far as color palette and variety of resources my first choice would be Besevrona, but I’d probably have to travel a couple planets over occasionally to pick up some of the stuff I can’t get easily locally. I would definitely set up farms for food, but also maybe a good minter set up so I can just churn through something I don’t need much of to make enough coin for sanctum travel when I don’t want to run.

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I would either settle on Beseverona or one of the T3 planets closest to Beseverona. Beseverona seems to have most of the surface resources I would need.

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I would stay on Storis II, until eventually withered away. Like Schrödinger’s cat, I would both alive or dead until someone finally made it through the vast distances to see for themselves

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I thought this was supposed to be a hypothetical. Heyoooooo!

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Brown Town did something similar when we did the PermaDeath settlement on Gellis. We all came together as a community with brand new characters and formed a settlement. If you died before hitting level 20, you deleted the character and @Bethlehem would build you a gravestone in the cemetery. If you made it to level 20, you kept the character regardless of death afterwards.

We could only trade amongst ourselves, couldn’t visit any outside shops, malls, or portal networks. We had to totem travel and set up our own portals. We would have to hunt as a community.

Honestly, I’d suggest setting up another PermaDeath event and invite everyone to join. I’d make a new character and join for sure.

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The permadeath thing was really fun. It was a shame when we had to move to a private planet because of a few trolls, and then Beth and Spoodle quit not long after. I’d participate in something like that again.

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Lutrion… Always Lutrion… I can’t part with or rebuild everything what along the opera house :joy: I will forever be the phantom that lurks when anyone visits the run down opera house … then, I will follow them till the time is right… to strike!.. THEN THROW ALL THE SPONGE AT THEM. The End :rofl:

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Anyone that knows the :cookie: knows Ive been preparing for this to come to past since I moved to My Permanent planet on Houchus

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Yeah, the mexican cartel. I remember at one point I came in with one of my alts and plotted between the two settlements, with the intent of creating a wall. But we moved before I got the chance.

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Closed at OP’s request.