POLL + Video - How many characters do we NEED?!

[Ovis]

Hey fellow Oorts! (Still not sure whether our characters are actually Oorts. I need to dive deeper…) I hope your weekend is going great, whether that means a massive Boundless marathon or not!

I’ve seen a lot of talk about how many characters is the right amount of characters and some newer people getting confused over how many alts they need, if any at all - so I made a short “2 Minute Tips” video to help out anybody who is curious about the subject. There is also a poll below, I’d love to know what the community spends their time doing and how many characters you guys have! Thanks!

• 1 Character
• 2-4 Characters
• 5+ Characters
• Crafter
• Builder
• Hunter
• Gatherer
• Miner
• Trader/Shop Owner

[Jirodyne]

I’ve also got 4, Miner, Hunter, Crafter/Builder/Shop Owner, Plant Gather/Forager

[Ovis]

@anon42939288 @Jirodyne So guys are pretty busy then! I also like keeping myself busy with multiple characters, que indecisive

[Jirodyne]

Eh, I built my place and shop, Mining is more of a job and chore now instead of fun, Hunting ended up just being boring, and Plant Gathering is purely for Fiberish Leaves only to craft for the Shop, so a straight up Job only.

Now I just log in to collect Footfall and sale, buy Glue, Craft, and then stock the new items before going off to play actual fun games, like the new Lego game.

[vesperdem]

I have 3 characters. Crafter, Builder, Hunter/Gatherer/Miner. I did have a shop for a while, but I’m moving my settlement right now and don’t have a place for the shop just yet.

I get @Jirodyne’s complaint that mining and gathering is pretty boring and more like a job. I personally just mine/hunt/gather while watching YouTube vids since those tasks don’t require a ton of concentration.

[crypticworlds]

I like the fact we can have 10 characters on a single account. Let’s me have multiple shops if I so choose to do so with different names along with plenty of skill sets for whatever future expansions on the skill trees happen.

At least it’s better than what we had before which was 1 character with 1 skill set and 1 free skill set reset per week.

[Honourless]

3
I would have gone 4 but my main (first 50) is levelling pretty fast so i’ll just make a new skillset for him

[Pseudonym84]

Just the one character. His first skill set is for mining and building. His second skill set, which I’m working on currently, is crafting.

Once I’ve got those skill sets done I’ll give him a fighting skill set.

Are the Feats cross character, or are they all per character?

[Pseudonym84]

Ah, that’s good then. Thanks.

[Zina]

@Ovis
It’s impossible for someone like myself to say you have to have 2-5 character mandatory to be effective, because then I would get eaten by all the players who only like to use one character. So a poll like this is mainly personal opinions.

But my 2 cents are:
You have to at least craft basic food which doesn’t require crafting trees.
You have to be able to kill, and if so desire go on meteor hunts, which needs some defense and power.
You have to be able to gather materials, even basic stuff, which needs efficiency and speed.(outrunning is defense)(also helps gather faster anyway)

So those are the basic roles, and if you want to do any of them extremely well, you need to have a character specifically skilled in it. So if you want all 3 main roles, you need 3 characters or level to 50 two times. To me its faster and easier to have at least 3 alts because you can level an alt to be very useful in his own field, in about 30-50 minutes or less.- Once you have at least the basic tutorial materials sitting in a plot in a few crafting tables for your alt to grab and use as needed. Have the alt put a plot down next to it.

If you want to do all the very basic work of each of those roles in one character, it will always just be basic, and you will always struggle on any higher level planets. You will always die a lot, and be frustrated living in the iron age.

2 minimum(crafting a cooked cuttle steak doesn’t need a skill tree) , more than that is just for specialization preferences and diversity. I use 3 minimum because my character desires more than just a cooked piece of meat. The moment I use a crafting skill, Is a vital point not used on my gatherer, so I made a specific crafter.

I have 6 for sure.
2 crafters . A specific below ground gatherer, a specific above ground gatherer, a specific hunter, and a specific healer.
In this manner I can have diversity in looks, and in play styles and tool load outs. To me it’s the most efficient and less to carry, which gives me more gathering inventory. Also gives me the most plots to share. So therefore cost me the least in cubits, or skill resets. And what is time, when it’s the game I enjoy. No rush. Saved cubits means all my characters will have pumpkin mask.

[Pseudonym84]

I have the one character, and I can’t say I’ve struggled at all; even on high tier planets. I have no health or armour increases, but I don’t need them, because with all my Control and Shadow Effect Epic (which I switch out depending on what I’m doing) the enemies don’t bother me - and I get to choose my battles.

Here’s my setup at the moment;

And my crafting one is a work in progress. I’ve swapped out a few things from time to time;

[Zengrath]

you only “need” 1 character to play boundless. so silly poll.

[bregma]

I have three. Miner/Gatherer/Hunter, Crafter/Builder/Merchant, and Axe Murderer. The latter also does shovel stuff to, you know, hide the bodies or gather Peaty Soil or whatever.

[Biv]

I have five
Builder/crafter (Tool specialization)
Gatherer
Miner
Chef/portals
Hunter

Still need a brewmaster an armorer and a tech specialist. Since brewing/cooking and tech/weapons/tools have to be separate characters.

[Biv]

That seems like a lot more work than laying down an alt, lol.

[Biv]

I think some people get turned off by the idea of having a bunch of low-level alts running around. But some of your alts don’t need to be very high level.

My chef, for example, never really leaves home. So all he needs are the specific skills for his trade. Everything else is useless to him.

[Pseudonym84]

Now that I know Feats are character bound, I’m glad I’ve stuck to the one character, so I can eventually have all the Feats completed on a single character - instead of having all the combat ones done on one alt, with no mining Feats completed, and visa versa.

[Biv]

Just know this will either take 5+ skill sets or lots of resetting skills.

[Pseudonym84]

I’m working my way through most of those Feat trees already, and I haven’t even completed a single skill set. The only ones that seem like they will be an issue isn’t due to a skill point investment, rather a time investment.

[Greybeard]

Only one character, like I prefer in all my games. I try making alts, but then I feel I’m losing my “connection” to my character, as well as separating him from my experiences. Also, I hate to think I’m missing out on xp that should be for my “main”. So, in the end, I always quickly give up on any alts.