What turns you off playing Boundless?

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Hi all,

I started during the free weekend roughly 2 months ago ?
I like the game very much, all this portals, traveling to planets, meteorites, chiseling, the beacon system, all was not easy to understand, but is nice idea at the end.

In these points I felt like stuck:

  1. The progress gets really slow and grindy when you get iron tools. I had to search some hints how to progress further = Volume Crafting.
  2. Silver or Gold tools do not really bring improvement. Improvement is brought purely by skills between levels 20-35.
  3. Man really need the “volume crafting” to move on. Meanwhile mining on higher tier planets is a painful torture of slowness.
  4. The community is nice, but beginners are not really helpful in any way.
  5. To progress, one needs pretty early Alts to split skills (Works for me with three so far: Hunter+Miner+Crafter). Relying on Trading for newcomer is not possible
  6. Guide through the game mechanics could be better

Now I am around level 37 with titanium tools and things seem to be getting better.
However I expect the same “stagnation in progress” because:

  • My toon has more or less all needed points for mining power and speed
  • To craft Diamond tools, “Leather” is needed, for Leather man needs 500 Power in a Machine and for that actually another gem is needed, so its not achievable until I will be able to gather that gems on T5/T6 planets.
    So easiest way is to stay on low tier planets, farm stone and mass craft my levels higher to get protections and resistances for T6 or simply trade it… maybe I invest here, seems to be the easiest way to speedup the progression :wink:

---- [Edit Two Months Later] ----
Two months later, my main three characters hit level 50, I can tell the following progress from Titanium was quite fast, especially due to the fact that I bought all the needed Coils and made Centraforging dedicated character. AOE Hammer make such a huge difference that I can get 200+ gems in 30 minutes, Farming Olivine Fragments; Exotic Yams, etc. on T5 planets from Sand/Mud suddenly makes sense. Gathering Bark or Shimmering Orbs - easy.

I am now missing just more end content, more group events and some “oort-line shop finding system” :wink:

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