This is why my new mage is level 5 and I've played quite a long time. I found a banana split so I ran until I found a jungle and a monkey. I found a candy bar of some sort so I ran until I found a desert and a desert runner. I doubt I'll do things to that extreme again, since doing those with no boat or hang glider was very tedious, but I'm having fun just running around and looking at stuff. I'll level eventually. That will not be what I do in wildstar because we must raid all the things, but with Cubeworld I don't see any reason at all to rush.
I had a lot of fun running around with a big TAB group, but I just didn't feel I earned any of those levels, and I'm not even talking about the ones I got while standing in town when the group killed stuff. Four of us rolled new characters together one night and that was pretty fun. The boss we killed at level 3ish I think was hard and took us forever, but it was a good time. It didn't at all feel like steamrolling things. Probably my least favorite thing to do in any multiplayer game is to chase a group of people around who are higher level or more advanced than me just soaking up xp and loot.