Fonline is a massive time sink, as a mostly solo player I've dumped hundreds of hours into lvling alts to be self sufficient
Hundreds of hours? I've wasted like 25-30 roughly by my estimations on pure leveling, in comparison to other games out there that is not a lot, including some useless melee build, deleted, obsolete level capped build for nickname etc. etc.
I would believe you wasted hundreds of hours farming equipment, unless you are leveling with some BB gun on molerats to be self sufficient despite wasting very much time.