Multi-Character Runs
I rarely see anyone posting about playing one of my favorite ways - which is multi-character runs.
Most people know you can play a new character in the same world after death, but you can run multiple active characters in the same world - and kind of have them interact with each other.
I like to play this way to essentially have a solo/multi-player experience. In this run I started with Desmond in Echo Creek, he cleared it and setup base at the gas station. I wanted someone who could come and setup a generator so I created his brother Leo and had him escape Irvington and come setup the generator. Jinx came next as my burglar she started in Riverside and I wanted her to setup a FOB at the crossroads north of Dixie. Finally I needed a builder so I spawned Beatrice in Brandenburg - she was trapped in a house with barricades so I had to send Desmond up north to free her, and then she went to the FOB to build out the base.
It's a fun way to get intersecting storylines, and create specialists so you don't have to always be skilling up a super survivor.
Obviously only one character can be played at a time, time passes for all characters when not logged in but they don't suffer from food/sleep loss or any other in game effects - they are essentially paused. But generators at base will run, crops will grow, food will spoil etc at their location.
Characters will never see each other but items left in the world are available to all characters. One of the biggest pains is you can't transport idle characters. If I put a character in the passenger seat and try to drive the car with another character - that doesn't work.
Give it a shot next time you are bored and need to mix it up.