LOL

I just tag it with whatever the game tells me it is, and I'd assume most other people who submit ships do the same.

As soon as you can, make a basic auto miner: a small ship with a couple of mining lasers, minimal crew (obviously including a captain) and then you can have it focus 100% on mining while you do what you need to progress.

OP, I agree with you. :)

Doesn't the fact that its purely subjective render your opinion of what constitutes "early game" as invalid as theirs is in your eyes?

Originally posted by zerObit:

Doesn't the fact that its purely subjective render your opinion of what constitutes "early game" as invalid as theirs is in your eyes?

I think the OPs point is that it shouldn’t be.

The auto tag is based on material TYPE, not quantity. Naonite and below is early game. Xanion and bellow is mid game. Avorion is end game.

Originally posted by SivCorp:

The auto tag is based on material TYPE, not quantity. Naonite and below is early game. Xanion and bellow is mid game. Avorion is end game.

While this may be true, the uploader is capable of changing these tags.

Just because my ship design uses iron or titanium doesn’t mean it’s Early game if it requires hundreds of thousands of the material.

Search the workshop for "starter ship". That should get you the sort of ships you are looking for.

I think Avorion is really well suited to the slower paced 'turn over all the rocks' style of play.

That said (and by all means OP, you do you - after all, _that's the whole point of sandbox gaming_), you're 24 hours in now, but if you play through to completion the game might take say 200+ hours.

And when you look back at the game from that perspective, you will probably agree that iron and titanium stuff is still 'early game'.

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I think also the whole early/mid/late thing isn't as obviously linear in Avorion as it is in other games. There's a whole thing of 'set up an economy', which is kind of off to the side. E.g. I don't think (?) there's anything stopping you from founding a bunch of stations in the iron region. But on the other hand just looking at it from a theoretical perspective - I don't think think that founding any stations or mines is required before (for instance) breaching the barrier.

And from that point of view I think maybe it's more like a triangle than a line. There's everything before the barrier, everything after the barrier - and those map to early and late game, but there's the third point off to the side which may or may not be a mid game where you really spend a vast amount of resources setting up resource generation.