History VideoGame / Avorion

* StopHavingFunGuys: Persecutors, ships that hunt ships that are deemed too weak for a given sector once near enough from the Core (from 300 to 425 sectors). They are always equipped with advanced torpedoes to OneHitKill their prey, and even follow it through hyperspace.
** Common Pirates have become this, as well as [[BountyHunter The Galactic Bounty Hunter Association]], which is auto-hired by said pirates, so the player may be [[ParanoiaFuel attacked by them at any time]] if one of their very numerous hidden shipyards is near...

* AllianceMeter: Gaining the good graces of a faction will allow you access to more services, from a discount on Gate travel to being able to buy better equipment from their stations.

* ArtificialStupidity: The AI's fight model is pretty simple, but has problems overestimating their ships' ability to brake. But it's going better over the development cycle: ships crashing into asteroids and each other are less frequent.

** UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: Averted. All blocks need Engineers and/or Mechanics to maintain, so huge ships need a lot of crew.

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:Fidget, Specimen 8055 and the Big Brother]]. The last two are ogonite-level. Also, the [[spoiler:Xsotan Guardian Prototype]], probably.
** [[spoiler: Project IHDTX and "5468 6520 4149" are even more powerful versions of Specimen 8055 and Big Brother, respectively.]]

* BrokenBase: koonschi added a (moddable/removable) evolving ship limit of roughly three ships per material (not counting stations). Most players weren't affected a lot by the change, but builders of huge fleets 😓...
** ThePlan: It is however temporary in order to finish the retail version of the game, as it'd be too much work to tackle the issue (the need for a simulation state between "fully loaded" and "unloaded") before the deadline as it'd need a lot of engine work.
** Also, when koonschi stated that solar panels were a "early-game block" and won't have its energy generation increased with material unlike generators. SolarSail lovers sure were miffed out, especially as [[FromBadToWorse the hyperspace core energy usage increased dramatically]] soon after...
*** [[TheChewToy ...and then]] the Solar Panel Block had its health values reduced to (more or less than) one-eighth of a similar hull block, forcing solar sail builders to actually cover their sails to avoid getting them blown up...
** Another broken base point was the decision to make common pirate factions permanently at war with the players, making [[VillainProtagonist pirate playthroughs]] impossible.
* CallAHitPointASmeerp: Damage per second is called Omicron. [[LampshadedTrope | Lampshaded]] by a loading screen tip, saying that "damage per second" is what earthlings would call it.
* CollisionDamage: Avorion has realistic collision damage, meaning most collisions are very damaging, especially with asteroids as they are made of rock, which is much denser than hull and armor. You can turn collision damage off or on quarter by quarter alongside the difficulty level.
** DiscreditedTrope: However, as better materials are found and collision damage stay the same, collisions become less of an issue later in the game. See Early Game Hell.

* CoolStarship: Of course, since it's a voxel game where lore or less any kind of ship can be made, players have made [[http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/board,10.0.html wonderful creations]] ! Avorion integrates an interface to the Steam Workshop to publish and download ships.
** ConstructionIsAwesome !

** NonIndicativeDifficulty: However, '''all''' NPC ships are affected, so player-made NPC ships are also nerfed, causing very long battles in earlier difficulties (at "Beginner", NPC do [[WimpFight 40 times less damage]]...).
* EarlyGameHell: Build mode does not pause the action (in multiplayer), and apart from rare "neutral" sectors, hostile Pirates can spawn anywhere every eleven-or-so minutes, and starting sectors are very rarely neutral ! It went much worse with the advent of Torpedoes which can and will intercept a fleeing drone, causing several post-spawn sad deaths. It's much better to make a Creative Mode galaxy as a "shipyard" to make ships to export to non-Creative galaxies.

** SlowPacedBeginning: Like a lot of sandbox games, Avorion is slow paced at the beginning where credits are a severe limitation on what ship player can make, but then the player starts finding new ways of making credits (and resources) and it gets easier thay way too.
** Since 1.0, also subverted as it became Late Game Hell, a la VideoGame/{{Terraria}} since as one destroys the final boss (and maybe even before), [[spoiler:Xsotan invasions]] [[DugTooDeep start]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero happening]]...
* MadeOfExplodium: The ''true'' main point of the game. Most blocks explode ! [[StuffBlowingUp Explosions are exciting !]] Needs more explosions !
** ExplosionsInSpace

* GameMod: Most of the game content is made out of free-to-edit Lua scripts ! But some things happening in-engine are inaccessible. Of course it's one of the game's objectives to make all ot the mechanics accessible to modders.
** Now with [[UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Steam Workshop]] mods !

** Station building ! Finding what supply and demand is in a sector gets harder and harder with each economy update... until 0.29 came with (mappable!) supply and demand ratios, trading system upgraded behavior and per-good station buy/sell behavior !

*** So it's actually simpler to make bigger ships as some of the problem are linear while the power curve is exponential because of the SquareCubeLaw !

* MileLongShip: Very possible. In fact, at high enough difficulty levels, the player ''will'' have to make one (unless they do a balanced squad of smaller vessels to spite the trope) !
** However, when blocks are too big, their textures become too big for the memory... It'll get better, hoperfully.

* OxygenMeter: Lacking. There's only an alarm if Life Support stopped working (due to crippling energy problems or careless energy prioritization). Beware sudden crew losses !

** AsteroidsMonster: When the "The AI"'s blocks crumble, parts that can still make a ship get new weapons and becomes a new ship, which causes the boss's damage ability to [[ThisIsGonnaSuck rocket exponentially]].
** TacticalSuicideBoss: The "The AI" has invincible shields when not attacking, but "reroutes energy from shields to weapons" when it detects [[spoiler: a Xsotan Artifact]] on the player's ship.

* SolarSail: There is a Solar Panel block which makes energy relative to it's surface, so they ''used to'' make great sails ! Until their [=HP=] got nerfed that is. They can also be very good as ''radiators'' as there is no recognition of block or sun exposition and can be crammed inside a ship with no negative consequences.

** SpaceIsAir~

* SpaceWhale and LivingShip: [[spoiler: The Xsotan. They are actually lifeforms made of organic and metallic matter behaving like animals...]]
** HordeOfAlienLocusts: [[spoiler: ...and eating away at most things. They "infest" Avorion asteroids to make more of themselves and it is rumored that Avorion is actually organic and metallic matter ''assembled by the Xsotan to that effect''.]]

* ThatOneBoss: The [[spoiler: Mobile Energy Lab]]. Its overcharged lightning guns do fixed damage of 3 million hp per shot, one-shotting your usual solo player ship. Unless the player reads the Avorion Discord Server or interacts with the [[spoiler: M.A.D. Science Satellites]] they're supposed to kill to read logs about how to be entirely immune to their damage, they're probably going to meet a very abrupt, [[VisualPun lightning-fast]] end.
* TheLittleDetecto: The [=C43 Object Detector=] module. It's not very useful as ore asteroids glow brightly and other things are either easily findable... or not interesting enough (like Secret Stashes and Reclaimable Derelict Ships).
** However, it can find claimable large asteroids (which can either have a mine founded on, or sold to a nearby faction for [[AllianceMeter relations]] and a few hundred thousand credits), which can be hard to spot amidst all the other asteroids and with a high enough tier module they'll be highlighted throughout the entire sector.
* TheUnpronounceable: Randomly-generated faction and ship names ! The funniest part is, some factions have prefixes and suffixes like "The United States of X" or "The Coalition of X".

* [[WorthlessYellowRocks Worthless Green Rocks]]: Naonite. Awesome once player finds it as they can make shield generators with them, basically doubling (or more) the health of their ships. The next material, Trinium, [[GameBreaker surpasses it in every regard, can be made into armor unlike Naonite, and is arguably ''the most'' practical material due to its lightness]], turning poor Naonite into the material the player uses to mask the fact that Trinium is so useful players [[BoringButPractical usually use it for everything]]. Then the next material, Xanion, has the same gimmick of "technological material" as Naonite, making it useless in both practice ''and'' theory.

* UnfortunateNames: Avorion tends to be [[JustForFun/IReadThatAs read by search engines]] as "abortion".

** Averted in the case of factions such as [[SpacePirate Pirates]], which will always have the worst possible relations with you. Interestingly, [[StarfishAlien Xsotan]] will always stay at a "Neutral" value: reflecting the fact that they are not hostile towards you until you use any turrets.

* SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove
** NeedsWikiMagicLove

* ArmorIsUseless: Averted. Armor is the best block in the game to make hull from, instead of hull blocks, as it is has a [[FakeBalance better mass-to-health ratio and needs less crew to maintain]].

* CallAHitPointASmeerp: Damage per second is called omicron.

* RogueDrone: Inverted with the "The AI" boss. It just follows its programming of "Destroy all Xsotan things".

* BreakableWeapons: Inverted in Creative Mode, where destroying a turret [[GoodBadBugs gives you two back]].

* DifficultyLevels: There is six difficulty levels: Beginner, Easy, Medium, Veteran, Hard and Insane, which scale the amount of damage all ships that aren't ships currently piloted by players do. On Insane the NPC do as much damage as the player(s).

* SolarSail: There is a Solar Panel block which makes energy relative to it's surface, so they make great sails ! They can also be very good as ''radiators'' as there is no recognition of block or sun exposition and can be crammed inside a ship with no negative consequences.

* EarlyGameHell: Build mode does not pause the action, and apart from rare "neutral" sectors, hostile Pirates can spawn anywhere every eleven-or-so minutes, and starting sectors are very rarely neutral ! It went much worse with the advent of Torpedoes which can and will intercept a fleeing drone, causing several post-spawn sad deaths. It's much better to make a Creative Mode galaxy as a "shipyard" to make ships to export to non-Creative galaxies.

* NotCompletelyUseless: Iron, the lowest material. It's heavier and more fragile than all the other materials, but the only one that can be made into Inertial Dampeners (automatic space brakes) besides [[{{Unobtainium}} Avorion]]''.

* SpacePirates: Of many flavors. There are "usual" Pirate factions that randomly attack sectors and begin already "abhorrent" towards the player. There are also Pirate factions that function in ordinary normal faction way, and their variants the Syndicates, which also begin hateful or abhorrent towards the player.

* ThatOneBoss: The [[spoiler: Mobile Energy Lab]]. Its overcharged lightning guns do fixed damage of 3 million hp per shot, one-shotting your usual solo player ship. Unless the player interacts with the [[spoiler: M.A.D. Science Satellites]] they're supposed to kill to read logs about how to be entirely immune to their damage, they're probably going to meet a very abrupt, [[VisualPun lightning-fast]] end.

* UnstableEquilibrium: Like most [[WideOpenSandbox Wide Open Sandboxes]], when the player gets loads of resources (enough materials to make a huge ship, enough credits to make several stations), she'll tend to get more and more (with said huge ship cleaning sectors with no competition and said stations producing and selling goods). Conversely the player can get stuck punched around by [[StopHavingFunGuys Persecutors]] if she gets in a tight spot near enough for them to spawn.

** Station building ! Finding what supply and demand is in a sector gets harder and harder with each economy update.

''[[http://www.avorion.net/ Avorion]]'' is an upcoming FourX [[SimulationGame Space Game]] based on ships made from blocks and [[ProceduralGeneration procedurally generated]] factions and universe. You can mine asteroids, making ships out of them, and explore a thriving universe in search of the Galactic Core. Standing in your way however are hostile StarfishAliens named the Xsotan. And progress-impeding [[NegativeSpaceWedgie subspace rifts]].

This game is developed by a team of three led by a Konstantin 'koonschi' Kronfeldner, and is currently in PerpetualBeta, with an estimated release date of [[http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,4554.msg24743.html#msg24743 September 2018.]]
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* [[WorthlessYellowRocks Worthless Green Rocks]]: Naonite. Awesome once player finds it as they can make shield generators with them, basically doubling (or more) the health of their ships. The next material, Trinium, [[GameBreaker surpasses it in every regard, can be made into armor unlike Naonite, and is arguably ''the most'' practical material due to its lightness]], turning poor Naonite into the material the player uses to mask the fact that Trinium is so useful players [[BoringButPractical usually use it for everything]]. Then the next material, Xanion, has the same gimmick of "technological material" as Naonite, making it useless in both practice ''and'' theory.

* AfterTheEnd: The game begins after a cataclysm which triggered an alien invasion that made people flee the Galactic Core. The player begins 450 sectors or so away from the Core and the game's "difficulty" increases towards the center.

* BiggerIsBetter: One of the main constants of the game. Bigger means more upgrade module slots, up to 15, therefore more turrets to defend against ships and especially torpedoes, and usually more health.

* CollisionDamage: Avorion has realistic collision damage, meaning most collisions are very damaging, especially with asteroids as they are made of rock, which is much denser than hull and armor. You can turn collision damage off or on quarter by quarter alongside the difficulty level

** NonIndicativeDifficulty: However, '''all''' NPC ships are affected, so player-made NPC ships are also nerfed, causing very long battles in earlier difficulties (at "Beginner", NPC do 40 times less damage...).

* LetsPlay: There's several, like the Alien Ant ones or the Lathland one.

* SpaceFighter: Once gotten into the Trinium tier, the player can make Hangar blocks out of it, allowing the deployment of various fighters made from any turret type, including military turrets, but also civilian [[AsteroidMiners mining lasers]], [[DevouredByTheHorde salvage lasers]] and [[LedgeBats force turrets]]. There are also Cargo Shuttles, made from no turret at all.

* WideOpenSandbox: Tries to be one. There is sure plenty of space in the million of sectors the galaxy is made of. Most sectors are empty, some have factions visible by normal scan, and some have other things and are only highlighted by deep scan.

* SpaceWhale and LivingShip: [[spoiler: The Xsotan. They are actually lifeforms made of organic and metallic behaving like animals...]]

** Also, when koonschi stated that solar panels were a "early-game block" and won't have its energy generation increased with material unlike generators. SolarSail lovers sure were miffed out, especially as [[FromBadToWorse the hyperspace core energy usage increased dramatically soon after...

* UnfortunateNames: Avorion tends to be [[IReadThatAs read by search engines]] as "abortion".

*** Especially, making a ship that can jump through hyperspace without having energy problems, since no interface element shows how much energy her core will use after jumping and the formula's secret, until, of course, comparing energy usage before and after a jump. Patch 0.20 also increased said energy usage, so [[ParanoiaFuel even ships that ''were'' jumping nicely]] may have problems...

*** Especially, making a ship that can jump through hyperspace without having energy problems, since no interface element shows how much energy her core will use after jumping and the formula's secret, until, of course, comparing energy usage before and after a jump. Patch 0.20 also increased said energy usage so [[ParanoiaFuel even ships that ''were'' jumping nicely]] may have problems...

* WideOpenSandbox: Tries to be one. There is sure plenty of space in the million of sectors the galaxy is made of. Most sectors are empty, some have factions visible by normal scan, and some have other things and are only highlighted by deep scan.
** EarlyGameHell and QuicksandBox: Build mode does not pause the action, and apart from rare "neutral" sectors, hostile Pirates can spawn anywhere every eleven-or-so minutes, and starting sectors are very rarely neutral ! It went much worse with the advent of Torpedoes which can and will intercept a fleeing drone, causing several post-spawn sad deaths.
*** It's much better to make a Creative Mode galaxy as a "shipyard" to make ships to export to non-Creative galaxies.

* MegaMawManeuver: When mining too hungrily, you can and probably will charge the asteroid with your Mining Drone, sculpting a maw on the asteroid, then getting bitten.

* BaseBreaker: The 0.16 Combat Update, which introduced Torpedoes, which are [[MasterOfAll always guided with no such thing as lock-on time, extremely fast, very long ranged and cripplingly damaging]], and which'se only drawback is that whoever is using it needs to go to an Equipment Dock to buy a new supply of them. Problem: NPC pirates use it, and the random generation can easy make OneHitKill torpedoes.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WideOpenSandbox The universe is]] [[http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,3986.msg21484.html waiting since 0.16]].]]

This game is developed by a team of three led by a Konstantin 'koonschi' Kronfeldner, and is currently in PerpetualBeta, with an estimated release date of [[http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,4554.msg24743.html#msg24743 September 2018]].

[[http://www.avorion.net/ Avorion]] is an upcoming [[FourX 4X]] [[SimulationGame Space Simulator]] based on ships made from blocks and [[ProceduralGeneration procedurally generated]] factions and universe. Mine asteroids, make ships out of them and explore a thriving universe in search of the Galactic Core, which is your objective since some vague incident happened. And hostile StarfishAliens named the Xsotan. And progress-impeding [[NegativeSpaceWedgie subspace rifts]].

This game has a relatively small but vocal community, is made by a very active and motivated developer team of three led by a Konstantin 'koonschi' Kronfeldner, and is currently in PerpetualBeta (the release date is supposed to be [[http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,4554.msg24743.html#msg24743 September 2018]] but there is so much to do it'll be either rushed, reported or abandoned).

The current demo is also really outdated. Let's Plays are currently a much better first impression vector.

** HordeOfAlienLocusts: [[spoiler: ...and eating away at most things. They "infest" Avorion asteroids to make more of themselves and it is rumored that Avorion is actually organic and metallic matter ''assembled by the Xsotan to that effect''.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[WideOpenSandbox The universe is]] [[http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,3986.msg21484.html waiting since 0.16]].]]