What's the best way to get into titanium fast?

[Itharus]

I ask because it's impossible to make anything decent with iron. I hardly want to waste my time on it, lol.

[Midas]

You're able to mine titanium immediately. Simply find it in sectors that are a bit closer to the center of the galaxy. It looks similar to iron ore but pure white.

[Itharus]

Ah, so you just have to spend 10 min going coreward? Gotcha. Was hoping there was a faster way, I did find a wreck with hella titanium but I have no salvaging turrets T_T

[Oakshadow]

ussually your starting system has 2 or 3 titanium nodes hidden amongst the iron.... as well as at least one claimable asteroid. Enough to build a small iron ship with a power generator and some integrity generators. That should be enough to get you into the local pirate/alien fights

Eventually the pirates will drop a salvage turret you can use. Easier to salvage the stuff than to mine it... as it starts becoming a primary material component in enemy ships earlier than they become the default mining node. By the time titanium becomes common you should be picking up neonite, and salvaging it off enemy ships.

[cr4q]

Keep an eye out for the hidden mass signatures, with a bit of luck, you'll find a wormhole that'll take you a few sectors corewards, and suddenly, titanium everywhere.

[raptorxm]

Scrapyard for every resource , you destory 4 block and have 20000 of tritanium or something else and you can get modules :D

[Xerxes86]

Originally posted by Itharus:

I ask because it's impossible to make anything decent with iron. I hardly want to waste my time on it, lol.

I can tell your fairly new by the question. Quit now, and save yourself a lot of trouble. Unless you plan on spending countless hours studying and getting a masters degree in how to play Avorion, you are doomed.

[Slimurgical (Stormy)]

Originally posted by Crabtree:

Originally posted by Itharus:

I ask because it's impossible to make anything decent with iron. I hardly want to waste my time on it, lol.

I can tell your fairly new by the question. Quit now, and save yourself a lot of trouble. Unless you plan on spending countless hours studying and getting a masters degree in how to play Avorion, you are doomed.

Ignore this post, OP. Avorion's actually not that complicated.

Literally all you gotta do to progress primarily, is mine for resources, get money (how you do that is up to you. Salvaging and selling junk modules/weapons you won't use, doing delivery and supply quests, etc. Can all get you money. Hell, you can just hunt enemy ships, and get a ship so swole you can destroy colonized systems with stations with enough time put in, or even with enough luck) and build a decent ship. Hell, the ship doesn't even have to look great. You could build a behemoth that looks ugly, but is fast to build and that could work. (infact, it... sorta works too well IMO)

It's really only got like... 7 ores total, I believe. True, some ores have the best version of a module, like how Iron cargo containers are the best in effectiveness and storage, but not in weight obviously, but you can honestly ignore that and still do well on normal difficulty.

Can even get rid of collission damage andm ake it easier.

Hell, you can reduce the difficulty and you'll have an effortless time on the lowest. Can basically melt Titanium ships with only Iron/common-level weapons and modules/upgrades.

But doing anything other than hunting enemy ships, and doing alot of salvaging in scrapyards, it'll take you a bit of time, but then again...

No good Sandbox game can get you far, and fast. They all require a bit of time put in, then again, mostly all games require that on some level.

But yeah, if you want to do empire building, the game's a bit weak in that aspect. Friendly ship AI is pretty weak, you can see it anytime friendly ships drive and crash right into one another and their friendly stations.
I've actually been in a system long enough for a resource depot to die from so many ships bumping and crashing into it, admittedly alot of ships did die though, so I got tons of salvage inbetween mining.

Playing Online though is the best. Sure, you've got major lag whenever two people are in the same sector but people are usually really helpful and generous sometimes. I'd specifically go to the Propsercraft server. Plenty of people, and they're pretty nice.
You know, if you do end up buying the game.

Generally though, the game's not really too complex. Nothing in it is as complex as say... Minecraft's redstone system, just the game is a time sink, and sadly you can't easily just leave AI to control all your ships, as yeah... they like to treat asteroids like highly mobile objects when pathfinding to destinations they're gonna mine, so they end up bumping, and in some cases, dying from crashing into asteroids, and if they live, they continue to drive inot the asteroid, but nothing happens, so they slowly take more and more damage, and they also get stuck for all eternity.

So I'd probly just wait, unless you want to do mostly everything yuorself. Although, the friendly AI for defending systems is passable and doesn't seem to suffer from that stuck flaw with the AI's pathfinding, so you COULD hire some ships just to protect you and have it be fine.

[Itharus]

I own the game already lol. I think you misread my post, but thanks fo the encouragement anyway, lol.

I'm not actually that new, I was just hoping for a better way to titanium.

And don't worry, I know enough to ignore that guy... lol... the game isn't THAT complicated. He should go play Dominions 4 ;)

Basically I just got tired of collecting iron. Too poor/unlucky for salvage turrets and was recently stuck mired in iron.

[Strykewolf]

I, usually, find some titanium in the starting system (or close by)...though I play offline most of the time. When I have Iron, I stay small with the ship (mostly) as in 'Firefly' or, 'Rasputin' (from Rebel Galaxy) sized ships until I start finding more. I tend to bank ahead when I can to keep the crew paid, and such.

[Itharus]

I usually have to cross two of the large sectors (quadrants?) towards the core before I start finding enough titanium to build a decent ship. I play on Hard so the starting enemies have like 120-200 omicron for firepower usually. Kinda sucks when you cant generate enough electricity to go over 40 omicron. I wish there were iron generators :-/

[QuickByte]

/give *name* *resource* *amount* XD jk Jumping sectors or lucky wormhole gen. Personally, just collect enough iron to build a dart ship to gate jump untill tritanium is abondant. Dismantle the ship for the iron back for the new ship brakes and drone mine the tritan.

[Teralitha]

Travel toward the center of the galaxy. You will see more as you go.

[Itharus]

Yeah seems you can only do it the hard way.

[Teralitha]

Traveling is easy

[Demo who Laughs]

Can confirm for anyone who sees this thread in 2024 that you will have a claimable asteroid in your starting sector and some titanium.

An idea is to use the tactical map and look around for titanium, it can be a godsend.