Early game is completely throttled by ICE.

I'm about 40 minutes in and I've managed to complete Electronics research and I'm about 1/2 way through Space Automation. I'm drowning in ores and carbon and completely starved for ice. I can't automate anything without Space Automation so I'm hand feeding everything and players build queue is constantly going with space platform as I have no where else to make it.

If ice becomes abundant later and you want to keep the space science recipe as is maybe consider lowering the research pack requirement to get to automation? For now I'm just 'gifting' myself science via the command line.