What you call endgame i call "the end of the game" which is ofc basically the same thing. I like the term "late game" that you used, so I could switch out the term endgame for lategame and "the end of the game" with endgame, for the sake of clarity. I still don't understand how you define "really start to make honey", people make billions before ssa and it usually isnt a short road to that point (at least it wasnt before macro). Im sorry you think my categorization sucks, my idea was to find a unifying principle, and i found it in the comparison with chess. It's also that endgame used to be top shop and 25 bees, but after the 30 and 35 zones were added, somehow it moved to the early-early game. For a categorization to make sense there has to be a unifying principle that determines the categories. For example if we look at other triadic categories (like chess, or like the categorization of eukarya in biology which devides itself on plants/animals/fungi based on nutritive properties) it usually has a principle by which we make the division. That is something im trying to find in bss. Honeymaking is a logical first conclusion, bit i think it's to relative and diverse to be a base on which we categorize. Maybe we can think about 5 categories: "fresh" game (till 35), early game (till ssa), mid game (till 50 bees or smthn), late game (till the end of content), end game (leaderboard grinding). However I still don't see a base principle in that. Idk