Spaceport Trading Company (tuxdb.com)

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Embark on a thrilling journey through the cosmos and become a legendary space trader in this immersive simulation game. Spaceport Trading Company offers you the opportunity to explore a vast galaxy, amass wealth, and build your reputation as a master of interstellar commerce.

Overview

Within Spaceport Trading Company, you assume the role of a budding spacefarer in a galaxy teeming with diverse planets, each with its own unique economy, resources, and challenges. Your mission is simple: buy low, sell high, and navigate the intricacies of interstellar trade to amass your fortune.

Strategic Gameplay

Strategic Time: Time only advances when you move or perform an action. A ticking clock is not a source of pressure for selecting what you want to buy.
Experience: Every action you perform earns you experience. Meeting a new contact, trading, flying around, all earn you experience.

Key Features

Epic Spacefaring: Traverse a beautifully crafted universe (demo will only have a single star system) filled with stunning planets, space stations, and celestial phenomena.
Economic Simulation: Immerse yourself in a living, breathing economy that responds to your actions and market trends. Influence prices and trade dynamics with your decisions.
Dynamic Trading: Buy and sell a wide array of commodities, from minerals and technology to exotic artifacts and more. Prices fluctuate based on supply and demand, making every trade a strategic decision.
Reputation Matters: Your actions shape your reputation with different factions, affecting your access to lucrative trade deals, contracts, and even your safety in the galaxy.
Player Progression: Earn experience points and credits as you successfully complete trades, quests, and contracts. Level up, unlock new ship upgrades, and gain special abilities to enhance your trading prowess.
Engaging Quests: Take on jobs, missions and quests from various factions, adding depth to the narrative and providing unique challenges and rewards.
Random Events: Encounter unexpected events, such as space anomalies, market crashes, and opportunities for unique trades, keeping your journey dynamic and unpredictable.

Become a space tycoon, a fearless explorer, or a renowned diplomat in Spaceport Trading Company. Your journey to dominate the galaxy begins here.
Are you ready to trade, explore, and thrive in the stars?
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Release 0.3.9.5

This was a bit delayed due to the holidays. Thank you for all of the feedback, testing, and bug reports. While we are working a much larger release, we wanted these items to be available now.

Updates

Settings Panel Access
- Esc or Spacebar can now be used to access Settings Panel, even in the intro
- Esc can now call up the Settings Menu when there are no other panels or popups open
Streamlined the handling of credit adjustments
Pressing the Warp Button now informs the player that the system is currently disable in the game
Auto Save Improvements
- Addressed an issue if Auto Save Zero file was deleted
- Addressed possible over saving
Game Over Screen added
- Provides players a clear indicator that they have exhausted their funds, and options to acquire more
- We are reviewing the option for prompting the player to take a loan if they reach this point
More tooltips
Setup the foundation for localization

Balance

Adjusted the Difficulty levels for Market Spread
Adjusted some ship stats
Move a few Market Items around to better balance the locations and allow for a few more unique sets

Bugs

Fixed bugs related to In Demand Items:
- Addressed an issue that allowed for In Demand Items to be purchased on the same location
- Addressed an issue where the player could have an In Demand Item and not be paid the current price
- Location data is now updated to prevent selling the demand quantity multiple times
Auto Refuel adding more fuel than a ship should be able to carry
Fixed a crashed related to In Demand Items trying to be sold when the captain does not have the item
Fixed one method of having a displayed negative cargo space

[ 2024-01-04 14:17:11 CET ] [Original Post]