Spaceport Trading Company (tuxdb.com)

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 0.4.0.9

Watched a great stream of Spaceport Trading Company and found a fair number of bugs, both minor and larger. This is a massive bug addressing update, but it also has seen some great improvements to tooltips and we have a fair number of QoL items for the next large update that required this work to come before.

Thank you for all of the feedback, testing, and bug reports.

Updates

Added Experience bar, this is a limit design version at present
Added a lot of tooltips, thought we had covered most of them
Improved Cargo Tooltip View
- Gadgets now show their effects, if they're known
- Adjusted the Cancel button to always be available
Large Code Clean up

Balance

Demrock - Electronomere: Technology level now 8 (was 10 before)

Bugs

Addressed missing intro text for services at locations
Addressed an exploit with the starting ship
Addressed missing tooltips for Trait Selection
Addressed an issue with all non Career Mode Location Info Panel Dock button
Addressed a spacing issue when gadgets had long description text
Addressed found and addressed the "Double Undock" requirement issue for some captains
Addressed an edge case crash with Cargo Tooltip View Cancel action
Addressed an edge case where the Undock button would not be visible

Future Work
[list]

Demrock is getting a massive balance update

Scaling UI
- Completed a first draft of the system
- Reviewing how to roll it out to the whole UI

[ 2024-12-14 05:58:58 CET ] [Original Post]