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?
Join Us on Discord! https://discord.gg/EkjBEWcZjt

Release 0.3.10.4

Small update here. We are addressing a few issues with Ship Upgrades not being restored after loading a save and a few display issues. This update continues our UI improvement goal by including an update to the Player Stats & Market Panels.
Thank you for all of the feedback, testing, and bug reports.

Updates

Market Panel Updates
- Spacing for market item names have been adjusted (this will aid in localization)
- In Demand Items that are not present in a player's cargo will have their Sell Button disabled
Player Stats Panel Updates - Ship Stats now have name labels and tooltips
"Enter" / "Return" now works for ship naming in most locations
More Ship Upgrades
Reduced save files size
More tooltips
Testing localization spacing

Balance

Market Items listed as Extra to the normal Economy type now scale better with the Economy level of the location
Market Discount base rate was lower slightly to adjust prices for higher tech market items
Taxes required to level up an economy have been reduced a bit to allow for focused growth of locations

Bugs

Fixed a crash that was introduced in the last update that was reducing the save file duplicated data
Fixed an issue loading Ship Upgrades from some Save files
Fixed an issue with data from converted Save files being out of order

Future Work

Reworking the way ship graphics are displayed
Working on enabling Scanner Gadgets to allow the captains to create their own reports without the need for an agent to request them

[ 2024-01-10 18:54:22 CET ] [Original Post]