Gaming @beehaw.org pokexpert30 @lemmy.pussthecat.org 11 mo. ago

I finally destroyed space trader.

This save has been started nearly 10 years ago. I love palm os and even used this very palm treo 650 to replace a broken galaxy note 2.

I continued this save like a week ago (a gnat a 20k credits) and proceeded to do every mission that I know of.

Traded a bunch, even used the termite to haul narcotics and flee police.
Finally bought a wasp.
Luckied out on the space warp event (a black hole saved my bacon) and got the singularity drive.
Used it to Speedrun the Gemulon alien invasion. Installed the compactor on my wasp.
Killed the dragonfly and installed its shield on my wasp.
Finally found effin professor Berger after encountering about 200 mantis.
Got the computer from the diplomat.
Visited every system.
Did the medicine run to Japori.
Killed the space monster of Acamar in two runs.
Got to buy the Utopia moon.

Killed about 50 pirates with the fully kitted wasp (and targeting computer) got competent rating, couldn't be arsed to farm pirates at the risk of losing the best Wasp you could get, so I found the Utopia moon event, bought it and streamlined there. I just never went criminal, and avoided the merchant prince event. Also never encountered the scarab quest, but I wonder if the normal difficulty is to blame.

No deaths, no cheats, and sub 300 days (which surprised me)

Memorable moment : 45 narcotics run at +1800cr each, to a militarist system. Was a ride.

Nobody cares about a 20 years old game on a 15 years old dead platform, but here we are.

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IDK what this is but you made it sound cool af
- It sounds cooler than it actually is cuz it's mostly a text game (with a graphical interface) and very little graphics. You can play a port of it here. https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.brucelet.spacetrader/
  
  But text games are pretty cool tho
  
  I don't know if this game is related but if you haven't check out space traders RPG on Android. It's made by the trese brothers and it's amazing I've been playing it for years. They even have a sequel to it now which is much harder but the first one's better I think.
- Same. Old school nerd-ery ftw
- I found some screenshots on ~~a very old fanpage.~~ Apparently it is the actual developers homepage. Credit goes to Lem Jukes for noticing.
  
  That legit looks fun.
  
  I remember playing a game of similar concept on pc back in the day that was ships and ports and pirates
  
  That’s not a fan page, that’s the OG dev’s personal site. The game was made by a guy named Pieter Spronck, he’s a professor of CS at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
I played that game on my m100, M125, Zire71 and on my final Palm device: the LiveDrive. That's an awesome achievement and I congratulate you on your endurance. I think the only time I bought a wasp was by cheating (editing the save game, I think?). Man, all those names in your post really bring back old memories I thought forgotten - from an era of the internet long, long gone. Thank you. Wasn't there a tribbles event in that game, too?

If I ever get to making my own space game I'll surely put in some references to Space Trader. The only gaming achievment I had back then was a +800 winning streak in a freecell game but that got lost when my device died.
- Yes sir ! The tribbles event is the merchant prince event. Nothing to gain here but pain.
  
  The wasp is not super super hard to get, just trade to hell and back using the beetle and then the termite. The bumblebee is also a nice all-rounder ship.
What language is this post in?
- Bad ass mother fucker.
  
  That makes sense. My grandfather tried to teach me Badass when I was younger but he only knew the Son of a Bitch dialect.
- Somewhere between English and Sumerian
Damn now that is dedication.

I loved my Tungsten T2 and the overall Palm OS. Tries my luck with an auction bought Tapwave Zodiac 2 some years ago but I was unable to use it's Sync capabilities and the SD card didn't read at all. The device felt nice though, just as I imagined it would be when I was still in college and wished to have it back then.
- My dad used to daily drive a Centro (the last ever palm os device, a phone) until like 5 years ago. He still misses the productivity suite and the overall responsiveness of the system.
  
  Productivity Suite as in Documents2Go or just the usual PIM suite by Palm? Because both of them were awesome.
  
  Also adding Blazer to the mix and you had a very smarty non smartphone :D
I think I played it way back on my palm zire, but not that much. But it was quite nice.
I played this so much back then, started off on an m100 and eventually got a Zire71 for Christmas. I still have my dads old Tungsten T|X on the shelve, the last/newest palm©️ device i held in my hand. Man that TX had issues with the built in wifi. It has a 50:50 (or worse) chance to crash and reboot the device any time you turn the wifi on (or off or received or send data), such a shame and apparently there was a "firmware fix" but all it did was reduce the chance of it crashing, never eliminated it. Still though, palm devices are awesome and i have a lot of good memories playing some space trader at night in bed, in glorious m100 monochrome.
Oh man, I loved that game so much. I played it all the time on my old Treo 650. Still the best phone I've ever had
That's so awesome. Takes me back. I might need to see if I still have that old Treo in a box somewhere...
- There's a port for android available on both the play store and f-droid
This is fuckin rad. I miss the hell out of my Treo. I played this game so damn much in my downtime.
You should send this thread to Pieter Spronck, the guy who made the game. He’s still working and his website has his contact info listed. I’m sure he’d get a real kick out of this thread.

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