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Space Trader (Video Game)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Space Trader (Official Website) is a freeware game for Palm OS devices. It is compatible with Palm OS 2.0 and highernote but full greyscale and color support only work on 3.5 and higher. The game should work even on "Garnet" versions; OS 5.4.2.. The game was initially released in 2002, with its most recent version being released in December 2005. It has since been ported to the Pocket PC, a native Windows program, and iOS and Android (the latter being retitled ''Dark Nova''), as well as more vanilla Android ports and iOS ports as of July 2014.The game is based off of the fairly-popular Elite and Solar Warsnote which, in turn, was based on Dope Wars. Space Trader itself became quite popular as far as freeware Palm OS games went, and it is commonly cited as one of the OS's best.The game itself focuses on buying and selling goods between multiple planet-like "systems", with the ultimate goal of eventually purchasing a moon and retiring there. The player can choose to be a perfectly benign trader (perhaps bounty hunting on the side), or walk the path of piracy and plunder less capable traders (or somewhere in between) while dealing with the police.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The developer (Pieter Spronck) was writing a sequel at one point, called Picoverse, but unfortunately it has fallen off the map.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: The backstory of how the player's trading quest got started.
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A Winner Is You
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A Winner Is You: Your reward for claiming the moon is a nifty little picture before being ushered to the scoreboard.
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Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!
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Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: Frequently occurs for the player if they try to take out a target, only to find that the target gets a lucky streak of hits. This sometimes occurs with trader and pirate ships, too, should a strong player fight them.
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Boring, but Practical
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Boring, but Practical: Trading back and forth between two fairly quiet systems (low pirates and/or police), steadily gaining profits.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })
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Animal Theme Naming
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Animal Theme Naming: Mimicking Elite, all of the ship types are named after insects. The player starts with a Gnat (one shy of the tiniest ship, a Flea), and the biggest on the market is a Wasp.
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Anarchy Is Chaos
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Anarchy Is Chaos: Planets under Anarchy have a very high concentration of Space Pirates.
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Anti-Grinding
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Antigrinding: Systems take time to replenish goods, so doing this may result in suddenly running out of goods to trade at those systems, forcing the player to either wait or move on to another area.
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