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.
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.