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If you are bored, and want to have something to spend a little time on while surfing the web, feel free to sign up for and play This Game.

I seem to have gotten it to work ok, and would enjoy having a few players giving it a whirl. The game is blacknova/traders and was created by game designers from Source Forge

I installed it as it looks like a fun game to play.

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Signed up.

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signed up too

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Me too.

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i sure started off wrong. instead of using the warp point i used normal space on my routes. now i have to wait forever to be able to do anything.

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yea i kinda screwed the first 1000 turns up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I did the same thing. Now I'm not doing too bad. Making butt loads of cash each trip. But I can't get my score to go up. What makes the score go up anyways? I haven't been able to find it anywhere around.

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get your engines up to about 11 or so and it takes one turn to go anywhere

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm working on that. I am to level 8 now I believe. I should be up to 11 by tonight sometime.

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sorry thats level 14

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ooch, dang. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Well then I might make that level by tomorrow.

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so why is your score so huge ??? it is not possible....

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My score? Huge? Riiight. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
I got a level 9 hull, level 10 engines. I also have 2 planets. But my score is only 1543. I don't see how it can be so low either, but I guess that's the way it goes.

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i believe your score is tied to your buying and selling. my score went up once i had a large hull and just spent 200 turns buying and selling.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well it's slowly getting bigger. And I spent this morning using 200 turns to buy and trade. I made about 8 million or so. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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i think it may have something to do with your net worth now. i took out a 10,000,000 loan and my score appears to have dropped.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I see I see... I'll be sure to limit any loans I take out. I haven't had to take any out but I thought about it once just to play around with different things I can do with this game. My score jumped up there a bit lately but not that much.

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Tips:

1. If your in an alliance, and you want the other alliance members to access your worlds for resources gathering or trade, you need to make the world a Corprate World.

2. Once your hull get too big, trade becomes less effective. This is why you have planets. Have them produce resources that you then transfer to your ship and sell to other ports.

3. GET AN ESCAPE POD. If your ship is destroyed, the Pod will save your money.

4. SAVE MONEY in the IGB. It adds interest.

5. Transport population to your planets. Try to get them up to 25 million.

6. Produce about 15% energy if your world is supporting fighters as sector defenses.

7. Never attack a planet that is bigger than you.

8. Find another SPEICAL port like 871 as 0 will begin to kick you if your ship becomes to big.

9. Get your ship engines to 10. This will reduce the amount of turns used when moving through real space.

10. The more planets you have the more your wealth will increase.

11. Join an alliance or form one.

12. Use Becons to post Messages to players who enter your space.

13. Post some fighter and set them to TOLL to collect funds.

14. Establish Trade routes and use them.

15. To generate money on your planets, reduce the % of resources being created.
20 20 20 15 Pop Cash 10 10
5 5 5 15 Pop Cash 5 5
This will prompt the Population to produce Money and not resources.

[ February 04, 2003, 20:33: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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I signed up!

Hopefully they won't block the web site at work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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From Atrocities:

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sounds like a great idea, but I haven't the foggiest idea how to do this.

Kim
(aka Horace)

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I'm confused about how these alliances have claimed space as their own (i.e., the Free Trade Alliance over 98% of the special ports). How is that done?

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Planets with bases allow you to control a sector.

Tip of the day; People = Power.

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Ok, I can't figure this out. My score is only 6,000 some and I have 12 planets. Yes that's right, 12 planets. How can my score be so low? I got a ton of population too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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I haven't yet found a special port with planets in the sector. There's got to be some other way, as well.

To deploy sector defenses, click Devices. It should list Fighters and Mines (which go to the same page). You can choose how many of each to deploy, and either Toll or Attack mode for the fighters.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Buy a Genesis Device and make your own planet. Unless there's some kind of restriction on Planet generation within the sector your eyeing...

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Special PORTS do not have planets. You can not build planets in special ports either.

the term Free Trade means that the system is a FREE TRADE system, and NOT a clan.

[ February 06, 2003, 02:49: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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this game is addictive. fortunately since i have used up all my starting turns i can only play twice a day now. once in the morning and once in the afternoon. rest of time have to wait for turns to accumulate. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
question: how do you post fighter and mines?

also once i paid off my loan my score appears to have gone back up. i suggest you dont take out huge loans as the interest adds up quickly.

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Ok, I was mixing up Free-trade Territory and the Free Trade Alliance (or whatever it's called). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Another tip: Don't spend more time trading at the beginning that it takes to upgrade your ship hull. Trading at each larger size is 50% more efficient = saves turns. You could upgrade hull and engines at the same time, also, to make real-space trading plausible.

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thanks TescoSamoa.

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my organics are not increasing. all i have are the initial organics i deposited. all other categories are increasing.
i have 200,000 colonists.
production for organics is set to 10%.
planet does have a base.
this is actually happening on all my planets.

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Your planet is using that much Organics to feed your population. Increase them to 20%

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the web admin has the organics turned off i believe... so do not use it at all... set it to zero... As you do not need it and population will increase without organics..

Ore is needed if you wish to build fighters and mines on the planet.

Energy is needed for you fighters during battle.
so 5% min.

Remeber that what is not used to build items is used to create credits... So you can just go out and buy stuff instead... If you have the turns to do it.

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thank yall very much. i shall adjust my percentages.

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My score is finally going up a bit. It still seems really low but oh well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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ok how is the game master that much ahead... WHat did you do that is different besides pop up your stuff...

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I asked him the same question. He sat on his money and build up interest. He has been sitting on his money for a month.

And Organics are on, all of the resources are on. My planets are producing them. I have to set my % at 15 or 20 to get them to produce, but they are. Remember, planet population use organics, and System defenses use Energy.

[ February 06, 2003, 23:35: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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make sure when you leave the game to land on you most heavily defended planet.

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to launch them in space... you use the devices window ( the one where you use to launch becons ) and launch them there

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that would put him at a slight advantage over everyone else...

Challenges are good.

I have not gone into the negatives in organics and people are still doing the bunny

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Okay, two more questions: Looking at the game settings, I see that "furangees" play every 2 minutes, and the "planetary apocalypse" occurs every 15 minutes. What on earth are these, and how do they affect play?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, I sure don't know either. In fact I have never heard of these two phenomena. Where do you see them mentioned?

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I have noticed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I have just been sitting around waiting for my money to add up. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Ok, I bit and joined. Only one question (hopefully I didn't do somefink wrong) but where/how does one get colonists? I "settled" a remote planet but only 2 colonists so production is nil atm....

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from trading ports that are listed as special. they appear as yellow planets on the map. sector 000 is one of those. click on the word special and it will take you to the purchase screen. population is lower right corner.

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question. under rankings what is the good/evil column for and is a high # good or bad.

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The Free Trade Alliance is good http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Actually I do not know what those are for

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Ah, thankee Destinova http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Attacking people is bad http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif and therefor get you an evil mark on the rankings page.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm doing the same thing. I got nearly 500,000,000 in the bank which has helped my score go up. But still low. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif And one of the new players has only played 11 turns and he is way past me. I can't figure that out. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif In fact he's up to 5th in the total rankings. More then 5X my score. Oh well, it's fun playing this game so it's all good. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Catching up?! Man you have doubled his score already. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I gotta figure out how to do this!

[ February 08, 2003, 17:43: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif THis I will check out!