Nice game, unfortunately too much depends on luck... and I strongly believe that getting to $20M is just a lucky shot. I spend some time building spreadsheets and analyzing strategies and came out with few conclusions I'd like to share.
I've took a median price over few games, and from there I've calculated where are the best buy/sell price spots taking into account that you pay 15% of tax and you want another 15% of your trade margin as minimum. So table sums up list of commods, sample name (that changes each game), max buy price, median price, min sell price:
#
Mid Price
Buy Max
Sell Min
1
150
127
172
2
200
170
230
3
250
212
287
4
325
276
373
5
450
382
517
6
600
510
690
7
750
637
862
8
1100
935
1265
9
1500
1275
1725
10
2200
1870
2530
Following these prices guidelines will get you solid results usually in Few millions. Rest is luck, as some events can suddenly triple your account, or turn it to zero.
(Remark - I've check also the distributions of prices vs the the originating planets and the stocks size so it really does not matter to which planet you are flying next, it does not matter for the the stock sizes or has no real impact on the prices - saddly).
Anyways, Each planet Entire market total value is max $1M - $1.5M so really hard to get your truck to be full of goodies get to value of $20M w/o any extra ordinary event.
When you suddenly after lucky event get in few $M in cash usually you can buy out entire planet one after another and then the game balance suffers horribly... the strategy then turns into buy all everywhere, don't sell anything, fly around and keep fingers crossed for next high price event to fire so you can sell commod for couple $K a piece, then buy all again and repeat.
I dislike that randomness to be honest. Anyways, had some fun on figuring this out... cheers!
Please make a downloadable copy of this game, as well as an endless version. Or at least a version where you can set the win conditions. I love how casual this game is, and how relaxing. Please expand on this. If you can, could you make it multiplatform? I'm running Linux.
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Nice game, unfortunately too much depends on luck... and I strongly believe that getting to $20M is just a lucky shot. I spend some time building spreadsheets and analyzing strategies and came out with few conclusions I'd like to share.
I've took a median price over few games, and from there I've calculated where are the best buy/sell price spots taking into account that you pay 15% of tax and you want another 15% of your trade margin as minimum. So table sums up list of commods, sample name (that changes each game), max buy price, median price, min sell price:
Following these prices guidelines will get you solid results usually in Few millions. Rest is luck, as some events can suddenly triple your account, or turn it to zero.
(Remark - I've check also the distributions of prices vs the the originating planets and the stocks size so it really does not matter to which planet you are flying next, it does not matter for the the stock sizes or has no real impact on the prices - saddly).
Anyways, Each planet Entire market total value is max $1M - $1.5M so really hard to get your truck to be full of goodies get to value of $20M w/o any extra ordinary event.
When you suddenly after lucky event get in few $M in cash usually you can buy out entire planet one after another and then the game balance suffers horribly... the strategy then turns into buy all everywhere, don't sell anything, fly around and keep fingers crossed for next high price event to fire so you can sell commod for couple $K a piece, then buy all again and repeat.
I dislike that randomness to be honest. Anyways, had some fun on figuring this out... cheers!
Please make a downloadable copy of this game, as well as an endless version. Or at least a version where you can set the win conditions. I love how casual this game is, and how relaxing. Please expand on this. If you can, could you make it multiplatform? I'm running Linux.
I'm glad you enjoy the game and thanks for playing!
At this time, there is sadly no downloadable version planned. But there is still the Android version Space Trader - Apps on Google Play.
Managed to make it to 1.4 million first try, I feel like there may be a strategy to win beyond luck but would require more play throughs to find out.
Great remake/reboot of space trader
Brilliant game, addictive!
buy, sell, but never reach your goal! is it even possible? a super fun game, waiting for updates, hope it will keep being updated indefinitely!