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''[[Space Trader]]'' ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150228213520/http://ticc.uvt.nl/~pspronck/spacetrader/ Official Website]) is a freeware game for Palm OS devices. It is compatible with Palm OS 2.0 and higher.<ref>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.</ref>
The game is based off of the fairly-popular ''Elite'' and ''Solar Wars''.<ref>which, in turn, was based on ''Dope Wars''</ref>
▲''Space Trader'' ([http://ticc.uvt.nl/~pspronck/spacetrader/ Official Website]) is a freeware game for Palm OS devices. It is compatible with Palm OS 2.0 and higher<ref>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.</ref>. 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 [http://darknova.net/ ''Dark Nova'']).
▲The game is based off of the fairly-popular ''Elite'' and ''Solar Wars''<ref>which, in turn, was based on ''Dope Wars''</ref>. ''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, or walk the path of piracy and plunder less capable traders (or somewhere in between) while dealing with the police.
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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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* [[A Winner Is You]]: Your reward for claiming the moon is a nifty little picture before being ushered to the scoreboard.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The backstory of how the player's trading quest got started.
* [[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.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: Trading back and forth between two fairly quiet systems (low pirates and/or police), steadily gaining profits.
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* [[Continuing Is Painful]]: If your ship gets destroyed and you have an escape pod, you (and your crew members, but they get sent home) will survive, but all of your cargo is lost and you're stuck with the most basic of the ship models. If you don't have many credits left, you're practically screwed.
* [[Cool Starship]]: The more-expensive ship models boast impressive stats.
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* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: The player can earn an unbuyable weapon through one of the quests.
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: One possible way to set up the player character.
* [[Luck
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Particularly for newer players.
* [[Random Encounters]]: With traders, police, and pirates, mainly.
* [[Randomly Drops]]: On occasion, a destroyed pirate or trader ship may leave behind some cargo, which the player may pick up.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: You may encounter an abandoned ship during your travels. According to salvage law, you are free to take the cargo inside - including Narcotics, which can sell for a lot. {{spoiler|Trouble is, the whole thing is an elaborate trap for catching criminally-inclined traders -- if you take the narcotics out of the ship, the police will be waiting.}}
* [[Shout
* [[Timed Mission]]: The aforementioned "get to a specific system within X days" quests.
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