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Command your officers and crew from the bridge of your star ship to travel, trade, and battle across the immense Star Traders Quadrant. Employ a wide variety of strategies as an Assassin, Bounty Hunter, Trader, Pirate or Smuggler. Can you manage your resources, crew and officers well enough to turn a profit in the complex economy that’s sprawling across the on-going interstellar conflict?
This epic space pirate RPG offers a deep and challenging world and economy to Star Trading captains. You must navigate the waters of Quadrant politics and choose sides among the constantly conflicting Factions, or take the risk to stay independent. Enjoy endless replay value in this deep space civ and trading simulation which allows you to take any path you want as a captain. Act as a pirate against the merchants using the great shipping lanes, join the Solar War as a military captain, or hunt targets across the Quadrant as a fearsome bounty hunter!
Star Traders is a turn-based strategy role playing game (RPG) inspired by games such as Space Trader, Master of Orion, Elite and many other classic titles. If you enjoy retro games, adventure and tactics games, Action RPG or Sci-fi RPG with complex depth like Master of Orion, you may enjoy the Star Traders space trading simulation.
Our development team is actively continuing development and updates of this indie RPG based on your feedback and is regularly updated with new content, features, and fixes. Please email us with suggestions or bugs!
As a Star Trading captain in this strategy RPG you will:
- Explore more than 300 planets
- Trade in and manipulate the complex and deep economy in our economic simulator
- Buy, sell, and battle over 600 unique starcraft
- Customize and design your space craft with more than 60 upgrades
- Fully customize your captain (picking from 6 classes), officers and space ships
- Read over the comments to see Star Traders is rated as one of the best RPGs by many players
Experience the Elite upgrade: the epic new content includes 2,000 new sectors, 200 additional planets, and hundreds of additional ships, more rumors, art board, and officers. And you can copy any captain from Star Traders (free) to Elite!
Your command of the ship is under constant threat, both internal and external. Can you manage your resources, crew, officers well to enough to turn a profit?
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v6.2.3 - 2/5/2019
- 'Star Traders: Frontiers' available on Android!
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tresebrothers.games.startraders2
- New Ship: Myrmidon Cruiser
- New Ship: Fallen Carrier
- Rebalanced Defeat: Prison with more Turns, Rep recovery mechanic
- Fixed Lion Freighter Cargo Hold Size
- Rebalanced Turns consumed by Patrol Ops
- Improved Rumor rules for enemy cargo
Thanks for playing Star Traders RPG!
For support, e-mail cory@tresebrothers.com
v6.1.49 - 9/5/2018
- Improved support for new devices and high DPI screens
- Successful Wilderness Repair now grants Morale
- New Ships: Palace Lifter, Xolar Heavylift
- Improved Ship's Doctor bonuses
- Slightly increased turns consumed by Explorer and Harvest Ops
- Slightly reduced turns consumed by Wilderness Repair
- Upgrades to Android-26, Java 1.8 and new Google APIs
Thanks for playing Star Traders RPG!
For support, e-mail cory@tresebrothers.com
v6.1.47 - 4/26/2018
- Official TB Discord: http://discord.gg/tresebrothers
- New Bounty Hunters: Myridian Class, Savage Class
- Increased Rep loss for failed Contracts
- Increased Officer 'Shipwright' Upgrade Discount by 20%
- Increased Turns used by Ship Upgrades in low rating Zones
- Increased Doctor cost when Health is very low
- Treasure Hunters more likely to steal Cargo Caches
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v6.1.45 - 3/28/2018
- Join our Discord: http://discord.gg/xTQPfZv
- New Military Ships: Broadsword Cruiser, Cautela Cruiser
- Increased priority of Vudka being generated in Harvest
- Boosted Tradesman and Exo-Vet Harvesting Bonuses
- Updated wilderness Richness refreshing for high Gather / low Explorer zones
- Increased Rep penalties for failed missions
- Slightly increased chance of Treasure Hunters stealing Cargo Stashes
Thanks for playing Star Traders RPG!For support, e-mail cory@tresebrothers.comv6.1.43 - 3/5/2018- New Pirate Ships: Pirate Spike, Pirate Drastica- Rebalanced Disgraced Defeat chance to wound Captain- Buffed Bodyguard wound avoidance ability in Disgraced- Added new Morale reset for mutiny payments greater than $50K- Buffed Crew Boss Officer Mutiny wound avoidance- Increased Rep Loss when Rank is stripped from Combat- Reduced Rep Loss when Rank is stripped from Alliance
v6.1.41 - 1/16/2018- New Smuggler Ships: Mercury Jammer, Mars Cutter- Rebalanced Credits paid by early game Missions on low difficulty- Fixed missing enforcement of max Trade Rep Loss rule (-128)- Smuggler Trade Record (Embargo) Ability now triggers > $1000- Merchant Trade Record (Taxes) Ability now triggers > $1000- Increased Reputation Gain for Merchants/Smugglers/Explorers ending Shortages by 20%- Tradesman Officer has 50% chance to grant double Reputation at home Faction
Thanks for playing THE Star Traders RPG!For support, e-mail cory@tresebrothers.comv6.1.39 - 11/28/2017- New Ship Artwork: Osprey Carrier- New Merchant Ships: Paladin Heavylift, Osprey Heavylift- Fixed Wolf Cutter for some devices- New XP Bonus: Blockade, Spy and Delivery Missions- New Political Officer Bonus: XP Bonus when detecting Contract Faction- Rebalacing Pirate Morale gain on Missions vs. Indy- Fixed reported bugs related Android 8.0- Star Traders 2 is on PC!
Thanks for playing THE Star Traders RPG!For support, e-mail cory@tresebrothers.comv6.1.37 - 11/16/2017- Star Traders: Frontiers now on Steam (https://goo.gl/cVoqNM)- ST2 coming to Android Q1 2018- ST RPG Updates will now resume :)- New Ship Artwork: Wolf Cutter- New Ship: Wolfhammer Class, Dire Wolf Cruiser- Made "Alien Flagship" Award easier- Pirate AI now smarter about Boarding bonuses- Tweaks to difficulty of Birthright Award- Balanced turns used early game Missions
Thanks for playing THE Star Traders RPG!For support, e-mail cory@tresebrothers.comv6.1.35 - 8/28/2017- New Ships: Royale Cruiser, Battle Strikecruiser- New Xeno: Jyeeta Hive (100+ HUll)- Made "Alien Flagship" Award Easier to get- Fixed "Aspiring Trader" Unlock Text- Fixed "Indigetes Ferrum" Ship Unlock- Improved Hydra Templar Officer- Enemy Pirate AI Smarter on Crazy+- Fixed Reported Crashes and Typos
Thanks for playing THE Star Traders RPG!For support, e-mail cory@tresebrothers.comv6.1.33 - 6/20/2017- New Ships: Pirate Desolator, Pirate Zelios- Increased Cargo Contract Deadlines- Buffed Kragg Xeno Captains- Fixed Covenant Interceptor- Difficulty Balanced Templar Officer Xeno Bonus- Fixed Reported Crashes and Typos- Other News: Star Traders 2 Alpha Enters Final Phase!v6.1.31 - 6/13/2017- New Ships: Mercy Cutter, Star Hawk- New Log Entries: Officer Recruit
Thanks for playing THE Star Traders RPG!For support, e-mail cory@tresebrothers.comv6.1.29 - 4/12/2017- New Ships: Avalon Hauler, Aylon Lifter- Improved Captain's Log Entries- Pirate AI Improved Ram/Boarding Strategy- Updated Military Base Contract Generator- Other News: Star Traders 2 Alpha Enters Phase 2v6.1.27 - 3/1/2017- New Ship: Quelling Cruiser, Covenant Interceptor- Improved Birthright and Celebration Awards- Improved Bounty Hunter AI Torp Use
