What is Reddit's opinion of Star Traders RPG Elite?

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Recommended if you like RPG strategy games, especially space themed ones!

Just a note that the developers on this do a good job of making fun, premium games, with no ads, no game play limiting stamina crap, and no money grabbing IAPs.

Frontiers doesn't have any IAPs and you can just play as much as you want. All of their other games have only ever had an IAP for something like an expansion or an optional one that you can instead unlock just by playing. So you don't have to worry about this game devolving into a cash grab.

The devs are also pretty good about updating their older games. For example, the original Star Traders game was released in 2010 and it is still getting occasional updates, including one this year.

Its actually a step up from their previous games.

Good enough for me to be honest

Here is an example:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.corytrese.games.startraderselite

It's so bad it's embarrassing to play in public. At least the newest one is passable

Star Traders used to be talked about a lot here in this sub. I'm pretty sure it has most if not all of what you wanted.

Thanks, Amazon. 😍😍😍😘😘😘

I got both the Star Traders RPG Elite ($1.99) and Star Traders 4X Empires Elite ($4.99) for free, thanks to Amazon App Store.

Thanks, Amazon. 😍😍😍😘😘😘

I got both the Star Traders RPG Elite ($1.99) and Star Traders 4X Empires Elite ($4.99) for free, thanks to Amazon App Store.

Nope and I've looked quite a bit. There is Star Trader that looks similar, but I just can't get passed the awful UI.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.corytrese.games.startraderselite&hl=en_US

Their previous space game is on sale of you're on a budget. Great fun as well : Star Traders Elite - £2.79 --->£0.89 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.corytrese.games.startraderselite

One of the earliest games I bought back when I had the HTC Hero was Star Traders RPG Elite. If you like this kind of game, I highly recommend it:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.corytrese.games.startraderselite

You might like Star Traders. You only manage one ship, though.

The game has different ways you can play and it's sort of setup that you challenge yourself however you want. I mean that there isn't a single campaign you play through. Instead you design a Captain or use one of the premades, then pick a style of ship and then go do whatever you want. If you want to trade, do that. If you want to be a pirate and hunt civilians, do that. If you want to work for one of the major houses as a military officer, do that. There's a bunch of different things you could do.

You can play as a trader or merchant, visiting places to learn about out about surpluses on one planet that you could flip for a profit on another planet with high demand. If you have too much material, you can create hidden supply caches on remote planets for you to collect later. Hopefully no one finds it first.

If you don't like combat, you can tailor your ship and Captain to be speedy and stealthy enough to escape pirates and hostile governments. Example, I played a few times as an explorer. I would search desolate places for destroyed alien tech and scavenge other things I could sell. I used a ship with high cargo capacity and then outfitted it with upgrades to avoid combat. The combat is turn based, so it's not a hassle if you wanted to attack something.

There are achievement like things you can do to unlock new ships and other content. The game is on sale right now for $1 USD. It's a premium game with no ads and the only IAPs unlock the same things you earn by doing the achievement like stuff from playing the game. There is also a completely free version that plays on a much smaller space map, if you wanted to see what the game is like.

You might like Star Traders. You only manage one ship, though.

The game has different ways you can play and it's sort of setup that you challenge yourself however you want. I mean that there isn't a single campaign you play through. Instead you design a Captain or use one of the premades, then pick a style of ship and then go do whatever you want. If you want to trade, do that. If you want to be a pirate and hunt civilians, do that. If you want to work for one of the major houses as a military officer, do that. There's a bunch of different things you could do.

You can play as a trader or merchant, visiting places to learn about out about surpluses on one planet that you could flip for a profit on another planet with high demand. If you have too much material, you can create hidden supply caches on remote planets for you to collect later. Hopefully no one finds it first.

If you don't like combat, you can tailor your ship and Captain to be speedy and stealthy enough to escape pirates and hostile governments. Example, I played a few times as an explorer. I would search desolate places for destroyed alien tech and scavenge other things I could sell. I used a ship with high cargo capacity and then outfitted it with upgrades to avoid combat. The combat is turn based, so it's not a hassle if you wanted to attack something.

There are achievement like things you can do to unlock new ships and other content. The game is on sale right now for $1 USD. It's a premium game with no ads and the only IAPs unlock the same things you earn by doing the achievement like stuff from playing the game. There is also a completely free version that plays on a much smaller space map, if you wanted to see what the game is like.

Edit: they also made Age of Pirates, which is probably more in the time period you want. But I haven't played it, so I can't really tell you about it. These devs do make good games though and I own a few of their other titles. Also has a free demo.

Star Traders. Type of game where you mostly set your own goals and can kind of do whatever. There isn't really a set story. The combat is turn based.

If you want to be a merchant and avoid combat by running away in a fast ship, you can do that. If you'd rather be a pirate and attack civilians, you can do that. Or maybe you want to be a military officer, side with a great house, and attack their enemies. I enjoyed playing as an explorer and gathering alien artifacts to sell.

Replay is multiple job paths, difficulties, and achievements. There's achievements to unlock things like new ships. If you really don't want to get the unlocks by just playing, there is completely optional IAPs to unlock stuff instead.

Otherwise, no IAP, no ads, no timers, or very anything else to limit game play. There's also a free demo gives you a much smaller star map to explore and has an IAP to unlock full version.

They made a sequel, Star Traders Frontiers, that's currently on PC and will be coming to mobile in the future.

Finally, I haven't played it, but they also made Age of Pirates and there's a free demo.

Star Traders Elite, hands down.

Star Traders RPG (use the free version to check if it works) from the Trese Brothers, will work on pretty much anything. I recall buying a low-spec (i.e., low-spec at the time) Android tablet back in 2011. Star Traders was the only game that actually worked.

The company that manufactured the tablet only intended it to be used with the built-in e-reader app. I had to jail-break it before I was even able to install the play store app, and pretty much nothing worked.

Epic War TD 2 (use the free version to check if it works) looks like the sort of game that requires a decent device, but the system requirements are shockingly low. One of my favorite TD games, though it requires significantly more planning than most TD games.

Star Trader Elite is very similar, combat is semi turn based though.

The Battlevoid series has the combat, Harbinger is up to 3 ships doing FTL style adventures, and Sector Seige has light RTS flavor

PC there's a lot more, Rebel Galaxy (doesn't have the empire building), Endless Sky (free), Zero Falls (my current addiction, amazing destruction physics and the out of ship parts are fun too) Starsector, Reassembly (build your own ships), SPAZ

Star Traders is a space themed RPG, with turn based combat. You play as a ship captain and as you level up you can improve different stats like piloting, negotiating, ship weapons operations, ship boarding combat, etc. This is mostly a text based game.

The game is heavy on resource management, but there are multiple ways to get resources. You can be a pirate and raid civilian ships, be a spy and gather intelligence to sell, be an explorer and search planets for alien artifacts, be a trader and get info from bars on surpluses and shortages to exploit, or a bunch of other stuff in whatever combination you want.

There is a a variety of ship types and ship upgrades. Different factions that you can work for or fight against. Multiple difficulty settings and a bunch of things you can unlock on different difficulties.

There is a free version that lets you try out a small portion of the game, if you wanted to check it out. Full version is premium, no Ads, no IAP.

Out There is a space themed roguelike, exploration, and resource management game that the creators refer to as interactive fiction.

Every time you play you get a randomly generated galaxy to explore. You find planets you can mine, gas giants you can skim fuel from, different ship upgrades you can use, and occasionally entirely new ships. There is an alien language your character starts to learn through encounters.

This is basically a turn based game in that you can take as long as you want to decide what to do.

It is roguelike in that when you die, you lose everything and start over to a new galaxy.

Premium game, no ads, no IAP.

Battlevoid: Harbinger is a space themed, top down combat oriented, real time strategy game.

You start out with a small ship where you can choose different weapons, add-ons, attack shuttle launchers, etc. As you get resources, you can have a small fleet of three ships, plus tons of attack shuttles. There's a system map of planets where you pick where to warp to next. If you warp to a friendly station you can repair, buy weapons, maybe get a mission. If you warp into enemies you can fight them.

The combat is you telling your ship, or ships, where to move and on which enemy ship you want to focus your firepower. Your ship gunners will automatically fire if there is anything within site or range. The battles can get pretty hectic being real time with your three ships and all your attack shuttles versus multiple enemy ships, enemy shuttles, and enemy station defenses.

As you defeat enemy ships, you find weapons you can use. and resources. You use the resources to buy more ships, more weapons, and upgrade your ship's systems.

If you die, you get some experience that unlocks new ship types you can start as.

Premium game, no ads, no IAP.

Close on that last one, but not quite.

Star Traders RPG Elite, paid, rating of 4.7/5