Getting Started

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Running and Registering

The Space Game is a web based game, using the Unity engine. You can travel through space on a variety of space craft, trading goods and building settlements to earn credits.

The Space Game website has a giant 'Play Now' button at the top: you can't miss it! You will be taken to the game page, where you must first install the Unity web player. After installation, you will need to read and accept the 'Terms of Use' after which you should see the main game menu:

• New Game
• Load Saved Game
• Register Saved Game
• Log In
• Set Quality

You must first create a 'New Game' before you can register a username and password. You will have a lame name like 'newuser1123' until you register, but all your progress will be saved. Click 'Register Saved Game' to go through the process of setting up a proper Username/Game Name, and associated Password.

If you want to play from a different computer, you can click the 'log in' button to access your save game. The server will automatically keep everything in synch: i.e. once you've logged in on your work computer and your home computer (for example), you only need to click 'Load Saved Game' each time you want to go in and play.

When you first start, a tutorial should appear: it is recommended you follow the tutorial to get an initial understanding of the game. It will also grant you some bonus credits and deeds to start a farm on one of the planets (and to get rid of the tutorial text!).

Controls

The Space Travel page contains information of how to get about in The Space Game. You can manually fly your ship, warp to far off locations, or jump to entire new star systems. An in game tutorial should appear when you first start, which will guide you through the activities available in game.

In Game Tutorial Story: Season One

In Season One, the player is asked by Susan Steele for vital aid in rebuilding her business empire and beginning to restore order to the human race. Early priorities are food, followed by the raw materials of industry. After helping Susan to re-start her operations, the player is given an opportunity to begin production systems of their own. Initially in raw materials, later in refining and heavy industry.

Season One is the turning point for humanity. Either the player will lift us from the encroaching Dark Age, or the great downfall will be upon us.

Tutorial / Mission Details

The tutorial should appear as soon as you start playing the game.

The First time you dock at SS Archimedes in Vulcan space, Susan Stelle requests you take her and her son to SS Andromeda in the Ceres System.

When you drop off Susan and her son, she gives you 1000 credits and 10 tons of grain with a request that you go sell it at SS Archimedes in Vulcan space to feed the starving people.

When you sell the first 10 tons of grain, you get a bonus 5000 credits and Susan asks you to get more grain to help the starving people on Vulcan, approx 60 tons is required

• Hint:- does not have to be grain, any food will fulfill the mission - meat from Apollo may get a better profit.

• Note:- you should be buying iron at SS Archimedes and selling it on the return trip, also checking contract board for package deliveries and passengers going your way, never warp empty

When the Food mission is complete, you get a bonus 5000 credits and Susan asks you to take her to SS Plato in Apollo space

When you take Susan to SS Plato in Apollo space, you get a bonus 5000 credits, she thanks you and gives you a package of 300 seeds to take to SS Orion in Ubertas space

When you deliver the seeds to SS Orion in Ubertas space, you get 5000 credits, and the next mission which is to collect mining robots from SS Archimedes in Vulcan space (so Susan says) and deliver 10 each to SS Plato in Apollo, SS Orion in Ubertas and SS Andromeda in Ceres (why the farming planets need mining robots only Susan knows)

• Note:-To get the mining robots you may need to travel to many space stations. You will find them for sale on the 'Contracts' board, but bare in mind contracts come and go: you may need to wait some time before mining robots are for sale on any of the space stations.

The 10 Mining robots dropped off at SS Plato will get you 5000 credits and Deeds to Ceres (this is the only way to get Ceres deeds)

The 10 Mining robots dropped off at SS Andromeda will get you 5000 credits and blueprints for the grain farm (this is the only way to get this blueprint)

The 10 Mining robots dropped off at SS Orion will get you 5000 credits and 3 farming robots (needed when building a farm) best to do last as it takes up 3 tons of your cargo space

• Note:- the 30 mining robots will cost more to buy than 15000 credits you receive, but the drop in credits is well worth it for the deeds, blueprint and robots.

Generally speaking, there is at least one space station selling some mining robots at any one time, plus the contracts refresh every 15 minutes or so if you're still having trouble. In the future, robots are often re-purposed for Honda propaganda. More and more mining robots are lost this way. Hang in there and you'll find one eventually. (Disclaimer: The Space Game is in no way affiliated with Honda or their freaky robots)

By this time in the game you should have more than 30,000 credits and should be looking in the shipyard to upgrade to a sparrow if you already haven't

When you go to Ceres next, Susan Steele requests you track down her daughter, last heard of working in a space station near Ubertus

In Ubertus space is SS Orion, where you find Susan's daughter, Jessica Steele. Jessica refuses to go home to Ceres to be on a farm and says she is going to Deep Six.

On return to Ceres to give Susan the bad news, she is devastated and asks you to go to Deep Six and convince her to return. Not knowing where Deep Six is, Susan says you will have to ask around.

When you next go to SS Orion in Ubertus space and check the contracts board, you will find someone selling information that leads to Deep Six. It will cost you 750.000 credits and what you get is co-ordinates to a space wreck at the Star system Jam-1.

You will need the Hyperdrive purchased from SS Plato at Apollo space to be able to jump to Jam-1, It is a class 1 Hyperdrive and can only drive a class 1 ship, either a Hornet or a Ladybird. When the Hyperdrive is fitted there is only 8 tons of space left for Hydrogen that the Hyperdrive uses for fuel.

Hyperdrive jump to Jam-1 from either Ceres or Vulcan and check your Autopilot for 'Wreckage Location'

After you scan and destroy the first wreckage piece, you will need to look at your mini-radar map in the top left corner to find the next piece in the distance.

You will need to search for pieces in 4 diff locations and scan/destroy them all for blueprint fragments, then the autopilot will show the next location... 'SS Deep Six'

When you get to SS Deep Six, there will be a 'contracts board' to open as per other space stations, first thing you will notice is a contract from Jessica Steele.

Jessica Steele asks you to deliver a note to her mother in Ceres and mentions she has some blueprints that you might be interested in.

The second thing you may notice on the Jam-1 contracts board is the high prices offered for goods, food and materials. Good profit for someone with a bigger Hyperdrive capable ship.

On delivering the note back to Susan Steele at Ceres, you get a message from Jessica thanking you and giving you the blueprints to the Hyperdrive.

Now What?

The tutorial should give you an entry in to the activities available. If you are still unsure what to do, this wiki is the best source of information. The main page of the wiki contains links to all the key activities available in the game. The game is primarily about trading, and building, to gain wealth. As you progress and gain more credits, you will gain more trading and building opportunities. Trading consists of Buying & Selling or accepting certain contracts. Settlements can be built on two planets (or all eight planets for a small fee).

Building a settlement takes quite a bit of resources and probably should not be attempted untill you have built up your reserves. It is recomended that you pursue trading, gas mining and asteroid mining to buid up to at least the 40 ton or 80 ton ship before you get serious about starting the grain farm on ceres. You can have a single grain farm producing on its own without any support buildings, but production will be limited. At least that will have some credits comming in from sales.

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