Starflight Resource Pages

68, 66

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Trade Center

56,144

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49S X 25E

230,26

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Trade Center

234,20

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Trade Center

129,33

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Trade Center

238,189

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Trade Center

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Humna Humna Friendly Encounters

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Humna Humna Friendly Encounters

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Humna Humna Friendly Encounters

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Humna Humna Friendly Encounters

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Humna Humna Friendly Encounters

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Humna Humna Friendly Encounters

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G'Nunk Hostile Encounters

215,86

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Trade Center

192,152

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(PAST) 26S X 135E

125,100

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(STARPORT)

150,148

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Trade Center

86,55

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2N X 107W

125,100

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(STARPORT)

165,86

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(PAST) 0 X 0

CERTAINLY YOU MUST NO DOUBT BE AWARE THAT TRADE INFORMATION CONCERNING
TRADE IS CERTAINLY SACRED AND, BY THE WAY, CONFIDENTIAL AT THIS TIME.

129,33

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*Nutritional Vines, Heavy Water

217,88

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*Jet Packs, Fusion Lasers

238,189

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68,66

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215,88

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215,86

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215,86

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86,55

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145,107

5

118,146

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112,200

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150,148

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132,165

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143,115

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118,146

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180,122

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148,63

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217,88

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98,80

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129,33

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129,33

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180,120

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180,122

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3D Television

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31S X 39W

81,98

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28 N X 45 E

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orbit

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n/a

192,152

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26S X 135E

56,144

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49S X 25E

175,94

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orbit

164,85

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RANDOM

164,84

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RANDOM

165,84

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RANDOM

55,32

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40N X 62W

164,85

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RANDOM

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orbit

55,32

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56,124

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* 18,50

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orbit

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123,101

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123,101

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TIPS

• You can win the game by either killing the UHL protected by Uhlek or the UHL protected by Umanu.  The Umanu somehow miraculously appear at both locations for the endgame. To get to the past after getting the UHL Weapon, simply jettison it or sell it.  You still will be able to use it in the final battle. 

• Use a Slowdown utility like Dosbox (Ctrl-F11/F12) or CPUGrab to slow down your computer to at least 90-95% to communicate with aliens.  If you are already in an encounter, save and exit, load the slowdown utility, and then load the game back up.  If they do not respond, then your game isn't slow enough yet.  "Slow speed" is useful for combat, communications, and for traveling across solar systems.  For all other areas of the game, you can turn the speed back up to full.

• Easiest battle tactic is to stay far outside of a enemy group, circle it dodging all incoming missiles, and shoot into the group.

• Always keep some money available for buying specialty goods

• Fully Train a Human char in ALL areas for exchange with a Dweenle when offered - then you can train the Dweenle to 250 in all skills much cheaper.

• Keep about 10 CU of Lifelong on board, and sell 0.1 units every time you are at a Humna Humna trading center - starts you off with better bartering prices and allows the purchase of several artifacts.

• When searching for trade centers, always land in lower flat areas, not mountainous regions. Not only are cities more common, but the terrain is easier for your terrain vehicle to navigate through.

• Drop off the G'Nunk crew member off at Starport (by removing all of his/her duties) if you ever want to communicate with other races in Friendly or Obsequious terms.

• The UHL's area of influence is removed in this patch.

• If you want to get quick encounters to continually question a race, go to a planet in a system where the race has ships patroling, go to any planet, and go in on direction, for example, "north" instead of orbiting. Once you meet them in an encounter, fly south, hit the planet, hit north to abort the orbit, and you'll immediately run into them again.. Or you could just use the system scanner and fly on top of a scanned location.
• Once you have had enough communication with the G'nunk, you will receive an offer to "become G'nunk" by exchanging crewmembers and obtaining a shield nullifier unit (F8).  This unit will use 15 units of cobalt per use, even though it says it requires 20 units.  If you have less then 20 units but greater then 15 units, it will NOT let you use the device.  All enemy shields are lowered for 10 seconds of REAL time, not game time.

• The Humna Humna sell trademaps to those who they are friendly to (psychic probe glows green).  To get them into a friendly state:

1. Talk to them before you obtain the UHL weapon + Leghk technology
2. Keep your shields down and weapons disarmed.
3. Give them whatever shyneum they ask for.
4. Make friendly statements and give pauses in your conversation, so they can ask for more shyneum
5. They will move from an "always neutral" state, to a "neutral then friendly" state, then to an "always friendly" state where they will no longer ask you for shyneum, offer to sell you trade maps, answer more of your questions, and will let your conversations run longer.

• There's a bug that lets you enter a system in a nova as a "non-nova" system. The trick is to leave the system at a "northwest" angle, so you are extremely "close" to the star on the hyperspace map, push the down arrow seven times or so, which should leave you at the lower left corner of the star, then go "Northeast" to re-enter the system. Any time you seem to "go too far into" a system before you actually enter it, this bug occurs. This also works if you meet an enemy fleet immediately after coming out of a "nova-bugged" system, you'll be considered outside of a nova as well
• Jump Pod efficiency is determined by how many stars are close to your destination.   If you target an area directly next to 3 stars (ie: an empty space in the Topaz cluster) you can reach 95% efficiency.  Do NOT actually target the star itself, or your % chance of getting a successful jump will drop to 0%.

Temperature

Gravity

Atmosphere

Water

Weather

Bio/Min

Red

M (coolest)

Red

Molten

Orange

K

Brown

Rock

Yellow

G

Blue

Ocean

White

F

White

Frozen

Green

A

Violet

Gas Giant

Light Blue

B

Dark Blue

O (hottest)

All completely visible on the map

CERTAINLY YOU MUST NO DOUBT BE AWARE THAT TRADE INFORMATION CONCERNING TRADE IS CERTAINLY SACRED AND, BY THE WAY, CONFIDENTIAL AT THIS TIME.

Possible Trade Values

When buying or selling a trade good, look at this chart to determine how far you can possibly haggle a price.  As seen above, the condition of a planet's economy has absolutely no bearing on the price of specialty goods.  To use this table, and if you are buying Amusoballs, the best possible price you can reach is 50% of 1000, or 500.  When selling specialty goods, the best possible price would be 200% or 2000.

Selling a desired specialty good will affect the starting offer for that particular good, but does not seem to modify the final price the alien is willing to sell it for.

Damage Measurements

Damage in the game is recorded by "Class".  When scanning alien ships, one ship with "Class 5 Shields" may have quite a different level of protection as another ship.  This is because alien ship armor is not measurable by sensors, and "Class 5 shielding" is an approximation.  One ship may have slightly more or less shield strengths, but just happen to be close enough to still fall into the same category.

Alien shielding absorbs exactly 350 damage per class.

Alien Shields: (350 damage per class)
"None Apparent" = 0 points
Class 1: 1-699 points
Class 2: 700-1049 points
Class 3: 1050-1399 points
Class 4: 1400-1749 points
Class 5: 1750-2099 points
..etc..

Alien shields do NOT regenerate. 

Interstel Shields (500 damage per class)
Class 7: 3500 / 70 pixels (top 20 pixels are invisible)
Class 5: 2500 / 50 pixels
Class 4: 2000 / 40 pixels
Class 3: 1500 / 30 pixels
Class 2: 1000 / 20 pixels
Class 1: 500 / 10 pixels

Shield Regeneration: 2.5 pixels/sec using the default DosBox 0.63 settings

Interstel Armor (250 damage per class)
Class 5: 1500 / 50 pixels (30)
Class 4: 1250 / 40 pixels (24)
Class 3: 1000 / 32 pixels (19)
Class 2: 750 / 24 pixels (14)
Class 1: 500 / 16 pixels (9)
None (base hull): 240 / 8 pixels
None (damaged hull): 0

Armor absorbs exactly 60% of the damage of your shields. All damage ratings listed below are in shield damage. Take the shield damage and divide by .6 to get the resulting armor damage (and round up). You can also assume that your full class 5 armor is worth in value to "30 pixel, class 3 shields" and convert the numbers appropriately.

Missile vs. Shields/Armor
Class 1: 200 / 6/10 pixels (Spemin Warship)
Class 2: 400 / 8/14 pixels (Tandelou Scout/Transport)
Class 3: 700 / 16/27 pixels (Tandelou Warship or Ng-Kher-Arla Scout)
Class 4: 1000 / 20/34 pixels (GNunk Scout, Humna)
Class 5: 2800 / 56/93 pixels (Ng-Kher-Arla Warship, and Umanu around Shyneum planet)
Class 6 (Plasma Bolts): 4000 / 80/133 pixels (Spemin/Uhlek)
Class 7: 500
Class 8: 600
Class 9: 700 / 16/27 pixels (Umanu not around Shyneum planet)
Class 10: 2000 / 42/70 pixels (GNunk Warship) - bright pink missiles
Class 11: 900
Class 12: 1000

50 damage = 1 shield pixel damage
30 damage = 1 armor pixel damage

Laser damage vs. Shields/Armor
Primary damage measured at range 5.5, or exactly 50% strength of point-blank range
* Pixel damage is based on actual empirical testing, measured at point blank range, not at range 5.5, which is exactly 2X of the actual damage table.

Class 1: 90 / 4/6 pixels dmg
Class 2: 210 / 8/14 pixels dmg (Spemin Scout & Warship, Tandelou Transport)
Class 3: 360 / 14/24 pixels dmg (Tandelou Scout, Ng/Kler/Arla Scout)
Class 4: 510 / 20/34 pixels dmg (G'Nunk Scout & Warship, Tandelou Warship, Ng/Kler/Arla Warship)
Class 5: 6000 / 240/400 pixels dmg
Class 6: 700 / 28/46 pixels dmg
Class 7: 700 / 28/46 pixels dmg (Human Humna Scout)
Class 8: 700 / 28/46 pixels dmg
Class 9: 700 / 28/46 pixels dmg
Class 10: 1000 / 40/68 pixels dmg (Gorzek, Leghk Guardian)
Class 11: 1100 / 44/74 pixels dmg
Class 12: 1200 / 48/80 pixels dmg (Humna Humna Transport)