Software Vault: The Gold Collection/Software Vault - The Gold Collection (American Databankers) (1993).ISO/cdr36/twhelp56.zip/ANNOUNCE.TXT

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               Announcing Release 5.6 of Trade Wars Helper

     This latest version is TWHELP56.ZIP and can be downloaded from Monty's
     Place BBS on the first call by dialing [phone] and logging on as
     "Just Fun" with a password of "Software".  The file size is 140K and
     only 2400 bps capability is available at this time.  Please just log on,
     download and log off.

     Trade Wars Helper is a players terminal program that maintains an online
     database of sectors with their port, warp to, and other information.
     Several commands are available to utilize this information in addition
     to automating most of the repetitive processes.  Trade Wars Helper not
     only makes playing more enjoyable, it makes you much more effective.

     The main features of Trade Wars Helper are:

     Automated cross trading between paired ports, optionally using the
     psychic probe to maximize experience points.  You can even cross trade
     between nonadjacent sectors with or without the TransWarp Drive.  New
     with this release is the ability to "triple trade" and to involve the
     class 7 and 8 port in cross trading.  And for those who like the evil
     side of things, there is the automated sell/steal cycle which utilizes
     the psychic probe with increasing accuracy at each trade without any
     intervention on your part!

     Of course you must find the best ports to trade at or steal from so
     there is not only the ability to locate specific port types and paired
     ports, but also triple trading pairs (new), nonadjacent trading pairs
     (new), transwarp trading pairs (new) and other specialized combinations.

     You don't just trade or steal, you want to travel around and explore the
     TW universe, right?  Just enter the /u command to see the paths to the
     five closest unexplored sectors or, better yet, just enter /e and have
     TW Helper take you to the nearest unexplored sector!  Concerned about
     mines or other enemy forces?  No problem!  Just buy a long range scanner
     and tell TW Helper to density scan each sector before moving you into it
     (new).  TW Helper can even move from one unexplored sector to another,
     stopping only when your direct involvement is required (new)!  And it
     can optionally and automatically holoscan, deploy fighters and/or trade
     along the way (new)!

     Then there are the E-probe routines that can launch an E-probe to an
     unexplored sector not warped to by any other known sector, launch to an
     isolated sector (new), or launch so as to pass thru the maximum numbers
     of sectors not visited during the current session (new).  This, like
     many features in Trade Wars Helper, can be accomplished quickly and
     easily only with a terminal program accessing an online database.

     Other features include showing sectors with fighters closest to a dest-
     ination sector (new), locating enemy fighters, showing isolated sectors,
     automated colonizing of a planet, automated buying and conveying of
     product to a planet, automated purchasing of planetary shields (new),
     automated mine disruption (new), creating the TWVIEW and/or TWASSIST
     data files, merging anothers traders database (new), accessing a scroll
     back buffer and creating a capture file.  TW Helper also keeps track of
     busted ports, avoided sectors (new) and Major Space Lanes (new).

     If you haven't tried Trade Wars Helper before, now is the time to take a
     look at it.  And although it is quite easy to install and run, an option
     has been incorporated to display only an introductory set of commands to
     simplify the learning process.  Try it, and see for yourself that Trade
     Wars Helper is simply "the best player utility available"!