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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 (801) 944-8636 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"!