Trading

getmoreatp · Post by **getmoreatp** » Mon May 26, 2008 1:05 am

Anyone can post a list of most/all of the cargo in Vega Strike, and where they should be bought and sold? Bought an AI Core a while ago at some research station, thinking it would be cheap...Turns out I seemed to be wrong

shadow_slicer · Post by **shadow_slicer** » Mon May 26, 2008 2:30 pm

You could try VSTrade.

getmoreatp · Post by **getmoreatp** » Mon May 26, 2008 7:37 pm

OK I run the program from the command line "java -jar vstrade.jar" and it basically says it can't find vstrade.settings.xml, master_part_list.csv, units.csv or milky_way.xml. Then it coughs up "Exception in thread-3 java.lang.illegalargumentexception: setselectedindex:0 out of bounds etc.

What do I do?

Do I have to have VSTrade in a specific place?

Post by **ace123** » Mon May 26, 2008 8:01 pm

units.csv is in the "units" folder where you installed vegastrike.
master_parts_list.csv in directly in the folder you installed vegastrike
milky_way.xml is in the universe folder.

It might find all of them if you run it from inside of the install directory... otherwise you might need to copy those three files into another directory.

I don't know where the vstrade.settings.xml is.... but it probably comes with defaults and creates that XML when you run the vstrade.

getmoreatp · Post by **getmoreatp** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:59 pm

OK, got it running. What file does it need in Settings, though? It says File Type: All Files yet doesn't show any...

peter · Post by **peter** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:48 am

getmoreatp wrote:OK, got it running. What file does it need in Settings, though? It says File Type: All Files yet doesn't show any...

Point it at the "data" directory. It knows where to find the files relative to that.

peter · Post by **peter** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:54 am

getmoreatp wrote:Anyone can post a list of most/all of the cargo in Vega Strike, and where they should be bought and sold? Bought an AI Core a while ago at some research station, thinking it would be cheap...Turns out I seemed to be wrong

Buy AI cores for ~10M, sell at ice planets for ~14M. Commerce centers have them cheap.

Buy autofacs (or other Industrial/construction, if you're not rich yet) from factories, trantor planets, and commerce centers (base price * 0.

. Sell at Frozen Ammonia planets (base price * 1.6).

Nothing else in the game compares to trading those items; once you can afford a couple AI cores you're pretty much done with other cargo unless you want to just because you can't leave a good trade untraded.

Mining gear is also a high profit density cargo, if you sell to the right places (mining bases, of course.)

When you're not rich yet, selling stuff to gas mines is very profitable. You can make 10x your money that way, or by buying some metals and selling on an oceanic planet.

getmoreatp · Post by **getmoreatp** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:29 am

I can't seem to find the data folder, where would it be after "C:\Program Files\Games\Vega Strike\Vegastrike-0.5.0"? (that folder has ".vegastrike-0.5.0," "history" "cockpit" "bases" "universe" "masterpartlist.csv" etc)

Thanks for the info Peter!

Post by **pyramid** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:33 am

In this case your ..\Vegastrike-0.5.0 folder is the data folder.

getmoreatp · Post by **getmoreatp** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:27 pm

OK, I put C:\Program Files\Games\Vega Strike\Vegastrike-0.5.0\ in the path, saved the settings and in the CMD prompt it says:

Exception in thread "Thread-6" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String Index out of range: -1
at java.lang.String.substring<unknown source>
at vstrade.data.bases.MasterPartListReader.processLine<masterpartlistreader.java;134>
and "java:109" and "java:69" "java:73" "java:48"

The fields are still untypeable. Any ideas?

peter · Post by **peter** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:08 pm

getmoreatp wrote:OK, I put C:\Program Files\Games\Vega Strike\Vegastrike-0.5.0\ in the path, saved the settings and in the CMD prompt it says:

Exception in thread "Thread-6" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String Index out of range: -1
at java.lang.String.substring<unknown source>
at vstrade.data.bases.MasterPartListReader.processLine<masterpartlistreader.java;134>
and "java:109" and "java:69" "java:73" "java:48"

The fields are still untypeable. Any ideas?

Are you using vstrade 0.2.0.0 with a very recent JVM (e.g. Sun Java 6.06)? I saw something like this with that combination. Get the latest alpha vstrade: 0.2.0.5alpha.

chipeater · Post by **chipeater** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:58 pm

hi i am new and i am just downloading the game so if anybody can tell me some super cool features and some controlls would be very nice

oh abd can u also tell me what starter ship u cud get

but anyway it sounds like a awsome game and i look forward to blowing things up

Post by **loki1950** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:28 pm

Welcome chipeater your starting ship is a Llama a small cargo ship with four light weapon mounts and four medium missile mounts nice little ship really but there lots of others that you can buy when you have built up your bank balance there is lots of upgrade space in the Llama so it becomes a much tougher ship

you can also hack your bank balance in your save file if you are impatient to get a boos ship

lots of threads on how to that

and if you have any problem or further questions just post

Have fun.

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