Starship Traders MMO

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SSTMMO (*re)Launches the first permanent realm cluster September, 2025

Starship Traders MMO "Maelstrom" realm cluster, based in New York, launches as a live permanent SST universe on the 27th of September, 2025.

(*)The previous launch had a sneaky server-crashing bug which took days to fix, halting all marketing. Mistakes were made, lessons were learned, yada, yada... But enough of the past; we'll be better prepared this time!

Steam: Starship Traders MMO Steam Page

Discord: Starship Traders MMO Discord

Discord notes:

Click the link above to join our discord server and receive a notification when we launch new, permanent realms. Since this game requires a certain minimum of players for a viable realm cluster, we will only launch the permanent realms when we have enough players to populate them. We intend to launch three universe. One will serve the Americas, a second will serve Europe, and the third will serve Asia. The American realms to be located in New York, the European realms in Frankfurt, and the Asian realms in Singapore.

A tiny intro to the Starship Traders MMO Universe

Starship Traders MMO plays like a cross between a modern MMO and a graphical version of a traditional Multi User Dungeon. Each location in the game is a 'sector'. You can only directly see the objects, players, and aliens within your current sector. This structure makes it possible to guard small areas--and sometimes large areas--by fortifying a single sector.

The Scenario

An exploratory intergalactic starship mission beamed back a tale of an unpopulated twin of Earth, prompting many would-be colonists to launch one-way trips to the new world. Unfortunately, all was not as it was presented... Now, as a stranded starship pilot, your first goal is to learn to survive in your new environment, first by scavenging the abandoned tradingposts, phishing for lost gear among the wormholes, hauling commodities between ports, and later by hunting aliens for cash and ship upgrades.

Players can create corporations or apply to join an existing one. Corpmates can share defensive resources and pool their power to monopolize a valuable star cluster. Wormholes to star clusters can sometimes be guarded to gain exclusive control of a slice of space.

The MMO requires a keyboard to play -- and is optimized for efficient play by typing. It has mouse support, but like many MMO's, typing is still faster than pointing and clicking.

Starhip Traders MMO (SSTMMO) is an original and unique game

  • truly one-of-a-kind, SSTMMO slowly evolved from the original Starship Traders online game
  • A true Sandbox; You can change, create, destroy, move, or guard almost anything.
  • unique gameplay slowly emerges as you learn the game
  • Large and small galaxies and star clusters to explore, with integrated autopilot for navigation
  • a minimalist GUI, optimized for keyboard play; if you can type, you'll quickly adapt
  • a resource-based combat system; since combat is not free you must choose your battles with a goal of benefiting from each fight
  • an elaborate set of features to discourage griefing
  • playable as an outlaw, if you're clever and willing to live on the edge
  • player housing is secure, shareable, moveable, and an integral part of the game
  • There is a creative character name generator (this can be useful even if you prefer a different MMO!)
  • a strategy game, a thinking game; not an action combat game
  • non-intrusive, excellent music from Purple Planet Music
  • completely free; Existing game accounts will remain free even if we go buy-to-play in the future. However, we will not add in-game cash transactions or charge for subscriptions. Currently, there isn't even a tip jar -- so there is literaly no way to spend money on or in this game

The downside of being a unique game is that it will be completely new to you and you definitely will not know how to play! Learning the basics will take a little time and practice. It has no pre-planned experience or 'boot camp'. There are hints and short tutorials on the core topics, but, at first, you'll feel like you've been thrown into an alien environment.


__Download Links__

Linux version (~105MB)
Windows version (~105MB)

__Software Instructions__

The clients are self-contained programs that require no installation.
To run the Linux version perform the following steps from a terminal window:


1) Uncompress the Linux PC program:
bunzip2 sstmmo.bz2

2) Make your program executable:
chmod +x sstmmo

3) Run your version: You can now use your GUI view to click on the program -- or you can run it directly from the terminal as in the examples below:
./sstmmo

(Note that you may see a few debugging messages upon exit when running from a terminal window. These messages refer to items used internal to the client and you can safely ignore them. The messages are only useful for developers.)


__sha256 file hashes__


Linux: Sat Jul 12 02:59:31 PM EDT 2025
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3b80c9f147ee42adece260b04ae6c8f02bbefbf31333dacaf788637e3e5aee53 sstmmo.bz2

Windows: Sat Jul 12 02:59:32 PM EDT 2025
31597f316ec25dced2325c86d4b83afc933e8b01e57f140c1a9ae1eaa317c044 sstmmo.exe
af81c7587ca3334ac041fbc86dfd1914cce6b28d2424c42fe8001588c8afee06 sstmmo.exe.zip