Yankee Trader 3.6 Earth patch

In my opinion, there exists two annoying features of this game that are open for abuse.

The first is to reset the game by using a script file to buy all 300 ports.  This is not terribly easy to do, but with a simple script macro and about an hour of free time it is very easy to purchase the 300 ports necessary to reset the game.

Since gameplay takes many days, up to several weeks to build up a substantial force, a complete reset of the game at too often of an interval can chase out players since it destroys all knowledge of the universe they have gathered and of course wipes out everything they have built up.

To fix this, simply run YT-CONFIG, option [L], and changed a number of ports required to 900 or to 1001 (which disables the feature)

In one 4 hour stretch I personally was able to purchase all 999 ports in the game.  If the player starts with no money this typically will take two to three days if they know what they're doing.

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The second annoying "bug" in the game is the ability to buy the port "Earth"

This gives people an incentive to create multiple accounts because any money spent at Earth by other players is recovered 100% by the player who owns earth.

For example:

Player 1: buys earth, earns 10 million credits, puts that 10 million credits on a planet

Player 2: earns another 10 million credits, withdraws the first player's 10 million credits, purchases 20 million credits of equipment at Earth

Player 1: logs in and recovers the spent 20 million spent, places it back on a planet

Player 2: logs in again, pulls 20 million off the planet and can spend another 20 million at Earth

... repeat ad nauseam ...



To fix this  problem, edit the YT.EXE file with a text editor, go to address 2436D, and change the hex value at that address from 94 to A0.

This changes the purchase price of Earth from 1,000,000 to 4,096,000,000 credits.

Since at best, a player can make at most 40 million credits in 500 turns, 4 billion credits is quite unachievable.

Alternatively you can overwrite the YT.EXE file from http://www.starflt.com/yt/YT-earthfix.zip

- Zharous