The bible seems to explain this fairly reasonably:
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**The next fields tell Nova what items and ships are available for purchase
at this stellar:
TechLevel - What the base tech level of the stellar is. Only items and ships with TechLevels at or below this value will be available.
SpecialTech (x8) - Holds the special tech levels of this stellar. Unlike the previous field, only items and ships with exactly this TechLevel will appear here. This is useful for making low-tech worlds that also have a few high-tech items, or for flagging an item with an absurdly high TechLevel (say 15000) and then setting one of the SpecialTech fields of a particular stellar to that same value, thus making that item appear at that stellar and nowhere else.
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Just look up the tech levels of existing ships and outfits so you can decide for yourself what values you want to use. Or you could think of an existing spob which has the same stuff available that you want on your own spob and use the same values it does.
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(This message has been edited by Guy (edited 07-21-2004).)