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The '''Market''' lets you buy and sell resources for [[Resources#Gold|Gold]]. It is opened from your [[Trading Hub]]. Prices depend on the map's biome and move as you trade.

== Using the market ==
* Select one of your '''finished''' [[Trading Hub]]s and press '''Open Marketplace'''. The market opens in its own window.
* You can trade only at your own Trading Hub, and only once it is finished.
* '''Gold is the currency.''' You buy a resource with Gold and sell a resource for Gold.
* The tradable resources are '''Wood, Stone, Food, Leather and Fibre'''. Gold itself is not bought or sold.
* Trades are made in '''lots of 100''' of the resource. One order can be for 1 to 10 lots.
* The window has buttons to trade one lot or several at once. A button you cannot afford is greyed out, and its tooltip says why.
* An order either goes through in full or not at all. A purchase is refused if you do not have the Gold; a sale is refused if you do not have the resource.

== How prices work ==
Each resource has a '''base price''' per lot, set for each biome (see the table below). The price you actually pay is the base price times a '''price multiplier''', which starts at 1.

* '''Buying''' a lot costs the base price × the multiplier (rounded up).
* '''Selling''' a lot pays 70% of that (the market keeps a 30% '''spread''', rounded down).
* Every lot you '''buy''' raises that resource's multiplier by 4%. Every lot you '''sell''' lowers it by 4%.
* A large order is priced lot by lot, so the price climbs (or falls) within the order.
* The multiplier never goes below '''0.5''' or above '''3.0'''.
* Over time the multiplier '''drifts back toward 1''': each minute it closes 15% of the remaining gap, so about half of any change wears off in 4.6 minutes.
* '''Prices are personal.''' Each player has their own multiplier for each resource. Your trades move only your prices, not your opponents'.

Because the spread (30%) is much larger than the price change per lot (4%), buying and then immediately selling always loses Gold. The market cannot be used to make Gold from nothing.

=== Worked example ===
On a Forest map, Wood has a base price of 50 Gold per lot.
* Buying 1 lot (100 Wood) costs '''50 Gold'''. Selling 1 lot pays '''35 Gold'''.
* After buying one lot, your Wood multiplier is 1.04. The next lot costs 52.
* Buying 5 lots in one order costs 50 + 52 + 55 + 57 + 59 = '''273 Gold'''.
* Selling 5 lots in one order pays 35 + 33 + 32 + 31 + 29 = '''160 Gold'''.
* At the highest multiplier (3.0) a lot of Wood costs 150 to buy and pays 105 to sell.

== Prices by biome ==
Base prices in Gold per lot of 100, at multiplier 1. ''Buy / Sell''. The rarer a resource is on a map, the dearer it is there. The Desert is designed with few trees beyond each start, so Wood there costs three times its Forest price: the market is meant to supply the Desert's Wood.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Biome !! Wood !! Stone !! Food !! Leather !! Fibre
|-
| Forest || 50 / 35 || 90 / 63 || 55 / 38 || 80 / 56 || 60 / 42
|-
| Snowy Forest || 50 / 35 || 85 / 59 || 80 / 56 || 70 / 49 || 90 / 63
|-
| Snowy Mountain || 70 / 49 || 60 / 42 || 90 / 63 || 70 / 49 || 100 / 70
|-
| Desert || 150 / 105 || 60 / 42 || 90 / 63 || 80 / 56 || 70 / 49
|-
| Ocean || 80 / 56 || 100 / 70 || 45 / 31 || 90 / 63 || 80 / 56
|-
| ''Default'' || 70 / 49 || 85 / 59 || 70 / 49 || 80 / 56 || 80 / 56
|}
''Default'' prices apply on any map type that has no row of its own. All rows share the same rules: lots of 100, a 30% spread, a 4% change per lot, 15% recovery per minute, and limits of 0.5 to 3.0.

The October 2026 demo build plays on the Forest map only.

These are starting values and may be tuned.

== Trade routes ==
The Trading Hub also trains [[Trade Cart]]s, which earn Gold by travelling to an '''ally's''' Trading Hub and back. See [[Trading Hub#Trade carts|Trading Hub]].

== Computer opponents ==
A computer player with little Gold (under 150) may sell its largest surplus resource at the market, a few lots at a time. It does not buy.

== See also ==
* [[Trading Hub]]
* [[Resources]]
* [[Gathering]]

[[Category:Economy]]
[[Category:Gameplay]]

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