Market and Trade

Market and Trade

Goods change hands at trade hubs, through market offers or delivery contracts, and are moved by cargo armies.

Trade hubs

• A Trade Hub is a country fortification with a level. Each hub applies a tax on trades, set within the band allowed by its level.
• Trades settle on the spot: goods change hands in the hub's district, and you haul them with your own cargo armies.
• Hubs can be shown on the map; pirates prowl the sea lanes around them.

Market offers

• Pick a hub and a good (each good has a group and a volume in m³ per unit), then post a sell offer or a bid with a unit price and a duration from 1 day to 1 month.
• Selling escrows the goods; bidding escrows the coins. Filling a bid needs your goods at its hub.
• The hub tax is previewed on each offer, and a price history is available per good.

Delivery contracts

• A contract asks a hauler to carry goods from a source district to a destination district before an expiration, for a reward.
• Goods and reward are escrowed when the contract is issued; the hauler posts collateral and carries a sealed crate.
• Contracts can be filtered by issuer country, maximum distance and relation (ally, neutral, at war), and the path can be shown on the map.

Cargo and crates

• A sealed cargo crate shows its destination, expiry and volume. Drag it onto an army to load it; it is opened at delivery.
• The inventory window has four containers: district inventory, wallet, armies and crates. Drag between them to deposit, extract, load or unload.
• Credits traded is a ranking metric.

See also

• Resources
• Naval Cargo
• Plane Cargo