Black Market Question

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So after reading the manual and playing around with the game a little bit, I still haven't figured out part of the Black Market Screen. The part in question are the two options in the bottom left and right corners. This has something to do with me putting up excess amounts of metal and crystal, and setting some sort of price for them.

Can anyone explain to me how this works exactly? Are my resources spent immediately, and then put into a reserve? What effect does setting the price have on the market? Is this an effective way of making the prices of the trade goods what I want them to be for other players? (i.e. destroy the market) Do my resources eventually sell to another player, and I get the money?

Anyway, I'm hoping someone knows the answer, it looks like an interesting part of the game.


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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Can anyone explain to me how this works exactly? Are my resources spent immediately, and then put into a reserve? What effect does setting the price have on the market? Is this an effective way of making the prices of the trade goods what I want them to be for other players? (i.e. destroy the market) Do my resources eventually sell to another player, and I get the money?
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It's fairly simple - you put them up like you would list something for sale, but before you get money out of it someone has to click the "buy" button. Only you can see what you put up, all the other players (AIs use these too) just see prices for ore and crystal.

You can adjust the price when you list so that's what the players will see, and when they buy it you get your money :) If you change your mind, you can always right click to get the resources back - they're only truly lost to you when they're sold.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Basically, if you put your excess crystal/metal up, and I go to buy crystal / metal, instead of the resources flowing to / from the black market, my money goes to you and your crystal / metal comes to me. You get a better price than for selling directly to the black market... and I get a higher / lower price than normal (depending on if you jacked up your sell price or dropped it to under-bid someone).