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You can always buy back your order since there is no cancellation feature. Just use the Galactic Market, find your order, and purchase your order back.
 
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The easiest method to learn the basics of the Galactic Market: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcEdpOVp-r0 Waervyn's Galactic Market Video - Buying]
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=== Galactic Market Notes ===
 
=== Galactic Market Notes ===

Revision as of 01:56, 14 March 2015

PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION BY IdeoPraxist - March 11-13, 2015

Ascent:TSG has many types of markets to exchange goods between players and NPC's.


Contents

Local Market

The local market is a station-based NPC market to buy and sell minerals. Each station in the inner-8 systems sells one type of product which corresponds to the resources produced by the settlement of that system. Each NPC station will purchase other inner-8 resources for at least a minimum price, in most cases, for a profit to the seller. Here is a list of the resources sold corresponding to the station name and system:

Resource
System
Station
Minimum Price (credits)
Grain
Ceres
SS Andromeda
100
Iron
Vulcan
SS Archimedes
200
Meat
Apollo
SS Plato
300
Vegetables
Ubertas
SS Orion
150
Fruit
Pomona
SS Archon
150
Titanium
Veritas
SS Elysium
900
Aluminium
Vestra
SS Mica
400
Carbon
Sol Invictus
SS Solaris
1,100

The picture below shows a standard Local Market at the SS Elysium Space Station in Veritas:

Local Market - Veritas NPC Space Station


Prices change every 15 minutes except at the bottom of the hour (the 00:30 mark). When you sell goods, you receive a percentage of bonus credits from your current Trading Skill level. As you sell more goods, your Trading Skill increases, and you receive a higher percentage of bonus credits. When you reach a new level, a message will appear showing your improved Trading Skill level along with the amount of bonus credits you received for the current trade.

Each time you sell metal goods to an NPC space station, their Industry level increases, and they produce more goods per day. Each time you sell food goods to an NPC space station, their Starvation level decreases which also affects production.

Galactic Market

The Galactic Market allows players to buy and sell resources (Material), ship modules (Ship Parts), and Ships with other players. The Galactic Market at a Private Space Station (PSS) (also known as the Inner Space Station (ISS)) only allows players to buy and sell ship modules (Ship Parts) and Ships with other players.

Galactic market - item types


To find items, the player needs to know the item they are looking for and enter the search parameters in the Items box. For further precision, the player can enter the minimum quantity or the minimum price after the greater-than sign (>) in the specific boxes. Click on the Search button to activate your search parameters.

Galactic market. Searching for over 400 units of carbon.


Selecting from the list will show you the details of an offer. You can only buy the entire offer or not at all.

Galactic market. Reviewing a carbon offer.


When searching for a Ship Module, search with a class level and the item name. In the example below, the search is for class 3 mining beam (the input box is very small):

Galactic market. Ship module search for Class 3 mining beam.


When searching for a Ship, you will need to know the ship name (see Space Ships).

Galactic market. Ship search for Mammoth.


When you click on a ship offer, the details of the modules equipped are listed. If there is a red warning in the list, the ship is equipped incorrectly and cannot be flown in space. The ship in the example below is fully equipped:

Space Station - Galactic Market - Mammoth details


A pop-up box will appear showing you the details of the purchase.

Galactic market - purchased Mammoth - pop-up box with purchase details


If a player purchases an item from a seller's PSS, a new destination appears in Apollo's Autopilot (see image below).

Seller's Starbase in Apollo System


Place a Sell Order

At any location that has a Galactic Market, there is also a Place Sell Order menu button. This allows players to sell items from the station Item Hangar (resources), modules stored at the station (ship modules), or from the Hangar (ships).

Station Menu - Galactic Market and Place Sell Order


The menu system is very similar to the Galactic Market interface with an Item Type menu button.

Place sell order - item type


When you choose an Item Type, click the Select button and a list of items you own in that category will become available. In the image below, Ship was selected from Item Type and the contents of the hangar at the Veritas station is displayed as a menu:

Place sell order - Item Type Ship - Select menu


To sell on the open market, leave the Specify Buyer area empty. In the image below, we want to sell the Mammoth to the player IdeoPraxist:

Place sell order - Mammoth for sale to specific player


When you click the Offer to Sell button, a confirmation box will appear. Clicking yes will initiate the transaction.

Place sell order - Confirm sale of Mammoth


The order is placed on the market and 1,000 credits are deducted as an expense.

Place sell order - Mammoth now on sale


You can always buy back your order since there is no cancellation feature. Just use the Galactic Market, find your order, and purchase your order back.

The easiest method to learn the basics of the Galactic Market: Waervyn's Galactic Market Video - Buying


Galactic Market Notes

If you purchase an item from a PSS in Apollo, the Autopilot might not update to show the location of your purchase until you leave the system or relog.

Stock Market

The Stock Market allows player that own colonies to sell their resources from those locations. Clicking on the 'M' key brings up the map and menu button to access the stock market.


Waervyn shows how to use the stock market: Waervyn's Stock Market Video


From the map (M key) you will see a button that says “Stock market search” After clicking on this button, the search tool comes up.

The first button defaults to “buy” – searching under buy will show you what the stock markets want to buy and how much they will pay. Changing this to Sell, will list items the stock markets will sell to you, and how much they charge. After the “buy/sell” button there is a box listed under “ Range (Sectors). This limits how far away the system will look for stock markets when you conduct a search. If you set the value to a very large number, 1000 for example, your search will bring back listings for all stock markets that fit your search criteria. The rest of the options are pretty self-explanatory.

After finding the stock market you want to buy or sell to, click on the name. The map will then center on the system that the stock market is located in. You will need a ship with a hyperdrive and enough fuel to reach the system. If you have the requirements, just click the Jump button on the highlighted planet.

After Jumping to the system with a Stock Market, you will need to click the Auto pilot button, and warp to the colony that has the Stock Market.

Once you are in range, there will be a Green Skybeam from the Stock Market out into space.Follow this beam down to the Stock Market. Once in range, a button will appear to “open stockmarket”. Click the button, and a list of buy and sell options will come up.

You can buy or sell any amount, up to the amount listed. For example if a Stock Market is buying 1027 Tin, you can sell it any amount from 1-1027.

When you buy or sell to a Stock Market, the owner gets a message in the mail, telling then what was bought or sold, who it was from or to, and the amounts.

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