Markets

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


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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


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


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 - Selling

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 the menu button to access the stock market.

Map - Stock Market Search menu button


Clicking on the Stock Market Search map button brings up this interface:

Map - Stock Market Search interface


Click on the first Buy button, then select either Buy (colony buys from your cargo hold) or Sell (colony sells to you and places the item in your cargo hold).

Map - Stock Market Search interface - Buy and Sell


In this example, we choose to find a seller of iron within one sector range of my current location:

Stock Market Search - Searching for colonies selling iron within one sector


Since the universe is a big place, we can expand our search, so now the range is 999 sectors:

Stock Market Search - Searching for colonies selling iron within 999 sectors


When you select a location, the map automatically centers your attention to the star system with the colony. Raevin Industries is selling iron for an excellent price and the purple line attached to the star system Ultima indicates there is a player-constructed warp gate, so the colony is probably accessible without needing to use hyperjump. To access this location, you can click Jump and activate your hyperdrive, or close the map and use the warp gate system. If you plan to make multiple trips to this star system, clicking the Bookmark button will save this location in your Bookmarks list.

Stock Market Search - Selecting a colony


When you arrive in the desination star system, open up the Autopilot and look for the colony that has the iron; in this case, Raevin Industries (colony). Do not select the (starbase) since that will take you to the Outer Star Base and that location does not sell the goods you want to purchase.

Autopilot - Ultima star system


When you arrive, look down to the planet and follow the green Stock Market beam to the surface of the planet.

Colony with Stock Market beam


When you are close enough, an Open Stock Market button will appear on the middle-left side of your screen.

Colony with Stock Market beam - Access to Stock Market


Clicking the Open Stock Market button reveals the goods the colony has for sale (left side Buy buttons) and the goods the colony wants to purchase (right side Sell buttons). Similar format to the Local Market user interface, you can choose the maximum or a certain amount of a resource to buy/sell.

Colony Stock Market


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.


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


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