Markets
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
|
80
|
Iron
|
Vulcan
|
SS Archimedes
|
150
|
Meat
|
Apollo
|
SS Plato
|
300
|
Vegetables
|
Ubertas
|
SS Orion
|
200
|
Fruit
|
Pomona
|
SS Archon
|
110
|
Titanium
|
Veritas
|
SS Elysium
|
675
|
Aluminium
|
Vestra
|
SS Mica
|
400
|
Carbon
|
Sol Invictus
|
SS Solaris
|
825
|
The picture below shows a standard Local Market at the SS Elysium Space Station in Veritas:
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.
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.
Selecting from the list will show you the details of an offer. You can only buy the entire offer or not at all.
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):
When searching for a Ship, you will need to know the ship name (see Space Ships).
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:
A pop-up box will appear showing you the details of the purchase.
If a player purchases an item from a seller's PSS, a new destination appears in Apollo's Autopilot (see image below).
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).
The menu system is very similar to the Galactic Market interface with an Item Type menu button.
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:
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:
When you click the Offer to Sell button, a confirmation box will appear. Clicking yes will initiate the transaction.
The order is placed on the market and 1,000 credits are deducted as an expense.
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.
Clicking on the Stock Market Search map button brings up this 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).
In this example, we choose to find a seller of iron within one sector range of my current location:
Since the universe is a big place, we can expand our search, so now the range is 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.
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.
When you arrive, look down to the planet and follow the green Stock Market beam to the surface of the planet.
When you are close enough, an Open Stock Market button will appear on the middle-left side of your screen.
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.
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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