GoldenTowns Market

The Market in GoldenTowns is one of the most important feature of the game. This is the place where you can trade one resource to another and even buy resource using your gold from other players and state. Another good thing about Market is that the trades is not limited to resources only, you can also buy workers here, skilled and unskilled, as well as soldiers. Great right?

The Market
Raw materials such as Vegetable, Meat, Wood, Iron, Stone, Clay and Gold can all be traded among'st one another. While workers, soldiers and artillery can only be bought via gold, it is possible to sell your raw materials for gold once you have reached 60% happiness for your town.

The trade prices are always changing depending on the amount of goods that are being traded off each other, so what might be a 1 : 1 exchange ratio right now might not be 1 : 1 anymore within seconds.

Just like the Inventory, the Market has 4 subsections : Products, Workers, Army and Finances. Each of the sections presents to you the detailed status of the stocks and allows you to make any asset type available for sale.

Fig. 1 - Selection Box

PRODUCTS
In this section you can buy any type of raw material by paying with gold or, equally, with raw materials. Remember that the raw materials market is local if you pay in raw materials or global if one of the products is gold.

Remember that after each exchange, the price varies upward or downward. The first step to initialize a transaction is to select what you wish to purchase and what you wish to pay with. The selection box (fig. 1.1) helps you select the types of products that will constitute the object of the transaction.

Fig. 1.1

In order to buy, for instance, vegetables by paying with wood, select in the vegetable box on the left and in the wood box on the right. After you select a market, several items of information are displayed, such as the list of the most recent transactions and the current price. Write the quantity in the box on the right and click on the purchase or sell button. The exchange will automatically take place, but the price will change.

Fig. 2

The box displays, from left to right, the current price, the current stocks of the product you wish to buy and the current stocks of the product you wish to sell

After each transaction on the product market, the price varies by +/-0.0001 for each traded product unit. Let us assume that you wish to buy stone by paying with iron, and the price is 1.0000 stone for 1 iron. If you buy 100 stone, the stone-iron market increases to 1.0100, and the iron-stone market decreases to 0.9900, which means that next time you will need 1.01 stone to buy 1 stone unit and only 0.99 stone to buy 1 iron unit.

You can also purchase products by paying with gold. Select on the left the product and gold on the right. You will see the list of offers from all over the world. On the gold-raw material market transaction do not take place automatically. You permanently buy from or sell to other players. The offers are displayed in the order of prices. Write the desired quantity next to an offer and click on the “Buy” button. Remember that you can buy raw materials within the limit of the storage capacity provided by the raw material warehouses (fig. 2).

To sell raw materials for gold, go to the market page and select from the product box any raw material on the left and gold on the right. In the upper part of the page there is a blue button. Click on the button to be able to insert a new sale offer. Specify the quantity you wish to sell, the price, and click on the “Update” button. The offer will be immediately visible on the market. Remember that only towns with a degree of happiness of at least 80% can sell raw materials for gold. You can have up to 10 offers on the market.


WORKERS
Here you can see the list of workers made available for sale. The workers’ market is a global one, which means that any player can access it, regardless of the country. Workers are purchased / sold for gold. Use the menu in fig. 3 to specify a particular qualification.

Fig. 3

The menu with which you can select the workers’ qualification In order to buy a worker click on the “Buy” button next to the offer. Remember that the purchased workers’ lifespan will be adjusted depending on your town’s degree of happiness. Workers have a lifespan between 10 and 60 days, depending on your town’s degree of happiness. Lifespan is provided by the formula

D=H%60

Where:
-- D - Lifespan
-- H - Degree of Happiness

Even if, for instance, you buy a worker with a 50-day lifespan, if your town has a 50% degree of happiness, the purchased worker will only live 35 days.

Not only other players, but also the mining fund can make workers available for sale. The fund has an unlimited number of workers made for sale and the selling price is permanently adjusted after each purchase.

SOLDIERS AND ARTILLERY
Using the market, you can also buy soldiers or artillery. Use the menu in available to select the desired type of soldier / artillery. Similar to the product market, the soldiers’ market is global. Soldiers and artillery can only be sold for gold.

SHARES AND BONDS
Using the market you can also buy shares or bonds. Select from the menu the Finance section. Select from the menu on the left the asset type. You will see the list of offers from all over the world. Government shares or bonds can be purchased by paying with gold. Click on the details button and you will reach the financial asset presentation page. Here you can specify the quantity you wish to sell / buy. Shares or bonds are automatically bought / sold to / from the mining fund. After each sale / purchase, the price drops or increases by 0.0001 gold.

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