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*sam*
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Just to let you know we're currently working on the 'Marketplace' which will be a new building type you'll find in town.

The marketplace will be where you buy and sell trade goods (food, water, car parts*, fuel**, ammunition***). It will also be the place at which player-to-player trading happens.

Player-to-player trading of vehicles, components, and trade goods will be done as an online market, with the minimum asking price allowed as 80% of cost to buy the same thing from the NPC market/mechanic, and the maximum allowed to be 100%. This is to stop cheating.

When any vehicle is modified or entered into any event or squad, it is removed from the market. Only components in your lockup can be put up for sale, and they are removed from sale if you put them in a car.

Only subscribers will be allowed to do player-to-player trades.

Notes:
* Car parts only exist as boxes of generic 'stuff', they're not specifically any particular item until you sell them in-town and Jake gets them.
** Fuel: when travelling, you can use fuel containers to refill cars when they run out, but it's more expensive to buy fuel in a container, and more bulky to carry it that way. So large fuel tanks do have a useful function.
*** Ammunition: it will be possible to reload your guns during a wilderness battle, from ammunition in your cargo. It will be slow however and will require a passenger who is not driving or shooting.

......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013
Posted Mar 8, 2007, 4:35 pm

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*sam* said:

** Fuel: when travelling, you can use fuel containers to refill cars when they run out, but it's more expensive to buy fuel in a container, and more bulky to carry it that way. So large fuel tanks do have a useful function.

worked out how far we can go per unit of fuel yet? Most(if not all) of our cars are short range combat machines...we kinda need to figure out what is a useful size tank ^^

......................... marshal vet race1 elmsautumn wv
Posted Mar 10, 2007, 1:04 am