The marketplace is the resource nerve centre for your town. The key player in the marketplace is the merchant. Each merchant can transport up to 1000 units of any given resource. As the marketplace is upgraded, more merchants become available. The maximum merchants is 50 which means the maximum amount of resources that can be moved at one time is 50,000.

Marketplace Tabs Screen

How to Trade Resources
If you have too much of one resource and too little of another you can seek to trade resources with other players in the marketplace either by accepting one of the offers via the "External Offers" tab or by making your own offer via the "own offers" tab. When a player accepts an offer the other player is notified via the "Trade Reports" tab in the Messages main tab. Once an exchange has been agreed to you will see the progress of the merchants transporting the resources via the Ongoing Transports tab.

Marketplace Ongoing Transport Screen

How to Send Resources
If you want to send resources to one of your towns or to an alliance member you do so via the "Send resources" tab (see image above). Here you can send as many resources as you have merchants available. To send resources, simply enter the amounts of each and then pick one of your towns from the drop down list or enter the coordinates of one of your alliance members towns.

Marketplace Send Rersources Screen

You can also send resources by clicking on an alliance member's town and then click on the "Send resources" button (which will auto populate the coordinates in the marketplace.

NOTE: if you have an offer in the marketplace or any ongoing transports your merchants will be allocated to that so the number of available merchants may be less.

WARNING: Make sure when sending resources that the receiving town has enough room in the storehouse and granary to accept the transport, otherwise the resources will be lost when they arrive.

Hide resources
The marketplace is also very useful for "hiding" resources (they are not really hidden since all players can see they offer in the "External offers" tab. Hiding refers to offering resources at a 3:1 ratio which most other players will not accept (although some do if they REALLY want that particular resource). For more information on hiding resources see the "Guide to not being a farm" here: guide.to.not.being.a.farm.php.

Table 1 (shows the total cost for a fully upgraded building + total consumption per hour)
						*Merchants*
	165220	143200	253345	143200	80	50

Table 2 (shows the requirements for each level upgrade + the increase in production)
*Level*						*Merchants*
25	39145	33925	60020	33925	4	50
24	29880	25895	45815	25895	4	46
23	22810	19770	34975	19770	4	42
22	17410	15090	26700	15090	4	38
21	13290	11520	20380	11520	4	34
20	10145	8795	15560	8795	4	30
19	7745	6715	11875	6715	4	28
18	5910	5125	9065	5125	4	26
17	4515	3910	6920	3910	4	24
16	3445	2985	5285	2985	3	22
15	2630	2280	4035	2280	3	20
14	2010	1740	3080	1740	3	18
13	1535	1330	2350	1330	3	16
12	1170	1015	1795	1015	3	14
11	895	775	1370	775	3	11
10	680	590	1045	590	3	0
9	520	450	800	450	3	9
8	395	345	610	345	3	8
7	305	265	465	265	3	0
6	230	200	355	200	2	6
5	175	155	270	155	2	5
4	135	115	205	115	2	4
3	105	90	160	90	2	3
2	80	70	120	70	2	2
1	60	50	90	50	4	1

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