Black Market

The Black Market is [i]the[/i] place to spend geld in Terra, if you think you have too much of it.

As the server moves on and many mages look for goodies on the black market, prices inflate especially on the faster servers. This means that mages that want rare items from the black market, need to concentrate on getting more than usual ammounts of Geld, a dedication also known as Whoring.

Anyway, this is how the Black Market works:

• Items can be sold and bought in the Antique Store of the Black Market.
• Heroes only be hired (not traded) in the Tavern of Heroes section
• Spells can only be bought (not trade) in the Exotic Mageware section.
  • This includes rare Ancient spells, but excludes the speciality-unique ultimate spells.
• Summonable Units can be bought (not traded) in the Spawning Hatchery
  • This excludes the speciality-unique ultimate units.
• Mercenary Units can be hired through Swords for Hire.
  • These units are only available this way.
• At the Altar of Darkness, devoted mages can buy themselves favours of Gods.

Bidding in general

To bid on an item in the Black Market, click the circle next to the item you wish to buy, place your bid, and click ‘Order’. When you place a bid, an amount of geld is taken from your storage. The next bid should be at least 5% of the old bid. Placing a bid costs you one turn (regardless on how many items you do bid). Other mages on the server are given 30 minutes to attempt to outbid you. If you are outbid you will receive an in-game informing message offering you to quickly re-establish a higher bid. Meanwhile, the amount of your original bid is returned to your storage. If your bid wins the goods, you’ll receive a confirming message and will find them in your inventory. Pay attention when buying: be sure you bid on the correct item and you enter the correct amount that you wish to bid. You cannot cancel a bid you have made! Unique items and Ancient spell scrolls occasionally appear in the Antique Store. Both are very rare and do not appear often. So if you are planning to bid on Ancient spells or unique items, you must be very vigilant and very patient. Furthermore, when you acquire a scroll for an Ancient Spell you have a chance to research it successfully. Remember you may only research Ancient spells of your own magic type.

Antique Store – Item selling

In the antique store you may purchase but also sell items. To sell, choose ‘Sell item’, scroll through your item list and select the item to sell, and click ‘Sell’. Selling an item does not cost you turns. At times you will try to sell an item and it won't appear on the Black Market for a time. This is because items that mages aim to sell, are placed on the market randomly within 48 hours. Thus, it may take some time for your item to appear on the market and for you to get your geld. You may also notice that you receive less geld for your item, than was bid on it (e.g. you received 5 million for the Carpet of Flying you put in the Market, while it sold for 10 million). This is because there are two prices for Black Market items: the price for which an item is sold, and the price at which that item came on the market (which is a good estimate for the amount of geld that the seller will receive). The latter fluctuates depending on earlier sold items, so don't be surprised if another mage receives more/less geld for selling the same item. The geld you receive is less than what the Black Market receives for it, to avoid abuse of this game function as a way of transferring geld fro m one specific mage to another.

Spawning Hatchery

The Spawning Hatchery is a breeding ground for various creatures of The Reincarnation. You will find creatures resulting from spells up to complex level for sale here. To purchase them, simply place a bid, click ‘Order’. When new units appear, they stay in the market for at least 2.5 hours. Thereafter they are sold, 30 minutes after the winning bid.

Swords for Hire

There are always various mercenary groups looking to earn some money by hiring out their skills. When you click on "Swords for Hire" you will have the option of hiring small bands of mercenaries, which are generally barracks troops from the various magic specialties. If you wish to hire them, bid them an offer and click ‘order’.

Note that troops that you hire this way, occupy population space, so you need to have sufficient towns to house them and sufficient farms to feed them. You'll also need suffient ordinary population or a lot of savings to forfill their geld upkeep. When you hire more people than you can host, on their arival the mercenaries will refuse to work for you, but they'll keep their geld. When new units appear, they stay in the market for at least 2.5 hours. Thereafter they are sold, 30 minutes after the winning bid.

Exotic Mageware

Here you may purchase Simple, Average, Complex, and Ancient spells. Do not purchase spells that you have already researched, as it will simply be a waste of geld. It is rare to find a spell for sale that you are not able to research, but it can be very beneficial to acquire such a spell (because each researched spell increases a mage’s spell level). When new spells appear, they stay in the market for at least 2.5 hours. Thereafter they are sold, 30 minutes after the winning bid.