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

Stuff that you buy on the Black Market, you buy in a flogging. You never know before if your bid will win you the item - it is always possible it is overbid. 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!

• 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 takes 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 goodies, you’ll receive a confirming message and will find them in your inventory.

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.