Antique Store

The Antique store on the Black Market is the place for buying and selling Items.

Item buying

• Bidding on items takes a turn each time you place bids. You can place multiple bids in the same turn.

Item selling

• Selling an item does not cost you turns.
• The amount that a mage receives is less than what the Black Market receives for it, to avoid abuse of this game function as a way of transferring geld from one specific mage to another.
• You may receive (far) 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).
  • The price at which the item appeared on the market 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 at a later time.

Inflation

• Price for a lesser item at first selling on begin of reset:  ???50,000 geld
• Price for Unique Items at first selling on begin of reset: ??? 500,000 geld
• These price quickly become higher and higher, especially for items for which there is a lot of demand and bidding competition.

• A guild that has a lot of geld, can deliberately bid high ammounts of geld on certain items, thereby raising the costs and prohibiting other guilds to gather large quantities of 'dangerous' war items.

Monopoly

• The total number of items is limited for each type of item (e.g. it is linkend to the number of mages and age of the game round)
• This means a powerfull guild can try to get a virtual monopoly on certain items, by gathering as many as possible of them - and not using them.