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Or - from screwing everybody other than his buddies, because he's the only local source of Coffee. The essential notion is that fixed ratios PREVENT a slick operator from cornering the market and then jacking up the prices for everybody else in the market. * Brass 24 gets him Coffee 16 (like value 3:2 ratio) * Brass 32 gets him Coffee 16 (unfair 2:1 ratio) rather than

We have a very small market with bottlenecks that are entirely predictable, so it's all too easy for a slick operator to buy up all of the local Coffee, for example, and then charge whatever the market will bear because he's the only supplier. To the point, like value trades DO NOT change the overall value of your inventory. The important issue in NOT the actual ratios, but rather that everybody in the market uses the same ratios, for both trading up and trading down, so that you can prevent market manipulation.

is an excellent tool for determining Like Value trades.Īs the fixed building costs are pretty much linear with the per cycle cost of goods, and as the fixed costs become less and less of a factor once a building in producing goods, simply using coins (including the coins buried in the unrefined goods) is an appropriate and sufficient basis for establishing like value trades. Trading like value for like value does NOT change the total value of your inventory. The motive for like value trades is so that the local market will function more smoothly, with no need to worry about getting screwed every time you accept a trade.