Contraband Black Market

The Contraband / Black Market screen lists the current price of all the contraband items on the black market. The price of the various items is controlled by market conditions. If a race sells a large number of items into the black market the price of the item will fall in price. If a race buys a large number of an item the price of it will increase. If a race that demands a certain type of contraband is doing really well the demand for that item will increase forcing the price to go up. Buying contraband items will take the items off of the blackmail market and decrease the amount of crime in the area of all races that demand that type of contraband. If a massive amount of contraband is sold on a planet that is near a race that has a high demand for that contraband item it will cause a big jump in crime on that race ' s ground bases.

The Buy / Sell sub screen of the contraband screen allows you to place requests to buy and sell contraband items. Your requests to buy contraband will only be honored if there are enough contraband items in the area to buy. If there are not enough contraband in the area to full your order you will buy as much as you can get and the rest of the order will be canceled. You will always be able to sell contraband without a problem. If after you place an order to buy or sell you can always delete the order by opening the pending order screen and deleting the order.

In the above display there is a buy order that is about to be entered that calls for the buying of 7 units of Lerchin Spices at a cost of 2.07mc each for a total price of about 14 mc. The order will be placed when the Buy button is pressed. So far this base has placed buy orders that will amount to 12 mc if they are carried out. The base has also placed sell orders that amount to 10 mc.