# HWS Marketplace

**URL:** https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-marketplace/4376
**Category:** 🖥️ HWS Connect
**Tags:** economy, hws-features
**Created:** [February 6, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-marketplace/4376 "2017-02-06T19:23:00Z")
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The **HWS Marketplace** is a custom player-to-player trading system created by HWS. It replaces the in-game marketplace and runs on **HWS Connect** :

- [Buy / Sell](https://connect.empyrion-homeworld.net/re/market): sell offers of all players
- [Wanted](https://connect.empyrion-homeworld.net/re/market/wanted): buy orders that other players fill
- [History](https://connect.empyrion-homeworld.net/re/market/history): your own trades (HWS Elite+)

NA players use `/rn/` instead of `/re/`. Each server has its own market. Credits are paid from and into your [Elemental Bank (EB)](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/elemental-bank-eb-market-zone/4395).

 ![HWS Marketplace on HWS Connect](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/3X/8/b/8bb02b3b554688a9205719637dc0e17b4d0d8e32.jpeg)

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## 🎥 Video Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wgADRhXHROU

> ℹ This video shows the previous HWS Connect. The screenshots in this guide show the current site.

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## 🛒 Buy / Sell Page

At the top you see your **Bank Level** , **EB Credits** , **HWS DNA** and **Playhours** , the **Market Stats** (sales per day, top sellers, top buyers, top items) and the **season stats**.

 ![Market Stats](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/3X/8/8/880870af7c91cfacc8845c598482a007feef1712.png)

Below is the list of all active sell offers, cheapest first, with search and filters for everyone. **Auto Discount** shows when an offer gets cheaper (see below). Your own offers are marked “Your offer”.

 ![Marketplace offers](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/3X/1/0/1026900b1215b8588fc26068e081694a074a19f1.png)

### Buy

1. Be **online in game on that server**
2. Find the item and click **Buy Offer**
3. Set the amount: type it, use the quick-amount chips (change them in **Settings → General** ) or **Max**
4. Check **Goods** , **Market fee** and **Total cost**. The fee shown is an estimate. The game server calculates the final fee when you buy
5. Click **Deliver** (to your backpack) or **Deliver to OCD** (HWS Elite+)

 ![Marketplace delivery dialog](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/3X/a/b/abcdc5b53e205ab9dfcd62ad73fd28864b47ffef.png)

Items that don’t fit into your backpack go to your **Lost & Found**.

### Sell

1. Be **online in game on that server** with the items in your **backpack**
2. Click **Sell Items** and click the item in your backpack
3. Set **Sell Quantity** and **Unit Price**
4. Optional: **Max Buyer Playtime** (50–1000 h; 1000 = no restriction). Players with more playtime can’t buy it, a beginner-friendly option
5. Click **Sell Item(s)**. The items leave your backpack

 ![Selling from your backpack](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/3X/3/7/37239a098badf5eb187d27e87b922e2404e3bdb6.png)

> 💡 HWS Elite+ patrons can also sell straight from their [OCD](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/orbital-cargo-drone-ocd/4394).

### Edit or cancel your offer

Click **Edit Offer** on your own offer: enter a **New unit price** and **Save price** , or **Cancel offer** (only inside a Marketplace Zone, the remaining items come back to you).

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## 📦 Marketplace Zones

Inside a **Marketplace Zone** , buying and claiming are **free** and selling costs only a small fee:

 ![HWS-Market-Zone](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8d82117657baf3ef91091ffbffa01fa080634d49.jpeg)

- **ECC Planet** → _Elemental Galactic Services HQ POI \> Market Zone_
- **ECC Sector** → _HWS Racom Trading Zone_
- You can also [buy your own Marketplace Zone](https://connect.empyrion-homeworld.net/re/support)

> ℹ If HWS Connect can’t confirm that you are in a zone, you are treated as outside one.

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## 💰 Marketplace Fees

| Action | Inside a Marketplace Zone | Outside |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Buy** | Free | (11 − EB level)% credits (EB 1: 10% … EB 10: 1%) + 1 HWS DNA per _EB level × 10_ items |
| **Sell** | 3% credits | 10% credits + 1 HWS DNA per item |
| **Sell as Dealer Origin** | EB level 1: 5% · 2: 4.5% · 3: 4% · 4: 3.5% · 5: 3% · 6: 2.5% · 7: 2% · 8: 1.5% · 9: 1% · **10: 0%** (no HWS DNA) | same credit fee as inside + 1 HWS DNA per item |
| **Change price** | 1st change free, then the Nth change costs N% credits (from the 11th: + N − 10 HWS DNA) | N × 10% credits + N HWS DNA |
| **Cancel offer** | 10% of the remaining value | not possible |

- Price change fees are charged on the old unit price × the amount left. The counter resets after **12 hours** without a change ( **6 hours** for Dealers).
- A price change must be at least ±1% **or** 10 credits (1 credit for Dealers). Undercutting the cheapest offer needs at least 1% **and** 10 credits (1 for Dealers).
- After changing a price you must wait **1 hour** before cancelling.
- DNA “transfer points” you don’t use up when buying outside a zone carry over to your next purchase.

> ℹ The sell fee is calculated on **unit price × amount** at the moment you list the item and is deducted from your Elemental Bank. HWS Connect shows you the fee before the listing goes live.

> 💡 Why a sell fee? The Marketplace moves ~25 billion credits per season. A small fee is the fairest way to keep credits from piling up endlessly, and it makes your **Elemental Bank Level** and the **Dealer Origin** matter for trading. Sell inside a Marketplace Zone (ECC / Racom / your own zone) or level up your EB to keep it low.

**Items you can’t sell:** Portals, Tokens, Keycards, HWS Star Dust, Invulnerable and News items, some POI turrets, explosive blocks and damaged weapons/items.

**Dealer bonus:** a Dealer-origin seller gets **10 HWS DNA** (max once a day) when a non-Dealer buys one of their offers.

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## 📉 Auto Discount (Auto Price Drop)

Old offers get cheaper automatically, so overpriced items don’t clog the Marketplace:

| Offer age | Discount | Buyer pays |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 15 days | 25% | 75% of the asking price |
| 30 days | 50% (of the 15-day price) | 37.5% |
| 90 days | 75% (of the 30-day price) | ~9.4% |

The **Auto Discount** column shows “reduces in N day(s) by X%”, “X% off now” or “Full price”. You can sort the offers by it to find the biggest discounts first.

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## 🔍 Wanted (BUY Orders)

A **Wanted order** is a buy request: you choose the item, amount and unit price, the credits are reserved from your EB, other players deliver the items, and you claim them.

 ![Wanted orders](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/3X/1/c/1cacea30d321eb26530d057d473be2689fc8c7fc.jpeg)

### Create a Wanted order

1. Be online in game, click **Create Wanted Order**
2. Pick an item from your backpack, or **Search for Item (Any Item)** in the whole catalogue
3. Set **Wanted quantity** and **Unit price**. **Total reserved credits** are taken from your EB right away
4. Master+ can tick **Enable AMM** (see below)

 ![Create a Wanted order](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/3X/5/9/59ab1e3b14c83b3de8edae5bb45742b2124794ac.png)

### Fulfill, claim, edit, cancel, finalize

- **Fulfill Request** (someone else’s order): choose a quantity. The items are taken from your **backpack** (never from the OCD) and your payout goes into your EB.
- **Claim** (your order): delivered items go into your backpack. You have **7 days** after an order is fully filled to claim it.
- **Edit Order** : change quantity and price, only while nothing has been delivered yet.
- **Cancel Order** : refunds the still reserved credits minus 10% (min. 1 credit, Dealers pay 1 credit).
- **Finalize** (after the order ended): claim what was delivered and get the rest of your credits back.

### Slots, lifespan and fees

| | Rule |
| --- | --- |
| Active orders | your EB level (1–10), +2 with **Dealer Origin** , +2 with **HWS Elite+** |
| Lifespan | your EB level in days (1–10 days) |
| Claim/finalize outside a Marketplace Zone | same DNA rule as buying + (11 − EB level)% credits. Dealers pay no credit fee |
| PvP | only **Fighter Origin** can create/edit orders in PvP. Claiming/finalizing only works in PvE. In PvP, claiming has a 1 hour cooldown after fulfillment |

Some items can’t be requested (e.g. tokens, keycards, portals, event items, many deco/statue/tribal blocks, Zirax weapons).

### Origin bonuses

- **Fighter** : +10% payout when fulfilling orders for combat items (ammo, weapons, turrets, guns). Not if the order price is more than 10% above the Market Consensus Price, max once per order creator per season and once per 24 hours.
- **Explorer** : every 5th of your orders that was filled completely by one player gives **10 HWS DNA**. Each of those orders must come from a different player per season.
- **Engineer** : same rule, reward **10x HWS Star Dust**.
- **Dealer** : +2 order slots, lower Wanted fees (see above).

### AMM: Automated Market Maker (HWS Master+)

With AMM on, your Wanted order buys matching sell offers by itself:

- Only offers on the **same server** , at or below your unit price (after auto discount), cheapest first, never your own
- Matching happens right away or later, when a matching offer is posted
- Matched items are **not delivered automatically**. **Claim** them within 7 days, normal claim rules and fees apply
- Reserved credits count as spent at your unit price, even when AMM bought cheaper

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## 🌐 Cross Server Marketplace (HWS Master+)

Servers are paired: **RE EU ↔ RE NA** (and HWS+ EU ↔ NA). With [HWS Master+](https://connect.empyrion-homeworld.net/patreon-tiers) you can switch the **View** to _Paired server_ or _Both servers_ and **buy offers or fulfill Wanted orders on the paired server** while you are online on either one. Credits and delivery use the server you are actually playing on. AMM never works across servers.

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## ⭐ Patreon Benefits

| Benefit | Tier |
| --- | --- |
| **Group Offers View** : one row per item with its cheapest offer, “+N more offers” to expand | HWS Veteran+ |
| **Item Sale History** charts (daily volume, min/avg/max price) | HWS Veteran+ |
| **Deliver to OCD** , **sell from OCD** , **History** page, +2 Wanted order slots | HWS Elite+ |
| **Cross Server Marketplace** , **AMM** for Wanted orders | HWS Master+ |

 ![Group Offers View](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/3X/d/1/d10f578e21409df4da9b55aede84dc87eed4e924.png)

### Marketplace History (HWS Elite+)

Your personal trading journal: everything you bought, sold and did with Wanted orders on this server, with dates, prices, totals and region. Pick 24h / 7d / 30d / 90d or a custom range, and export it as CSV.

 ![Marketplace History](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/3X/9/8/983c75fead7dd47d9e4efe9d820ca1b462af5a3f.png)

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## 🧮 Smart Price System: Market Consensus Price (MCP)

The Marketplace calculates a fair **Market Consensus Price (MCP)** for every item from real trades:

1. **Real trade data** : only completed player-to-player sales of the last **14 days** on that server count, not listings
2. **Self-trades are ignored**
3. **Outlier protection** : extreme prices (below 10% or above 1000% of the average) are filtered out
4. **Minimum activity** : at least **3 trades** from **2 different sellers** and **2 different buyers**. Until then the item counts as “not traded” and falls back to its config price
5. **Weighted average** : large trades count more than small ones

The MCP is used by several game systems:

- `ts:sellcredits:id`: selling a ship to the system pays the MCP of its components
- `egs:insurance:claim:id`: insurance claims are valued at current market prices
- The Fighter Wanted bonus (see above) and [HWS Trader](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-trader/4396) package prices

> ℹ Prices are cached. The first lookup of an item can take a moment.

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## ⚠ Full Wipe Warning

Before a full server wipe:

> 🧹 **ALL Marketplace offers will be deleted!**  
> Make sure to retrieve all items from the Marketplace via HWS Connect in advance.

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## ❓ Common Messages

- **“You must be online to sell items!”** (or to change price, stop a trade, create a Wanted order): join that server in game first.
- **“You are not in a Marketzone, so this action cannot be completed.”** : cancelling only works inside a Marketplace Zone.
- **“Market is disabled in this playfield.”** : you are in a special or event playfield (e.g. the Cross Server Warp sector). Move elsewhere.
- **“This offer is restricted to players with ≤ N hours of playtime.”** : the seller set a playtime limit.
- **“[Market] Failed to validate unit price!”**: the price just changed (auto discount or the seller edited it). Reopen the offer.
- **“Not enough credits or HWS DNA!”** : check your Elemental Bank balance and DNA.
- **“Price recently modified. Must wait 1 hour…”** : you can’t cancel within 1 hour after a price change.
- **“The game server did not confirm this trade, so it is on hold for staff review. Do NOT repeat it.”** : staff will settle it. Nothing is charged or delivered twice.
- **Why can’t I switch the View to Both servers?** Cross-server browsing is an HWS Master+ benefit.