Trade, market and mail

Stand next to another player, point at them and press T. If they accept, a table opens with your offer on one side and theirs on the other. Nothing changes hands until you have both confirmed.

1. Click items in your bag to put them on the table, and put up any gold.
2. Check what the other side is offering.
3. Both of you press Confirm.
4. Everything swaps at once, or nothing does. TRADE DONE shows on your screen when it is.

The rules

• Any change clears both confirmations. If either of you adds, takes back or changes anything, you both have to confirm again. Always look at the table one last time.
• Everything is checked again at the moment of the swap. If an item or the gold is no longer there, or either bag hasn't room, the whole trade is called off.
• Moving, dying or logging out ends the trade. You must be on the same map, next to each other.
• An item goes on the table as a whole stack. To trade part of one, split it first with Shift and right-click (see Items and the bag).
• Worn items, locked items and anything that can't be traded stay in your bag.
• Ctrl+T stops anyone asking you to trade. NOT TRADING shows on your screen while it is off; press it again to turn trading back on.

Press Ctrl+S, or Market on the menu (N). One window holds the whole economy, in five tabs.

• The market is shared by everybody on the server, and listings survive a restart.
• You can browse, buy and bid anywhere. Putting something up for sale needs a town.
• Every button that spends something asks twice: the first click turns it into Sure? for 3 seconds, and the second does it.
• A page can be out of date the moment it arrives. If a price has changed since you looked, the purchase is refused rather than charged. Press Refresh and look again.

Everything on sale, newest first. Search by name, pick a kind of item on the left, and pick a listing to buy it or bid on it.

What you get

• A fixed-price purchase goes straight into your bag. If your bag is full it lands at your feet, so make room first. If you left before the sale went through, it comes by mail.
• You pay the price on the page. A buyer who loses the race for the last one gets their gold back.
• You can't buy from, or bid on, your own account's listings.

An auction sells the whole lot to the highest bidder when it ends. Twelve potions at auction are one lot at one price.

1. Pick the auction. The bid box is filled with the least bid that will be taken.
2. Change it if you like, and press Bid twice. The gold leaves your purse at once and is held against the auction.
3. If somebody bids higher, your gold comes back to you by mail, and you are told if you are online.
4. Or press Buy now, when the seller set a buy-now price, to end it at once at that price.

When it ends

What you have up for sale, and the counter to sell something else. You must be in a town to consign.

The numbers

• Your takings arrive by mail, from the Market Place, whether you are online or not.
• A listing that ends unsold comes back to you by mail.
• Worn, locked and untradeable items can't be listed. Take armour off first.
• A price can't be changed. Cancel the listing and put it up again instead.

Press Y for the market's Game Store tab. It sells items for Game Gold, which belongs to your account rather than to one character.

What's on sale

• Everything in the store is an ordinary item. You can trade it, post it or sell it on the market, and use it when you like.
• Anything that doesn't fit in your bag is posted to you from the Game Store.
• Using a Game Gold note puts that much Game Gold on the account of whoever uses it. That is how Game Gold changes hands between players.

Your account has a pot of experience that fills while you play. Spend it on scrolls any of your characters can read, trade or sell. Open it from Experience Pot on the menu (N).

How it fills

• Every kill and quest puts a tenth of the experience you earn into the pot, on top. Your own experience isn't touched.
• Deleting a character puts everything it ever earned into the pot.
• You can deposit your own experience towards your next level. A level is never given back: a level 40 with 1,000,000 towards 41 can deposit up to 1,000,000 and stays level 40.

The rules

• Buying and depositing are done in town.
• A scroll costs exactly what it holds: a 10K scroll costs 10,000 from the pot.
• Up to 100 scrolls at once, and only as many as your bag has room for.
• Experience from a scroll is exactly what it says: no rates or bonuses are added to it.

Islands guilds are selling, at a fixed price or at auction. A guild buys or bids out of its purse, by a member whose rank may buy islands.

Buying, bidding and selling islands are in Islands.

Press , to open your mailbox. Letters wait for you while you are offline, and they never expire. Market takings, refunds and store deliveries all come this way.

• Your mailbox holds 50 letters. When it is full, other players can't write to you.
• If your bag can't hold everything you take, the rest lands at your feet.
• Letters from your guild are marked (guild). A guild invitation comes as a letter with an Accept button (see Guilds).

Press . to write a letter, or choose the Write tab. You can write to any character by name, online or not.

• Sending is free.
• You can't post to yourself. Your storage is shared by every character on your account: use it to move things between them.
• Only items that can be traded can be posted. Worn and locked items stay where they are.
• If the name doesn't exist or their mailbox is full, nothing leaves your bag.