Seven Lakes Commodity Exchange

What We Are

Seven Lakes Commodity Exchange (SLaCE) has been created to give new and experienced a way to trade on an open market. Commodities are held by the Exchange so they can be easily picked up. Any commodities listed will also be accepted.

This role has been originally filled by 'The Goods' which was a famous trading place during tales 1 and 2 and during the earlier days of tale 3. Sadly this platform went down november '07 so there was need for a replacement. I gathered what I was able to find, tweaked it a little and put it to work as fast and good as I could.

Some changes to the original 'The goods' will take place though. First of all SLaCE will expand to the field of herbs to allow trading herbs for other commodities. Other 'odd' commodities might follow when space allows. Second each purchase from SLaCE will leave a small fee to allow expansion of the guildhall and the storage space.

Seven Lakes Commodity Exchange is placed just south of Seven Lakes Chariot Station around 1432, 1753 so it's quite easy to reach.

Facilitating trade isn't just about large trades or high-priced items. Nearly every newcomer who enters Egypt winds up needing to trade for enough nails to make a tent, but the established citizens who have their own iron mines seldom want to spend time haggling with them over the small quantities involved. We minimize the time and effort involved in trade by providing a simple self-correcting pricing system for all generic commodities.

What We Trade

For the most part, we are willing to trade in any generic commodity. By "generic", I mean items that are not, in the game's terminology, "unique" or "complex" - things without special properties. This includes every kind of metal, fish, vegetable, and mushroom. It also includes worked items such as nails.

We do not demand that goods be useful. The philosophy behind the pricing system demands that we do not decide the value of things by fiat; if an item is genuinely worthless, we will simply stockpile it until the value drops to the point where people no longer find it worthwhile to expend the effort involved in bringing us more. Things that are useless today have a way of becoming useful tomorrow, and we wish to have large quantities in stock when that happens.

Some special cases:

• We will not stock mud, sand, or any other resource that can be gathered in arbitrarily large quantities without proportional effort.
• Our pricing system depends on the stock being arbitrarily extensible. We will not stock , Octec crystals, ground fireworks, or any other resource that citizens will not be able to produce more of.
• We neither buy nor sell tadpoles. We consider them to fit into the "without proportional effort" category: since you can always improve your tadpole-collection rate by making more jugs, the number of tadpoles you collect is proportional to something more like the square root of the effort involved. However, we will keep a public-access chest specifically for voluntary donations of tadpoles.
• We will not stock any resource that decays over time, such as beer, or that requires attention or maintenance beyond mere storage, such as sheep.
• We do not consider the different roasts of barley and malt to be generic. However, we will stock raw barley and malt.
• The contents of clay jugs will not be considered. Jugs of water and sulfurous water will be priced as jugs.
• We consider linen and wet linen to be the same thing.