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Market prices

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Market prices

The Market exchanges food, wood, and stone for gold; repeated buying and selling changes the available prices.

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Overview

The Market exchanges food, wood, and stone for gold; repeated buying and selling changes the available prices.

How this system affects decisions

Economic systems are shaped by worker travel, access to safe resource sites, and the time spent gathering versus building or moving. Compare a change by how many workers it affects and how long it remains useful, then balance it against the food, wood, gold, and population required to keep the army active.

How to use this reference

The Market exchanges food, wood, and stone for gold; repeated buying and selling changes the available prices. The mechanic affects the pace at which resources can be gathered, exchanged, or spent. Compare its immediate cost with the production or research it delays, especially before an Age advance.

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