Commodity Exchange

Commodity Exchange

A Commodity Exchange is a

Exploratory Services' officer Gabriel Quentin wrote about the system in GEMINI SECTOR: AN OVERVIEW.

Locations

Agricultural Planets

• Bodensee
• Burton
• Edom
• Elysia
• Heimdel
• Helen
• Mjolnar
• New Iberia
• Nitir
• Oresville
• Palan
• Siva
• Surtur
• Trinsic
• Victoria

Mining Bases

• Achilles
• Basque
• Charon
• Hector
• Kronecker
• Lisacc
• Macabee
• Romulus
• Rygannon
• Saratov
• Valkyrie
• Vishnu

Pirate Bases

• Drake
• Megiddo
• Oakham
• Smallville
• Tuck’s

Pleasure Planets

• Erewhon
• Jolson
• Magdaline
• Matahari
• N1912-1
• New Reno
• Olympus
• Speke

Refinery Bases

• Anapolis
• Basra
• Beaconsfield
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow
• Gracchus
• Joplin
• Liverpool
• Meadow
• Munchen
• Remus
• Rilke
• Rodin
• Thisbury
• Wickerton

Unique Bases

• New Detroit
• New Constantinople
• Oxford
• Perry Naval Base

Images

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Sprite Sheets

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Prices

The following table gives you a definite edge in the marketplace. Using these num-bers, you can construct the most advantageous trade route possible. Look for target bases close to each other with complementary needs. With these, you can minimize travel time and fuel expenditure while maximizing profit margin.

Empty box. Commodity cannot be bought or sold at this type of base. For example, the contraband drug Brilliance can neither be bought nor sold at Oxford.

Cost (top line). Amount of money exchanged when you buy or sell this commodity. When this is stated as a range (the usual case), the exact cost in credits (k) is ran-domly chosen each time from within this range. For example, at an Agricultural world advanced fuels can be sold fora price between 490 and 500 credits. They can be bought or sold at a Refinery base fora price between 480 and 490 credits.

Availability (second line). Percentage chance that this commodity will be available each time you stop at the base. For example, each time you land at a Refinery base, there is a 50% chance that there will be advanced fuels for sale there.

na (second line) not available. The commodity cannot be bought at this base (but you can sell it here for the price listed on the first line). For example, advanced fuels are not available for sale on any Agricultural base.

Amount (third line). If the commodity is available, the italicized numbers on the third line give the range of total units that might be available. The exact number available is randomly chosen each time from within this range. For example, if there are advanced fuels for sale at a Refinery base, there will be between 40 and 50 units of fuel available.

Commodity	Cost	Availability	Amount
Advanced Fuels	490-500k	na
Artwork	85-100k	na
Books	50k	na
Brilliance
Communications	50k	na
Computer Software	90-100k	na
Computers	70-80k	na
Construction Equipment
Factory Equipment	80-100k	na
Food Dispensers	100-110k	na
Furs	280-300k	na
Games	20k	na
Gems	930-1000k	na
Generic Foods	30-40k	na
Grain	20-23k	na
Holographic Equipment	480-500k	na
Home Appliances	100k	na
Home Entertainment	45-50k	na
Iron	35-50k	na
Liquor	50-55k	na
Luxury Foods	50-65k	na
Medical Equipment	500-510k	na
Mining Equipment
Movies	20k	na
Pets	90-100k	na
Plastics	50-60k	na
PlayThing	20k	na
Plutonium
Pre-Fabs
Robot Servants	470-500k	na
Robot Workers	290-300k	na
Slaves
Space Salvage	200-210k	10%	30-50
Textiles	50k	na
Tobacco
Tungsten	80-100k	na
Ultimate
Uranium
Weaponry	290-300k	100%	70-110
Wood	100-110k	na

Computer

Text

Startup

{commodity}
Quantity: {number available}

Cost: {cost}
Credits: {PC credits}

Select Item Success

Thank You

Select Item Fail - No Cargo Room

NO ROOM ON SHIP

Select Item Fail - No Credit

INSUFFICIENT CREDIT

Select Item Fail - No Cargo

NOTHING TO SELL

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Wing Commander Privateer Player's Guide

Mission Computer

Commodity Exchange

These are automated centers of trade scattered throughout the sector. They are state run and standardized, although prices are set locally by demand. Using the Exchange is as easy as interfacing with the monitor provided. You select whether you are in buy or sell mode and scroll through the available cargo. Purchasing or selling is as easy as touching the screen when the desired goods are being displayed. Finances are handled automatically. This lack of human supervision has both advantages and disadvantages.

When the Exchange was first standardized, 15 years ago, it was heavily regulated under Governor Meshach’s orders. Costs were standardized and all transactions required Merchants’ Guild approval. The guild was a part of the Commerce Department at that time. Then changes came … the Meshach administration fell due to the sale of Talons to the Church of Man. In the ensuing political vacuum, base leaders did away with the regulations and fully automated the Exchange. Now, a decade and half later, prices have come down and profit is had trading from base to base. The only caveat is that, while you may be able to buy and sell slaves or drugs, they are not legal. If militia or Confeds scan your ship en route and discover contraband, you will be considered a trafficker and summarily attacked. Also, New Constantinople and Perry Naval Base forbid the sale of contraband through their Commodity Exchange.

There are many ways to make a profit through trade. Buying grain at an agricultural planet, selling it at a mining base, buying ore at the base, selling it to a refinery, buying the refinery’s plastics, and selling them back at the agricultural world is just one obvious example of a lucrative trade route. The expansion of privatized trade also opens up private interest in keeping the trade routes clear of pirates and Kilrathi. An active and healthy Commodity Exchange spells profit for you more mercenary types as well as for the haulers of cargo.

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Wing Commander Privateer Reference Guide

Commodity Exchange. This is where all trade occurs. The trading interface (the monitor in the upper left corner) defaults to Buy mode.

To buy one of an item, left-click on its image on monitor. To buy all of an item, rightclick on it.

Click on SELL to place the unit in Sell mode. To sell one of an item, left-click on its image on monitor. To sell all of an item, right-click on it. (If you know that you have an item in your hold and it does not appear in Sell Mode, the base either does not want it or refuses to accept it. For example, New Constantinople, the capital, refuses to accept the illegal drugs Brilliance and Ultimate.)

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Privateer Playtesters' Guide

Mission Computer. The mission computer on every base in Gemini Sector offers a wide variety of missions. The assignments in this data bank am generated randomly from a large pool of variables. Therefore, you will hardly ever encounter the same mission twice. If you want to make more money on each mission, you should probably join the Mercenaries' Guild. Mission computer assignments also do not guarantee payment, so you may find yourself penniless even after a successfully completed mission.

Missions Offered. Attack, bounty hunting, defend base, patrol, scout.

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Appearances

• Wing Commander Privateer Player's Guide
• Wing Commander Privateer Reference Guide
• Wing Commander Privateer
• Privateer Playtesters' Guide
• Privateer Righteous Fire

Behind the Screens

Source Models

• COMODS - Commodity Exchange
• CX-FIN2 - Commodity Exchange
• CX-FINAL - Commodity Exchange
• CX-STUFF - Commodity Exchange
• WAREHOSE - Warehouse
• WAREHOU2 - Warehouse
• WAREHOUS - Warehouse
• CAVY - Warehouse (Cave)
• CAPGOODS - Cap Goods
• CWOOD - Wood
• FOOD - Food
• FUELS - Fuels
• GAMEBOX - Games
• GENERIC - Generic
• LUXURY - Luxury Good
• MICRO - Micro Computers
• NARCOTIC - Narcotics
• OCTBOX - Generic
• PROCESS - Processed Goods
• RAWMAT - Raw Materials
• SLAVES - Slaves
• SOFTWARE - Software
• TEMP - Communications Equipment
• TRAILER - Container
• TRAILVW - Container
• WEAPONS - Weapons

Signage

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  "X"

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  "BOOKS"

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  "BOOKS"

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  "BRILLIANCE"

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  "COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT"

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  "COMMUNICATIONS"

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  "SS"

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  "P"

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  "U"

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  "MINING EQUIPMENT"

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  "F"

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  "FACTORY"

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  "FOOD"

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  "LUXURY FOOD"

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  "FOOD"

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  "FOOD"

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  "FUEL"

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  "INFOCHIPS"

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  "INFOCHIPS"

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  "INFOCHIPS"

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  "I"

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  "I"

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  "LIQUOR XXX"

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  "LIQUOR XXX"

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  "LIQUOR"

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  "TOBACCO"

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  "PETS"

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  "PETS"

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  "Robot Servants"

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  "RS"

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  "Robot Servants"

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  "Robot WOrkers"

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  "RW"

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  "RW"

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  "GRAIN XXX"

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  "SEX SEX"

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  "PRE FAB BUILDING"

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  "PRE FAB BUILDING"

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  "ULTIMATE"

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  "S"