Tablet and marketplace

The marketplace is the players' market, where items, cars and homes are sold and bought. It runs on the tablet: without a tablet in your pockets, the marketplace won't open. All the money goes through the server, so neither the buyer nor the seller can be cheated.

#The tablet

• Where to buy it: at any 24/7 store or kiosk for 3,000 €$; the city has 24 of them. Where they are: see Places on the map.
• How to take it out: the ↓ arrow key, or “Take out the tablet” on it in the inventory. The same key puts it away, and the ↑ arrow key switches straight to the phone.
• What's on it: the marketplace, plus the phone's apps on a big screen: the bank, the GPS, N54 News, the garage and homes.
• The tablet is an ordinary item. You can give it away, trade it or sell it.

#The shop window

The marketplace's main screen shows every player's lots. There's a search (by item, car, district or seller), filters by price per unit and by district, and categories:

A lot's card shows the price, the seller (strangers see only the first name and the surname's first letter, acquaintances the whole name), the seller's words, where the lot was put up and what the same item costs in the city's shops. A weapon shows the mods on it and how many rounds are in its magazine: all of it goes to the buyer with the weapon. Drugs don't show the seller: the card says “Anonymous”, and instead of a shop price it says “At the night dealers”.

#How to buy

The server won't sell if:

• the purchase won't fit in your pockets by weight or by count;
• you already have the most cars or homes you can;
• it's a lot of your own other character's;
• your character is new: for the first 120 minutes of play, it doesn't spend money on other players.

The marketplace asks for no licenses: weapons, ammo and grenades are bought here without a gun license too. But carrying a weapon without a license is still a matter for the NCPD under the city's laws.

#How to sell

• An item leaves your pockets for the lot and comes back if nobody buys it. A car on sale stays locked in the garage: you can't take it out or call it. A home on sale takes nothing new into its wardrobe.
• The money from a sale comes to your card at once, with a notice. If you weren't in the game, you get “While you were away: ...” when you come in.
• “My lots”: what's on sale and how much has sold. This is also where you change a price and take a lot back. A price can change once every 2 minutes, and a higher price pays the difference in the fee.
• “Deals”: all your sales and purchases. A drug deal doesn't name the other side.

#What can't be sold

• Personal items and documents: the passport, the phone, licenses, quest items.
• The ammo in your pockets. The rounds in a weapon's magazine are sold along with it.
• What you're wearing: only things in your pockets are sold.
• Starter clothes and any of a new character's things in its first 120 minutes of play.
• A hotel room, and a home you only have a key to.
• A car that's out in the city: send it to the garage first. Empty the trunk before the sale, and pick up the things lying on your home's floor.

#Fees and time limits

The fee and the commission go to the city. Payment is by card only: without a bank card the marketplace works neither for buying nor for selling.