Trading

The trading system

In hackmud, trading is an alternative method to exchange resources between users, and the only method of exchanging bits ⌽ between players.

Instead of using accts.xfer_gc_to and sys.xfer_upgrade_to, trading uses the trade shell command, and has its own special interface and fees.

Starting a trade

The syntax for starting a trade is trade user. This will send a trade request to the inputted user, and they must do the same, with your name.

Example

angie wishes to trade with bo, so angie sends bo a trade request:

>>trade bo
Success

bo then sees the trade request, and accepts:

trade request received. begin trade with trade angie

>>trade angie
Success

At which point both parties then see the trade interface appear:

║ trade 68b1152c50334a086f9b258e ║
╙━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╢
angie offers                     ║ bo offers
━━━                              ║ ━━━
                                 ║
-- EMPTY --                      ║ -- EMPTY --
                                 ║

make trade offers with trade_bits, trade_gc, trade_add
for usage see trade_help

A trade has begun.

Making offers

GC, upgrades, and bits ⌽ can be offered using the commands outlined in trade_help.

There will be a trade fee based on what is offered, which is outlined later in detail.

Commands

The commands for making offers, as shown in trade_help:

trade_bits <bit amount>             [sets your offered bits amount]
trade_fee <0 or 1>                  [selects which user pays the trade fee]

trade_gc <GC num or string>         [adds GC to your offers]

trade_add <upgrade index>           [adds an upgrade to your offers]
trade_rem <upgrade trade index>     [removes an offered upgrade from your offers]
trade_up_info <upgrade trade index> [shows detailed upgrade information for an offered upgrade]

Concluding a trade

Trades can end in two ways: both parties accept the trade and the resources are exchanged, or one party runs trade_end and no resources are exchanged.

Fees

Use of the trade system incurs a fee, paid with bits ⌽. The minimum trade fee is 3⌽

The fee is based on the resources exchanged on completion of the trade - not all resources present - with the following calculations:

• 4% of bits ⌽ exchanged;
• 30% of BGC exchanged;
• Upgrade rarity, based on the below table;

Rarity	Fee Amount
noob	3⌽
kiddie	3⌽
h4x0r	3⌽
h4rdc0r3	15⌽
|_|b3|2	30⌽
31337	150⌽

Notes

• You cannot offer something the other party is unable to hold.
• You can trade among your own users, but you cannot offer bits ⌽.
• The trade system can exceed the 32BGC xfer limit.
• Each party appears to only be able to offer 1 upgrade.