# Market Spread

The market similar to other systems are designed against bots. These will be enforced by a trading penalty system, where the players have to pay a fee when selling the items. The penalty paid is collected by the market as the market fee, and provide the necessary market spread.

Players will be able to consume items are buy “products” to lower their market fees.

Trade penalty will be determined by the following

| Sell Trade Penalty (STP) | 2% |
| ------------------------ | -- |
| Buy Trade Penalty (BTP)  | 2% |

The item will be sold using these, and the net gains and “losses” of the players will be like the following.

| Item List Price | Buyer Pays | Seller Gets | Buyer Market Fee | Seller Market Fee | Total Fee |
| --------------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------------- | ----------------- | --------- |
| 1000            | 1020       | 950         | 20               | 50                | 70        |

For a weekly subscription, trading players will be able to reduce their market fee, to make their prices more competitive. For example, the sellers can reduce their market fee percentage by half through acquiring “trade licenses”

| Item List Price | Buyer Pays | Seller Gets | Buyer Market Fee | Seller Market Fee | Total Fee |
| --------------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------------- | ----------------- | --------- |
| 1000            | 1020       | 975         | 20               | 25                | 45        |

The buying plates will be able to see items in their “list” price and their “buy price” to determine if buying a trade license is worth it.


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