Economy is now live!
Check the trading post out at spawn for the prices, and livestock spawn eggs are already for sale at exorbitant amounts of money!
Players can also make their own impromptu trading stores with the Trade signs as shown here: ess.khhq.net/wiki/Sign_Tutorial
Towns should start working together and begin saving money, because you can purchase some nice stuff with a little bit of work:
Shopkeepers will be sold in a week or so, and you will be able to place them in designated trading posts linked to a chest, allowing for direct item-to-item trades. These will cost anywhere from 10-20k, so start saving!
Towns which desire to have a trading post attached to their lands must save up at least 100k and not be within 200 tiles of another town at the time of purchase. A shopkeeper will be going up in the spawn trading post in the next few days who will be selling 5 parts of the next trading post deed for an unspecified price in diamonds. The town/nation which wishes to own the next trading post must collect all 5 pieces - yes, this means that other towns may purchase a part of the trading post deed and bargin with the holders of the other parts for wealth and glorious riches!
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