ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

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Things to know about NPCTraders
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General information about NPC Trader - Trade Actor Types
   
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Default NPC Trader market view

If you open the CCMI Market UI at a NPC Trader, you'll see that it automatically filters for this actors Order Types.
Who owns the contracts, what are the limitations?
The contracts are all owned by the Trade Actor itself. Means you as admin won't see them in "My Orders".

A NPC Trader registers its default item template list, as can be seen in the settings discussion of the Capitalism Currency mod for the CCMI system. Those default item template lists can be modified via server settings.

Every NPC Trader will only register one trade order position for buy or sell of each Order Type. But it will update this trade order position with each delivery cycle. If no trade order position is available, it will create a new one automatically. Contrary to the old system, does this one not impose exponentially higher prices if the supply or demand is exceeded. It will simply stop selling or buying those items until the next delivery cycle went through.

Same goes for the automatic price finding system which was introduced with the Capitalism web platform[capitalism.remolutions.com] for the old Capitalism trade system. It does not report trade logs to the web platform and therefore does not receive any price changes.
Registered NPC Trader orders

As soon as at least one delivery cycle went through, you'll see on correctly set up Order Types, that the NPC Trader did create its trade order positions. It is market as yellow to highlight, that this order is from this Trade Actor, as can be seen in the description above in the same picture.


At a later state, i can be that there are hundreds of orders for an Order Type registered accross your server cluster. To manage this view, you can sort columns by clicking on its column header!
NPC Trader market UI details panel

The details provided by NPC Traders will be very minimalistic, since they simply create or destroy items on server side...
Buying or Selling something from a NPC Trader

Simply select the order and press buy to get the buy or sell popup. Then confirm the buy or sell transaction with this buy or sell popup. In this example the original order has 2500 Amarberries and we buy 500 of it. This will result in -500 of those 2500 Amarberries in the trade order position.


NPC Trader will automatically add 50% of the bought quantity of a buy transactions or vice versa to the conterpart trade order position.
Bought items go to the Asset Browser

In the top right corner you see an Asset Browser button. Your bought items won't go directly into your inventory, but into this temporary storage.


More on this will be covered by the Asset Browser Guides.