COMMODITY DESK · season 2
Nobody can run a chain alone. Every trade makes something it cannot use and needs something it cannot make, so the finished value of anything on this page took at least two Discord servers to produce and an argument about the price.
Every block prices every good on its own, pulled toward what the block is and pushed around by what people actually buy there. Cheapest and dearest are the two ends of the city on the day, and the gap between them is the entire trade — there is no exchange and nothing is delivered, so somebody has to carry it past the patrols in between.
| Good | Across the city | Cheapest block | Dearest block | Spread | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cut Powder | $610 | $350 | $1,305 | 272% | short |
| Bearer Bonds | $17k | $8,207 | $30k | 265% | short |
| Stolen Art | $2,929 | $1,466 | $5,244 | 258% | short |
| Uncut Stones | $7,198 | $3,531 | $12k | 253% | short |
| Pharmaceuticals | $114 | $59 | $193 | 230% | short |
| Untaxed Cigarettes | $14 | $7 | $23 | 220% | short |
| Untraceable Firearms | $435 | $252 | $779 | 209% | short |
| Chopped Parts | $146 | $86 | $252 | 193% | short |
| Bootleg Liquor | $32 | $20 | $54 | 168% | short |
Every step belongs to a different trade. That is enforced rather than intended: a test walks each trade's recipes and fails the build if one of them produces something another of its own recipes consumes.
| Job | Whose | In | Out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land a container | The Docks | nothing | 40 Untaxed Cigarettes |
| Strip a wreck | The Docks The Fence | nothing | 4 Chopped Parts |
| Divert a shipment | The Docks | nothing | 5 Pharmaceuticals |
| Finish a crate | The Foundry | 8 Chopped Parts | 4 Untraceable Firearms |
| Make do | The Foundry | 35 Untaxed Cigarettes | 2 Untraceable Firearms |
| Cut and bag | The Chemists | 10 Pharmaceuticals | 3 Cut Powder |
| Cook it from scratch | The Chemists | 45 Untaxed Cigarettes | 2 Cut Powder |
| Move it through the rooms | The Houses | 2 Cut Powder | 1 Stolen Art |
| Arm somebody else's argument | The Houses | 5 Untraceable Firearms | 1 Stolen Art |
| Paper it | The Bank The Fence | 2 Stolen Art | 1 Bearer Bonds |