Market

Market Screen

The Market is where mercs can buy equipment. The Inventory screen is used for selling. Across the top of the Market screen is a set of buttons to focus on one class of equipment: weapons, mods, armor, items, cyberdecks and programs. Press f or click the "apply filters" button to focus more specifically. When a specific item is selected, details about it are shown on the right side. Press spacebar or click "Buy" to complete the purchase. This brings up a Dialog to enter the quantity to purchase and to select the specific Contact to buy from. Due to Contact special abilities, some Contacts may offer a better price.

Filters

Depending on which top level button is highlighted, the contents of the filter side panel change slightly. If "All Items" (grid icon) is selected, the filter has options for rarity, power level, and seller. To find the highest-level items, slide the "Min Power Level" filter to slightly higher numbers. To see items are sold by which Contact (or which Contact sells a particular item), use the seller checkboxes.

If Weapons is selected at the top, the filter adds options to select either heavy or light weapons, or to filter down to specific weapon types. Similarly, if Weapon Mods is selected at the top, the filter allows selecing specific mod slots. If Items is selected at the top, the filters allows selecting different item classes, and so forth.

Protip: If a specific filter is selected, and then a specific item is clicked, this hides the filter side panel. But it is important to observe that the item that had been selected is no longer selected! Instead the upper left item in the grid is selected. Many players have clicked an item and then clicked buy without checking, resulting in buying some cheap low-level weapon instead of the one they wanted.

Although it is rarely used, the button at the top of the filter tab "already owned" provides a different way of filtering. This reduces the lists to show only equipment owned by the squad. Though it only shows owned items, the menu is still for only for buying items, not selling. For example, if three types of rifle are owned, only those three weapon types would be shown. The icon for each weapon shows two numbers, X/Y; this represents how many of that type are equipped, followed by how many are owned. For example, 0/1 means the squad owns one, but it is not equipped by any merc. 6/7 means 7 are owned and 6 of them are equipped, so one would be available to sell. Again, this screen does not enable selling the owned items, it only allows buying more instances of the owned items.

Compare

You can compare two items of similar types in the market. Press C or click the compare button. Whatever item that was highlighted is now selected for compare. Click a second item and the right side of the panel will show a comparison.

The upper right displays the names of the two Weapons, one above the other. It is important to note which one is on top, and which one is on the bottom. For each of the comparison bars shown, the same top and bottom are used. In this screenshot, the Kinblade is on top, and the E-cutter is on the bottom; therefore, it is the Kinblade with 340 kinetic Damage and the E-cutter with 310. The red and green colors indicate whether the top weapon is better (green) or worse (red) for that particular stat. White means the two Weapons are equal in that stat.