Merchant

With the Merchant you swap resources at a fixed rate at any time – and with the Merchant+ you can even recycle fleets into Spice.

What is the Merchant?

The Merchant is an assistant from the shop (Assistants). As long as it is active, you can trade one resource for another as often as you like in the Merchant menu – directly on the planet or asteroid you are currently on.

The rate

Trades always use the fixed rate Pig iron 6 : Metal 2.5 : Kryptonite 3 : Spice 1. So for 1 Spice you get 6 Pig iron, 2.5 Metal or 3 Kryptonite – and vice versa.

There are two ways to trade: with Offer you enter how much you give away. With Request you enter how much you want to receive, and the game works out what it costs. With Trade anything into you convert all other resources on the planet into one type at once.

Merchant+

The Merchant's plus features also give you:

Trade anything into on all planets at once.
Building and researching with automatic trading: if single resources are missing but the total value is enough, the game trades the rest for you when you start.
Transport flights with 50% higher base speed.
The recycling yard.

Recycling yard

In the recycling yard you turn ships from the current planet directly into Spice: you are credited with 70% of their Spice value. There is a daily maximum, which the game shows together with today's total.

As a possible option in a universe's setup, an Urplasma fee per trade can be switched on. If it were active, the price would be shown right on the trade button.