F8 page (commodity market)

F8 screen from the Vanilla game

F8 screen after being OXP'd!
*The added commodities (medicine, witchfire, oxygen etc) spill the commodities over onto a second page
*Docked HUDs removes the HUD from the bottom of the screen leaving just the fuel bar & missile display
*Market Observer adds the market analysis columns (average/diff/%diff/purchase breakdown)
*SW Economy has changed the order of the commodities - and has altered both the galactic average and this system's prices
*XenonUI adds the text in the margins - the helpful functional menu & sub-commands

F8F8 screen from the Vanilla game

F8F8 screen (OXP'd)
*You can navigate between the commodities using the up & down arrow keys
*Docked HUDs removes the HUD from the bottom of the screen leaving just the fuel bar & missile display
*Market Observer adds the market analysis columns (average/diff/%diff/purchase breakdown)
*SW Economy adds the line about life-supporting goods and space objects
*XenonUI adds the text in the margins - the helpful functional menu & sub-commands

This page is accessible both while docked and in flight. The in-flight prices given are those of the local main orbital station. This is where you buy and sell commodities - and hopefully make a profit!

Key-commands

• The "Arrow keys" both navigate around & between the pages, and also buy and sell items. Take care!
• Pressing the F8/8 button a second time toggles between the commodity market page with the commodity: "item" information page

Using the F8 Trading screen

F8/8: summons the screen. The prices shown (anywhere in the system) are those of the main orbital station only.

Arrows - up & down: select one of the 17 commodities

Arrows - left & Right: buy or sell the selected commodity

Enter: sells your entire inventory of the current item or buys as much as your hold (and Credits) will allow

F8/8 repeated - toggles between more detail on selected commodity & main market screen (eg if you have some in your hold: purchase price records for cargo hold contents)

?: toggles between 6 filters for the commodities

• all 17 commodities
• only goods carried in station or in stock in cargo hold
• goods carried in station only
• goods in stock in ship's cargo hold only
• legal goods: just the 14 legal commodities
• prohibited goods: just slaves, narcotics & firearms

/: toggles between 6 sorted orders for the listed commodities

• default order: the original order from Classic Elite
• alphabetical order
• order of price
• order of quantity in stock in station
• order of quantity in ship's cargo hold
• order of unit mass: ie TC/kg/g

Number of commodities on offer

The Vanilla game features just 17 commodities which fit on the one page.
The following commodities are added by OXPs:

• Oxygen (from SW Economy)
• Fresh water (from SW Economy)
• Medicine (from SW Economy)
• Quirium Crystal (from Montanas Resource Pack 01)
• Quirium Fuel (from Fuel Tweaks)
• Witchfire Whisky from Darkside Moonshine Distillery

As the number of commodities increases you may find a need to change their order - or leave some off the list. See the Sort and Filter toggles above.

Changing the page

• XenonUI provides an on-screen reference list of key commands for this and the other F4-F8 pages
• Market Observer adds a plethora of information for making informed choices for buying or selling
• Docked HUDs removes your HUD from the bottom of the page, leaving only the fuel bar & missile display. Some of the more recent HUDs do this automatically.
• 'No Market' Notification is for Dockables with no market. It replaces the meaningless Vanilla game F8 page giving empty values for each commodity with a formal notice that there is no market.

F8F8 page (commodity "item" information)

Information about just one of the commodities on the F8 page. You can use the up & down arrow keys while on F8F8 to move between the commodities.

Various OXPs fill this screen with more information:

• Market Observer adds the price at which you bought each tranch of the commodity in your hold
• SW Economy adds trading advice about each commodity
• SOTL Altmap, another game using the Oolite engine, adds information about each of the 40 AltMap commodities