This page focuses on the natural resources available in Energetica : Coal, Gas and Uranium. These resources are generated on the Map, can be extracted by Extraction Facilities and are used as fuel for some Power Facilities.
Resource Market
The resource market serves as a marketplace for natural resources.
To add an offer for a specific quantity of a resource at a chosen price, users can click on the "Put on sale" button on the market. This offer will be displayed as a new tile on the page. The amount put up for sale is stored in your warehouse but cannot be consumed until sold (visible as "on sale" in the resource graph).
Once another player buys a portion of your offer, you receive the money, and the sold amount is shipped. To remove offers from the market, users can repurchase their own resources without losing money, thereby regaining access to the resources.
If users wish to purchase resources from another player, they can click on the tile of interest, specify the desired amount within the available offer, and click "buy". The purchased resources will be shipped to their location (refer to resource shipment).
Resource Shipment
When a certain amount of a natural resource is bought on the market, it is shipped from the seller to the buyer. The shipment duration and electricity consumption are calculated based on the following formulas:
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\(t_{ship} = t_{base} \times dist \times 0.9^{TT} \) \(P_{ship} = \frac{E_{base} \times
q_{ship} \times 1.035^{TT} }{ t_{base} \times 0.9^{TT} } \)
with:- \(t_{ship}\) : shipment duration in hours
- \(t_{base}\) : base value of shipment duration : 5.3 h/tile (in-game time) or 40 min/tile (real-time)
- \(dist\) : distance between buyer and seller in tiles
- \(TT\) : level of transport technology
- \(P_{ship}\) : power consumed for shipping in W
- \(E_{base}\) : base energy need of shipments : 5 Wh/kg/tile
- \(q_{ship}\) : quantity of shipped resources in kg
If the energy demand of the shipment isn't met, it is paused.
Upon arrival, if the buyer's warehouse lacks sufficient capacity to store the shipped amount, excess resources will be lost.