Summary
The video discusses how the Star Atlas marketplace can be used to play the game. The marketplace allows players to buy and sell in-game assets, such as ships, using the concept of arbitrage. The presenter explains that players can purchase an asset, like a ship, at one price and then sell it at a higher price if the market price has increased, thereby making a profit. This buying and selling of assets is considered a form of gameplay within Star Atlas, even though it is not a traditional video game experience. The presenter provides an example using the Pearce X4 ship, showing how the marketplace displays different prices from both the game developers and other community members selling their ships. Players can either immediately buy a ship at the listed price or create their own sell order to offer their ship at a price they set. Overall, the key point is that the Star Atlas marketplace provides an avenue for players to engage in asset trading and arbitrage as a way to interact with and play the game.
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Video Transcript – Play Star Atlas with $100 and $20 per month – Marketplace
[00:00:00] Another way that you can play Star Atlas is actually using the marketplace, and you might say, but isn’t the marketplace where you buy and sell ships? Yes, that could be a form of the game. So basically this uses the concept of arbitrage. So if you buy an asset, say at 10, and you hold it and the price the market is willing to purchase it for goes up to 11 and you sell that then you have made one dollar.
[00:00:30] So is that a game? Yes. Is it a traditional video game? No, but again this is one of the aspects that Star Atlas is providing due to having the ability to own your own assets and buy and sell those. So basically once you’re in the Showroom, you can go to the different areas. We’ll look at ships real quick.
[00:00:53] An extra small ship, just to give an example. And we’ll go ahead and look at the Pierce X4. So for the Pierce X4, there’s actually two options, how the marketplace works. There are people, if you want to buy that chip, you would look at the different prices up here. So again, Star Atlas is selling their large quantity for 25, but other community members are actually selling at a lower price.
[00:01:15] These are sorted by lowest to highest. So if I immediately wanted to buy. this ship. I could just click buy and go through that process. On the other hand, the marketplace allows you to sell your resources. So if you had a ship, you could actually basically offer it up to see if anybody’s willing to do it.
[00:01:33] So this is where the create orders comes into play. So you can basically buy, well, we don’t own it, but if we did, we could click the sell option there. So this again gives us the way to basically become buyers and sellers within this marketplace. So if you have the resource, you can set the price you’re willing to take.
[00:01:51] And if you want to buy it for one, so again, there is a option of basically an arbitrage model here. And so this is another form of potential game play within star Alice.