Auctions

The auction house sells boosts, ships, resources, dark matter, officers and commander items. All of its lots run together in rounds.

Rounds

Every lot of a round ends at the same time. A round runs 6 hours in this universe: 6 hours on a universe of normal speed, shorter on a faster one, never shorter than 1 hour. When it ends, the highest bid wins each lot, and the next round starts with fresh copies of the lots.

Rarity

Every lot rolls a rarity when its round opens. A rarer lot holds more and costs more: its contents, its minimum bid and its buy-now price are multiplied by its rarity's multiplier.

Bidding

Lots are bid in dark matter. Your bid is paid at once, and when someone bids more, your dark matter comes back to you. Each new bid has to beat the standing one by at least the lot's step.

Dark matter lots are the exception: they are bid in a resource, paid from the planet you are on, and an outbid bid goes back to that planet. The bigger the lot, the less each dark matter costs. A few older lots can still be bid in another currency; the page marks them, and a bid there is final whether you win or not.

Buy now

A lot with a buy-now price can be bought at once for antimatter. It ends for everyone, and its high bidder gets their bid back. For most lots the price is the minimum bid in dark matter turned into antimatter, times 1.5, so buying outright costs more than converting antimatter and bidding. A dark matter lot is the exception again: bought outright, each of its dark matter costs less antimatter than converting it would.

Won lots

What you win waits in your won lots until you pick it up. Ships and resources land on the planet you choose there, or on your home planet.