Trades

A trade is not a theme for the shop. It is the set of risks you agree to carry: inspections, addiction, liability, heat, or the price of replacing what you miscounted. Each dossier states what the line demands at the counter, which machine it depends on, and where the margin actually lives. If you are new to the station, worth reading in this order: water first, then appraisal, then stolen goods — that is also the order in which the consequences get expensive.

Trades reward specialisation but not obsession. A shop that only sells water has a stable week and a low ceiling; a shop that sells water, appraises what walks in and carries a little contraband has a higher ceiling and a shorter expected life. The pages here are written so that you can see the tail as well as the margin — the note that a product line “ruins you” is a specific mechanic, not a warning label.

Where a number comes from a player rather than from the developer, the page says community-reported and the source list shows which video or guide it came from. Where it comes from the Steam page or the patch notes, the quote is printed underneath so you can read the original sentence rather than this guide’s summary of it.