HWS Marketplace

Updated Oct 22, 2026Written on the HWS forum

The HWS Marketplace is a custom player-to-player trading system created by HWS. It replaces the in-game marketplace and runs on HWS Connect:

Buy / Sell: sell offers of all players
Wanted: buy orders that other players fill
History: your own trades (HWS Elite+)

NA players use /rn/ instead of /re/. Each server has its own market. Credits are paid from and into your Elemental Bank (EB).

🎥 Video Tutorial

ℹ️ This video shows the previous HWS Connect. The screenshots in this guide show the current site.

🛒 Buy / Sell Page

At the top you see your Bank Level, EB Credits, HWS DNA and Playhours, the Market Stats (sales per day, top sellers, top buyers, top items) and the season stats.

Below is the list of all active sell offers, cheapest first, with search and filters for everyone. Auto Discount shows when an offer gets cheaper (see below). Your own offers are marked "Your offer".

Buy

Be online in game on that server
Find the item and click Buy Offer
Set the amount: type it, use the quick-amount chips (change them in Settings → General) or Max
Check Goods, Market fee and Total cost. The fee shown is an estimate. The game server calculates the final fee when you buy
Click Deliver (to your backpack) or Deliver to OCD (HWS Elite+)

Items that don't fit into your backpack go to your Lost & Found.

Sell

Be online in game on that server with the items in your backpack
Click Sell Items and click the item in your backpack
Set Sell Quantity and Unit Price
Optional: Max Buyer Playtime (50–1000 h; 1000 = no restriction). Players with more playtime can't buy it, a beginner-friendly option
Click Sell Item(s). The items leave your backpack

💡 HWS Elite+ patrons can also sell straight from their OCD.

Edit or cancel your offer

Click Edit Offer on your own offer: enter a New unit price and Save price, or Cancel offer (only inside a Marketplace Zone, the remaining items come back to you).

📦 Marketplace Zones

Inside a Marketplace Zone, buying and claiming are free and selling costs only a small fee:

ECC Planet → Elemental Galactic Services HQ POI > Market Zone
ECC Sector → HWS Racom Trading Zone
You can also buy your own Marketplace Zone

ℹ️ If HWS Connect can't confirm that you are in a zone, you are treated as outside one.

💰 Marketplace Fees

Action	Inside a Marketplace Zone	Outside
Buy	Free	(11 − EB level)% credits (EB 1: 10% … EB 10: 1%) + 1 HWS DNA per EB level × 10 items
Sell	3% credits	10% credits + 1 HWS DNA per item
Sell as Dealer Origin	EB level 1: 5% · 2: 4.5% · 3: 4% · 4: 3.5% · 5: 3% · 6: 2.5% · 7: 2% · 8: 1.5% · 9: 1% · 10: 0% (no HWS DNA)	same credit fee as inside + 1 HWS DNA per item
Change price	1st change free, then the Nth change costs N% credits (from the 11th: + N − 10 HWS DNA)	N × 10% credits + N HWS DNA
Cancel offer	10% of the remaining value	not possible

Price change fees are charged on the old unit price × the amount left. The counter resets after 12 hours without a change (6 hours for Dealers).
A price change must be at least ±1% or 10 credits (1 credit for Dealers). Undercutting the cheapest offer needs at least 1% and 10 credits (1 for Dealers).
After changing a price you must wait 1 hour before cancelling.
DNA "transfer points" you don't use up when buying outside a zone carry over to your next purchase.

ℹ️ The sell fee is calculated on unit price × amount at the moment you list the item and is deducted from your Elemental Bank. HWS Connect shows you the fee before the listing goes live.

💡 Why a sell fee? The Marketplace moves ~25 billion credits per season. A small fee is the fairest way to keep credits from piling up endlessly, and it makes your Elemental Bank Level and the Dealer Origin matter for trading. Sell inside a Marketplace Zone (ECC / Racom / your own zone) or level up your EB to keep it low.

Items you can't sell: Portals, Tokens, Keycards, HWS Star Dust, Invulnerable and News items, some POI turrets, explosive blocks and damaged weapons/items.

Dealer bonus: a Dealer-origin seller gets 10 HWS DNA (max once a day) when a non-Dealer buys one of their offers.

📉 Auto Discount (Auto Price Drop)

Old offers get cheaper automatically, so overpriced items don't clog the Marketplace:

Offer age	Discount	Buyer pays
15 days	25%	75% of the asking price
30 days	50% (of the 15-day price)	37.5%
90 days	75% (of the 30-day price)	~9.4%

The Auto Discount column shows "reduces in N day(s) by X%", "X% off now" or "Full price". You can sort the offers by it to find the biggest discounts first.

🔍 Wanted (BUY Orders)

A Wanted order is a buy request: you choose the item, amount and unit price, the credits are reserved from your EB, other players deliver the items, and you claim them.

Create a Wanted order

Be online in game, click Create Wanted Order
Pick an item from your backpack, or Search for Item (Any Item) in the whole catalogue
Set Wanted quantity and Unit price. Total reserved credits are taken from your EB right away
Master+ can tick Enable AMM (see below)

Fulfill, claim, edit, cancel, finalize

Fulfill Request (someone else's order): choose a quantity. The items are taken from your backpack (never from the OCD) and your payout goes into your EB.
Claim (your order): delivered items go into your backpack. You have 7 days after an order is fully filled to claim it.
Edit Order: change quantity and price, only while nothing has been delivered yet.
Cancel Order: refunds the still reserved credits minus 10% (min. 1 credit, Dealers pay 1 credit).
Finalize (after the order ended): claim what was delivered and get the rest of your credits back.

Slots, lifespan and fees

	Rule
Active orders	your EB level (1–10), +2 with Dealer Origin, +2 with HWS Elite+
Lifespan	your EB level in days (1–10 days)
Claim/finalize outside a Marketplace Zone	same DNA rule as buying + (11 − EB level)% credits. Dealers pay no credit fee
PvP	only Fighter Origin can create/edit orders in PvP. Claiming/finalizing only works in PvE. In PvP, claiming has a 1 hour cooldown after fulfillment

Some items can't be requested (e.g. tokens, keycards, portals, event items, many deco/statue/tribal blocks, Zirax weapons).

Origin bonuses

Fighter: +10% payout when fulfilling orders for combat items (ammo, weapons, turrets, guns). Not if the order price is more than 10% above the Market Consensus Price, max once per order creator per season and once per 24 hours.
Explorer: every 5th of your orders that was filled completely by one player gives 10 HWS DNA. Each of those orders must come from a different player per season.
Engineer: same rule, reward 10x HWS Star Dust.
Dealer: +2 order slots, lower Wanted fees (see above).

AMM: Automated Market Maker (HWS Master+)

With AMM on, your Wanted order buys matching sell offers by itself:

Only offers on the same server, at or below your unit price (after auto discount), cheapest first, never your own
Matching happens right away or later, when a matching offer is posted
Matched items are not delivered automatically. Claim them within 7 days, normal claim rules and fees apply
Reserved credits count as spent at your unit price, even when AMM bought cheaper

🌐 Cross Server Marketplace (HWS Master+)

Servers are paired: RE EU ↔ RE NA (and HWS+ EU ↔ NA). With HWS Master+ you can switch the View to Paired server or Both servers and buy offers or fulfill Wanted orders on the paired server while you are online on either one. Credits and delivery use the server you are actually playing on. AMM never works across servers.

⭐ Patreon Benefits

Benefit	Tier
Group Offers View: one row per item with its cheapest offer, "+N more offers" to expand	HWS Veteran+
Item Sale History charts (daily volume, min/avg/max price)	HWS Veteran+
Deliver to OCD, sell from OCD, History page, +2 Wanted order slots	HWS Elite+
Cross Server Marketplace, AMM for Wanted orders	HWS Master+

Marketplace History (HWS Elite+)

Your personal trading journal: everything you bought, sold and did with Wanted orders on this server, with dates, prices, totals and region. Pick 24h / 7d / 30d / 90d or a custom range, and export it as CSV.

🧮 Smart Price System: Market Consensus Price (MCP)

The Marketplace calculates a fair Market Consensus Price (MCP) for every item from real trades:

Real trade data: only completed player-to-player sales of the last 14 days on that server count, not listings
Self-trades are ignored
Outlier protection: extreme prices (below 10% or above 1000% of the average) are filtered out
Minimum activity: at least 3 trades from 2 different sellers and 2 different buyers. Until then the item counts as "not traded" and falls back to its config price
Weighted average: large trades count more than small ones

The MCP is used by several game systems:

ts:sellcredits:id: selling a ship to the system pays the MCP of its components
egs:insurance:claim:id: insurance claims are valued at current market prices
The Fighter Wanted bonus (see above) and HWS Trader package prices

ℹ️ Prices are cached. The first lookup of an item can take a moment.

⚠️ Full Wipe Warning

Before a full server wipe:

🧹 ALL Marketplace offers will be deleted! Make sure to retrieve all items from the Marketplace via HWS Connect in advance.

❓ Common Messages

"You must be online to sell items!" (or to change price, stop a trade, create a Wanted order): join that server in game first.
"You are not in a Marketzone, so this action cannot be completed.": cancelling only works inside a Marketplace Zone.
"Market is disabled in this playfield.": you are in a special or event playfield (e.g. the Cross Server Warp sector). Move elsewhere.
"This offer is restricted to players with ≤ N hours of playtime.": the seller set a playtime limit.
"[Market] Failed to validate unit price!": the price just changed (auto discount or the seller edited it). Reopen the offer.
"Not enough credits or HWS DNA!": check your Elemental Bank balance and DNA.
"Price recently modified. Must wait 1 hour...": you can't cancel within 1 hour after a price change.
"The game server did not confirm this trade, so it is on hold for staff review. Do NOT repeat it.": staff will settle it. Nothing is charged or delivered twice.
Why can't I switch the View to Both servers? Cross-server browsing is an HWS Master+ benefit.

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