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FEDTERM MANUAL - PLAYING FEDERATION 2 WITH FEDTERMTHE EXCHANGE DISPLAYIf you walk into an exchange, the panel at the top of the screen switches to the exchange display:
On the left of the exchange display are the details of the current price, along with a picture and a scrolling ticker display. If there is no picture available for the commodity, then a picture of the exchange is shown. The display will also show the details of prices you ask for using the 'C PRICE' command. On the right is the exchange history - a list of the prices that have come up since you walked into the exchange, both from the general price scroll and the ones you ask for. Double-click on a commodity in the list to issue a buy command. Note that if the commodity name is long and you are using a large font (or a small screen!) the information may not all fit in the window. If you select a line and then hold the cursor over the exchange history box, it will show you the selected entry in full. The history box holds approximately the last 100 prices, so it is possible to compare the price of the current commodity with its previous price. Note that the history box is cleared whenever you enter, or re-enter, an exchange. If too many price changes come in at once (ie a lot of people are buying and selling on the exchange at the same time) then the exchange ticker can get overloaded and will grind to a halt! Don't worry if that happens, the nano-gremlins will have everything sorted out by the time the next regular update happens. You won't lose any information, since everything gets displayed in history box, regardless of the state of the ticker. Prices are not shown on the main screen, but they are included on the story page, so will be included in logs. The exchange display switches on for all players, regardless of your rank, and the front-end will issue the buy command whether you are allowed to buy commodities or not. The game will do the usual, though, and tell you if you are not authorized to trade on the exchanges.
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