# Player-Driven Economy

### **Integrated Marketplace**

A cornerstone of the economy is the player marketplace, an in-game exchange where players can list items for sale or place buy orders. Almost anything obtained or crafted in the game can be traded: resources, crafted equipment, special skins, etc.\
This marketplace will be accessible via the game’s interface (and as a web interface for blockchain assets).\
Transactions for these assets will use the $STOOPID token as the medium of exchange, ensuring the token flows through the economy. Meanwhile, more common resources might trade for Gold Coins.\
We will integrate an auction house system for discovery of prices, and search/sorting tools so players can find the exact item they need. Allowing this type of open trading, we empower players to set the value of items – rarity and demand will determine prices, creating an emergent economy.

### **Economic Balance and Anti-Inflation**

The in-game economy is carefully balanced to avoid oversupply of resources or items.\
Resource nodes have spawn rates, drop rates are tuned for fairness, and crafting requires meaningful effort. The Companion Bot helps in reducing grind by automating some gathering, but it doesn’t flood the economy – it mainly improves individual efficiency (and we can tweak its efficiency server-wide if needed to control resource influx) . We also implement item sinks and resource sinks: for example, crafting high-end gear might consume a large quantity of lower materials, or items may break after extensive use requiring re-crafting. Seasonal events might temporarily increase demand for certain items (e.g., everyone wants pumpkins during a Halloween event), giving a healthy fluctuation to markets.

### **Integration with Blockchain Economy**

The beauty of our economy is that valuable in-game items can be taken out of the game and truly owned or traded by players on secondary markets. Key items and assets are NFTs on Ethereum (L2), meaning players can sell them for cryptocurrency outside the game if they wish. The game’s marketplace will simplify this by handling all the blockchain interactions behind the scenes (with the Companion Bot and our infrastructure managing NFT transfers seamlessly).\
A percentage of marketplace transaction fees is funneled back into rewards (like staking yields or play-and-earn pools) to sustain the ecosystem.
