Prices and the rate

Everything in the shop has a fixed price in ETH, and the game shows it in CONVOY at the current rate. A bicycle is always about 0.001 ETH, whether a CONVOY is worth a lot or a little today. This keeps the game affordable to join and stops a rising or falling token from pricing new players out, or giving crew away. The prices are counted in a unit of 0.0005 ETH; no dollar rate is read anywhere.

The price list#

From ETH to CONVOY#

The CONVOY price is the ETH price divided by the rate, rounded up to a whole CONVOY. The rate comes from the CONVOY/ETH pool: the game reads the pool's price every few seconds, and the rate is that price, or the median of the last 5 minutes of it when that is lower. One CONVOY is a few billionths of an ETH, so the header shows the rate for a million: 1M CONVOY = … ETH (on a narrower screen it is at the top of the account menu).

What you paid stays what you paid. Your power does not follow the rate at all: it is the list price of what you bought, 1,000 PWR per 0.0005 ETH, so a bicycle counts the same whether CONVOY was cheap or dear when you bought it.

The rate moves with the market#

CONVOY trades freely, and its price can move a long way in minutes. When it falls, the shop follows straight away: everything costs more CONVOY seconds later. When it rises, the shop gets cheaper only as the rise holds, once the 5-minute median has caught up (about 3 minutes). A rise of a few seconds never makes anything cheaper.