There is no shop here - the market is only other players (from a brazilian noob)

Ola galera, costaz here from Brazil. I play this game maybe 3 weeks now and I want to write about the thing that confused me most in the start: the market. Because in other games you have a shop, you click and the game sell you stuff for a fixed price. Here is NOT like this. I lost some time looking for the shop, haha, there is no shop. Everything you buy, you buy from another real person. Every price you see, some player put it there. This was a big surprise for me. So how it works. You go to Markets, and you choose what kind - Raw Materials for the basic stuff like wood and stone, or Trade for the finished products like food and clothes. When you open it you see a list, this is called the order book. It show all the sell orders that players posted. The cheapest one is on top normaly. When you buy, the game take from the cheapest first, then the next cheapest, and go like this. So you allways pay the best price that exist, beleza. When you want to SELL is the other way. You make your food or whatever in your production, and you post a sell order. YOU choose the price. Then you wait. Maybe somebody buy fast, maybe it take time, depend if your price is good or no. Nobody is forced to buy from you. The market only put buyers and sellers together, it never buy by itself. This is important to understand, cara. Now the price. Why some things cost a lot and some things cost almost nothing? Is supply and demand, simple. If everybody produce food, food become cheap, too much food ne. If something is rare and everybody need it, the price go up. So the trick - and a friend explain me this - is to produce things that people need but not many people make. Then you sell good. If you produce the same thing like 500 other players, you will only sell cheap. One thing that get me in the beginning: the tax. When you sell something, a sale tax is taken from your money and it go to your country budget. Is not the full price that come to you, is a little less. The rate depend on the country. So when you decide your price, remember: your real profit is the sell price MINUS what it cost you to produce MINUS the tax. I forgot the tax the first time and after I was confuse why I receive less money, haha. Also there is a local market and a global market. Local is only your country, global is everybody together. And the prices are not the same in the two! Sometimes a material is expensive in Brazil but cheap in the global, or the oposite. I am still learning this part but my friend say you can buy cheap in one place and sell in the other place and make profit between them. My advice for new players like me: before you buy ANYTHING, just look first. Open the order book, look the prices, see how much is the cheap one and how much is the expensive one. Dont buy in panic. The market is calm, it will still be there tomorrow. The players who look before they buy, they get a good price. The players who click fast without looking, they pay too much and after they cry, haha. Ok this is what I learn until now. Is not complicated when you understand there is no shop, only people. We are all buying and selling to each other. Valeu for reading, and if you are also from Brasil, boa sorte with your town. costaz