# Procurement

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There is high demand for luxury items from each faction among the Empire’s elite, leading the Empire to post regular procurement announcements to officially import these luxuries.

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The Black Market (DEX) will be unavailable for 30 minutes immediately after a procurement is created, and the Claim function will be unavailable for 1 hour after the procurement is created.
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Procurement plans are created twice daily, at 00:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC. At these times, the exact posting time remains hidden from users. Instead, each procurement goes live at a random time slot, excluding 00:00 UTC, 06:00 UTC, 12:00 UTC, and 18:00 UTC.

Specifically, plans created at 00:00 UTC are posted at a random time between 01:00 and 11:00 UTC (covering 10 time slots). And plans created at 12:00 UTC are posted at a random time between 13:00 and 23:00 UTC (also covering 10 time slots).

The quantities and prices of these imported luxuries fluctuate. Since managing these variables is critical to controlling inflation in the black market, we have developed an Automated Token Distributor (ATD) and integrated it into the procurement system. The ATD automatically adjusts the daily procurement quantities and prices, helping stabilize $VALOR’s inflation.


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