Every market day was a lively time for economic exchange!
There might also be more participants coming back to rest.
There would also be more nonparticipants opening their shops, making it feel like a festival.
Although time in Ark's real world and the instance worlds flowed at a ratio of ten to one,
day and night could still broadly be divided into two opposing periods.
Aside from the effects of the changing seasons,
they could roughly be considered equal in duration.
Then...
It felt like day and night had been reversed, with everyone active at night and resting by day.
Half the time was spent silently grinding monsters and leveling up.
The other half was spent on lively multiplayer sessions and trading~
But since the network had long since connected the real and virtual worlds,
one could still learn about what was happening in the game world even while in reality.
Even deep within an instance, one could likewise find out what was happening in the outside world.
So whenever a participant had something to attend to,
they could temporarily log off.
If a nonparticipant seized a keen business opportunity, it was not impossible for them to sneak back into the game either.
What was more!
Market days were market days.
They were simply periods resembling major sales events.
On ordinary days,
although there would not be any large-scale trade,
still!
Leaving everything else aside,
didn't the merchant girls traveling between the rest instances and the surface cities also need to trade with their own distributors regularly?
These transactions
were mostly completed outside of market days.
It was like every promotional sale.
You had to prepare all the goods first.
Even if there was an event, you still had to think it through and make preparations before you could begin.