Buying/Selling/Transferring

Purchase Times

Item	Time (Hours)	Time (Days)
All Personnel	72	3
SKYRANGER	72	3
INTERCEPTOR	96	4
Craft Weapons	48	2
Craft Missiles	48	2
Cannon Rounds (×50)	96	4
HWPs	96	4
HWP Ammo	48	2
All Weapons	24	1
All Ammunition	24	1
All Equipment	24	1

Non-Manufacturable Prices

Item	Cost ($)	Sale Price ($)	Wage/Rental ($/month)
Soldier	40,000	0	20,000
Scientist	60,000	0	30,000
Engineer	50,000	0	25,000
SKYRANGER	500,000	0	500,000
INTERCEPTOR	600,000	0	600,000
Stingray Launcher	16,000	12,000
Avalanche Launcher	17,000	12,750
Cannon	30,000	22,500
Stingray Missiles	3,000	2,400
Avalanche Missiles	9,000	7,200
Cannon Rounds (×50)	1,240	1,012
Tank/Cannon	420,000	340,000
HWP Cannon Shells	200	100
Tank/Rocket Launcher	480,000	360,000
HWP Rockets	3,000	2,250
Pistol	800	600
Pistol Clip	70	52
Rifle	3,000	2,250
Rifle Clip	200	150
Heavy Cannon	6,400	4,800
HC-AP Ammo	300	225
HC-HE Ammo	500	275
HC-I Ammo	400	300
Auto-Cannon	13,500	10,125
AC-AP Ammo	500	400
AC-HE Ammo	700	560
AC-I Ammo	650	520
Rocket Launcher	4,000	3,000
Small Rocket	600	480
Large Rocket	900	720
Incendiary Rocket	1,200	960
Grenade	300	240
Smoke Grenade	150	120
Proximity Grenade	500	400
High Explosive	1,500	1,200
Stun Rod	1,260	945
Electro-flare	60	40

Manufacturable Prices

These are the build prices "straight up", as shown in the manufacturing screen. For a more in-depth look at manufacturing, including labor costs, exotic components, etc., see Manufacturing Profitability.

Item	Cost ($)	Sale Price ($)	Hours	Workspace	Alloys	Elerium	Power	Navigation
Fusion Ball Launcher	242,000	281,100	400	6	1
Laser Cannon	182,000	211,000	300	6
Plasma Beam	226,000	267,300	500	8		15
Fusion Ball	28,000	53,300	600	6		4
Tank/Laser Cannon	500,000	594,000	1,200	25
Hovertank/Plasma	850,000	980,000	1,200	30	5	30
Hovertank/Launcher	900,000	1,043,000	1,400	30	8	25
HWP Fusion Bomb	15,000	31,500	400	25	8	5
Laser Pistol	8,000	20,000	300	2
Laser Rifle	20,000	36,900	400	3
Heavy Laser	32,000	61,000	700	4
Motion Scanner	34,000	45,600	220	4
Medi-Kit	28,000	46,500	420	4
Psi-Amp	160,000	194,700	500	4		1
Heavy Plasma	122,000	171,600	1,000	4	1
Heavy Plasma Clip	6,000	9,590	80	4		3
Plasma Rifle	88,000	126,500	820	4	1
Plasma Rifle Clip	3,000	6,290	80	4		2
Plasma Pistol	56,000	84,000	600	3	1
Plasma Pistol Clip	2,000	4,440	60	4		1
Blaster Launcher	90,000	144,000	1,200	5	1
Blaster Bomb	8,000	17,028	220	3		3
Small Launcher	78,000	120,000	900	3	1
Stun Bomb	7,000	15,200	200	2		1
Alien Grenade	6,700	14,850	200	2		2
Mind Probe	262,000	304,000	1,200	4		1
Personal Armor	22,000	54,000	800	12	4
Power Suit	42,000	85,000	1,000	16	5	5
Flying Suit	58,000	115,000	1,400	16	5	16
Alien Alloys	3,000	6,500	100	10
UFO Power Source	130,000	250,000	1,400	22	5	16
UFO Navigation	150,000	80,000	1,600	18	3
Firestorm	400,000	0	14,000	30	65		1	1
Lightning	600,000	0	18,000	34	85		1	1
Avenger	900,000	0	34,000	36	120		2	1

UFO Recoverable Prices

Item	Sale Price ($)
Elerium-115*	5,000
Alien Corpses	20,000
Alien Food	5,000
Alien Entertainment	20,000
Alien Surgery	38,000
Examination Room	9,000
UFO Construction**	20,000
Alien Reproduction**	40,000
Alien Habitat**	100

* Elerium-115 is the only useful item in the game that can never be bought or manufactured (only recovered from UFO and Alien Base assaults), so it is recommended that you never sell it.
** These items cannot be recovered from a UFO. They are game "artifacts" which can only be added to your inventory via an editor.

Transfers

• All items and personnel take anywhere from 6 to 16 hours to transfer between bases, dependent entirely on distance. The minimum is 6 hours, even if your bases are right on top of each other. For details, see the Talk page. (Volutar's work needs to be copied here.)
• Transfer fees depend on item type and distance, and use a term taken from the transfer-time equation. (Volutar's work needs to be copied here.)
• The transfer queue (TRANSFER.DAT) can only handle 100 line items at a time. "Line items" means that, e.g., a single transfer of 50 Alloys only counts as one line item. (Each row you see in the Base Info's Transfers tab is one line.)
• If you transfer a Transport, all the weapons, soldiers, and equipment assigned to it also transfer. It's a quick way to transfer an entire fighting force, but everything will be in limbo (the transfer queue) and can't do anything until they arrive.
  • The craft and each soldier will enter the Transfer queue. If this causes there to be more than 100 items in the queue, excess soldiers will be left behind.
  • Equipment assigned to a craft is actually stored with the craft (not in base stores). So it does get transferred, but doesn't show up in (or clog) the queue. (Nor will it show up at either base, while on the craft.) Don't forget to separately transfer any extra ammo or backup items your force needs.
• Transferring an existing craft to a base is much quicker (6-16 hours) than ordering a new craft for that base (72 or 96 hours, plus arming/fueling time). If craft are urgently needed in an area, transfer craft from other base(s) in quieter areas, and (if required), order new craft for the quieter base(s). Transferred craft arrive ready for a mission. Again this is faster than newly bought craft which must go through the full arming/fueling/etc. cycle.

• Transferring anything that is alive (soldiers, scientists, engineers and captured aliens) is FREE!
  • Note that when transferring captured aliens, you need to have room in the target base's containment. One thing that is not terribly obvious is that these aliens in transit use up living quarter space at the target base until they arrive and are thrown into the freezer.

Bugs

• Storage and Transfer Bugs

See Also

• Hiring/firing
• Manufacturing Profitability
• UFO Recovery Values
• Economics
• Buying/Selling/Transferring_(TFTD)