====== Economic transactions ======
The pattern concerns a range of transactions such as trading, exchanging, auctioning.

**Economic transactions** may concern [[en:patterns:digital_object|digital objects]] or **information**. Use of such patterns might require the application of some [[en:patterns:strategy|strategy]] from the part of the player. 

Patterns such as [[en:patterns:collecting|collecting]] and [[en:patterns:combining|combining]] of [[en:patterns:digital_object|digital objects]] might be prerequisites for **economic transactions**. They might also be part of a [[en:patterns:puzzle|puzzle]].

**Economic transactions** might be employed to regulate {{tagpage>interaction_between_players|interactions between players}}. For example [[en:patterns:cooperation|cooperation]] or [[en:patterns:competition|competition]] might be mediated through concepts of value and debt and also might be used to manifest relations between players (e.g. a player might //owe// some kind of service to another player).

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===Related patterns===
[[en:patterns:balance_cooperation_and_competition|balance cooperation and competition]]

[[en:patterns:competition|competition]] between players

[[en:patterns:competition|cooperation]] between players

[[en:patterns:digital_object|digital object]]

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=== Related heuristics ===
[[en:heuristics:heuristics#3.5]]

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