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Outposts

Your one stop shop for well...shopping.

Scattered across The Island are 4 settlements called OUTPOSTS. Outposts are a great place to meet up with your friends, take a break from the looting and killing, and share stories. Many friendships and rivalries arose in the worn seats of the saloon, between the shelves of the goods store, and on the dirty paths of the outpost settlements.

Shops In The Outposts

Inside each outpost you will come across many useful shops:

At each of those, you can buy and sell various items and use services such as getting a haircut or changing your character appearance. By default, prisoners CANNOT be damaged inside outposts. IMPORTANT - Vehicles can be parked in an Outpost, but beware, if the vehicle is in the Outpost for more than 2 hours and the server restarts, the vehicle will be DESTROYED.

IMPORTANT - You can carry a chest into an Outpost, but beware, if the chest is in the Outpost for more than 2 hours and the server restarts, the chest will be DESTROYED.

Item Prices

Items will not be priced the same at all times. They will have a base fluctuation, but the price will also be influenced by how many players are currently online. Also, not all items can be bought, but almost every item can be sold.

Outpost Economy Status

Each outpost has an Outpost Economy Status (or OES for short) which increases as items are traded in that specific outpost and decreases if there is no trading in an outpost for a period of time.

Traders also have funds which they use to buy items from prisoners. If traders do not have enough funds to buy an item, they will give their remaining amount. More prosperous outposts will have traders generating new funds faster.

Official SCUM in-game content (the game’s own text, translated by the studio).