Help, commercial zone.

[Nyans]

Going for a trade+tech run,. Keep hearing about expanding commercial zone to get more merchants but I can't find any info on how to construct it.

What are commercial zones and how do I build them?

[Azunai]

it's a building similar to the research lab and the planetary capital (and 1-2 other buildings) that your homeworld started with. i think some civs actually start with one commercial zone on the homeworld.

to get merchant jobs from the commercial zones, you have to unlock the Mercantile traditions tree and the two perks on the left side of the tree (first one adds +1 trade value to clerks, the follow up adds a merchant job to the building)

[steventirey]

Commercial zones are building your build on planets that have clerk jobs (producing trade value and some amenities). They are available by default to everyone except Gestalt Consciousness empires, because they don't have civilian trade.

[mss73055]

Commercial zones are the only trade building you got at the start of the game.

Except when you play a gestalt empire, then you can't trade :)