Trade Centers

[Fruchtkompot]

Is there a way to reduce the size of Trade Centers? I cant exactly build them back so do I just have them run a deficit long enough?

[󠀡󠀡]

Same thing here, my trade centers are growing like crazy, I dont have enough infastructure to support it, its ruining my economy. I dont understand why its growing.

[Seraph]

Do they grow when you're exporting good from that state? I don't know that is how it works, but it makes sense.

[Ixal]

The more trade routes the larger the trade centers.

[Lost Latios]

I find it redundant. We're already building the ports to support the convoys and what the trade brings in. If they're dead set on this the ports need to add more infrastructure to compensate.

[Xeen]

Every trade route now add +1 size per level to trade center infrastructure.
So with just one lvl 5 route you have 5 infrastructure points burned.
Without railways you have only single option to compensate. You must cut your trade routes down and focus on domestic products without export/import.

Unfortunately, trade routes owned by other states also counts. You need to keep your domestic production ballanced very carefully now, after todays patch.

When you disband trade route, it take another end-week tick to activate and add infrastructure points back.

EDIT: Maybe a solution to join into someones market may solve issue. But I dont want to try that option with my recent play :).

[lubed_assassin]

yeah u gotta stack infrastructure but on the Plus infrastructure makes you produce more services if i'm not mistaken.

[Xeen]

Originally posted by lubed_assassin:

yeah u gotta stack infrastructure but on the Plus infrastructure makes you produce more services if i'm not mistaken.

Service is part of Administrative buildings, which are necessary for effective taxtation of people. It is not related to infrastructure problem above.

[lubed_assassin]

Originally posted by Xeen:

Originally posted by lubed_assassin:

yeah u gotta stack infrastructure but on the Plus infrastructure makes you produce more services if i'm not mistaken.

Service is part of Administrative buildings, which are necessary for effective taxtation of people. It is not related to infrastructure problem above.

No i'm saying if you stack infrastructure it adds production of services as a side benefit. Every 100 urbanization adds 1 trade center building. Each trade center adds the economy of scale throughput to services production.

Admin buildings add urbanization which indirectly creates trade goods through the trade center,, admin buildings directly make tax capacity.

Any pops 10 wealth or above consume the services trade good.

[Gilmund]

Yes get ahead with your infrastructural buildings or reduce your consuption of needs.
You probly overextending too fast, you canno't rely only on external imports.
You have to be a production leader too and you'll not encounter the issue.

[Ixal]

Also the huge infrastructure demand has been confirmed to be a bug ans will be fixed soon

[Kusoyaro]

Trade Center's get built and erased according to your trade amount automatically. While you can't directly touch them, you can effect them by manipulating trading.

Though the latest patches infra addition was hilariously broken. Suddenly my Qing and Russian Democratic trading empires infra got crushed and half my port cities now have between -30 to -70 infra. Even USA on a fresh game will have New York immediately at -20 infra.

RIP my 180k/week coal empires. Was running out of space for ports anyway.
Guess i'll play something else until it gets fixed.

[VoiD]

It's a recent change, a gamebreaking one, it makes no sense to have a building that just increases and reduces sizes on it's own, and can pop up wherever it wants ruining the local infrastructure.

There is no ideal number for trade centers, they should return to costing zero infrastructure, or risk breaking the game.