Trade Center

The Modern Age trade center is the global economy condensed into a single building — a high-capacity commercial hub where import quotas, currency exchange rates, and multi-commodity futures contracts are negotiated simultaneously by professionals representing interests on every continent. The great trading companies of the twentieth century — Standard Oil, IG Farben, ICI — operated through centralised commercial institutions coordinating raw material flows, manufacturing contracts, and distribution networks at a scale that dwarfed any Renaissance trading post. In the game the trade center generates income from all resource types simultaneously, dramatically amplifies the output of adjacent markets and warehouses, and enables unique economic technologies not accessible from any earlier building. It is the commercial pinnacle of the modern era — lose it and your war economy falters; hold it and nothing your opponent builds can match your income.