Wholesale Center

Wholesale Center

The Wholesale Center display the current Market News and manages periodic Orders that expire.

Market News

Market News adds 3 different modifiers that apply either a buff or debuff to the specified resource type. The modifiers change every 2 hours on market reset, or 1 hour for Hong Kong^[DLC].

Each of the 3 modifiers have a unique scope:

• Global - Applies to everyone
• Map Specific - Every city gets a different modifier
• Only You - A modifier specific to each player

When a resource type is specified in a news, for "input" it applies to all production facilities that receive that resource type as input, and for "output" it applies to all production facilities that output the specified resource type.

There are 6 types of modifiers that can occur at any scope:

• Buffs
  • Output Increased - Increases output capacity, same input capacity
  • Input Decreased - Lowers input capacity, same output capacity
• Debuffs
  • Output Decreased - Decreases output capacity, same input capacity
  • Input Increased - Increases input capacity, same output capacity
• Other Modifiers
  • Increased input and output - Increases both output and input capacity
  • Decreased input and output - Decreases both output and input capacity

80% of all Market News are buffs to production. A modifier can range from 5-20%.

Orders

Every 4 minutes, or 2 minutes with the World's Fair Policy activated, an Order will appear in the Wholesale Center listing 1-6 resources that need to exist in any storage on the map before the order can be Filled to earn the Reward's Cash , Policy Points, and Research Points displayed.

The resources listed consist of either raw resources or output of production facilities that have been researched in the Research Lab. If the Wholesale Partners Policy is active then the listed resources are limited to only resources being actively produced, given 8 or more resource types are being produced.

The amount of reach resource are scaled in relation to resource production, not Market Cap. The rewards are scaled to match the order size.

After an order is received it will expire after 3 to 10 minutes if not Filled or Passed. Once expired the order will be unlisted, deleted, and no longer available to be filled. When passed the selected order will immediately be expired.

There are no limits to the amount of active orders available in the Wholesale Center.