User Guide

the trader also finds out what the citizens in the neigh-
borhood want next and reports back to the buyers so
that they can procure the appropriate supplies. If citi-
zens aren’t demanding food or a certain good, Bazaar
buyers will not purchase it.
To build a Bazaar, click the Storage and Distribution
Structures button in the Control Panel. Bazaars need
employees and road access.
Bazaar Special Orders
By default, buyers try to procure the commodities the
citizens they serve want. To exert more control over
the city’s Bazaars, you can issue Special Orders.
Info-click on a Bazaar, then click the Special Orders
button. You will see a list of all the commodities the
Bazaar is trading. Clicking on each item will give you
the option of telling the Bazaar to buy or not to buy
the item.
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and commodities to people. They are the linchpin to
the city’s distribution system, and without them the
efforts of industries and food producers will be for
naught. Bazaars deliver needed supplies to citizens’
houses. Residents never interact directly with Storage
Yards or Granaries.
Bazaar workers, however, do interact directly with
Storage Yards and Granaries to procure needed goods
from these locations on behalf of citizens. Each Bazaar
employs two buyers: one to buy
commodities from Storage Yards,
the other to buy food from
Granaries. Food buyers can only go to
Granaries for supplies; goods buyers can
only go to Storage Yards.
Each Bazaar buyer can carry more than one
item at time, though. For example, if her
Bazaar needs both grain and pomegran-
ates, the food buyer can pick up both
foods.
When a Bazaar buyer has picked up sup-
plies, she makes her way back to the
Bazaar with a train of helpers in tow. The
helpers carry items back to the Bazaar, and
the more of them you see, the more supplies
she has. Info-click on the Bazaar buyer to see specifi-
cally what she is bringing back to the Bazaar.
Bazaars also employ traders to bring the food and
goods to the populace. Traders sell whatever com-
modities the Bazaar has on hand, whether food or
good. Houses are supplied with items from the Bazaar
when the trader walks by. As she passes each house,
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Bazaar Special Orders
. Click on Buy or Don’t Buy to change the
Bazaar’s orders.
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