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rautio

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Riga is my Wordmarket hub. There is almost zero production, and trade center level is one. Is that bug? I have tried to make wordmarket hub Hamburg, but drade don’t go there, and there is much of capacity. Other place capacity is full. Why my trade don’t go there, because there is much of empty capacity. What is market/trade capital? What benefit is about it, and how it can change?
 

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From the DD: "In order to trade with the World Market, a Market Area must have at least one Port, at which point a World Market Hub will be established. When there are multiple ports in a Market Area, the Hub is chosen based on factors such as port level and State GDP. Hubs are not completely static, but do not generally move around unless a much more suitable candidate State emerges to eclipse the old Hub State.“.
 
From the DD: "In order to trade with the World Market, a Market Area must have at least one Port, at which point a World Market Hub will be established. When there are multiple ports in a Market Area, the Hub is chosen based on factors such as port level and State GDP. Hubs are not completely static, but do not generally move around unless a much more suitable candidate State emerges to eclipse the old Hub State.“.

ELBE (Natural harbor)
GBD: 2,09 M
Port Level: 8
Trade Center: 19

RIGA
GBD: 0,711 M
Port Level: 3
Trade Center: 1

Plus other, more level areas than Riga.
 
It's the world market hub for the Riga market area, not the whole market. Those Baltic states are not adjacent to the rest of your market, so they form their own market area and market areas have their own hubs for world market access. The rest of your market would have a separate hub.

In my game, where Germany coincidentally controls the exact same states, they have a hub in Riga and a hub in Elbe. Despite this, their largest trade centre with the most trade advantage is inland, in Brandenburg, because that's the market capital.

If Hamburg in your game is not trading then it has nothing to do with being or not being the hub. World market hubs do not get any advantages for trade. All they do is determine how states get world market access and what their level of access is.

Select one of the states in Germany proper and hover over the World Market Access value. It will tell you what the hub is for those states.
 
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