Commercial Zones

Trade building

Commercial Zones is a trade building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 400 Minerals and takes 360 days to build, with an upkeep of 2 Energy Credits a month. It adds Traders and Logistic Drones jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Interplanetary Commerce.

Cost: 400Minerals
Upkeep: 2Energy Credits
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_commercial_zone

Jobs Commercial Zones adds

Jobs come from the building's job modifiers; 4.x counts jobs in hundreds (a district adds 100). Variants for other kinds of empires are listed with their condition.

200 Traders
Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
100 Traders
Not: Gestalt Consciousness; Tradition: Commercial Enterprise
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
  - Tradition: Commercial Enterprise
200 Logistic Drones
Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness
100 Logistic Drones
Gestalt Consciousness; Tradition: Distributed Delivery Systems
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness
  - Tradition: Distributed Delivery Systems

Cost, upkeep and output

Base values from the building's resources block; conditional variants (nomadic empires pay other resources, for example) open with their condition.

Cost: 400Minerals
40Rare Crystals — Nomadic empire
Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month: 2Energy Credits

How to unlock Commercial Zones

Interplanetary CommerceTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Regular empire (not gestalt)
None of
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony
Not: Building: Command Center
Any of
- Carrier flag: ignore_ai_building_limitations
- Owner
  - Not: Controlled by the AI
- Owner
  - Megacorporation
- Has any trade zone
- None of
  - Building: Commercial Zones
  - Building: Commerce Megaplexes

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Any of
- Owner
  - Not: Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony

In the game

These commercial zones are home to towering office buildings and business complexes.

ID

building_commercial_zone

Commercial Zones: questions

How much does Commercial Zones cost in Stellaris?

400 Minerals, 360 days to build; upkeep 2 Energy Credits a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Commercial Zones give?

Depending on the empire: Traders and Logistic Drones.

What is the ID of Commercial Zones?

building_commercial_zone (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/06_trade_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.