It also provides bonus Great Admiral points. In Gathering Storm, this card instead provides +2 Great Merchant points for every Bank owned, and +4 for every Stock Exchange owned. Once the player completes the Capitalism civic, the Traveling Merchants card is replaced with the Laissez-Faire policy card, which generates +4 Great Merchant points per turn. Players can also increase their Great Merchant point yields by using the Traveling Merchants policy card, which generates +2 Great Merchant points per turn. The Great Zimbabwe provides +2 Great Merchant points per turn, and the Casa de Contratación and Big Ben wonders each provide +3 Great Merchant points per turn.

Several wonders also provide Great Merchant points. Players who do not have enough points may patronize a Merchant by paying the difference using Faith or Gold. Further points may also be earned by completing the Commercial Hub Investment project in a city with a Commercial Hub. In Monopolies and Corporations Mode, the Industry improvement generates +1 Great Merchant point as well. (For example, a Commercial Hub with a Market, Bank, and Stock Exchange would generate +4 Great Merchant points per turn.) In Secret Societies mode, the Gilded Vault, the Owls of Minerva's unique replacement for the Bank, adds +2 Great Merchant points instead of 1, and the Alchemical Society, the University replacement of the Hermetic Order, also provides +1 Great Merchant point. Commercial Hubs and Sugubas generate +1 Great Merchant point per turn, +2 more if the city has built the Oracle, and provide an additional point for each building completed in that district. Great Merchants may be claimed by any player who has earned enough Great Merchant points.

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