I don't see why a limit on markets would be logical. Consider Earth today. There are no less than a dozen different stock exchanges in operation, several of which run in the US alone. Dow Industrial, S&P, NASDAQ, Nikkei, London, Paris, Bonn, Beijing, Hong Kong, Moscow, Brasilia... In the early 90s after the Soviet collapse, almost every developed nation had a stock exchange until the global recession triggered by the 1992 Nikkei meltdown in Tokyo rendered a number of the upstarts insolvent. Most have rebounded nicely, and are humming right along.

There's nothing wrong with a planet becoming a massively diverse economic powerhouse.

I don't see why a limit on markets would be logical

I am not saying that it is something that I would necessarily endorse, but it seems that the major gripe among the gamers in here usually is something along the order of nerfing certain buildings with the additional patches, i.e. the morale issues. So my thought was, since players manage to thwart the devs AI by using things like the stock markets the way they have, the devs "nerf" them. My point is that if the devs find the need to "nerf" then just eliminate the main reason it is having to be done... limit the number of available buildings allowed. That was the point I was making. Yes there are different stock exchanges... but for this game, is more than one per planet really necessary, especially if the given tactics allow for so called abuse, which prompts the devs to update and modify. I didn't read much in the way of more additional content for 1.4... it seems to be a bunch of "cleaning house" with regards to statistics. Sorry if I wasn't crystal clear on that, but it seems like a lot of you want to have your cake and eat it too and whenever someone voices an option, whether it makes sense or not, people totally dismiss it with the harumphs. It is okay to play devil's advocate every so often, but you can't do it continuously.