This update which tries to encourage players to trade with other players by making the wholesaler less attractive with continual price increases will not work whilst we are surrounded with towns as below.
You cannot trade with a player with a town like this and I am surrounded by many of them.
It's this that needs fixing and not the wholesaler. The wholesaler works so why fix it if it's not broken ?
The weekly relocation of non active players also does not work because all that happens is one abandoned startup town gets replaced with another.
In fact you get a whole new bunch of abandoned start up towns every week!
Note that this town like all the others, is developed only to exactly the point where you are able to determine what 3 production boost you have available.
Does it still not occur to the game management crew that all these new start towns arrive just because players are looking to find certain goods boosts?
If they don't find them they start again with another town!
The abundance of these abandoned start up towns is the root problem which spoils the game for many players and suggestions have been made about this issue elsewhere.
Playing with the wholesaler mechanics to encourage player to player trading is not the answer.