Advertise automatically checked!

I thought I had adapted well, but I lost my first unintended sale today. It's hard for the trading partner to accept that they'll have to wait a couple hours until you have another 5 fire pits again.

It's ironic that EA pretty much hearded everyone towards private trading with their original design, and now are needing to change things to populate the gthq full of items (both quantity and variety). I haven't used the public gthq in 6 or 7 months.

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@DocVu wrote:

I haven't used the public gthq in 6 or 7 months.

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Maybe that's part of the problem.  More and more people going to private trades?

Actually no, I'm full of it.  The amount of people doing private trades is insignificant to the overall playing population.  Shoot, there's only a small handful participating on this board and even the best facebook group is only 6500 players strong.  With over a million players, those doing private trades aren't the bulk of the players, so if they advertise or not is really irrelevant.  

Sorry, that was more of a thinking out loud moment.  I stand by my original assessment.  Automatic advertise check is a bad idea for those doing private trades.

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@SomeSimGuy wrote:

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@DocVu wrote:

I haven't used the public gthq in 6 or 7 months.

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Maybe that's part of the problem.  More and more people going to private trades?

Actually no, I'm full of it.  The amount of people doing private trades is insignificant to the overall playing population.  Shoot, there's only a small handful participating on this board and even the best facebook group is only 6500 players strong.  With over a million players, those doing private trades aren't the bulk of the players, so if they advertise or not is really irrelevant.  

Sorry, that was more of a thinking out loud moment.  I stand by my original assessment.  Automatic advertise check is a bad idea for those doing private trades.

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Well, with this feature implemented the market doesn't feel much better or just significantly different from what it was before, at least not yet. What would you say? There have been moment of infuriating losses to this auto-check, but I do not see bigger variety of items or prices over all.

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@lettyc831 wrote:
Items are being advertised even if you uncheck the box. It's happened to me several times.

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You know, I can't help but feel the same ... I could SWEAR I unchecked it ... but when I look, that stupid blue icon is there.

"Aw *!  There goes my private trade.  My trading partners are NOT going to be happy!"

As I've stated before, it's a simply process to check the box.  You can do that anytime, no harm, no foul, minimal delay.

But if you forget to UNCHECK that thing ... bye-bye your entire trade depo.  Offensive programming (many valid definitions here) at it's best.

Finally the rest of us can play with items that were always gone when we got there. I like the new global trade system as my items are gone as soon as posted instead of waiting days for Daniel to pick them up. I too have been playing for over a year. Did not lose my city when changing tablets but like the new system of trade.

To those who are SURE they unchecked advertise, there is a bug (that's what the support email specified) where it may still end up checked even if you uncheck it.

Their advice?  Try to avoid dragging, double-tapping, when you put items in the trade depot.

Apparently, internally, it thinks it's still checked even though the UI shows it unchecked.

They said they are "fixing it".