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Anonymous
11 years ago
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"Black Friday Stampede" style trading system - COMPLETELY broken

It doesnt even take a 5 year old to realize how broken the global trading system in this game is. 1. Every time you click to purchase an item, the game forces you to visit the seller's city. Are y...
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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Let me illustrate how broken the trade system is

    If you want to buy a specific item - let's use seeds as example, you would NEVER want to visit a city advertising to be selling seed.

    Why? Because 95% chance some bloke probably bought out all the seeds in that city already.

    If you want to buy seed, you would rather visit a shop that's advertising plastic or minerals instead, hoping that the seller by chance also have seeds in the inventory, and the buyers rushed to buy out plastics or minerals already while leaving seeds untouched.

    Even if you see an item listing blatantly advertising to your face to be selling seeds, do not be tempted to click on it. It is either a) not there by the time you get there or b) disappear in front of your eyes as you confront the dreaded "item no longer available" sign laughing at you. Just click the plastic listing next to it.

    Here you have it folks - if you want to buy a specific item, never go to a shop advertising that item. Go to a shop selling similar item and cross your fingers hoping your item is there. You have a better chance (>5%) that way.

    Illogical as this nonsense sounds, this appears to be the only sound solution to navigate through the broken "Black Friday Stampede" style trade system they have. This is seriously messed up.

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Fercurix
11 years ago

This is completely working as intended and here is why

1 > This increases the chance the item is no longer there when you get there and I will explain this in 2.

2> Since the item is no longer there you are more likely to get frustrated and then potentially use the greens to fill the required need or refresh the required item speed up

3> same reason as 2

4> same reason as 2 really

I saw someone coment about the gold cap and that removing it would be solving the problem. This would also imply you would get plenty of gold to progress in game, meaning you would spend les greens on items which is opposite of the marketing model.

Games like this are ment to frustrate you into buying for real life money. The solution is not to ask for change, it is to stop playing games like this and stop making it rewarding for EA. It is the worst garbage in history of game design.

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