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MadArchitect202's avatar
11 years ago

Cargo Ship insanity

It seems as if, after this update, quantities of items forthe cargo ships has drastically increased. 90-100+ metals? Even if you have maxed out the storage, that seems absurdly excessive. Another example is nails. 60-70+ nails? That's going in game every 20 minutes for almost the 6 hours between boats. Not to mention, even at market average price, you're talking 3600-4200 simoleons worth of product and you only get around 400 from the ship. And that is only *one* of 3 items.

While I understand the keys are the premium of premium currencies for the game. The quantities have become crippling in my opinion. However, I'm not seeing much in way of conversation on this issue, so maybe I'm missing something? Could a happy medium be found between the pre update requirements for cargo ships and the new, and add the ability to "load" what you have made a bit at a time, so you aren't forced to sell off everything else to make room and flood the already barely functioning global market with more stuff?

Just a frustrated Sunday Morning musing.

10 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Same here, ever since update not only crazy requirements from the cargo ship, but also in order to upgrade buildings, I have to pass 4-5 if not more just to get reasonable building requirement, but once you pass level 50 expect expensive items in multiple quantity to be the norm. EA should look into this excessive requirements. 

  • Yep. I'm at level 55 and ever since I passed 50 the required quantities has increased and become more expensive/time consuming and it usually wants all the items from my produce market which takes a day and a half to make. This has gone from a fast paced game to a slug overnight.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    I was just coming to post about this specifically. I've been building nails since last night and I just missed the boat. Now I have some 60 nails sitting in my storage that I won't use. Lol. It's a time thing and also a storage thing. 80 metal is easy to make, but with 180 max storage, I gotta dump some stuff to make room. The other sucky thing is that storage upgrade items take up storage space. The irony that I have to upgrade my storage so that I can hold storage upgrade mats. Wtf.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    We should also be able to move stuff that isn't selling back into our inventory too.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Yeah, I don't really like punting on a cargo ship docked at my city's pier. But the one I just sent away asked me to produce 59 nails. What? No.

    If they're going to do it this way, they should adjust the wait time for "passing" on a ship's requirements to say, 30 minutes instead of the 5 or 6 hours it is now.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I just got 4 smoothies plus 5 sapping -- nicely 15 hours work for a single cargo ship.

    and after that, 80 nails, at only level 22. I can't imagine what requirement for level 50+.

    Great jobs on EA for ruin this game.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    It seems a new cap of 20 for cargo ship is added in recent patch. I just skip a 140ish steel because no storage available, then two next shipment only require 20 steels. Good work.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    @ranma33 wrote:

    It seems a new cap of 20 for cargo ship is added in recent patch. I just skip a 140ish steel because no storage available, then two next shipment only require 20 steels. Good work.


    I does seem to have dropped somewhat, but it can get higher than 20. I just got a request for 28 wood.  Still, I'll take it! 🙂

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    The developers of this game are really trying to stretch this game out over a long time period


    Its getting very annoying
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    The developers of this game are really trying to stretch this game out over a long time period


    Its getting very annoying

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