You have hit the nail on the head and Eckel everything that I have been feeling too! The trade center is ridiculously slow, and I have had less than a 1% success rate to get anything I want because by the time the new city loads up, the item is already sold. It is no fun spending an hour or two scouring the trade but I could be enjoying the game and building and creating more. This game has lost my interest because of the slow trades, and it seems like it knows what I need and makes it impossible to find that particular product. I would even be willing to pay for extra money to get some parts… But the prices to buy our absolutely ridiculous… And the conversions make up salute Lee no sense, it would literally cost thousands of dollars in real cash to build up a city. They should take a line from the candy crush games… And offer great incentives for one or two dollars each. They could still make their millions.
I am not at all interested in the chat feature with other players… As I am in building my city the way I wanted to look. I know the intent is to m ake money from this game, however for myself and most others when you make the game so difficult to program … We will not stay and pay cash for more misery… We will move onto another game. It is a fine line between giving the customer what they want and making some money as well. It would be nice if the developers actually do read these comments and think about making some improvements to make the game more enjoyable and playable.
The expansions such as the factories and even the stores, are aching ridiculously outdated and do not match any logical criteria. If you're going to upgrade to a mega factory… It should produce the products much faster and not just reduce a pollution footprint.
Same for the stores… When you are paying double the price to do an upgrade… You should get more than simply a 10% reduction in time. I would recommend at least a 20% increase in production… And an automatic slot Increase.
Just my thoughts… I love all of the SimCity games, and have just about every single one from the very beginning. But this one, is so obviously a money grab that the fun has been taken away. If improvements are not made I will Be moving on to another game.