Cant get / Bid for the items due to the loading to the global trade hq very slow. Required to implement the others method or process for bidding

South Koreans having faster internet access is no excuse for poor functionality design. My issues with the Trading:Unnecessary load times. Why do I have to first travel to another user's city just to buy said item? 8 times out of 10 when I arrive at another user's city, the items I was interested in are already sold. 1 time out of 10, the item will still be available, but when I go to make the purchase it's already sold. That means that 10% of the time, I'm able to successfully use the Global Trade HQ. Better Solution: Cut out the travel to other cities, let us purchase them direclty from Global Trade HQI can't find what I want. It's possible (likely) that supply & demand is playing into this, but I think there's still significant room for improvement. Better Solution: Allow Players to specify what item(s) they're searching for and show relevant listings. If my items don't sell during the 5 minute advertising period, They sit in purgetory until either someone visits my city directly, or I list another item that lures people to my city. In the event I can't sell said item, I lose it. Better Solution: Refine system to facilitate quicker turnaround on items listed for trading. Allow Players to recover items that aren't sold to re-use, or at the very least, recoup lost resources.

Unnecessary load times. Why do I have to first travel to another user's city just to buy said item? 8 times out of 10 when I arrive at another user's city, the items I was interested in are already sold. 1 time out of 10, the item will still be available, but when I go to make the purchase it's already sold. That means that 10% of the time, I'm able to successfully use the Global Trade HQ. Better Solution: Cut out the travel to other cities, let us purchase them direclty from Global Trade HQI can't find what I want. It's possible (likely) that supply & demand is playing into this, but I think there's still significant room for improvement. Better Solution: Allow Players to specify what item(s) they're searching for and show relevant listings. If my items don't sell during the 5 minute advertising period, They sit in purgetory until either someone visits my city directly, or I list another item that lures people to my city. In the event I can't sell said item, I lose it. Better Solution: Refine system to facilitate quicker turnaround on items listed for trading. Allow Players to recover items that aren't sold to re-use, or at the very least, recoup lost resources. Support such a proposal.

It would be very nice if I didn't have to spend 30 min loading and trying to buy items only to find they have been sold by the time I click on it or load the city.

I got the same problem, cause even my WiFi Network connection seems to be too slow for the global trade...

Yes, please Devs, implement some timeout for just sjown items and don't show them to other buyers, while this timeout hasn't ended. It's a huge waste of time when 4 of 5 items are sold before you load the local store. OR just allow to buy from Global store directly.

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Anonymous
11 years ago
It's not really a design flaw if it forces you to open your wallet and pay for the game, it's called good marketing. All games do it, nothing is free. I don't like it either but I am aware of how the greed system works.
Anonymous
11 years ago
95% of the time I click on a rare item, it is gone by the time I get to the other persons trade site. What a waste of time!
There should be a reservation system! Airline companies have had reservation systems since 1952 and you EA hasn't heard of it? 😕mileytongue: When someone clicks on the item, it should be allocated to them for a period of time, e.g. 1 minute. If the item has been reserved, others shouldn't see it when they bring up the HQ. At least that way I wouldn't be wasting time tapping on an item that 50 other people have already tapped on.
Other problems with the Trade HQ:
Dragging too fast crashes the app on my HTC One M7. I have to be careful to drag slowly.
sometimes dragging is misinterpreted as tapping in the HQ
Tapping on the HQ often freezes the app for a number of seconds more than 10s. Why not go straight to the HQ loading view?
Anonymous
11 years ago
I give up... Just 2 weeks playing and when things starts to get interesting I have to spend 2 hours in global trade to get 1 item... Either is the system stupid or I am... So, good bye app...
Anonymous
11 years ago
@_Stickybuds420_ wrote:
It's not really a design flaw if it forces you to open your wallet and pay for the game, it's called good marketing. All games do it, nothing is free. I don't like it either but I am aware of how the greed system works.
Not really good marketing. As I've noted elsewhere, it is unethical to use poor game mechanics to force players to spend money. A truly good marketing plan would be to create compelling gameplay and unique premium content that players want to have in their own cities.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
I had the same complaint. I enjoy the game but hated that as you progress, expansion items become rare. I decided to start over. Once I got to level 10 I quit leveling up and spent one week expanding my land to the max. I also bought and sold items to expand my storage to 240. Now anything I need I can make.
malakadil2019
11 years ago
They already know this from the start , but they don't want to fix it. You can make it better only if you remove the advertise stuff for 1 cash. Either you loose the money and make it fun for everyone or keep it like this and make it boring and loose your players..

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