Global Trade HQ changes
Greetings Mayors,
With over 8 million transactions made in the SimCity BuildIt Global Trade HQ every day, it is a very busy trade hub for Mayors based all over the globe!
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I was gradually coming to terms with the epic failure that is the global hq. The updates made today have further butchered it, beyond belief. For the first time now, the game crashes. It is literally impossible to purchase anything, and the lag I experience waiting for a sellers trade screen to load is out of hand.
Like many others, I've invested a lot of time into this. The fact that buildings need a lump of stinky cheese or a slice of silverside to upgrade is an absolute farce... Rather than wait a decade for these goods to be produced on site I revert to the global hq to purchase these ridiculous items.
I've got a shedload of other gripes with this game - a game which could otherwise be fantastic. Get a couple of guys on board to read and digest what is being said here in these forums, because the words Electronic Arts are becoming synonymous with failure. Good day.
Like many others, I've invested a lot of time into this. The fact that buildings need a lump of stinky cheese or a slice of silverside to upgrade is an absolute farce... Rather than wait a decade for these goods to be produced on site I revert to the global hq to purchase these ridiculous items.
I've got a shedload of other gripes with this game - a game which could otherwise be fantastic. Get a couple of guys on board to read and digest what is being said here in these forums, because the words Electronic Arts are becoming synonymous with failure. Good day.
- I didn't think it was possible, but the the global trade hq has gotten shockingly worse. The absolute frustration of finding an item you want to purchase only to have to visit the purchasing city (with no kind of "reserve" on the item you pressed), only to find it gone or the unfunny new message about an accounting error when you go to purchase it 99.9% of the time is an embarrassment to EA and the developers behind it. Stop using "optimistic" algorithms and fix this problem the right way. Get some people who actually understand how to deal with high volume reserve/confirm transactions like is done with event ticketing and you might have a chance.
- And, there is a bug that is easy to reproduce. If I leave the game while visiting another city, when I come back and click on the Global Trade HQ, the game crashes. Ugh!
I am utterly amazed that you all managed to make the Global Trade HQ worse. It used to be I could never find anything I wanted. But, if I found something, I had a better success rate than I do now. The llamas must be incredibly dense because they keep apologizing for not having the item in stock. I spent 15 minutes trying to buy 1 green tea (after a few minutes of trying, I would have bought 10 of them if I could). Let's see. I was successful in 0 of the 7 times I tried to purchase one.
Here is a list of things I have noticed that have made the global trade "fix" worse:
- I am less successful at actually purchasing something now then before. I would estimate my success chances of actually purchasing an item under 10%.
- The application has crashed and exited me back to the iPad screen.
- The lag is worse now when entering another city. There are times the screen crawls trying to zoom into the city's market.
- Coupled with above, pressing on an item for sale doesn't always register.
- It takes significantly longer to receive a response that the item is no longer available.
- You like to shove Steel and Wood down my throat. Really? Why do I want to see so much of the 2 materials I can quickly make?
- Sometimes, when I click on the global market, it displays items then quickly says Nothing is For Sale. This happens a lot. I especially love it when it does this "feature" when I finally see something I want.
- Coupled with the above statement, the market windows sometimes just changes after being rendered. It's like you guys are toying with my emotions. Even better is when I try to refresh and I get the same screen again. No soup for me!
I am at the point where I don't want to play anymore. I was actually enjoying the game and taking my time building the city. I am at level 30 right now with about 520k citizens. Since I can't buy any items, I can't even complete a disaster challenge in a day (and please don't get me started on how you all Nerfed the rewards).
I have played a few Freemium games and I have generally purchased somethings here and there. Unfortunately, not a penny from me until I can successfully use one of the main components of the game: the global trade. There are a zillion suggestions from the user community. I ask that you not be stubborn and embrace these ideas to correct this horrific design flaw.
