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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Why the game doesn't "lock" what you want to buy as soon as you push on it instead of having to change the city...get into his market...push to buy it...and find out that's not there already? If the product is locked by another person, you won't be able to buy it, if not...lock it and let do the rest...
Is that so difficult to do?
Is that so difficult to do?
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I believe the problem has nothing to do with the speed at which things sell or the difficulty of implementing a search filter.
I believe there IS a search filter in play right now that is reducing the list of available items so that the ones I need are not available to me.
Before I built the Vu Tower I saw a LOT of Vu Tower items. Again and again. As soon as the Vu Tower started being constructed, I saw maybe half as many. As soon as the Vu Tower was finished and ready for use, I saw almost no Vu items.
When I need Table, I see almost no Table, and when it finally shows up and I visit that City to get it, it is either not shown or when I tap on it it is magically not available. Later, when I don't need Table anymore, Table is available to see and to obtain.
I can get items I don't need. I can't get items I need. It's that simple and I believe it's done on purpose to try and get me to PURCHASE those items.
EA has to make money. I would buy the game or pay a subscription fee. But I will NOT pay to avoid playing. Buying my next advancement is not "playing" the game. It is paying someone else to play the game for me.
This Global HQ problem makes me want to quit. Congratulations, EA, you've broken a great game.
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Yes, the global market would be dramatically improved if the items we saw were ALWAYS available to purchase when we click on them. I'm getting about a 5% success rate. Its as simple as locking the item when its shown to me. This feature is a collosal waste of my time due to traveling back and forth to cities. . . for nothing.
And why do we travel to the cities to make a purchase anyway? Just eliminate that step please. That's usually when my app crashes anyway.
I'm an Agile Product Owner in the software development industry for a major software company in Seattle. Let me know if you want me to send a list of user stories.
EA: You just got an offer from an Agile Product Owner to help you. I am a Scrum Master and can also assist.
The last few updates, I can tell you are not doing agile test driven development or regression testing. Your QA team is in dire need of help.
Many posters in this thread seem to think that the Global HQ is broken. They are wrong. It is working precisely the way EA intends. It is shackled by design.
When you start playing the game, HQ operates as you expect, with only a few items being difficult to acquire. The more you build up your city, the harder it becomes to obtain the items you need via HQ.
However... If we could get whatever we want, I would have opened up all my regions long ago and enlarged my local storage to hold as much as possible and would soon be finished the game. There would be no challenge if everything was easy to get. I don't agree with the trickery inside Global HQ, because this deceit is an enormous time-waster and incredibly frustrating, but it's the way the game slows down our progress.
There should be a better way. It might be useful to know how many items I could obtain per hour or per day, so I could plan my own progress rather than be shackled to an invisible limitation. But it isn't broken.
They know exactly what they are doing. They're trying to encourage us to spend real money. This is probably vacuuming money out of little rich kids' credit cards.
