Global Trade HQ
The HQ never gives you something it knows you need. If you have plenty or something in your inventory, it will show up in the HQ. If you don't have them cooking, you need to buy some before you run o...
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Yep. A consequence of the increased materials storage I guess. People aren't selling items as they have more space to keep them. So they're only selling useless stuff like mountain items. It's resulted in global market being useless.
Also, the persistent connection issues make it almost impossible to visit global market, chat screens, war screen etc without restarting the game. Turn it off, turn it on again... 10 minutes later do the same... Boring!
It's just become annoying so people aren't bothering to play.