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GalaxiesFarAway
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11 years ago

Global Trade Market...questions...concerns...complants!!!

There are SO MANY different posts about the SAME issue, I decided to merger them together. Hopefully the development team will see this thread and make changes to the global trading market! And with ...
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Anonymous
11 years ago
How come when you post a item in the market, even for the absolute maximum it always gets sold. I want to have a competitive marketplace, not something full of users posting the MAX price for every item; with the sole intention of the items being bought up automatically by the system. If another user doesn't buy your item before it expires it should go back to your inventory or given the option to discard them. Generating free gold is hurting game play between friends and the global market. If you fix this then people will have to think about how much they are going to sell and for how much, prompting a more diverse game play when it comes to advertising your goods and making simoleons off of other users. And if you think about it, it makes it possible for people to think about buying gold; considering it's not a day or two wait for a guaranteed payout. This definitely should have been fixed by now.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Having an option to choose between factory items, store items and special items (expansion/disaster) will make the market much more balanced and provide actual stock for purchase by MANY MORE players, opposed to complete randomness that is happening now.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    any type of filter would do wonders. With the limited random market options, finding specific materials and purchasing them in a timely manner is increasingly frustrating

    • GalaxiesFarAway's avatar
      GalaxiesFarAway
      Hero+
      11 years ago

      The problems I have with it....

      1. It is constantly crashing and sending me back to home screen.

      2. Every item I want to buy it sold before I FINALLY get to it! 

      3. The loading time and travel times are crazy long, even on high speed! 

      I agree with a lot of players....have a different system....

      A search by item....

      A search by price...

      Why travel to another city to buy? It takes too long! Add a buy button to buy when in the market! 

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      10 years ago

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    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      7 years ago

      Yeah when I look for something specific I know it's out there somewhere but I can't get to it.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        7 years ago
        I can't believe anyone is still playing this. The US will be one of the last countries to outlaw games like this, it's a known revenue generation cycle that does not have your interests at heart. It's supposed to frustrate you, so you pay them real money, to make the frustrations go away. For a few seconds at least. Do yourself a favor and stop, go get an xbox.
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    hamanslayer
    10 years ago
    Actually I agree with you, but these suggestions are irrelevant when hundreds of shopping trips on the trade center automatically show "sold" for every item displayed -- no matter the type or the quantity. What I have learned to do is to select any item and hope the seller has other items listed, possibly including the one I want. This works SOME of the time and is still very time consuming but better than the frustration of having no option to buy the item you want.
    You would think that with hundreds of players having.so many problems with it EA would have made the changes by now! I am sure thousands have quit and many more will if this is
    not improved -- first with the basic trade center, then with healthy suggestions such as yours.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    I agree, complete randomness is BS. Add a search engine to the development platform of the global trade market so we can search for items we want to buy or add a category option. And, loose the damn timer! Simply put a refresh button permenantly there & when you want a new batch of items you hit REFRESH.

    Simple stuff right.

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