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 all the posts being in one place make it easier on EA team to find them all.

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.

It's kinda crazy that cancelling auction items means that the item is lost. Thats double punishment: pay 1 simcash AND destroy your item.

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

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

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bossbuk
10 years ago
I'm sure both EA and you know that the primary cause of the frustration is due to the load times of the seller's city.
A few suggestions that could equalise the playing field and give more people a chance to make that purchase.
Fixed/minimum city load time. Regardless of device, size of seller's city, etc
Lower graphic/texture options for loading a seller's city
Option to just not load the seller's city at all
I do like checking out others' cities, however the frustration of arriving to an already sold item overwhelms that. Fortunately I have access to a newer device where I am able to grab those purchases - I don't even try on my much older phone :o
I would love to see trade, filters, preferences, etc. However the issue with the current implementation is the ridiculous advantage you have with a newer/faster device.
bossbuk
10 years ago
Another thought/suggestion - again related to the advantage faster devices have.
If you make a successful purchase then you are still bound to the 30s refresh.
Happy cos they got their desired purchase (now sit down and give others a chance).
Those who find an item already sold or llama'd get an immediate refresh of items for sale.
Happier as can see fresh items immediately and have faster devices out of the race for 30 secs 🙂
I feel that there would be lot more querying on the server however !
Anonymous
10 years ago
Cargo airplane was going to departure in 2.5 hours... I was missing several "cooking" things, so I've put into production but starting searching for them on market.
For these 2.5 hours I've found them 23 times, but had no change to by ANY! I have "fast figners", very fast WiFi, fast clicking on items...
Is it normal gameplay?
I propose everyone that facing same problem to put lowest rating on AppStores with comment to fix Trading HQ. Thats the only way how we can influence.
Thats hundreds ways how to "fix"... for example: remove price cap + put 20% tax that should be paid when you put something to market (so if you put price 10000 you need to pay 2000 immediately - so if nobody will buy you'll loose that) + add filtering/search.
In this case we'll have natural supply/demand situation without over-raised prices.
P.S. Still no "cooking" thing... and cargo departure in couple of minutes! 2.5 hours wasted... ☹️ Lowest rating for now!
Anonymous
10 years ago
I ran into the same problem. Needed something for a cargo ship leaving in 3 hours but it still wanted a yogurt which takes 4 hours to make. I spent the 3 hours hunting for yogurt and I was not able to buy one. Ship left without me getting a key.
And BTW, I'm still looking for 3 more dozer exhaust....
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
10 years ago
Did the same thing. Slow down. Every time you level up, more items appear in the GTHQ, making it harder to find storage and expansion items. By the time you get near 70000 population, you get a bunch of Dr. Vu's disaster items added, too. I stopped at level 19 to complete my expansion completely, build up keys and coins because Entertainment and Gambling come in the level 20s and just eat these up.
Anonymous
10 years ago
This is great advice, I do this, too. Someone posts something good like cameras, hits advertise, and then adds more items, often related. If you refresh the depot you can sometimes find what you want. Another tip, teach the game what you want by hitting storage upgrade or expand city, or upgrade building, even though you don't have all the necessary items, before you go to the GTHQ. That tells the game what you need. The trade algorithm seems to remember what items you last looked at, including your most recent trades and sales, as well as what you recently manufactured. If they are available, they may appear. Look in the first two slots on the GTHQ first and see if they are there, but not advertised.
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10 years ago
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10 years ago
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10 years ago
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