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Anonymous
11 years ago

IDEA: Trade Upgrade. (+1)

Okay so I think the trade depot is a bit of a mess I think us buying and selling items is fantastic, however I had a few ideas and I'm just jotting them down atm so please read through and don't stop xD

Okay #1 our trade markets there should be two tabs, sell and request, or whatever the names are, you can put your items up for a certain price and people can buy them as normal however the request tab is if you're looking for items, for example if I need 7hammers, Like the sell I get 6 boxes or so I click on one box I then get a menu, so I would click hardware and Hammer, so this means I want a hammer, then where you usually chance sell price you add how many you need and how much you're prepared to pay so it's like this, I click a box, add hardware>hammer paying 12per and I need 7, when this submits it means when people visit you they can see this and sell to you, you then get a pop up in the trade centre saying somebody has sold something to you and it's taken the cash needed. There's another way other than people visiting your towns and this is my next idea,

#2 the global market is a mess and there should be a sorting system, not too complicated by price an such as this also puts high priced items off so don't do that however you can single it out so I'm looking for wood I don't want iron and seeds and chairs and stuff popping up so you can select the item and you can visit people and buy, the other thing is if you're trying to sell for cash you get another tab where you can see what people are requesting so like above I see someone needs 7 hammers, I know I have 3 so I can visit them and sell, it's simple and works like selling but gives a better opera unity to get what you need and to sell 😛 also incorporate the 1cash to remove your offer. Etc


This is a mess I'm sorry but I'm on my iPad and had to get the idea out ther,e may clear it up on my computer tomorrow however please +1 if you agree and goodnight xD

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Totally agree.  Also, really need to speed up the loading animation and/or remove the requirement to visit the user's city.  75% of the time, you get to the seller's city and the item is gone.  

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Yup. It's a nice idea to visit the sellers city and see their entire inventory but it's a complete time sink.

    It would be far far better to just be able to click and have the item bought and *then* load up the seller's city. Or put a little "city" icon in the corner and I can click on that to see what else they have.

    +1's all around.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I agree that the Global is a mess and like the idea of a "request" function. The only issue I see if when you have just bought that nice Hospital and used up all your Simoleons and someone comes along to sell you the cement bags you were looking for, but you have no cash to pay for them...

    The global marketplace is frustrating to work with, especially as you said when the city has to load before you can even try to buy the item, assuming it is still there when you arrive. That said, if it worked much better we would probably all have maxed out cities in a week 😕mileyhappy:

  • You mean 99.99% of the time you get to buy the item. Really frustrating DX

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