My market items don't get sold

It seem not to be this complicated.

Every developer expects profit from their work.

So, they release a game for free, but notice how the game works.

There have to be difficulties with expanding city so you get pissed off and

start buying things for real money otherwise they would not make the profit out of this game.

I truly don't believe any developer is willing to invest into a free game where everything can be done without having difficulties forcing player to take their real money.

Just notice how they got interested into this problem.

First they declare to work on that problem but now they suggesting to think about products you sell and their prices.

And still, no answer, no interest, no solution has been found hmmm.. Strange eh ? :D

I noticed interesting game behavior.

Once you need some parts let's say to expand your storage, try to buy it at the Trade HQ.

For the last couple of hours I tried to hunt one piece at the Trade HQ the only one left to

expand my storage. The funny thing is no matter how hard I tried how fast I tried to buy this item

it ALWAYS disappeared when the city of seller has loaded.

Enter Trade HQ when you need pieces to upgrade your building and suddenly

you notice things are so hard to find. Only stuff you don't need is listed everywhere.

Now why can't you sell things at the depot ?

Well that would be too smooth, you would expand your city way too fast without paying for this.

Simply, EA would not make their profit which they expect 🙂

I kinda worked out how free games work.

And this would be my theory.

In responce to AnterpMayor:

Most people make the mistake of expanding backward. Putting down residences first and then realising that they need the infrastructure (ie. waste management, police, fire etc.) to accomodate them, and seeing that the infrastructure is really expensive they have to "buy" the simolians to keep the population from abandoning the buildings.

This is probably what the makers of the game are counting on but it's not their fault, it's human nature. Residences = more xp, simolians, and residents which = progressing further in the game faster. Putting down infrastructure first costs a lot for no immeditate return so is counter intuitive from the average game player's standpoint. Manufacturing and trading for simolians is slow compaired to putting down residences and upgrading them.

That's why resident plots are made available so easily. People will plunge them down first and then (need) to expand their city to accomodate them.

I have myself noticed that when I need something it seems to disappear from the market. I have wondered the same myself actually.

Yeah, let's strike. This problem is very common, so even if it was suppose to be that way (by design) it clearly makes the players frustrated. Where is no fun there is no people so just fix it before everyone leaves. Thank you