Agreed, so frustrating dumb idea
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Wow, I got completely robbed by this automatic feature! The contest of mayors started and I decided to put some of my important items away in the storage of my other city, and --you guessed it! -- one of them somehow stayed checked for the whole world to see, and in a split of a moment all my important items are gone!!! I officially condemn this new auto-check.
- The autpmatic advertise is by far the most annoying chabge I've seen in 1-1/2 years playing.
Like everybody else in this thread, I have my circle of friends I trade with.
One sale where you forget to uncheck and your whole trade depot may be gone in seconds.
I've complained theough "contact us" in the game and get a canned reaponse, "Thank you for your suggestion ... blah, blah, blah." It wasn't a suggestion, it was a complaint!
No point having friends to trade with since one sale where you forget to uncheck means your whole trade depot is vsibile to all and all items will be poached.
@Restville wrote:
No point having friends to trade with since one sale where you forget to uncheck means your whole trade depot is vsibile to all and all items will be poached.Yes there is, you just have to be more careful and adjust your trading style. Communicate through facebook. Confirm they're in your city. Put items up one at a time. Have them constantly refresh until they see it and snag it immediately. Have them confirm each item before placing the next one. Also have them confirm they have the room in their inventory before you even get started.
You'll never loose a trade done that way.
Trading with your feeder game..... You can do the same thing. It just takes some extra caution.
@SomeSimGuy wrote:Yes there is, you just have to be more careful and adjust your trading style. Communicate through facebook. Confirm they're in your city. Put items up one at a time. Have them constantly refresh until they see it and snag it immediately. Have them confirm each item before placing the next one. Also have them confirm they have the room in their inventory before you even get started.
You'll never loose a trade done that way.
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Well, use extra, extra caution -- still something can go wrong: when I traied to put the special items from one city to another, I was in my city! More than that, when I saw my locks checked for global trade, I immidietly put them to the trash can, giving away not only them but also my green sim-dollar in vain hope that no one will notice! Yet the next moment all the other items were gone (bought for funny money) by some unknown players...
@pengamia wrote:Yet the next moment all the other items were gone (bought for funny money) by some unknown players...
All your other items were gone? If you only traded one item at a time you would have only had 1 item gone, not all of them. I hate the checkmark also, but even before this checkmark I would only trade one item at a time, even when I'm trading with my daughter sitting right next to me. When trading, not more than one item at a time goes up and don't put another one until the first is confirmed as received.
SomeSimGuy wrote:
All your other items were gone? If you only traded one item at a time you would have only had 1 item gone, not all of them. I hate the checkmark also, but even before this checkmark I would only trade one item at a time, even when I'm trading with my daughter sitting right next to me. When trading, not more than one item at a time goes up and don't put another one until the first is confirmed as received.
You're so right about trading one item at a time! In my unhappy case I already put quite some items for the inner exchange, when tragically the last one I added (5 locks!) got checked for global exposure... Oh well ☹️
- I trade with people in different time zones. It's not coordinated (both online at the same time). So while it seems acceptable to do it one at a time, it's not practical in my case.
Simply put: one mistake and whatever is in your depot is gone!
Not sure what benefit it is. There are plenty of items on sale theae days (but maybe because people forgot to uncheck the box).
@Restville wrote:
It's not coordinated (both online at the same time). .Something I would never do. If you can't be on when I am to pick it up as I'm putting it down, then maybe you need a different trading partner.
- Insider trading? Oh, man, I don't want the SEC breathing down my neck and sending me up the river like Martha Stewart!
Oh wait, this is an online game we're talking about. Lol
What do you mean by insider trading? Trading with yourself?
As for trading partners, I trade with friends and family. They know what is theirs because I agreed to put X, Y, and Z out there for them and they don't take what isn't theirs. We all have families and lives to live ao being online at the same time is almost never convenient.
They're changing the default behavior for reasons I don't comprehend. The change can be detrimental. Once one item ia advertised, everything is subject to poaching. If it was limited to what you advertise, okay, I screwed up and lose that one item. But when one mistake is catastrophic and yiu lose the whole trade depot, that's either poor/stupid design or done purposely for reasons somebody needs to explain. Restville wrote:
Insider trading? Oh, man, I don't want the SEC breathing down my neck and sending me up the river like Martha Stewart!————
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What do you mean by insider trading? Trading with yourself?
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That too -- I have two different cities and periodically pass the necessary items from one to another. It may be a little bit unfair but the Android phone version is soo slow on any connection between cities -- it's not funny, you basically are late to any training post even to buy metall! So the Android city of mine needs a little help from its older brother, as I see it.
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As for trading partners, I trade with friends and family. They know what is theirs because I agreed to put X, Y, and Z out there for them and they don't take what isn't theirs. We all have families and lives to live ao being online at the same time is almost never convenient.
————You definitely have special rates for each other and sell, I guess, the most rear items, right? That makes all the sense to me, but people in EA probably are concerned with the greater happiness of an abstract public, who do not get from you not the special rates nor the rear items! (Boo-hoo...) 🙂 So they make you share (here is some socialism for you as it was predicted 😉)
To all:
Like Restville says: it seems we all have been playing this game since launch but EA has a history of a blind eye and ear. They are not going to change anything to make play of this game more enjoyable because of anticipated profits. This latest "issue" is just one of many issues that EA chooses to ignore no matter how loud we complain.
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