Sugar and spice.... its not very nice
Came to the forums to say one specific thing. The global trade hq is useless ever since I hit the level where i could produce sugar-n-spices. Everytime i open the hq, 9 out 10 items will be sugar a...
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This, this so much. I can’t believe this is still a problem a year later, it makes it so much harder to upgrade my buildings and get materials I need for upgrades to land and storage and beaches like you said. I really wish that EA would implement something to make it so that no more than 4 of the same item will pop up in the market at the same time.
I personally solved the S&S problem, (also glass, electronics too) by never producing my own. I just buy from others and produce harder to find things. Try to remember this is JUST a game not our real lives.
Global HQ is pretty worthless. The most obvious reason of its design is to push you to buy sim bucks for those expansion items you're having a nightmare finding.
I'd love a standard free market with a search filter, but I could see expansion item prices increasing astronomically given low supply VS demand.
I can understand why there's random system instead of search function at the market, it would be simply too easy to buy everything you want and expand your storage space etc. in no time by searching and buying all the special items whenever wanting to. But market is ruined by sugar&spice because I see pages and pages mostly full of them, especially during mayor contests. When contest is over, after few hours I can see the curse of S&S relieving a bit but soon new contest starts and S&S surplus among with it. Also I think having to wait 30s for market to refresh is nonsense, either reduce it to 15s or allow instant refresh because finding stuff you need from market is difficult/impossible enough as it is.
Altough I suspect 30s market refresh is there simply to ease up the load of EA servers as it would perhaps cause them to crash if too many peeps are requesting item inventories from random players at the same time.
Honestly still haven't done anything about this. * EA
There are 2 easy fixes for this problem and I do agree it makes going to the GTHQ mind numbing. There could be less Produce and Collect of S&S there by cutting down on the dumping of the product in the GTHQ and/or create a new product that requires lots of S&S to complete. During the two days off from COM, I crank out as many Donuts I can and buy S&S unless I have some left from an assignment. There is way too much supply vs demand for S&S and this seems to be never fixed by EA except during the Christmas Theme when S&S can be hard to find for sale.
