Sugar and spice.... its not very nice

Mannyjabrielle - The way the games Algorithm works especially with expansion items (land, inventory, beach and mountain) is that when you have low inventory of those items you will see it often and more in the global trade. As you near your goal of the next upgrade the Algorithm in this game will block out all of those needed items forcing you to search and hope you get lucky and find the item in some random city, thus this causes a lot of frustration, anger, and just being plain pssst off at the game.

The same algorithm applies also when you are searching for similiar valuable items like VU items and especially during epic projects.

Remember...the design is to not help the player, it's to make you spend your money and benefit EA