Trade center rarely get buy items that are for sale?
I rarely get to buy items that are advertised at the trade centre. I tap on the times quickly items are already sold!!
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Yeah it's mega frustrating. Especially when you get into the high levels and it's even harder to see what you want because there are three times as many items all competing for the same space on the screen.
It's good and bad. It's bad that 9 times out of 10, the item you want is already snatched, but it's also good in that no matter what you put up for sale, it sells in seconds.
- I think overall the trade center is much more usefull since the last update, especially after the new Game Center ID thread was started courtesy of angeldelacruz. Its much easier to find friends and a reliable source of items now. But I agree with zzmayor that items are being sold way too quickly now..I've been watching the market like a hawk for two days trying to locate storage bars, they come up for sale very often but theyre always scooped up within seconds...very frustrating.
I'm not sure if this would be a solution, but what if we could have the option of putting our items to auction where they would stay on the market for a set period of time..say five minutes..and other players could bid on them during that time. I'm not sure how feasible this would be but if anything it would add an interesting dimension to the market.
Anywayz thanks for the last update, overall I'm very impressed!
P.S. Anyone feel free to add me..Game Center ID "crapperjack01". I'm looking for storage bars and will pay premium!
City name "Atlantis" - I 2nd that, every time I want something I click on it then need to go to there city realizing it has been sold.
I think the best solution would be to avoid the need to go to there city in order to buy but rather just clicking the item in the HQ and if it's sold their would be a message saying so.
It more far for everyone since the slow devices wouldn't take ages to load a city but rather get there item in a click I sent a ticket to support, here is the reply:
Tarun Pathania (SimCity BuildIt)
Dec 31 14:17
Hello Mayor, thanks for contacting us.
I'm sorry you've been having a frustrating time trading and purchasing. The Global Market moves extremely fast and the most desirable items go very quickly, so it's important to grab an item as soon as you see it!
If our servers refreshed your Market every couple of seconds it would cause a huge strain on the game, your device, your data and your battery - so to show the Market in real time would not be a great playing experience either. It's not all bad news though - as more and more players join the game there will be more and more items available for sale in the Global Market, so supply and demand will get better every day.
If you're worried that the Simoleons were taken from your account when the sale failed, don't worry - the Simoleons are refunded back to your currency totals afterwards, the next time you visit your Trade Depot. We know this isn't very clear at the moment so are working hard on improving this messaging for the future!
Which clearly isn't going to help. More people means more items, sure, but it also means more people trying to buy them. I told them this in a reply and they just said "thanks for your feedback" hehe, I really hope they do something else about it.
- Ok just for some perverted fun Ive been surfing the Global Trade HQ for the past hour steadily. When I say steady I mean I've been tapping on it once per second for the last hour in search of two storage bars for a total of roughly 3600 hits and here's what i found:
-Not once out of 3600 hundred hits did I find the same list of sellers or items during consecutive search. This means at least for me that the global trade center is being updated every few milliseconds.
-I have come across about five hundred storage bars in the past hour but everytime I click on one and go to the city to purchase it the trade depot is empty. (Again I perform this action about once per second).
-On very rare occasions I made it to the sellers depot and the bars were there but by the time I actually tap on the item it says "item is longer available for sale".
This tells me that all these transactions are occurring within fractions of seconds in the global market and the only way to actually buy anything on the market is to be a bot or something...PLEASE FIX!
