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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The few items I successfully purchased never showed up in my storage.
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.
- Is it possible that the game is just unbalanced? Acquisition of one or two items that rare shouldn't be dependent on an inadequate trading system. If they can't afford to refresh the server often enough there should be another answer. Increasing the spawn frequency of certain items should do the trick.
I receive the same answer from support:
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Yatin Balwani (SimCity BuildIt)
Jan 03 01:38
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!
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The corollary that as more people join the game will mean that it will be easier to gain access to items on the Global Market, is, in my opinion an incorrect statement.
Yes there WILL be more items for sale, but there will also be more people vying for those items. This will mean nothing will change. Those people with a faster end to end system (not just local Internet speeds) will STILL get to the items .
So unless the proportions of buyers and sellers (supply and demand) change, the larger game player base will not affect the success of purchase.
- I have had the same issue. Where do the items go after you buy them. Should go to inventory, but they never did.
