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Keithustus
11 years ago

Why is Global Trade HQ so awful? Suggest real auctions....

SimCity is not supposed to be an action twitchy game.  The Global Trade HQ makes this the most action-demanding SimCity game by far. Any economist will tell you that price ceilings (maximum authoriz...
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Hyncharas
New Traveler
10 years ago

There remain a few things about the GTHQ that I continue to find difficult.  I can understand its use as a watered-down equivalent of the one used in SimCity, though its implementation still leaves little to be desired.

Following the update to a 30-second refresh, I have a number of suggestions that would make it more functional than it currently is:

  1. Improve optimisation – considering how long it can take for the game to decide whether an item is even still available or not (in my case, up to half-time on some items), I think it goes without saying this should be a priority.
  2. A larger trade window – when you're in the GTHQ, you can't perform any other operations with the game, so people should be able to see all the items on offer rather than having to scroll the listings for them.  This improvement should also be done to City Storage, which works the same way.
  3. Remove "travel" for trading – the purpose of this is really irritating, given it can take anywhere up to 10 seconds to actually reach the city selling the items!  Though I wouldn't mind it for use with other duties in future updates (delegating your services to neighbours, for example), it's current application is putting people off.
  4. Bigger servers – according to a report released by EA this-January, the game allegedly gets 725,000 new users per day.  However, a lot of the trading I do seem to be with the same people, suggesting players only connect to each other within a few miles of their GPS location.  It would be great if players instead connected to larger, regional servers to accommodate better trading possibilities.
  5. Advanced filter – like everyone else, I want to be able to purchase a specific thing instead of endlessly "trolling" the GTHQ for hours, just to get one, difficult item for a recipe or upgrading.  An advanced filter would certainly alleviate most people's complaints.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
@Hyncharas wrote:
  • Remove "travel" for trading – the purpose of this is really irritating, given it can take anywhere up to 10 seconds to actually reach the city selling the items!  Though I wouldn't mind it for use with other duties in future updates (delegating your services to neighbours, for example), it's current application is putting people off.
  • Bigger servers – according to a report released by EA this-January, the game allegedly gets 725,000 new users per day.  However, a lot of the trading I do seem to be with the same people, suggesting players only connect to each other within a few miles of their GPS location.  It would be great if players instead connected to larger, regional servers to accommodate better trading possibilities.

Agree on removing travel as part of the trading features of the game.  While travel certainly has a place in this game, it's not as part of the trading system.  Also, some players have reported much more than 10 second load times -- it all depends on their internet speed.

I'd take the previously-reported per-day increase in players with a grain of salt.  The game came out in December 2014 and was heavily advertised at first, but I'd really want to see updated figures before relying on that number.  As for GPS locations, I see a lot of cties with Asian characters in their names, and a lot of players with Cyrillic characters as well, so it seems unlikely that I'm seeing localized results in the Trade Depot.  Your mileage may differ. 😕mileyhappy:

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