Sugar and spice.... its not very nice

[MannyJabrielle]

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 and spice.I have not seen an item for storage, land, or beach expansions in days, and some of the parts for weeks.  Its sugar and spices galore, with a smattering of glass panes, iron, maybe some wood.... its a none stop cavalcade of sugar and spices.  The HQis flodded with sugar and spices.  I cant get the stench of sugar and spices out of my nose for hours after going into the HQ.

Are you tired of reading the words "sugar and spices" in this post? Not nearly as tired as I am of seeing only sugar and spices in the market screen. Its getting to where I may stop playing the game all together because of bow broken this is.  It is broken because in order to find expansion parts, I eed to pay cash, scrounge thought bubbles, watch the advert videos.... and pray I get lucky and do not get sugar ad spice as a reward... which has happened no less than four times in an hour today.

Seriously stop with the damn sugar and spices.  I want to play simcity, not the east india trading company sugar and spice clerk simulator.

Enough, enough with the sugar and spices.  I AM SICK OF SUGAR AND SPICES.

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[Arcadia0426]

Ha. The GTHQ is partly a reflection of the mayor's contest, which demands that people produce a lot of S&S (also a lot of glass), which they then have to unload to prepare for the next task.

It really reminds me of the perfect socialist market system. What do you have absolutely no need for? The market is full of that thing. What would be useful, or what do you really need? The market has none of that. Learn to be satisfied with what gets provided, not with what you want. And no matter how much is sloshing about in the market, it is always full price!

[logo4x]

I have the same issue. Came here to post about this. Today i opened trade hq and had 18/20 sugar and the 2/20 were wood. This is madness. Cant enjoy game with * trade hq like this

[AbC2428a6404051]

this is so irritating when all I ever see in Global Trade Hdqtrs is sugar & spices!  And Daniels items stay the same all day most days & even carry over to the next day!  At east his should be refreshing to new items every 5-10 minutes or so.  I can look for hours and several different times during the day to no avail for an item or 2 that I need for a shipment. 

Really, really frustrating to say the least

[bettysadog]

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@MannyJabrielle wrote:

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 and spice.I have not seen an item for storage, land, or beach expansions in days, and some of the parts for weeks.  Its sugar and spices galore, with a smattering of glass panes, iron, maybe some wood.... its a none stop cavalcade of sugar and spices.  The HQis flodded with sugar and spices.  I cant get the stench of sugar and spices out of my nose for hours after going into the HQ.

Are you tired of reading the words "sugar and spices" in this post? Not nearly as tired as I am of seeing only sugar and spices in the market screen. Its getting to where I may stop playing the game all together because of bow broken this is.  It is broken because in order to find expansion parts, I eed to pay cash, scrounge thought bubbles, watch the advert videos.... and pray I get lucky and do not get sugar ad spice as a reward... which has happened no less than four times in an hour today.

Seriously stop with the damn sugar and spices.  I want to play simcity, not the east india trading company sugar and spice clerk simulator.

Enough, enough with the sugar and spices.  I AM SICK OF SUGAR AND SPICES.

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I couldn't agree more and have even mentioned this before. But to compound the problem is that the majority of people are trying to sell oversupplied items at the full price!! Unlike true market conditions when there is a surplus of products they must be discounted to sell, these rules dont seem to apply to mayors. Yes we all know that the COM produces an unreasonably large amounts of products to sell. And unfortunately, or fortunately the game removes from your storage counts the items as soon as you put them up for sale. If you dont need the simeoleans right away, then who cares if they sit in your Trade HQ forever? I never seem to have a problem moving items Ive produced because I sell everything I make at the minimum price or a little less. And its not just sugar and spice. Burgers, cheese fries, wood, metal etc also need to take heed. I generally wont even click on these items when shopping so the sellers are losing exposure to their other items. It contributes to the frustration when having to search for items you need. In fact so much, I tend to make almost everything I need for epics and the contest, rather than deal with the market

Thank you for having the courage to bring this up

JMHO

[pengamia]

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@MannyJabrielle wrote:

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 and spice.I have not seen an item for storage, land, or beach expansions in days, and some of the parts for weeks.  Its sugar and spices galore, with a smattering of glass panes, iron, maybe some wood.... its a none stop cavalcade of sugar and spices.  The HQis flodded with sugar and spices.  I cant get the stench of sugar and spices out of my nose for hours after going into the HQ.

Are you tired of reading the words "sugar and spices" in this post? Not nearly as tired as I am of seeing only sugar and spices in the market screen. Its getting to where I may stop playing the game all together because of bow broken this is.  It is broken because in order to find expansion parts, I eed to pay cash, scrounge thought bubbles, watch the advert videos.... and pray I get lucky and do not get sugar ad spice as a reward... which has happened no less than four times in an hour today.

Seriously stop with the damn sugar and spices.  I want to play simcity, not the east india trading company sugar and spice clerk simulator.

Enough, enough with the sugar and spices.  I AM SICK OF SUGAR AND SPICES.

Sugar ad spices, sugar and spices, Sugar ad spices, sugar and spices

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I love your post

Somebody mentioned socialistic market,.. well, how do you think people live there?! I think, as under these circumstances, you just need to stop worrying and start adapting. Example: I do not produce sugar, hamburgers or other items which are plantiful at the global market -- this is my adaptation (every time I need them for an upgrade or specific production, I just buy them from the other players, I know these items are always there) Also, plan for longer time to accumulate the necessary expansion items, just morally prepare yourself. As always under unfortunate conditions, try to find some help from your friends (I would definitely be happy to give you the extra items I don't need). And out of curiosity, try to move up even more to see if that will affect the assortment of items at the global market (actually, it gets a little better) Good luck and have faith!  

[bettysadog]

BTW nothing seems to have changed. Continuing to see tons of S&S for sale and at the full price!

Go figure

[GaryHymes]

This is nothing new with the game since the beginning. They sell them at "full price" because eventually Mayor Dan will buy them - so why not list them at full price if they will be sold eventually? 

Someone else may be seeing shoes, shoes, shoes, or canvases, etc... The rare items like land expansion are what makes the game last longer and allow us to finish it in one weekend. The true way to get these items is click on the thought bubbles and the more bubbles you touch, the more chance of finding more rare items. So it comes down to more screen time unfortunately.

[TomBabmo]

I just had to google this because I was getting sick of S&S too. And it seems that nothing has changed. IMO there should be some kind of limit how many same type of items are showed, usually at least half of the items are S&S. Highly annoying when I'm in a hurry and I need something else. S&S doesn't even seem to be needed for anything, at least not yet. Nobody asks to buy S&S and I can't use S&S to make anything.

[Dargonnoth]

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.