March 2015
There are no suggestions that could make this steaming pile of dung better. Global trade makes me turn the game off and play something else. Fix it.
March 2015
Its also hard to find items like flour bags or fruit and berries. Perhaps adding advance search.
April 2015 - last edited April 2015
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:
April 2015
April 2015 - last edited April 2015
From what I've seen, servers only seem to accommodate communication between you and 20 other users at any time. If they ever do add advanced filtering, this would screen out items you're not looking to purchase.
I think that when they remove travel to other cities, it should provide a subsection of other items that city sells if they have asked those items to be advertised. If the item no longer exists, however, the system should replace it with stock from another city that also sells it. The amount of items you can advertise before waiting should also be increased to 2.
April 2015
@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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April 2015 - last edited April 2015
@BasinCity wrote:
GPS?
Lol...
The cities don't have locations, and there is no travel, only server timers added to increase in-game time, and time-outs due to server overloads.
While I disagree with the suggestion that it is involved with the game, players do have GPS in many devices. Not every device that can play this game has GPS, of course, but many are playing on tablets and phones that have this capability.
Travel is a reference to the fact that when players make purchases from the Global HQ, they must first load the selling player's city into their device, thus "traveling" to that city. mileyhappy:
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April 2015
I DON"T UNDERSTAND!!! YOU ARE EA!!!!! FIX THIS STUPID AUCTION HOUSE!!! YOUR LOSING PEOPLE THAT WANT TO PLAY!!!
THIS PROBLEM IS LITERALLY THE MOST FRUSTRATING PROBLEM I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED IN A GAME!!
I REALLY ENJOY THIS GAME! BUT THE AUCTION HOUSE IS RUINING THE FUN!
Why even let people set the price they want to charge for an item? We all know when we want something we don't care about the price because we don't have time to look at the price! It is simply, SEE IT, BUY IT QUICK before someone else does!!! YOU SNOOZE YOU LOSE MENTALITY SUCKS!
FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!FIX FIX FIX!
April 2015
I've simply stopped playing because of this. The cynic in me wonders if it's intentionally bad to try and force you to use the purchase with cash option. After several sessions of trying for an hour to purchase 3 "bulldoze scopes" I gave up. I've now uninstalled the game. I'll check back in a few months but I don't hold out hope.
April 2015
If they were trying to reduce server loads, EPIC FAIL! I have to reload the GTHQ repeatedly, probably 100 times, to be able to purchase the one item I need, rather than just going and buying it in one refresh.