[Request] Merge Mercantile Houses

[Majidah]

Mercantile Houses were released last patch.
For those who haven't gotten around to using them yet, they basically give you access to search in the ward of any city from any city.

Here's the problem though.

Uldah's wards are up to the neck in stock and variety while the other two are always empty.

I propose they are merged into a single Mercantile House and that the search retrieves results from all three cities in a single window as to foment players to start placing their retainers outside uldah.

Like this post if you agree.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

We want this.
Yoshi wants this.
But it won't happen till 2.0 cause the servers can't handle it.

[Holland]

I thought that your suggestion would be implemented in 2.0.

Right now what they can do with the servers so that appears you have access to all market wards is to actually transport the character to the market ward area of each city. As indicated in the patch notes, if you do a search for a player that entered the mercantile house of gridania while in uldah, the player shows he's in gridania.

[Majidah]

I thought that your suggestion would be implemented in 2.0.

Right now what they can do with the servers so that appears you have access to all market wards is to actually transport the character to the market ward area of each city. As indicated in the patch notes, if you do a search for a player that entered the mercantile house of gridania while in uldah, the player shows he's in gridania.

Really? Well that sucks!

I mean, its just a query grabbing strings from three wards, isn't it? It seems weird the servers can't handle a simple search.

I'm on the verge of considering to pay someone for his spot in the uldah wards...

they should implement a timeout on the retailers or something.

Most people just place a 999999999 gil item there and keep the spot forever.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

It is the curse of poorly written code... I am actually surprised they gave us this much.

Hopefully they are taking all of this into consideration for 2.0.

[Altanas]

They should have run the Markets like traditional market stalls - one week its in uldah, next week its in limsa, etc to encourage active continuous circular migration around the world for a more immersive rp experience (or just to annoy us a bit more ;p)

[Holland]

It is the curse of poorly written code... I am actually surprised they gave us this much.

Hopefully they are taking all of this into consideration for 2.0.

My bet is that the physical form of the retainers is going away completely and switched to some sort of market. I hope the bidding nature of the FFXI AH is not what they have in mind.

[Krausus]

Just place your retainer in another city, odds are you wont show on the list anyways with so many people using Uldahs.

[Majidah]

Just place your retainer in another city, odds are you wont show on the list anyways with so many people using Uldahs.

I have my retainers all placed in gridania. Its a ghost town. Why would anyone look there instead of uldah?

I just went to buy a hatchet in uldah and they only had TWO in gridania. Not two in stock, TWO hatches TOTAL. From 1 to 50.

[Rukkirii]

To all the shoppers and merchants out there, here are some responses to a couple questions we have been seeing.

Would it be possible to combine each city’s current three mercantile houses into one?

This was actually the development team’s original plan, but with problems related to the implementation of direct purchasing, it ultimately had to be implemented the way it is now for the current version.

It would be great if we had more locations for the retainer summoning bell, because there are still problems with overcrowding in certain areas.

Currently, we do not have any plans of increasing the number of call bell locations. However, if there continues to be overcrowding issues we will look into this again.