Right now its possible for anyone to place their retainer where ever they want, obviously this is causing issues with over population in specific wards and cities.

I would like to suggest to make it so that a player can only set their retainer via the bell and they can only instruct it to go to a specific ward. (not a specific City)

For example.

I ring the retainer bell and stock my retainer with Cloth and Yarn, adding it to the bazaar for sale etc, next I click to send my retainer to a ward, I don't get a choice which city to send it to, just the ward (clothiers row).

From this point the server calculates the best place to put my retainer based on currently retainer population.

It means that people would no longer favour just one city and that all retainers would be spread throughout all 3 cities.

I'm sure a few people won't like this idea due to having to check all 3 cities for items but it would solve a lot of issues with retainers clogging up specific wards.