Suggestions concerning congestion and lag.

[Krashport]

I would like to suggest. Seeing that every Auction House are now connected as one. This could help with some congestion and lag in a lot of areas, Also could speed up muling using these options in a Mog House. Even putting these options only in cities for starters might help a bit.

/Auction House - Can access the Auction House anywhere.
/Delivery Box "Send"/"Receive" - Can access the Delivery Box anywhere.
/Bazaar "All" - Pulls up a list of Bazaar's selling. Maybe add the search Bazaar option to the Auction House menu.
Shami's Drop box - At every Auction House there is a Drop Box, Where you can trade your Seals, Crests, etc for Shami to hold. Also can pickup Orbs from Shami's Drop box and don't have to keep running or making your Home point Port Jeuno.

[llello]

O great, so people will just stand at the MH exits and conduct business there (I assume it wouldn't work inside as nothing does even stupid stuff like breaking clusters). Please, we already have to push through a wall of characters to leave the MH, especially in Jueno. Something like spreading out AH npc's along PJ would be a start as that lower area is just a pit of lag and invisible pc's most times.

[Luvbunny]

They should move the Shami duos to upper jeu no where the lag is a lot less. And have similar NPCs to all 3 nations and also the NPC that warp you to bcnm as well. The main idea is not to put EVERY important npc in Jeuno but have them all in other areas so that people do not need to stay in Jeuno at all times.

[llello]

I agree, its very tedious trying to get an orb or trade seals to the bros or even get soap from Sagheera at times. I personally wish Whitegate could become the center of the world again, granted it was still laggy at peak times, but its a better suited area imo.

[Lithera]

Keep in mind that zones have a limit for NPCs. Many town zones are at or near that cap, which is why the original Windurst Abyssea NPCs were in Heavens Tower. I leave my HP in Jeuno and use the voidwatch NPC if I have to warp to another city. Players today are spoiled... How many remember when airship was the fastest way to travel and you couldnt just abyssea warp to places like buburimu, Dunes, Xarc? Without OP warp, you had to run from San d'Oria all the way to Xarcabard if you had business there or wait for a teletaxi WHM.

[Krashport]

O great, so people will just stand at the MH exits and conduct business there (I assume it wouldn't work inside as nothing does even stupid stuff like breaking clusters). Please, we already have to push through a wall of characters to leave the MH, especially in Jueno. They do that now and will always AFK @ the enterance to the Mog House.

The whole point of this thread is to come up with idea's as to help with the measures to congestion and lag.

Here are where the Auction House are located now. (See Red Squares)
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn80/Krashport/Jeuno-port-old.png


Something like spreading out AH npc's along PJ would be a start as that lower area is just a pit of lag and invisible pc's most times.
Everyone would just use the Auction House closer to the Mog house to which this wouldn't help at all.(See Red Squares)
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn80/Krashport/Jeuno-port-new.png

/Auction House - Can access the Auction House anywhere.
With this you don't have to leave a FoV/GoV zone and lose your caps just to unload, Aside from assuming it Will not work inside the Mog house... mmk!

/Delivery Box "Send"/"Receive" - Can access the Delivery Box anywhere.
Would speed up muling a lot and we can get our main Character gear on the fly.

/Bazaar "All" - Pulls up a list of Bazaar's selling. Maybe add the search Bazaar option to the Auction House menu. Don't have to hunt down items would be nice also would help with a lot of congestion in Upper Jeuno.

Shami's Drop box - At every Auction House there is a Drop Box, Where you can trade your Seals, Crests, etc for Shami to hold. Also can pickup Orbs from Shami's Drop box and don't have to keep running or making your Home point Port Jeuno. What is the point having this only in one zone really.

Then again these are just some Suggestions I'm not saying it "Should" be done but would be nice if there was something in the works for congestion and lag.

Another Suggestion maybe have a /Server shout that we don't have to be in a city to look for shouts also giving us a fast and easy option to turn it on/off. Yes I know they just added /Yell but you gotta be in a town to hear those.

[llello]

I still don't think thats all that great a plan or even feasible with the way the Dbox and AH are designed. Plus it will get old really fast if someone is playing around in AH menus when their supposed to be supporting me and my fellow dd's...mmmk

I agree with Luv, more of these types of npc's (orb,event,and AH)are needed in more areas. I would propose that AH npc's be added in dungeons, especially GOV dungeons. Hell theres Dbox npcs in some of the dungeons in the shadowreign era along with npc stores, why not expand this further. This would also circumvent the npc per area cap which if i'm not mistaken SE stated was a server side issue.

[Alderin]

Another delivery box suggestion would be to add an additional button (after sending delivery box items to a mule as an example) such as "Confirm Send" - which essentially gets all the items out of your outbox so you don't have to wait for the person to view their delivery box. This would also speed muling up by a lot - being able to send 20x items before having to log into your mule to clear the main's outbox.

But in response to the anti-lag campaign, another solution is this -

#1 Put a Conquest NPC next to a home point crystal in Ru'Lude
#2 Add a couple of Auction House NPC's in Upper Jeuno (similar to nomad moogles), along with a delivery service.
#3 Add Abyssea NPC's to Lower & Upper jeuno.
#4 Add a similar "Chocobo Stables" type zone that is designed for Bazaar's, and reintroduce bazaar tax in Jeuno. (Marketwards in FFXIV was a good concept - providing there was also an Auction House as well....).
#5 Add some form of Bazaar search feature that will list all the bazaar's, player names, and locations on the map (K-8) etc for an item that you specify so that you don't need to do run around checking every person's bazaar til you find a "Distilled Water".

In short- Get all important Port Jeuno NPC - and duplicate them in the other Jeuno zones.

Hell, simply doing the first solution on my list will move me out of Port Jeuno.

[Lithera]

Because you can't set Ru'Lude MH for home point and run upstairs to the Conquest NPC? Why not just dump the GM Moogles from the test server in our MH...T