Server-wide /shouts

[Kristal]

Port Windurst and Port Bastok would not be good areas, since there's very little to do there. No AH for one. Windurst Woods and Bastok Mines are the places to be in that case.

But really, there's very little reason to spread /yell outside a city. (Or even add yell 'zones' in the starter cities. Aht Urhgan though, is a different matter.)

Perhaps SE could make a YellShell (or ShYell) where a NPC repeats all shouts/yells in the Jeuno area so players could tune in where ever they are.

[Zyeriis]

Port Windurst and Port Bastok would not be good areas, since there's very little to do there. No AH for one. Windurst Woods and Bastok Mines are the places to be in that case.

There's things to do in Port Jeuno?
The auction house part has merit though. Not that they couldn't just add a npc or two to either of those two zones that you can access the auction house from (like in Tavnazia Safehold, Rabao, Norg, Upper Jeuno, and Nashmau).

That being said, they'd at least be options rather than clogging Port Jeuno/having to be in Jeuno in general (as there are auction houses in other zones of those cities). Port Windurst, while it doesn't have an auction house (though it could be added, unless they run into issues like they did with adding the abyssea NPCs in windurst to begin with), does have the outpost warp NPC (and the explorer moogle when that tablet power is active) in it (which none of the other Ports have). Port Sandy, while it doesn't have the outpost NPC, has the auction house (which only Port Jeuno also has). Port Bastok, while it doesn't have the outpost NPC nor the auction house, it has the whitegate warp NPC (which none of the other ports have).

While Port San d'Oria doesn't really have anything special about it, it is in San d'Oria, which is the easiest city to get around (and thus access the other things such as the outpost NPC: by mog house exiting to North Sandy, short walk) and the whitegate NPC: by mog house exiting to South Sandy, short walk). The ports are somewhat balanced in terms of being good hubs but having different aspects as to why they're good hubs.