Please do something about the overflowing Market Wards!

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Originally Posted by rubina

Where there is zero population? No thank you. The *correct* solution is to scrap the Wards and install a proper Auction House.

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Capped wards -> Players forced to go to LL/Grid to set up shop -> Population dispersed.

GG.

I have the same problem in Besaid too

almost all of the wards are fuuuuuuullllll

don't understand why we still need this physical wards? since the search menu already act like AH system

SE desperately want it to work. Maybe because its all "Instanced", where as an AH is not, its all in 1 big catalogue which might put strain on server and they've not figured out a solution. May be hard for them to Instance specific menus. Or portion of menus to different instances hence why we cant buy from the menu right now. It also explains why there is capped market wards because the server cant handle it any fuller. Ah be like an uncapped MW with 1 room.

They have only just got the "Restore Retainers position" working after server maint/failure but what if they had an AH and it crashed, and didnt restore items, where would they go? Thinking of it in a technical term as the items in Market Wards are bound to your retainers. But you dont go to an AH to setup a retainer.

On Figaro, Ul'dah is also full.

And I am seeing the Limsa wards fill a bit more than they previously were. Limsa is starting to liven up. I consider this a good thing.

Meanwhile, Squeenix has confirmed that patch 1.18 will increase the capacity of all market wards to allow more retainers to be summoned in them. Pity...

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Originally Posted by Catapult

On Figaro, Ul'dah is also full.

And I am seeing the Limsa wards fill a bit more than they previously were. Limsa is starting to liven up. I consider this a good thing.

Meanwhile, Squeenix has confirmed that patch 1.18 will increase the capacity of all market wards to allow more retainers to be summoned in them. Pity...

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! they still didn't gave up fixing that crappy system?

SE is just unbelievable.

I can't believe this monstrous system's been in place for a whole year.

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We know that's not coming anytime soon, if ever. So no, not /thread.

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If that's the official stance then I hope this game dies. No point dragging it on.

I'm loving the currently broken system of retainers not being able to get in the correct ward. I use it to my advantage when botters are trying to undercut my HQs by 50% in the wrong wards. Wrong ward = no sale if it's higher than 20th in the listing.

Wait the f*cking time. They said that they're going to promote convenience on the other states too.

What stumps me is that wards are almost practically an auction house. Making things visible and tactile was nice at first, but now it's just an annoyance and a burden on both the servers and my computer. An auction house could still use retainers as a middleman for each player, but there's little point to having to run to the wards and summon your retainer just to sell something. Can't they do that footwork for you?...well, it would be nice.

Problem already being solved
they are raising the ward capacity

so this is a moot point