Retainer Services in Golden Saucer Please!

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Originally Posted by Gillionaire

Please, do not lump up an entire gender and trivialize them. Let's use a gender neutral term. May I suggest, mad-people?

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Triggered! Geez....."men" is a gender neutral term in this context. Brush up before you rush up yo.

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

What about being forced to teleport out and check ventures only to find out you can't get back in? lol Would you consider one then? >.>

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No, I wouldn't. For starters, I don't want to spend all my time GS, so I never feel "forced" to zone out. Furthermore, nobody's being forced to check ventures the moment they are finished either. Simply put, GS is a casino - you don't eat, sleep, and do all your shopping and work in/from a casino. It's not accomodation. You want markets and retainers at your fingertips, go to your housing zone, those are the ones for that.

Even with all that said, I especially wouldn't want to give more incentive for players to create even more congestion in one specific place, from a dev's point of view.

How about a marketboard furniture?

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

Then why is there a Summoning Bell in the Wolve's Den? I've seen people afk, idle-hang, and queue for duties there too, but have never heard anyone suggest it was overcrowded, and that's a much smaller area than GS.

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Ask yourself: What do people DO in Wolves Den? It's half the size, and appeals to a very small set of the population.
GS appeals to a large segment of the population, what with having minigames for all levels as well as choco racing and GATEs.
And Mor Dhona appeals to an equally large segment, what with being the source for most of the endgame equipment as well as quests.
Wolves Den? Just PVP, PVP gear, and training dummies.

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

Then why is there a Summoning Bell in the Wolve's Den? I've seen people afk, idle-hang, and queue for duties there too, but have never heard anyone suggest it was overcrowded, and that's a much smaller area than GS.

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because the general population doesn't care about PvP. every Lv 50 has to go to Mor Dhona to spend tomes and do missions.

I wouldn't mind it if it was in a separate area like the Chocobo Square. We still need our Haunted House Hotel too. This can go there xD

Oh, right. Do you know if the Haunted House Hotel will be like an Inn Room for GS or something? If so, just put the retainer summoning bell in there and close my thread. XD

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Originally Posted by kyuven

Ask yourself: What do people DO in Wolves Den?

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It doesn't matter. I was using the Wolves Den area as a metaphor to counter the argument that just because people aren't "supposed" to hang out there, they might. And while the Wolves Den has a retainer bell, GS doesn't, and I just find that weird. I mean, seriously, do people gain so much PVP gear at once that they absolutely need a retainer there? It doesn't really matter what people do there, if there was a retainer bell in Urth's Gift, I'd hang out there because the area is cool-looking. lol But I would never ask for that because I never see people there. The GS is populated with players and mini-games, what's wrong with a summoning bell? (And to answer your question with a personal example, the Wolves Den used to be one of the areas I queued and AFK'd in, but I've never PVP'd for my entire FFXIV life. Why? Because the area looks cool and has a retainer bell. lol) No one has been able to successfully tell me exactly why this summoning bell would be such an issue...

Even this:

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

Simply put, GS is a casino - you don't eat, sleep, and do all your shopping and work in/from a casino.

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Actually... when people are staying in Vegas on vacation, almost all of them eat, sleep, and do all of their shopping and extra work (if any) from a casino because nearly every one of those casinos doubles as a hotel - except for maybe the dive-store, mom-and-pop casinos. The GS is no "mom-and-pop" casino; the Mandervilles could probably afford to offer retainer services (or finish renovating the Haunted House Hotel addition if it really is an Inn Room equivalent). And for my fellow RP-ers out there, if we're supposed to feel like fancy gamblers inside the GS, then why not humor us by letting our retainers "fetch" us some venture spoils while we play a round of Triple Triad? This would actually increase the realism of GS, especially if - like I said before - the summoning bell was located in one of the Lounge areas of the Wonder Square.