[Request] Merge Mercantile Houses

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Originally Posted by Soulfire

Um...no. My retainers still hang around without me having to do a thing.

I know you can leave them in the wards and talk to them now and then and they'll stay, but a few days back I found the retainers of an alternate character still in the wards, and I couldn't even remember how long it had been since I had spoken to them. One of them had nothing up but a stack priced at the maximum limit.

I brought up the issue in linkshell chat and was told something about a retainer being left alone for some duration between two to three weeks and still remaining in the wards.

Searches also seem to attest to this timer not functioning.

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He meant that it used to have a time limit, but people keep bitch about that also and they removed it later.

C'mon guys, 3% more tax doesn't hurt.
I find myself can call my retainer in fieldcraft row without problem.

Are you sure you tried to call retainer in every ward before complain?

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Originally Posted by Payadopa

Yep. Was about to say the same. People keep moaning, even though there is a solution in the game already.

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While that is true...the problem with that is that there are not alot of people looking to buy anything that will search in gridania or Limsa's mercantile house unless it's something that isint in ul'dahs.

i had thought the same thing myself until my crystals and wood and Materia didint sell in a week...got a retainer spot in Ul'dah again...Materia sold in less then 10 minutes.

i figure that eventually this will be the solution when people actually start using them. similar to the party search feature.

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Originally Posted by Taaku

i figure that eventually this will be the solution when people actually start using them. similar to the party search feature.

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Read: never.

They should lower taxes in the other 2 cities (or raise in Ul'dah) to encourage movement or at least searching elsewhere.

Still waiting for retainers to set up a booth outside my mog house...decorate a flashy stand to attract people to visit etc.

Wishful thinking...SE you listening to this?

I posted elsewhere, but this thread has gotten community rep attention.

Would it be possible to implement a way for the taxes and search fees to benefit the Grand Company? You would think that if the city-state itself were making a profit they would have something to show for it. Maybe offer a discount on seal items during a good week? This would encourage commerce in more places than Ul'dah. I don't know how much burden that would place on the server, but I think it would help.

In any case, I can't expect everyone to have the patience for this, but I try to check Gridania and Limsa Lominsa before I set foot in Ul'dah's Mercantile House. I want to encourage commerce in all 3 cities, partly because I miss having more than one AH in FFXI. When you see cutscenes and story quests related to the trade routes, they don't make sense if all of the items can be found in the same place and delivered at an instant.

PS2 limitations

....oh wait

Apologize if this has been mentioned already, but often when I dispatch my retainer through the merc house it goes happily away, but if I check my retainer list it's not in a ward.

Can we please either:

1. Only have wards with available space listed for dispatch
2. At least get an error that the ward selected is full without backing out of all the menus.