I'd love to be able to pay for linkpearls that I can give to my Retainers so they can give me updates whenever they make a sale.
Now I know what you're thinking, "why give me updates every time?" Well, of course this could be a customizable feature, such as the following examples:
(Imagine this is your retainer screen under the menu)
- Report on sales equaling [e.g. 3] items
- Report on sales equaling [e.g. 30,000] gil
or...
- Only gather reports whenever I've activated the pearl.
So why is this good? One reason is if I leave one of my retainers in Limsa (because his items sell better there) and my other in Ul'dah, etc, then I won't have to travel to either city only to find that my retainer hasn't sold anything.
Please discuss.
Please Give Us Retainer Alerts on Sales :)
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05-13-2011, 10:19 AMSykora727Please Give Us Retainer Alerts on Sales :)
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05-13-2011, 10:29 AMCallous
Or even something as simple as a "Your retainer has sold xxxxx" or "Your retainer has earned you xxxxxx gil." when you first log in. A quick server message would be short and sweet.
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05-13-2011, 10:35 AMHotohori
It doesn't even have to be this detailed. I would settle for right now a quick history on what sold off my retainer when I check them. It might have been a few days since I last checked it and all I see is a lump of gil and space in my retainer bazaar with no recollection of what was posted. My memory isn't horrible but remembering the quantity and various different items posted for sale by me shouldn't be a mystery.
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05-13-2011, 10:50 AMMaxi_Irving
A Linkpearl for retainers makes way too much sense. No idea why that never crossed my mind. o.O
This solves one of the tedious problems of the Market Wards. I would love for this to be implemented. -
05-13-2011, 10:56 AMEvangela
Just add an AH
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05-13-2011, 11:03 AMSykora727Oh dear... They're back...Quote:
Originally Posted by Evangela
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05-13-2011, 11:06 AMZenakuYa it's called Ward :) it's AH only thing you have to go to the npc big deal -.- did you ever go outside jeuno to buy item? like Coins from COP? or item that can't not be sold by the AH? and you click 20+ ppl afk? i mean at least now the ward in ffxiv you can see which one selling the item -.-Quote:
Originally Posted by Evangela
no need for a AH just make the ward one big area and all link around and that be good enough. -
05-13-2011, 11:52 AMXenor
I want my retainer to tell me what sold.
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05-13-2011, 11:58 AMZezil
may it got by level of retainer in future lol...
lv2: report item sell
lv3: sell item pass retainer linkpearl from anywhere
lv4: Can return to ward after call out in other place
lv5: Can Ride chocobo to delivery outside anywhere if not in dungeon 1 per day
lv6: Take away all money and all item from you coz you use him to over work w/o payment
lv7: wtf where is my retainer 'A' -
05-13-2011, 12:01 PMAuctionGirl
I do think you should be able to communicate with the retainers and find out your sales history of the last 10 items sold (w/date, time & price)
To go farther with this idea, you could quest the ability to manage your bazaar from afar... you could only put items in bazaar that are already on the retainer of course. But its like you are messaging them and telling them to add it to bazaar. -
05-13-2011, 12:48 PMNabiri
I like the linkpearl idea a lot. Cool for immersion too. :D
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05-13-2011, 12:58 PMGramul
Long as you can toggle it on and off.
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05-13-2011, 01:24 PMSykora727Yep, that's what I was thinking with the customized alerts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gramul
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05-13-2011, 01:45 PMNabiriYeah, it may annoy some people. Haha. :3Quote:
Originally Posted by Gramul
Helpful to others though. -
05-14-2011, 12:13 AMParagons
agree 1000%
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05-14-2011, 01:00 AMGirlie
Agree, agree, agree. Great idea!
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05-14-2011, 08:59 AMSykora727
Now that I think about it, SE could even add it into the chat log like this:
- Show sales made by retainer [1]
- Show all sales made by retainer [1]
- Show all sales made by retainer [1] ever 12 hours
- Show all sales made by retainer [1] ever 6 hours
(etc)
- Show sales made by retainer [2]
- Show all sales made by retainer [2]
- Show all sales made by retainer [2] ever 12 hours
- Show all sales made by retainer [2] ever 6 hours
(etc)
Something along those lines. -
05-14-2011, 12:10 PMRhomagus
As of right now there is an option on the main menu listed:
Retainers
It's absolutely useless. Oh wait, unless you needed to be reminded of your retainers name. Or if you forgot which order you created your two retainers in.... sad lol :(
Give it a purpose.
This thread explores such a purpose. -
05-14-2011, 12:16 PMKilta_Firelotus
W does AH alearts when stuff get sold. I didn't mind it and I thought it was helpful I would love this info as on my retainer I found most of my stuff sold just as soon as I left the ward. (10K for me woot) This will also help those who got a ton to sell. 10 slots isn't alot, and some people (myself included) store tons of items to sell, and can use that time waiting wiser to keep our retainer stocked up to sell off that stuff.
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05-14-2011, 01:22 PMDracoI think this would be awsome. It would also be great if you were out and about killing sheep in La Nocea and all of a sudden recieved a system message in a unique color saying " Your sale of "Gladiators Epic Shield of The Trash Lid" has been sold for 1 Gil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sykora727
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05-14-2011, 04:33 PMSykora727Wow that was precise :D Trash lid... lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Draco
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05-15-2011, 08:24 AMKaMuiSouZou
Rather than using the chat log, I would rather utilize the already existant but useless retainer option in the main menu. Currently clicking on it gives you your retainer names and nothing else. Why not select a name in that list and have a window pop up showing how much your retainer made, what's left in their bazaar etc? Item exchange should be done in person imo, but let us talk to our retainers using linkpearls or something via that menu. Less things to clutter our chat logs as well.