Servers are nearly empty and still cant summon my retainer in ANY uldah ward

Can you please do something about the "You cannot summon any more retainers in this area." issue. The servers are really dead and EVERY ward in uldah is full. If this is an issue now what are we supposed to do when/if the servers ever get more population? Can you imagine if a new player has to deal with this after coming from another game that has an auction house? It doesnt look good.

Think they said they're adjusting the MWs in 1.18

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Originally Posted by Corrderio

Think they said they're adjusting the MWs in 1.18

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july 21st cant come soon enough.

I vote for ejection of retainers from the wards if they haven't been attended to within 72 hours by their owner. At least then it would clear out the retainers of inactive players to make space for others instead of just idling there taking up server space.

Do you already have one up in that specific ward?

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Originally Posted by viion

Do you already have one up in that specific ward?

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I have 1 up in the alchemy ward but I tried every ward from tinkerers to menders and I get the same message in every ward.

hahah weird, must be a bug cuse i hardly ever get it, usually if i already have 1 up in the ward it wont let me, like i have to use buddy keys to get multiple shard retainers as it wont let me smn my second one.

It's the beauty of not having an AH. SE wants us really to enjoy this new feature =)

You can have only 1 retainer on market per city if i am not mistaken. So put your second one in Gridania or Lominsa! They need love too...

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Originally Posted by Shiki_Lockhart

You can have only 1 retainer on market per city if i am not mistaken. So put your second one in Gridania or Lominsa! They need love too...

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My wifes account has 2 retainers in the same ward in the same city standing right next to each other. So did i until I went on vacation for a week, when i came back one of my retainers had sold everything and was no longer summoned.

Oh i see lol too bad then :o

Server can't be that empty then, eh?

Sure does make me worry about what happens if/when we get new players though.

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Originally Posted by Gun_Anam

I vote for ejection of retainers from the wards if they haven't been attended to within 72 hours by their owner. At least then it would clear out the retainers of inactive players to make space for others instead of just idling there taking up server space.

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I'll be with Gun on this. 72 hours of non-activity of a Retainer and it will disappear. This will solve the issue of Retainers inside the Market Wards even if they've abandoned the game for a while or without cancelling the submission. Bacon for everyone.

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Originally Posted by Shiki_Lockhart

You can have only 1 retainer on market per city if i am not mistaken. So put your second one in Gridania or Lominsa! They need love too...

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Huh? I have 2 in same ward @ul'dah~ on the main i can't summon any retainers in uldah, its full.

Move to LL. Everyone must do it.

RELOCATION TO LL GOGOGOGOGO.

Seriously. Thanalan is so boring.

Gridania Gridania~

you could move your retainers to grid, but if your servers are anything like mine it'd never seen anyone visit them and they would get bored and ask you to move them back to uldah.

Thank you SE this system you have in place sure beats an auction house! Not.

For once, I think this is a valid complaint, especially since it will get new players frustrated, making a greater impact than one could think at first.

It should have been a priority to fix this issue.

I like this game, but market wards has been the thing that annoyed me the most so far (and the elevator music doesn't help ...).

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Originally Posted by Corrderio

Think they said they're adjusting the MWs in 1.18

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Hope that means they add the damn auction house already...

Yeah I have had this problem on Lindblum for a while now where I haven't been able to summon my second retainer in the wards just to swap things over. I have to run back the Adv. Guild to summon it get what I want then run back to the wards and put it on the retainer I have managed to keep in the wards.

I just priced something at 999,999,999 just to make sure my retainer will never leave for fear of not being able to summon it again in any of the wards. I know this doesn't help the problem but I feel it is the only thing i can do to ensure I can sell my wares.

On the flip side if my item does sell for 999,999,999 then who cares I'm rich and don't need to sell anything anymore :p

This is a big problem, if the servers crash when they allow more retainers that won't help. So they limit the amount and then even with a low population you still can't get a retainer in that is another problem. I dread to think what will happen if they can't fix this and PS3 release brings in a huge influx of new players, it will be a nightmare.

The only fix for now is to spread the population out between all cities so everyone is not concentrated in Ul'dah, so they better give us some good reasons to venture to them to make them viable markets.

Still cant summon a retainer in ANY ward in uldah try multiple times a day. SE market wards are failing your customers.

if you ask me, this is pretty gamebreaking and should be dealt with immediately in an emergency maintenance.

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Originally Posted by Mug

if you ask me, this is pretty gamebreaking and should be dealt with immediately in an emergency maintenance.

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100% agree bro!
G-A-M-E-B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G!

There are more retainers on my server than actual number of surviving players....Heeellllppp....

If you feel lonely in Melmond come visit the Uldah's Market Ward... see twitching retainers to feel you're in a busy server! woot... /sigh....

I agree that there needs to be a system where if you don't attend your retainer in X amount of days it should automatically be taken out to control number of retainers in each market areas.

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

Can you please do something about the "You cannot summon any more retainers in this area." issue. The servers are really dead and EVERY ward in uldah is full. If this is an issue now what are we supposed to do when/if the servers ever get more population? Can you imagine if a new player has to deal with this after coming from another game that has an auction house? It doesnt look good.

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Btw, this has nothing the server is nearly dead or low population. As long as the game remains free, there will be people with multi-characters who will take up two slots per char at Uldah ward.
Two possible solutions can fix this:
One is links the three major city market wards together. So people don’t feel like loss of sale if they don’t their retainers summoned at Uldah ward.
Another is to give an Auction House.

Can someone please start a petition for Auction House, I will sign?

Thanks,

Full Market Wards... here's to server stability?

One week later and I still cant summon a retainer in any ward in Uldah. Can we get a fix already?

I'm scared to even move my retainer's position in the same ward because of this.

They have emergency maintenances for fixing the NPC price of fish hooks, but this just gets ignored?

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Originally Posted by Mug

They have emergency maintenances for fixing the NPC price of fish hooks, but this just gets ignored?

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Well it hasn't been ignored exactly.

Because of the crafting leve and guild mark changes I think this might happen:

Blacksmiths, Armorsmiths will flock to Limsa to get their buffs and Miners may want to sell ore to the grinders that will be there. Since those crafters will be in limsa looking for ore and getting their marks and buffs they may keep their retainers there to sell their metallic goods to other Armorers and Smiths.

Cooks might be a little trickier or Limsa will become the place to buy food when they fix it....

Leatherworkers and Carpenters don't combine as well as Smiths and Armorers but for the most part the above applies here. Botanists would sell their wood here for the Carpenter grinders, various hides would be here as well.

Thought change: As I was writing this I realized that all the crafts are so dependent on each other that until we have a mail system or a unified market where I can put my retainer in Grid and someone in Limsa can buy my stuff Ul'dah will still be where everyone goes to sell their stuff simply because everything will be there. The marks and leve changes won't be enough to keep people in other cities.

They definitely need to connect all the Market Wards. Not only would cause less strain on the Ul'dah wards, but it would, in addition to the changes already planned, further encourage people to go to the other city-states. To me, this is the only solution that makes sense with the current system.

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Originally Posted by Gun_Anam

I vote for ejection of retainers from the wards if they haven't been attended to within 72 hours by their owner. At least then it would clear out the retainers of inactive players to make space for others instead of just idling there taking up server space.

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i agree with this

But also want toi say wqe have international servers. So a dead server at a cettain time might not always hold true all the time. I've always seen people at various times. We also share our servers with euro and japanese.

I have seen retainers that are not selling stuff, still standing in the wards. I thought they where supposed to be removed upon running out of items to sell?

They don't stay up unless you have something in there for sale in the first place. IONO~ think this needs to be looked into.

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Originally Posted by BloodLotus

Thought change: As I was writing this I realized that all the crafts are so dependent on each other that until we have a mail system or a unified market where I can put my retainer in Grid and someone in Limsa can buy my stuff Ul'dah will still be where everyone goes to sell their stuff simply because everything will be there. The marks and leve changes won't be enough to keep people in other cities.

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I have thought the same thing. Unless they unify the markets it will always be a mess. Mail system will help but won't solve the problem exactly.

Also guys I've been suggesting a joined market since launch. Yall kept telling me off for it >.> Maybe yall shoulda gave me a chance back then. I am now laughing out load in real life.

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

Also guys I've been suggesting a joined market since launch. Yall kept telling me off for it >.> Maybe yall shoulda gave me a chance back then. I am now laughing out load in real life.

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I don't believe I ever told you off. I've been for this the whole time.

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

Also guys I've been suggesting a joined market since launch. Yall kept telling me off for it >.> Maybe yall shoulda gave me a chance back then. I am now laughing out load in real life.

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I never saw your suggestion.

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

Also guys I've been suggesting a joined market since launch. Yall kept telling me off for it >.> Maybe yall shoulda gave me a chance back then. I am now laughing out load in real life.

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Never saw it >.<