Summoning Bells in Grand Company Lobby or Barracks?

I wholeheartedly would appreciate a Summoning Bell placed in each Grand Company lobby or at the very least in the Barracks.

1. Retainer Venture rewards could be turned in to supply/provision missions more efficiently for Grand Company Seals.

2. Any gear inventory stored on your Retainers would be easily accessed for Squadron Glamour applications that are not already in your Glamour Dresser.

3. A Free Company chest is already in each GC lobby, should you need to transfer Retainer inventory to and from.

4. Players who choose to level with their squadron will have access to their entire inventory during progression.

5. Arguably would reduce player congestion at Market Boards.

Yes! This always annoys me that there isn't one there.

What if we get the ability to acces our retainers wherever we are whenever we want (outside combat and instance). You blow a whistle and your retainer comes showing up lol. I'm guessing it would break immersion a little too much. Would be nice though.

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Originally Posted by SamRF

What if we get the ability to acces our retainers wherever we are whenever we want (outside combat and instance). You blow a whistle and your retainer comes showing up lol. I'm guessing it would break immersion a little too much. Would be nice though.

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Closest thing we got to that was the Chocobo Saddlebag and I am not joking when I say that I often forget it's there.

There really needs to be one there! Speaking of the barracks... where is the lvl70 update? I hope the silence doesn't mean it's been abandoned.

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Originally Posted by Endeleon

There really needs to be one there! Speaking of the barracks... where is the lvl70 update? I hope the silence doesn't mean it's been abandoned.

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Seriously this.
The Squadron is really easy to ignore after they hit class lvl 60... especially since they can't graduate into Jobs or dungeons that go over 60.

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Originally Posted by SamRF

What if we get the ability to acces our retainers wherever we are whenever we want (outside combat and instance). You blow a whistle and your retainer comes showing up lol. I'm guessing it would break immersion a little too much. Would be nice though.

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It'll also never happen, for the same reason we can't access the glamour dresser everywhere.
Communicating with the databases for retainer inventories and glamour dressers takes bandwidth and when there's ALSO enemies and battle mechanics taking place in that zone, all of it together would cause too much lag.

I still wish this would happen. A summoning Bell in the Grand Company offices or in the Squadron Barracks. It's time.

It will probably never happen Yoshi will tell u just go to the market place or the inn.

When people asked for them to add Aesthetician in the first they said that people will just need to go back to Eorzea for that.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

It'll also never happen, for the same reason we can't access the glamour dresser everywhere.
Communicating with the databases for retainer inventories and glamour dressers takes bandwidth and when there's ALSO enemies and battle mechanics taking place in that zone, all of it together would cause too much lag.

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Make sense now, considering they have similar other problem.

I do hope someday it will change though. Some sort of consumable that allows us to access certain interface that we can carry everywhere would be nice, too. I.e. Market Board card to access MB. Consume 1 to view the MB, stays open until the player closes the interface and will have to consume another one if they want to view it again outside interacting the actual MB.

I'd love a summoning bell at GC ,also bulk turn in and refund option just incased you accidentally traded something in for seals.
especially with Grand company getting eureka style loot boxs something should be done to ease up seal trades to make process much smoother.

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Originally Posted by Fayt1203

It will probably never happen Yoshi will tell u just go to the market place or the inn.

When people asked for them to add Aesthetician in the first they said that people will just need to go back to Eorzea for that.

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that's a very different situation

I suspect that the reasoning behind this is that there are already multiple queues at the GC location that can cause congestion:

1. GC Hunt Board
2. GC huntmaster (with things to sell)
3. GC turn-in/promotion
4. GC vendor
5. OIC administrator (for Free Company creation, etc)

One in the Barracks works too, but more so if they (squadrons) ever get a level 70 update.

At this point i'm pretty sure the whole squadron thing is just left there as a relic of the past and there no plan whatsoever to update it.
There is a ton of stuff that are left behind years after years and that's pretty much normal, the xpac duration is always the same and the more you get would mean that you would need to update each single thing each single xpac + bring new ones.
Out my head there is stuff like crafting and demi materia, it's the same ones years after years and it was never updated, while they could make demi materia IV / V and so on each xpac so that desynthesis is actually useful but no it's almost exclusivly used for lvl 50 craft which is ... useless now ? Or glam related but that's it.
It's way too much work.

They can't update Squadrons to 70 because then it would be too obvious how bad Trusts are when you immediately transfer over to them at 71. Gotta leave that gap so you forget how incredibly OP your squad mates are.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

They can't update Squadrons to 70 because then it would be too obvious how bad Trusts are when you immediately transfer over to them at 71. Gotta leave that gap so you forget how incredibly OP your squad mates are.

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I could just be someone who was levelling something to 60 with squads and then switched over to 71+ with Trusts on another Job.

It makes more sense that it's the squadrons whose flaws would become most apparent, in Stormblood content. How many of just the story dungeons could they take on and be available?

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Originally Posted by VinKin

One in the Barracks works too, but more so if they (squadrons) ever get a level 70 update.

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Which will never happen when we have a superior system called Trusts.

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Originally Posted by VinKin

Closest thing we got to that was the Chocobo Saddlebag and I am not joking when I say that I often forget it's there.

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Oh, you’re referring to the materia bag?

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Originally Posted by van_arn

Oh, you’re referring to the materia bag?

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tackle box

Sounds like a nice idea.