Market ward Fix/ Idea

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Pretty much what is faster...
running through one zone?
or going from ward one ward to another? as most ppl don't sell in the correct wards anyway (as from what i'm told) like say you go to the ward for food do a search for a meat dish turns out the cheapest retainer is selling 5 in a ward far from ya. Now you gotta run to said ward. enter it then wait for load and find your retainer. and in that time all five were baught from someone looking for a different item and saw those.

[dantheman]

The number of wards there are is a pain but having one giant ward would pose its own issues. I like the idea of just a few large ones and the option of being teleported to the closest retainer who is selling what you have searched.

[Jedgar]

Was eq messy or neat?

I also made mention of a teleport to said retainer.

But even still isn't that a problem anyway? I know ffxi AH's had that issue.

I think no matter what there will be a competition for items. Thays how things are. I just want to see a neater set up, and a less claustrophobic zone.

Talking immersion, but a dark box with random npc standing in random spots in some cases on top of each other is immersion breaking.
Neatly set up rows of stalls in an open air zone is more immersive. In my eyes. And again adding a teleport feature will get you to that retain as the teleport is linked to the spot.

Granted EQ's Bazaar was messy, as is the Market Wards off FFXIV but they had market stalls in EQ and they were set off to the sides of the walls in the zone rooms and hallways leaving clear isles for people to walk down but even then you'd get four of five people crowded into a tent making you tab through them instead of just being able to click on the person you wanted. Also there are stalls in each of the Market Wards now for your retainer to sit in and sell your stuff. You just have to rent them out. And they are arranged on the sides of the zone so as to keep the middle clear. The reason no one uses them is that they cost or don't know they are there.

As for being magically teleported to the vendor of choice I for some reason see this as being a problem. With the amount of people using the zone being blinked all over the place is likely able to cause it to crash.

Pretty much what is faster...
running through one zone?
or going from ward one ward to another? as most ppl don't sell in the correct wards anyway (as from what i'm told) like say you go to the ward for food do a search for a meat dish turns out the cheapest retainer is selling 5 in a ward far from ya. Now you gotta run to said ward. enter it then wait for load and find your retainer. and in that time all five were baught from someone looking for a different item and saw those.

As for no one or even hardly anyone being in the correct ward is a non issue if you ask me. After all when you set up your bazaar are you selling only armor, or weapons, or woodworking mats. No you're selling all of the above plus the random crap you collected while leveling, doing leves, and such. The fact that we can only hire two retainers has made this the norm.