Market Wards, enough is enough

[Dreadnought]

i think its fine that they want to keep and improve retainers
but i have to see anyone answer the one big question
what would actually happen if this game grew to 500,000+ players, at least half using those retainers..... would you just keep adding more and more wards?
an AH UI itself seems to be so much easier for a developer to manipulate than having to deal with market wards from the very start!

[Cairdeas]

i think its fine that they want to keep and improve retainers
but i have to see anyone answer the one big question
what would actually happen if this game grew to 500,000+ players, at least half using those retainers..... would you just keep adding more and more wards?
an AH UI itself seems to be so much easier for a developer to manipulate than having to deal with market wards from the very start!

I've already explained how they could implement a Market UI in a central location, keep the market wards and the features that retainers offer.

Market Wards Stay intact. When you visit your retainer in any place they offer you a search interface. In the search interface you can search for a specific item. It populates a list of the cheapest 10-20 on sale with the retainers name listed and the price. You click on the one you want to buy, it brings up the list of inventory for that retainer so you can have the option of window shopping. You pick out the item you want to buy and instantly buy it. Then depending on where the item is.

A. You are given it directly if its in the same city.
B. You are given the choice to have it delivered to your retainer over Time for free (1 hour wait) if its in another city.
C. You can pay to have a delivery expedited (Cost a tax).

Afterwards you pick up the item and go about your merry way.

[Anty]

i think its fine that they want to keep and improve retainers
but i have to see anyone answer the one big question
what would actually happen if this game grew to 500,000+ players, at least half using those retainers..... would you just keep adding more and more wards?
an AH UI itself seems to be so much easier for a developer to manipulate than having to deal with market wards from the very start!

i was thinking about the same issue. and i think that will be the time when they will have to implement an AH.
Having every player X 2 as a rendered character (retainer) in the wards just doenst make sense at all. And especially not considering the engine cant even handle more then a hand full of npcs/pcs at a time anyways.

i hope they having good solutions towards a system that can be reached no matter in which city you are since that makes it really annoying and people will always stay in one city where everything happens. An all-over AH would be a good solution. That's why they implemented it in ffxi. Very late but they did it.

[Rizon]

i think its fine that they want to keep and improve retainers
but i have to see anyone answer the one big question
what would actually happen if this game grew to 500,000+ players, at least half using those retainers..... would you just keep adding more and more wards?
an AH UI itself seems to be so much easier for a developer to manipulate than having to deal with market wards from the very start!

What you would have is people having to purchase Mules which would require you to log out of 1 character and on to another in order to have items we want in storage sent to us through some sort of delivery system which we would have to sift through upon our return. Highly inefficient.