Adding Life to the Cities!

[Vackashken]

The easiest way to add life to the cities is to get rid of the market wards and the RIDICULOUS fail-leve system in place that so many breeder LSes abuse. If an AH opens and is linked (between the cities) the populace won't be pigeon-holed in Ul Dah. If Ul Dah didn't have the best leves to abuse and fail religiously the populace wouldn't be pigeon-holed in Ul Dah.

Only after that will the cities come to life. You can fancy up LL and Grid all you want but there is zero reason to go there until those two fundamental fails in the environment design are addressed.

[Kailok]

The easiest way to add life to the cities is to get rid of the market wards and the RIDICULOUS fail-leve system in place that so many breeder LSes abuse. If an AH opens and is linked (between the cities) the populace won't be pigeon-holed in Ul Dah. If Ul Dah didn't have the best leves to abuse and fail religiously the populace wouldn't be pigeon-holed in Ul Dah.

Only after that will the cities come to life. You can fancy up LL and Grid all you want but there is zero reason to go there until those two fundamental fails in the environment design are addressed.

I respectully disagree. We're pretty much almost sure they won't be adding an Auction House at this point because I remember in one of the dev posts that they stated they don't have plans to implement one but it's being "looked into". But an AH isn't going to bring a city back to life. People will see it for a couple minutes, get bored and just realize that it's just a more organized MW. You can only entertain people so much with an AH. We need life in the cities. NPCs. EVERYWHERES.

And to be honest, the only reason I picked Ul'Dah in the first place is because it felt more like a city than the other two. I kind of hate Ul'Dah's scenery, a complete barren wasteland right outside. I don't stay and do Ul'Dah's leves because they're exploitable, I do them because they're honestly the more interesting ones. I actually like the area around LL better.