Further proof that the market wards are a festival of failure.

[normalforce]

Get rid of the wards now and convert into a non-bidding style menu system (basically exactly what we have now, just no NPC middlemen). Fix the server issues.

Yes, please. No worrying about server load or crashing the wards due to whatever reasons. We've near got the interface to do this right now, SE just needs to take it one set further. From the item search counter, skip placing a star over a retainers head in a particular ward, bring up that retainer's bazaar window so we can purchase the items immediately. This can even be done via any retainer bell.

Because if they wanted to do the Market Wards right, hundreds of retainers wouldn't be crammed together into such a little space. It's just an ugly design. The better design would be, one large zone for all the retainers (like a mini Ul'dah), broken into different areas to represent the various wards where every retainer gets their own stall (or shares one with other retainers) and are laid out in such a way that doesn't choke the server by loading hundreds of retainers at once. This idea is not without its flaws but that's how it should have been done first.

[Rau]

Yes, please. No worrying about server load or crashing the wards due to whatever reasons. We've near got the interface to do this right now, SE just needs to take it one set further. From the item search counter, skip placing a star over a retainers head in a particular ward, bring up that retainer's bazaar window so we can purchase the items immediately. This can even be done via any retainer bell.

Because if they wanted to do the Market Wards right, hundreds of retainers wouldn't be crammed together into such a little space. It's just an ugly design. The better design would be, one large zone for all the retainers (like a mini Ul'dah), broken into different areas to represent the various wards where every retainer gets their own stall (or shares one with other retainers) and are laid out in such a way that doesn't choke the server by loading hundreds of retainers at once. This idea is not without its flaws but that's how it should have been done first.

Joke post?

[Adol]

Joke post?

No I don't think they were joking.
I thought that post was quite well written, really.
I'm not quite sure why you thought it was a joke post.

[normalforce]

Joke post?

Nope. Not sure what part you were thinking of.