I'd rather the wards work as three seperate markets. It makes for three possible places for a market-oriented player to be successful, opening up more opportunity.

Yes, the game needs the player base to make it work.

It's not that your idea is a bad one, I think it's cute. But the way it's set up has more potential I think. It's just a matter of getting the population to spread out... which is kind of the problem, no? lol. The reason I go to Uldah is because I can't buy or sell anywhere else.