Repopulating Gridania and Limsa Lominsa (how can we spread out?)

[Ruri]

I've noticed alot more people in Grid and LL since 1.18. However the markets are still complete empty. Have to go to Uldah to buy anything. Or sell.

[MeowyWowie]

Link the Market Wards together and give us a real seek/search interface. That should help more than anything else if you ask me.

[Ruri]

Link the Market Wards together and give us a real seek/search interface. That should help more than anything else if you ask me.

Yep. /10chars

[sruon]

And this is why chat channels are good.

[Hubert]

There's really no way to fix this and it's not an issue with only FFXIV. Almost all games will have a central player hub including, but not limited to, FFXI (Jueno/Whitegate) and WoW (Org>Shattrath>Dalaran>Org). The devs are doing a good job trying to balance the importance of each city through levequests, grand companies, task board, and guilds but at the end of the day, Ul'dah is the most centralized location and thus will be the most populated.

Airships may change this but for now it's simply common sense to make your base at Ul'dah where it is easiest to reach the other cities from.

[Arduous_Soul]

Link Wards, and create a party or Global Shout channel that all three cities have access, so anywhere you go you aren't missing someone looking for group or you advertising for a party or trade.

[Chardrizard]

Treespeak and Nine Ivies camps are more crowded on my server than Halatali or Broken Water during JP prime.

[Estellios]

Like was stated, linking the Wards, making Party search more intuitive and getting more people to use it, and airships should fix the issue of people being only in Ul'dah by bringing the other cities up to par in convenience.

[weeble]

i'd say simply making free ports to each city only would of helped everyone spread out, they are adding easy gil costing boats instead that take us directly to cities, this might help a little. i know i'll be going to towns way more the second they implement this but i still think free port would really make the difference. free port is like making all city one entity.

other then that really just lots of stuff to do in all of them, mix up the places to grind zone to zone so people stay around cities more, like when game came out i stay in limsa alot cause crab parties, but then dobs came and i lived in uldah. but in all this i chose gridania but almost never there after i hit my 50carpenter, but no need for support makes this no need. so yeah, absolutly free ports i say is best way to do this.

or what estellios mentions, free port links from wards to wards but that would be bout same thing, though i do like the idea of linking all battle wards in all 3 cities an same with all the other ward types and being able to exit out to those cities.

don't think they will do either of these since they made boats to link cities in next patch>< ...they just love waisting our time on boats afk, se secretly has stock in coffee beans since boats are coffee and pee breaks.

[Picoman]

This is a good topic.
There is a critical mass of concurrent players needed to force people to spill over to the other Wards.
I miss the days of hanging out in Gridania but what kept me there for the first few months was being low-mid rank, starting new Classes and Main Storyline.
When the storyline moved to Ul'dah, i kinda just stayed there.