Don't Ruin the economy with an auction house! please![dev1019]

[Chione]

I don't think it could harm the economy either. If nothing else, an AH linked to every city will help crafters who don't spend their time in the economic center of their server. On Besaid it's Ul'dah. Ul'dah wards are packed to overcrowding, whereas Gridania wards are pretty much deserted and Limsa is somewhere in between.

Still, though most gear and some odds and ends for crafting are a huge pain to find because of this, I'm pretty much on the fence as to whether they actually need to add an AH right now. If they do, it can only help, as far as I'm concerned.

[Dreamer]

I don't think it could harm the economy either. If nothing else, an AH linked to every city will help crafters who don't spend their time in the economic center of their server. On Besaid it's Ul'dah. Ul'dah wards are packed to overcrowding, whereas Gridania wards are pretty much deserted and Limsa is somewhere in between.

Still, though most gear and some odds and ends for crafting are a huge pain to find because of this, I'm pretty much on the fence as to whether they actually need to add an AH right now. If they do, it can only help, as far as I'm concerned.

This is a problem with the current system. However, it could be fixed by capping the number of retainers that can be in a given market ward. Either that, or increasing market fees for the more populated city markets.

Personally, I'd just prefer they they make it so that your retainer has to be at a stall in the market wards, instead of standing out in the middle of the floor. We'd need to make the wards about 5x their current size, but it would be worth it to avoid having to wade through people whenever we go to a populated ward.

[ESAR]

This is a problem with the current system. However, it could be fixed by capping the number of retainers that can be in a given market ward. Either that, or increasing market fees for the more populated city markets.

Personally, I'd just prefer they they make it so that your retainer has to be at a stall in the market wards, instead of standing out in the middle of the floor. We'd need to make the wards about 5x their current size, but it would be worth it to avoid having to wade through people whenever we go to a populated ward.

They should do what you said and maybe shrink the size of boothes as well as bring some atmosphere into the wards (redecorate).

They could make wards more like a giant doughnut.
Stalls along the outside and inside of the doughnut as well as stalls in the isles.

The problem I see with this is people complaining about the extra walking.
They would only do this because they believe an AH will solve everything.
What they don't understand is that AH is bad for the economy.

[kukurumei]

They should do what you said and maybe shrink the size of boothes as well as bring some atmosphere into the wards (redecorate).

They could make wards more like a giant doughnut.
Stalls along the outside and inside of the doughnut as well as stalls in the isles.

The problem I see with this is people complaining about the extra walking.
They would only do this because they believe an AH will solve everything.
What they don't understand is that AH is bad for the economy.

I think we understand, we just deny the accusations of slander to it.

Not to mention we see how successful an AH model is versus how horrible unsuccessful the market ward system is.

AH scale and work better the bigger the population. Market wards scale worse the bigger the population is.