Community Petition: "Get out of Ul'dah"

[Cthulhu]

Oh hello community, I've been wanting to talk to you about something. Why don't you take a seat. Comfortable? Good, then let's get started.

Get out of Ul'dah.

Seriously, get out now. You broke the inn. You broke the Wards. The streets are so crowded that looking for someone means run 10 steps, wait for 40 people to load, run 10 steps. My chat log is a constant stream of you saying you want to run AV or get some AF out of Darkhold.

I know, I know, I have fond memories of us all hanging out in Ul'dah together too. But let us be honest with each other here, it's causing problems. How will leaving Ul'dah fix those problems you ask? Good question community.

1. The Inn - Anyone think this is something other than an overcrowding issue? I mean every other town's inn has preformed just fine since being added.

2. Wards - I've noticed more of you putting up wares in LL and Grid (only because they can't summon them in Ul'dah). The problem here is none of you are buying wares in LL and Grid. How about we do both our selling and buying out of town? Also say your in the market to buy some HQ Karakul Fleece. 67 stacks up for sale and window only shows the 20 cheapest. Think your going to find it? Sure 7 stacks would still not be visible if we utilized all wards, but that's a lot better than 47.

3. Crowding - So ok, we don't actually fix this. We just alleviate the problem some. Spreading out means that I can see people for 30 yalms around me instead of 10.

4. Chat Spam - This is just a bad habit we have from back in the dark ages when it was a necessity. It seems like most of us didn't notice this, but the devs gave us this handy thing called /search to use instead of just /shout-ing things out. Why don't you use it? Durandal has 406 people logged on right now and only 5 people 1-50 have a flag up. About 1% of the people want to party? I have a feeling the real number is a bit higher than that. Moving out of Ul'dah will force to community to adopt /search to put together parties.

There, I'm glad I got that off my chest. Anyway, I think I'll be heading to my hometown of Gridania. It's been fun, sorry about tossing that cinder-block through your kitchen window last night, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Oh, one more thing. I think someone broke your toilet last night.

[Raldo]

As always, good luck with that. Until SE makes changes, one central city will always make life easier for everyone.

I think they should allow us to view wares posted in all cities through the search window, but have to pay the existing 5% convenience tax (max 4k) because you can't physically go get it.

Global chat would be nice too, but my selling/buying wares are my main qualm.

If it makes you feel any better, my home point is Limsa, I craft in Limsa, and I log out in Limsa

This has all been hashed and rehashed ad nauseum though, it's just a matter of watching and waiting now. Oh, and complaining. Let us never forget to complain.

[DoctorMog]

Won't happen.

Its like trying to get people out of New York City.

Everything is there, why the hell would I leave?

[Enfarious]

Getting people to move out isn't that hard, link the wards, give us a chat method that can be heard in all 3 cities at once, and don't allow people to use Inns in cities other than their own. Hell don't allow people to have retainers outside their cities. We already have a very easy means to move from place to place there's no excuse that w/ those few changes we couldn't live @home like normal people ...

[DoctorMog]

Getting people to move out isn't that hard, link the wards, give us a chat method that can be heard in all 3 cities at once, and don't allow people to use Inns in cities other than their own. Hell don't allow people to have retainers outside their cities. We already have a very easy means to move from place to place there's no excuse that w/ those few changes we couldn't live @home like normal people ...

Do all that, and people will still be in uldah full time.

[Antanias]

Won't happen.

Its like trying to get people out of New York City.

Everything is there, why the hell would I leave?

Do they have pachinko?

[Colino]

We should have one of those fire drills were everyone calmly walks out to simulate an emergency... And then we shut the gates and lock everyone out!

[jax_gongora]

I dont think people would leave Ul'dah . but a linked market between 3 city and if we get a improved pt search function where it is used more

[Jynx]

I can never understand why people whine when people talk in the /s or /shout manner. I generally chat and recruit this way as it's more personal and gets to people who may not be conciously thinking of doing ____ activity under a stringent search method.

Searching for party, bah.

[GreyJorildyn]

I agree with the suggestions above. People need Incentive to be elsewhere. Not everyone has the desire to be stuck in the same town.

I believe global chat channels and linked wards would go a long way to spreading people out. Even if it doesn't cause the mass exodus we'd want, I think it would certainly make a dent, and be a good start to fixing the congestion issue.