Market Ward Overcrowding Needs Immediate Fix

[Slatfatf]

Ok SE you have two easy choices: Limit retainers placed in a towns market to two; or link the city state markets in the search. I just got home from work 2:00pm (1400) est, and the Ul’dah market place is full and will not allow me to call out retainers. Do something about this and do it soon!

In good taste I’ve avoided the profanity I wanted to use and did not write in all CAPS

Anyone know the development tag number for the Markets, so I can update my Subject?

[Green_and_a_Half]

Transferred to new Server, Cant call retainers in 90% of the wards. This is not good, costing me more having to sell everything out of the jewelry ward ><
I thought the wards were going to empty with the merge?

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Even in Limsa and Gridania? That's when you know it's bad.

[Green_and_a_Half]

no one will ever sale in grid or ll because thats not the main hub

[Holland]

no one will ever sale in grid or ll because thats not the main hub

You can actually sell stuff there, just at a slow rate. As long as you put competitive prices, it should be ok.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

This server merge with everyone's retainers down could have been a chance to bring life to those other markets.

Clean slate and all.

I wonder if Ul'dah markets will be so overcrowded that people will want to sell in the other cities?

[Taokii]

Upon merging all market wards I sincerely hope that the cap will be abolished or at least raised significantly. I couldn't pull up my retainer in ANY market ward today.

[AidanSchutze]

Yay yet another topic complaining about over crowding. Guys there are the stands which you could use. 10 in each ward and 90% of people ignore them due to them costing 500 gil a day.

[Vhailor]

Yay yet another topic complaining about over crowding. Guys there are the stands which you could use. 10 in each ward and 90% of people ignore them due to them costing 500 gil a day.

It still needs an immediate fix, regardless of whether there are reasonably accessible ways of evading the issue. What SE has done is akin to putting a cap on the number of Jeuno AH slots that will be used at any given time, server-wide. It probably (hopefully) was an unintentional side-effect and not a ridiculously misguided attempt to force us into using other markets, but in either case, it is a severe problem.

The fix probably needs to be multi-part, as well; a short-term fix to alleviate immediate congestion, and then a long-term re-thinking of the retainer system, because if this game becomes as popular as SE hopes, it will eventually fill up again, if they just increase caps (merging the markets being the same thing).

This just adds to my sense that SE rushed the server merge. This is not an eventuality that they should have been oblivious to.

[smithdag]

Right now it is completely unfair that alot of people have TWO retainers in the Ul'dah market wards and I can't even put one there. I offer a simple solution that can be implemented with the current server software and will solve multiple problems.

1. Allow players 3 retainers. (This is not completely necessary, but it would expand the markets in all 3 cities.)

2. Allow players to place only 1 retainer in each city's market wards.

3. Increase bazaar capacity so that players can sell more items per retainer. The reason for this is because of the incredibly high drop rate in this game.

4. No more partial stack sells. If players want less than a full stack they can buy it from bazaars or merchants. Partial stacks take up space on the wards, which sucks because it only shows the 20 cheapest.