Poll: Yea This Again...

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

I think he might be talking about retainer congestion in the wards. It used to get pretty bad. But then again, everyone was trying to stuff their retainers into a single ward.

Well, by the time they actually relaunch the game, I am assuming he means by PS3 Launch, we should have Ishgard by then in which case we would have a whole new city full of wards. Most likely the higher level gear will populate these wards while the new wave of players will populate the starter city wards.

[Mack]

Well, by the time they actually relaunch the game, I am assuming he means by PS3 Launch, we should have Ishgard by then in which case we would have a whole new city full of wards. Most likely the higher level gear will populate these wards while the new wave of players will populate the starter city wards.

Right and what about SE's initial plan of allowing each player to have up to 7 retainers (at an extra charge)? the wards will fill up must faster than you think.

[TheVedis]

Right and what about SE's initial plan of allowing each player to have up to 7 retainers (at an extra charge)? the wards will fill up must faster than you think.

3-4 cities to fill them up with

not everyone needs to put theirs in uldah like they do now

[Corrderio]

3-4 cities to fill them up with

not everyone needs to put theirs in uldah like they do now

But would you want to waste anima just to check up on a retainer?

[TheVedis]

But would you want to waste anima just to check up on a retainer?

we may have airships by then to not have to worry about that

but the fact remains, there will be several cities to fill up

[Corrderio]

we may have airships by then to not have to worry about that

but the fact remains, there will be several cities to fill up

Which then would probably result in having to jump from city to city to find equipment.

[Mack]

3-4 cities to fill them up with

not everyone needs to put theirs in uldah like they do now

When the game was released there was about 3000-4000 players per server. Before they removed the population counter that number dropped to about 500-700 per server. I'd assume its around 300-400 now and the Uldah wards are packed with each person allowed a max of 2 retainers. Say they allow 7 retainers, that makes it a possible 2800 retainers. Say at 2 retainers a person when the game gets a boost of players (assuming back up to 4000 a server) that makes it 8000 retainers. You can hardly fit a 1000 retainers in the wards as is. Moreover, if we`re speaking idealy, there will be about 10K-20K a server much like FFXI had, that is a lot of retainers.

[TheVedis]

When the game was released there was about 3000-4000 players per server. Before they removed the population counter that number dropped to about 500-700 per server. I'd assume its around 300-400 now and the Uldah wards are packed with each person allowed a max of 2 retainers. Say they allow 7 retainers, that makes it a possible 2800 retainers. Say at 2 retainers a person when the game gets a boost of players (assuming back up to 4000 a server) that makes it 8000 retainers. You can hardly fit a 1000 retainers in the wards as is. Moreover, if we`re speaking idealy, there will be about 10K-20K a server much like FFXI had, that is a lot of retainers.

you can fit somewhere around 200 retainers per ward right now(perhaps more, im not counting)
now do that for every ward in each city

thats how many it can support "now"

we arent talking 1 city here, we are talking all of them when it happens

[Corrderio]

Well, by the time they actually relaunch the game, I am assuming he means by PS3 Launch, we should have Ishgard by then in which case we would have a whole new city full of wards. Most likely the higher level gear will populate these wards while the new wave of players will populate the starter city wards.

And then UD would be bare like Grid/Limsa, so that'd be the only place to get stuff.

[Wynn]

Well, by the time they actually relaunch the game, I am assuming he means by PS3 Launch, we should have Ishgard by then in which case we would have a whole new city full of wards. Most likely the higher level gear will populate these wards while the new wave of players will populate the starter city wards.

Not to mention that the wards work differently than they did at the time. Everyone tossed their retainer into the first ward only because it was the first one buyers would jump into. There was no search, no specific designation for each ward, and no tax reduction for correctly placing your items in said designations.