Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
No, a solution that fixes scalability, stability and usability. This has nothing to do with my feelings. Stop pulling red herring fallacies.

Curving the area won't help, because the server still needs to maintain and process all of the information needed for rendering the retainers (as well as player character movements and actions). Retainers are also still freely placed in the wards. So this solution wouldn't address scalability or stability; and fix some usability issues while simultaneously introducing other usability problems.

Buying directly from the menu would be the ultimate usability problem solver, but again, it will do nothing for stability and scalability.
Curving or augmenting the area will help, you are not looking at the problem rationally to understand that. Retainers could be placed behind stalls if being freely placed is some sort of issue. It solves scalability and stability because the server isn't flooding your client with hundreds of retainers at once, as players and retainers a few sections away don't get sent.