Constructive Market Ward solution...

[Judge_Xero]

Using Mason's Ward as an example

Market ward style, but get rid of Retainers. Just have it so you can put stuff into storage from a Bank NPC. From there you can put it up for sale by selecting it's area (Mason's Ward for Ore) When someone ports to a certain market area, there is a single NPC you talk to (Mason Ward Officer) who shows you what is for sale. There should be different menu's to divide up the options, ore, gems, stone, so you can find exactly what you are looking for.

I really like both of my retainers, but sometimes I just feel like they aren't pulling their weight. So if they were replaced by a Bank Officer to look after my goods, I guess I'd be ok with that.

I can't wait to see what the Dev's do come up with though. It's just hard to imagine a Market with 20,000 NPC's all crammmed in one ward. Doesn't seem very fair to the Retainers. Like Sardines in a can

[normalforce]

I can't wait to see what the Dev's do come up with though. It's just hard to imagine a Market with 20,000 NPC's all crammmed in one ward. Doesn't seem very fair to the Retainers. Like Sardines in a can

The way the wards are set up now, I definitely get that can of sardines feel. I'd rather see a wide, circular thoroughfare -- like in Ul'dah -- with stalls setup on either side, where only a few hundred retainers can be seen at any given time. Even assuming thousands of active retainers in the game with Ul'dah having a higher portion of them, you don't need that big of a zone.

[trinta]

I don't understand what your suggestion would accomplish.

Why can it not go directly into my inventory from the counter? What is the value to the game of not allowing that?

[Rydin]

I posted a topic on this sometime ago but I'll copy paste what I put here and see what you think:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-Market-Wards

Yea, no matter what they do with the wards, your suggestions definitely need to be taken into account... those things make sense.. and I feel like those things were intended to be put in eventually, they just got lost in all the rush

Well, I just posted something similiar to this, only I suggested a tax for the convenience, which to me is realistic and adds a gil-sink to the game.

However, it's hard to know what repercussions that idea might have, plus we don't know what SE might have in mind for the wards. Such a suggestion might just interfere. I prefer to wait and watch.

Of course it all depends on what their plans are for the wards... but its definitely something to think about

Definitely some good ideas.
[*]Create a dynamic, alive market wards, where retainers are organized behind stalls, moving around looking for deals (presumably looking for items for their players), or engaging another retainer in idle conversation, which you see. ("Have you seen a good deal on brass daggers? Master Demetra has been looking for one." Based on real time item searches.)

I LOVE the idea of more dynamic retainers.....

[viion]

Give me a player HOUSE, let me purchase it directly from the search window and have it sent to my player HOUSE through a DELIVERY SYSTEM and you got yourself a deal. Also let me sell things without having to ever visit my retainer.

This is simply a compromise since I would much rather just buy something from the search window and have it transferred to my inventory. Like they do in a certain game.

Buy a house from a retainers backpack and have it sent through a delivery system to your house so that you can go to your house to pick up your purchased house? win.