Broken Wards (again <.>)

[Curjos]

Please fix the wards; by stopping the crashes you've only created another problem - the wards are now full and a lot of people can't put up their retainers.

It was short-sighted not to already have a system in place that periodically wipes the wards (1-2 times a week) and / or kicks retainers with empty bazaars.

I've just walked through the every ward in Ul'dah and the amount of retainers with nothing for sale is ridiculous. People quit / go inactive and don't take retainers down. Please fix!

Thanks

[Jennestia]

That was the purpose of Ward resets -- However people complained about it.

Complaining is a double edge sword.

[Cendres]

That was the purpose of Ward resets -- However people complained about it.

Complaining is a double edge sword.

*giggle* It's all true.

[Wolfie]

Solution: scrap the physically rendered retainers and zones, move to a text/menu based interface.

[Curjos]

That was the purpose of Ward resets -- However people complained about it.

Complaining is a double edge sword.

Agree'd.

But as I mentioned, the dev. team should have picked up on it - the problems that would have arised without the wards wiping was an obvious one, even to unobservant people like me!

[feint2021]

In short, just give us an auction house already lmao.

[Jennestia]

In short, just give us an auction house already lmao.

That would take a lot more work to do than just optimizing the ward system.

[feint2021]

That would take a lot more work to do than just optimizing the ward system.

Considering how bad the wards are now just imagine how it'll be if people actually play again. It may take more than just optimizing.

[Fleur]

I noticed this too unfortunately. So I just stuck my retainer in Limsa -- we shall see how that goes, lol. I remember many months ago I could leave my retainer in any city's market, and I could find stuff I needed in any city as well. So I find it kind of funny that overcrowded wards (but not dens or rows!) are an issue now.

The wards resetting ever so often and/or booting retainers after a certain amount of time could be a good thing, I think. What annoyed me so much was that the resets were random so you never knew when your retainer would need to be summoned again.

[ShinChuck]

That was the purpose of Ward resets -- However people complained about it.

Complaining is a double edge sword.

In the case of the XIV dev team, you're right. Rather than really address the issue, they'd give us a half-baked fix like this that doesn't address the fundamental problems that were the issues.