Retainers and FC's Not Useful?

[Wobble]

Would love a DEV response on this as I'm sure others would also.

[SarcasmMisser]

Why put it on the FC lawn? Put it on the lawn of your personal house and play dress up with your house guards. Good way to show off your retainer to others. What a mess this would be if everyone could put it on the fc lawn, its clearly made for personal houses.

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You get to put your retainer on display for the world to see. It's essentially market wards V2. You know, because we wanted that.

No but really, it's probably their answer to the whole "market wards are so dead and empty" complaints going around.

[Teppie]

I look forward to challenging my retainers to Triple Triad.

[DefendPopPunk]

I think this might have come about from players asking for the ability to put retainers in their house, but it was always my understanding that they wanted them >>inside<< the house, not on the lawn.

[Wobble]

I would rather be able to dress the merchant NPC's we have.

[Grekumah]

As long as you have access to some form of housing, whether it be Free Company or personal, you will be able to place retainers on the property. In terms of adding a special retainer specific to Free Companies, the development team determined that the resources required to create such a feature would be too high and as such have no plans to create a special FC retainer in the future.

[FoxyAreku]

It's a shame the things that people can buy from your retainer are still things on the market board. I'd love to have a shop that is just outside my house or fc's house.

[ObeiKinstar]

Is the point of this to make the housing districts look like there are actually people in them? Housing wards are always dead, maybe this is to create an illusion of more ppl playing?

[Limecat]

I kinda like this whole thing more because I get to show off what my retainers look like than anything else.