Retainers and FC's Not Useful?

[Canadane]

If a FC is full and each player has 4 retainers, that's 2048 characters on the front lawn.
Please tell me I'm missing something.

[TessaJalloh]

If a FC is full and each player has 4 retainers, that's 2048 characters on the front lawn.
Please tell me I'm missing something.

you missed the part where the house has a max retainer limit.

[FoxyAreku]

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?

You're on balmung and you're saying housing areas are dead?
I have a character on that server and I see people everywhere near my fc's house.
If your house is in a subdivision, I could see that though.

[Malakai]

If a FC is full and each player has 4 retainers, that's 2048 characters on the front lawn.
Please tell me I'm missing something.

small = 1 garden gnome, medium = 2 garden gnomes, large = 3 garden gnomes you can now place on the lawn. You also need to buy a permit to place them like the shopkeepers inside the house.

[Culfinrandir]

small = 1 garden gnome, medium = 2 garden gnomes, large = 3 garden gnomes you can now place on the lawn. You also need to buy a permit to place them like the shopkeepers inside the house.

How does the FC fairly suggest which of the 2048 retainers will be on the lawn? I foresee arguments ahead!

[FoxyAreku]

How does the FC fairly suggest which of the 2048 retainers will be on the lawn? I foresee arguments ahead!

Take turns or limit it to just the FC owner.

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I just hope they do more than simply stand still, never moving. Giving them a /sit so you can place them around campfires or on a bench would be nice.

[FoxyAreku]

I just hope they do more than simply stand still, never moving. Giving them a /sit so you can place them around campfires or on a bench would be nice.

It's stupid, but I feel bad for my vendors inside my personal house not being able to sit down. I even made them some chairs, but they don't use them.

[CrystalRainbow]

Replace the safe and just have the retainer walk around.

[Shadex]

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.

So what exactly... is the point of this feature? Cluttering the lawn with NPCs that serve no purpose other than... keeping you from walking the 30 feet to the closest market board? I mean development time was spent on this and I am just trying to understand why someone greenlit this.