Retainers and FC's Not Useful?

[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.

[FoxyAreku]

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.

Retainers don't act as a market board, from my understanding. They just sell what they are currently selling.
I see it as a fun feature to have a shop of random goodies that is constantly changing on your lawn.

[Shadex]

Retainers don't act as a market board, from my understanding. They just sell what they are currently selling.
I see it as a fun feature to have a shop of random goodies that is constantly changing on your lawn.

From the patch notes:

Once a retainer is placed on estate grounds, items that they currently have listed for sale on the market can be purchased by anyone who speaks with them. The retainer's sales history (up to 20 entries) can also be viewed by other players.

Sounds to me like they are nothing more than another way to interface with the MB...

[FoxyAreku]

From the patch notes:

Once a retainer is placed on estate grounds, items that they currently have listed for sale on the market can be purchased by anyone who speaks with them. The retainer's sales history (up to 20 entries) can also be viewed by other players.

Sounds to me like they are nothing more than another way to interface with the MB...

uhh....yeah....as in, the 20 items that that retainer specifically has for sale.
You wouldn't be able to access anything else but what that SPECIFIC retainer has.

It's silly and probably not needed, but it's an interesting idea.