In Home Merchants & Appearance

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

Due to the additional server load this would cause, the development team considers the customization of housing merchants a difficult task to achieve. There has been some interest from players who would like their housing merchant to fit in with the style of the interior decoration and the development team is aware of this, and will be looking into adding multiple variations on the NPCs’ designs.

Can you please explain how this will cause problems with the server load?

One second, you're telling people that you can't create customization for them because it'd create server load (why you just can't do the same as you do with retainers is beyond me.)

Next second, you're telling us that you'll create them yourselves. How does that work in difference to server load? Surely it's still one character and so it'd have the same things.

And yet, as someone stated above me. How is this any different from having your retainers on the outside?

[ThePMSBeast]

If anything, could you please simply give us an FC-based option to make Household Retainers sell *exclusively* to FC members?
So we can set up a private shop for FC members to purchase goods at a premium value.
Or (possibly better yet) we could set a "FC Discount Rate" to where if an FC member buys our MB sale-items from an FC Retainer... they get an automatic discount (unlike regular buyers).

I REALLY support this Idea because i really see the new housing retainers useless. I was SO disappointed when i found out that FC retainers did not have an option to sell to FC only or to Public Only. Having that option would filter gil back into FC's and Players could make that Retainer a " FC " Retainer that they sell their goods at a discount for FC members.

[SendohJin]

Can you please explain how this will cause problems with the server load?

your Retainer appearance is already saved, they simply have to bring it up that one time and resave it one time when you place it. it's not really new.

it's also fairly easy for them to pre-make 100 different models and you choose 1-4, compared to letting each home owner pick different races, hairstyles, outfits, eye color, etc, etc. pre-made models is not customization.