Retainer Services in Golden Saucer Please!

[Katsushiro]

Yeah, that about sums it up. lol

[Xaimera]

Would like this also! ^^ sometimes I like to hang out there all day but hate that I have to teleport somewhere just to check my retainer ventures lol.

[Katsushiro]

I know, I just like the atmosphere. xD But totally agree, hate teleporting to check ventures. ;/ And think of all the missed limited-time events! lol

[BreathlessTao]

...yeah, no. Just no. Still getting my teleport canceled sometimes, on account of the place being "full". Add retainer bells in there, and it's gonna be like a homeless center. Just no, thank you.

If anything, I say boot the AFKers. As popular as GS is, I'm surprised this hasn't been implemented right off the bat. In fact, I'm not sure why it's been removed from the game, in general - too many times I want to log in and I'm forced to wait because the world is full. And I know I see people AFK rooted to the very same spot, quite often throughout the whole day. -_-

Also, apparently there is an NPC somewhere that complains about a no-pets-allowed policy? That should also be an actual thing. Not only no pets (and by pets I mean minions), but no actions either - I really can't understand why we're able to cast spells and execute actions inside a casino. It's not only "behind the scenes" logic either, it's that childishness of so many people who feel the urge to spam the s××× out of Holy or Blizzard or whatever - in the middle of a GATE or at the Cactpot Board where there's such a huge crowd of people anyway that the game struggles to load everyone in. Damn stupid and annoying. (Yes, I am aware of the settings, I know we can turn others' effects off, but I don't think anyone should be forced to such a hassle because of one zone only.)

[Fancyfeast]

no thank you.

i'm glad the market board sitters have to leave GC to do their undercutting.

[Grimmel]

Someone made a thread a while back suggesting they add this and Market boards. Do people NOT remember how bad Gold Saucer was at launch and a few days after? People who went into chocobo square to get started on racing couldn't even exit into the Gold Saucer it was THAT bad. Now you want to revert it back to how bad it was?

Gold Saucer is NOT meant to be the Holy Grail of places you must be 24/7 in FFXIV.

No, No, No. Twelve forbid if anyone else agrees with OP's suggestion after my post.

[aerialrave]

Market Board in Mor Dhona please!

[Xaimera]

Ok then nvm. LOL i guess now I know why they didnt put retainers in there in the first place :X.
I don't usually ever see it packed in Masamune and I don't remember it ever being full even on day one lol. But then again I didn't pay attention to the amount of ppl xD.
My Bad ^^;.

[kyuven]

the lack of MB in Mor Dhona and the lack of retainers in GS are purposeful design decisions so that no one zone is an overcrowded mess.

[Katsushiro]

I still personally don't think a few spread out retainer bells would be so bad. In fact, if the argument is that there are too many people (and I don't know how it is on your servers, true, but), then I rarely see more than three or four PCs participating, or standing idle, in the areas outside of the blue zone of GS in Sargantas at any given time (and that's a Legacy server) unless there's a limited-time event going on...

They could put a bell in each "bar" area, or in areas where GATEs don't pop. Hell, if it's such an issue - make a separate area for people to get stuck in like the Chocobo area called, like, "The Coat Room" or something... People who afk and use aoe actions there are one thing, but two or three retainer bells in GC doesn't sound so outrageous just because of them... Maybe you should be reporting the aoe spammers? And according to all this logic, shouldn't there be no retainers in Mor Dohna at all? But people would probably flip out if SE took those away... So then the question becomes... why aren't there retainers in Dragonhead if there are retainers in Mor Dohna? That clearly has nothing to do with PCs maxing out an area's capacity. lol Apply the same logic to GS. And for that matter...

the lack of MB in Mor Dhona and the lack of retainers in GS are purposeful design decisions so that no one zone is an overcrowded mess.

Then why is there a Summoning Bell in the Wolve's Den? I've seen people afk, idle-hang, and queue for duties there too, but have never heard anyone suggest it was overcrowded, and that's a much smaller area than GS.

Then again, for me, it's all about teleporting in and out of GS to check my retainers and how that gil offsets what I earn from quick ventures while scrambling to get the special dyes I actually want to use... So I guess one more Favored Destination option would be a perfectly fine consolation to no retainers in GS... Could I at least get that? lol