How to Decentralize Ul'dah

[Vesper]

I'd rather them spend less time having to try and create a new AH system, and focus on other aspects of the game that need more attention. Making the market wards so they share one instance is much better then rebuilding an entire AH system.

I like the market wards, I prefer them to auction houses. Yet having an Auction house wouldn't decentralize Ul'dah it would still be an issue.

Techno, at this point the market system needs to be changed drastically. As of right this minute I could go into Uldah wards on Besaid keep trying to summon a retainer and not be able to do it at all. Its so populated, people have started 'saving' spots for later in the wards by leaving retainers up or putting all their alts retainers up and flooding the wards. Its absolutely ridiculous, the system is a failure.

Whats your next suggestion? Increase the retainer cap in the area? Okay we already did that, so now it takes even longer for retainers to load, once PS3 hits the wards will be a cluster **** and no one will be able to place retainers at all, its hard enough to TRY and do it now on populated servers. The problem here is they keep tweaking the market wards when they should just add in a linked AH system with a better search feature.

As far as world chat goes, sure they can add in a world chat. But we all know whats going to happen. Asshats spamming the crap out of it for trade, RMT spamming gold selling websites and morons arguing in chat, in the end it will be a cesspool of idiots like most MMOs, most people will turn it off. The search feature just needs to be tweaked and the ability to add custom messages for Loooking for members as well as looking for group.

[Technolust]

Techno, at this point the market system needs to be changed drastically. As of right this minute I could go into Uldah wards on Besaid keep trying to summon a retainer and not be able to do it at all. Its so populated, people have started 'saving' spots for later in the wards by leaving retainers up or putting all their alts retainers up and flooding the wards. Its absolutely ridiculous, the system is a failure.

Whats your next suggestion? Increase the retainer cap in the area? Okay we already did that, so now it takes even longer for retainers to load, once PS3 hits the wards will be a cluster **** and no one will be able to place retainers at all, its hard enough to TRY and do it now on populated servers. The problem here is they keep tweaking the market wards when they should just add in a linked AH system with a better search feature.

Yes I understand the congestion you speak of, I have issues with it as well. With my OP I'm talking about having 3 separate market wards that are linked. Then the issues of everyone putting their retainers in one cities market wards will hopefully be alleviated. Despite what the popular opinion might think there are a lot of us that would love to make Limsa or Gridiana our port of call.

Linking 3 separate wards would be awesome. Hell you could even set it up insofar as this.

Keep the market wards, link all 3 market wards zones to each other, give people the ability to search through the system with current search system but allow people to buy from the search function and have the item either mailed or dropped into persons inventory.

That would solve a lot of issues people seem to have. It wouldn't scrap the market wards, so people can still access them and store their items.

World chat, yeah their will always be idiots who spam world/trade chat black list is an awesome tool to fix a lot of that.

[Vesper]

Yes I understand the congestion you speak of, I have issues with it as well. With my OP I'm talking about having 3 separate market wards that are linked. Then the issues of everyone putting their retainers in one cities market wards will hopefully be alleviated. Despite what the popular opinion might think there are a lot of us that would love to make Limsa or Gridiana our port of call.

Linking 3 separate wards would be awesome. Hell you could even set it up insofar as this.

Keep the market wards, link all 3 market wards zones to each other, give people the ability to search through the system with current search system but allow people to buy from the search function and have the item either mailed or dropped into persons inventory.

That would solve a lot of issues people seem to have. It wouldn't scrap the market wards, so people can still access them and store their items.

World chat, yeah their will always be idiots who spam world/trade chat black list is an awesome tool to fix a lot of that.

This seems like its just a single step away from being an AH house and at that point, may as well go the distance and make it an auction house. If with an AH people can still use their retainers at bells for storage.

[Technolust]

This seems like its just a single step away from being an AH house and at that point, may as well go the distance and make it an auction house. If with an AH people can still use their retainers at bells for storage.

Honestly if it were that simple to create an Auction House interface they might have already done it. It seems to me that the way this game was coded, did not allow for drastic changes. I've discussed this with other programmers, and some of us have come to the conclusion that SE did not think ahead with coding changes.

My response to your previous post was merely a simpler fix in what SE could do without overhauling the entire market wards/auction house system. Yes the market wards do need to be revamped. Yet it's been beaten to death, my OP is about making stuff easier with the current system.

Thank you for the intelligent discourse! =)

[Vesper]

Honestly if it were that simple to create an Auction House interface they might have already done it. It seems to me that the way this game was coded, did not allow for drastic changes. I've discussed this with other programmers, and some of us have come to the conclusion that SE did not think ahead with coding changes.

My response to your previous post was merely a simpler fix in what SE could do without overhauling the entire market wards/auction house system. Yes the market wards do need to be revamped. Yet it's been beaten to death, my OP is about making stuff easier with the current system.

Thank you for the intelligent discourse! =)

Coding... yeah I am not a coder, but the coding in this game has to be an absolute nightmare, everytime they announce a feature that is coming its "but its hard" or "very complicated". Maybe with their next mmo they will finally get this stuff down...

But again I am still pro-auction house, even if it takes 6 months to implement. I standbye my thought that once PS3 launches wards are going to be an even bigger mess, even if people spread out a bit.. Just increasing caps again is going to be no help in the end as wards MAY start crashing again, at the very least the lag will get worse, especially on people who are not running the game great rigs.