Quote Originally Posted by BadJoeRed View Post
I'm pretty sure they aren't too concerned about extra slots making the framerate worse. If this was the case, they would not have given us the option to have retainers wear the gear we make them sell for fear of the frame rates and load times of the wards being poor.
I don't know if it's just me, but I seem to remember a time when significantly more retainer models were loaded into view that currently are. Maybe they turned down the max NPCs displayed in the wards at the same time to balance it out?