In Game Banks

[Shurrikhan]

How would you sell items then?

Probably directly from/at the market board. While at the board, right click on an item, select "List on Market Board". A new tab is added to the market board for "Currently Listed Items". You know, like most MMOs... Just guessing, at any rate.

[SirBrighton]

Probably directly from/at the market board. While at the board, right click on an item, select "List on Market Board". A new tab is added to the market board for "Currently Listed Items". You know, like most MMOs... Just guessing, at any rate.

I suppose you haven't considered the snowball effect that would result if that were to happen.

Players would no longer be able to sell items while in their FC house, private room, inn room, Mor Dhona or Idyllshire, and the point of buying retainer permits to place them outside your house would be next to pointless. You could suggest just add market boards to Mor Dhona and Idyllshire, but SE has already decided against this long ago to prevent player congestion. Imagine if Mor Dhona and Idyllshire had a market board. Now imagine what it would look like on largely populated servers like Balmung and Gilgamesh, and that's just NA servers. The JAP servers have even more players. The game would be completely unplayable in those areas since the amount of people would cause massive frame drops and crashes, and why pay for a game you can't play?

As someone with 8 retainers, I think the way they are now is good enough. You just need to organize your stuff so you don't have to go through 3+ retainers to get what you want.

[Shurrikhan]

I suppose you haven't considered the snowball effect that would result if that were to happen.

Players would no longer be able to sell items while in their FC house, private room, inn room, Mor Dhona or Idyllshire, and the point of buying retainer permits to place them outside your house would be next to pointless. You could suggest just add market boards to Mor Dhona and Idyllshire, but SE has already decided against this long ago to prevent player congestion. Imagine if Mor Dhona and Idyllshire had a market board. Now imagine what it would look like on largely populated servers like Balmung and Gilgamesh, and that's just NA servers. The JAP servers have even more players. The game would be completely unplayable in those areas since the amount of people would cause massive frame drops and crashes, and why pay for a game you can't play?

As someone with 8 retainers, I think the way they are now is good enough. You just need to organize your stuff so you don't have to go through 3+ retainers to get what you want.

There's no reason you can't technically have both. For instance, iirc, you used to be able to just right click on an item to Sell it via MB from anywhere in the city, not just when speaking to your retainer at some point in 1.x. I'll have to check my screenshots, but I remember seeing something to that effect the last time I browsed through them. (I forget if you then simply selected which, if having multiple, retainer would sell it or if they'd just fill in order. At any rate it was the one thing that stuck out to me as being doable faster in XIV than other MMOs back in 2012.)

Apart from those with restricted RAM, there's no reason (aside from maybe bandwidth(?)) for why you can't look at multiple retainers at once, send items directly from one retainer to another, or classify all items into organizational sets across multiple retainer inventories automatically or per sort action.

Obviously anything like this would be irrelevant to those who already have their retainers properly organized for their own use, but it would be a nice QoL feature for those who are a bit more reluctant to do so, often because they have already capped whatever number of retainers they do have along with their inventories (making it a tedious task of entrusting two items at a time across from retainer A to player to retainer B, retainer B to player to retainer A, repeat 30+ times).