Mennequins...Seriously?

[-Teria-]

Mannequins. Home owners have wanted them for years so they could proudly display gear we've earned in our homes and help make our houses feel even more lived in.

I don't care that there's only one race available at the moment.
I don't mind the fact that I need to remove the gear to make use of it, if anything that's more immersive.
I don't mind the lack of dye, I'll live.
No glamour? No problem either. I'll just put the actually piece on.
That's not what bothers me.

Now, I understand why you'd link objects up for sale to the total number of retainer items on sale...
But why, in God's name, would you do the same for the display only items?
I can have six mannequins in my home.
Even if I want to forgo all the right side gear to display, ignored the belt, and even ignored weapons and only equipped head gear, chests, legs, boots, and gloves.
That's five pieces. On six mannequins.

30 pieces of my retainers already limited market board space, taken by things I'm not even selling, things I don't want to sell, and often things that are bound that I can't even sell period.
If I only had two retainers (I don't, but this is theoretical here), that would perpetually leave me with 10 market board slots at any time.
That is complete garbage and some messed up implementation.

If it's a matter of not wanting us to have more free inventory space, than just let us throw the gear we want to display into our retainers inventory and then display it from there while still keeping it in said inventory. Because making me choose between being able to enjoy a new feature that I've been looking forward to for a while, and continued maximum use of my market board space? Absolute, unadulterated crap.

I don't understand why SE feels this nagging need, time and time again, to make newly implemented systems more complicated than they ever have to be.

[Beckett]

Guess you'll need to use the Final Fantasy XIV Companion App™ to more easily manage your now severely limited marketboard space! For the low, low price of $Toomuch you can even get a whole new retainer to make up for all the space stolen, er, occupied by this new system!

Seriously, it's pretty bad. About the only thing I can suggest is maybe try and get friends to help ease the burden. FC mates to put up some mannequins, if it's an FC house, or tenants if it's a private estate. Of course, that only works if you have people you trust enough to give estate access to, which not everyone does.

[Aerlana]

Now, I understand why you'd link objects up for sale to the total number of retainer items on sale...
But why, in God's name, would you do the same for the display only items?

Now is time to learn to SE one thing before they try it :
NEVER DIVIDE ANYTHING BY ZERO... Bad idea... really...

[Dustytome]

The patch notes did mention they're going to be fixing the display only items eating up retainer slots in an upcoming patch. It would have been nice if more time was spent on making a more robust offering of the display portion of the mannequins and maybe giving them the mb abilities at a later time.

[Aerlana]

The patch notes did mention they're going to be fixing the display only items eating up retainer slots in an upcoming patch. It would have been nice if more time was spent on making a more robust offering of the display portion of the mannequins and maybe giving them the mb abilities at a later time.

or deliver a FINISHED feature... not a "work in progress" one...
hum...
*look at 4.2 glamour system fixed in 4.3... look at eureka. look at the 2.1 hunting or PvP. look at lord of vermillion* wow... should it be... a big beta game?

[Godwack]

Devs didn't want to make new table in DB where to store those items.

[Mordoni]

Display the items you want, access the relevant retainer (through Bell not Mannequin), return gear to inventory.

Let's you display on all mannequin's and keep the item/s for yourself.

It's a bug, but it works.

[Jojoya]

Display the items you want, access the relevant retainer (through Bell not Mannequin), return gear to inventory.

Let's you display on all mannequin's and keep the item/s for yourself.

It's a bug, but it works.

Not sure that's an actual bug. The patch notes said the mannequin would retain the appearance even after the item purchased off the MB. It would state "unavailable" if someone tried to purchase an already sold item.

Sounds more like it's working as intended since removing the item from the retainer is effectively the same thing as it being sold.