Retainer System Improvement

[lathos]

Yup I imagine for any new players its enough to turn them away, especially when you are new to the game and need to make money to progress.

I think a lot of people don't sell things through the marketward for the very same reason.

agreed gimme ah any day

[Viritess]

I kind of like having something less like a AH screen and more like a market myself. But Some things could definately be done to make it a much smoother experience.

Connected market wards. (Anima gates orsome such works fine as a "Travel" mechanic (read: Excuse)
Also allows folks to spread out a bit and still buy and sell to the whole populace.

Make the wards less of a hallway and more of a Bazaar (Wider or longer or both so you can). make the the distance you can place Retainers near eachother bigger. atleast big enough so it looks like your character could walk between them, then give them some small "selling" animations randomly and not often so in kind of seels like a Bazaar.

Let items from a retainers inventory que up onto free slots. Set up the que for items however is best/easiest.

My personal preferance would be to have the AH window in the/a ward and when you find the item you want, it auto runs you to the retainer its being sold on and opens their window, which would also help facilitate impulse purchases.

To me, this would make an AH type window helpful in finding and sorting items, but also keep the market/bazaar type feeling that i kind of like, personally. All the above would liekly depend on how big/ how much space/ and how many retainers you could have in a given area, and how much you may have to segment some areas so its not a loading nightmare.

But the combination of the two sounds more fun to me then a window, buy and done. Sucks the life out of shopping and though expediant, is also dull.