If FF is all about community building and team play and all the jazz, why don't we have an LS bank we can store mats on and such. Personally it doens't need to be a bank per say, but certain ward where you have NPCs where you can store mats to be used by the LS.

AN example is I am a miner and an armourer, as such my best friend is a BS, when he is not online I go mining and get materials. As it is now I need to put that stuff on my retainer until he logs on, then we have to meet in the city with my retainer in and and his and we need to spend an hour jugling items bak and forth and so on. Now that we can have 2 retainers this is less a pain, but I want to be able to go into our LS ward, drop off my mining mats on a common retainer which he can pick up at his leisure and melt into mats for me and I can pick them up at my leisure.

With this system you can add all sorts of fun things like special prices for LS mates for crafed stuff or free dependong the LS system. You can also get things like crystal and shard trading, going on in LS. As payment you can pay more for the retiniers in LS wards, or the LS needs to accomlish certain goals to be able to get retainers like buy an LS airship, or kill certain NMs or complete other ingame objectives etc. I know this sounds a lot like wows current achievment system and guild bank, but I know SE can take some really good ideas from this and make it heir own and make it enjoyable in FFXIV.