Market Ward Overcrowding Needs Immediate Fix

[Asiaine]

Right now it is completely unfair that alot of people have TWO retainers in the Ul'dah market wards and I can't even put one there. I offer a simple solution that can be implemented with the current server software and will solve multiple problems.

1. Allow players 3 retainers. (This is not completely necessary, but it would expand the markets in all 3 cities.)

This would be good (one per city). However, inventory would need to be decreased per retainer. So it would be 100/retainer, rather than 150 (therefore retaining the 300 limit overall).

2. Allow players to place only 1 retainer in each city's market wards.

This makes sense, and would help avoid everyone sticking 3 retainers in Ul'Dah ^.^;

3. Increase bazaar capacity so that players can sell more items per retainer. The reason for this is because of the incredibly high drop rate in this game.

If we have 3 retainers, and each can sell 10 items, then the total number of items available for sale is 30 (rather than 20 as it is now). So that should take care of itself. Not sure it should be even higher than this. (Not sure I want to manage 30 items for sale as its such a cumbersome process). It is also open to exploit as bazaar space does not count as 'inventory' space and people could fill it with storage items at 999999999 gil.

4. No more partial stack sells. If players want less than a full stack they can buy it from bazaars or merchants. Partial stacks take up space on the wards, which sucks because it only shows the 20 cheapest.

Not suer this is practical. There are a LOT of items a LOT of people need that can rarely be found available for sale as a full stack. I'm often lucky to buy 3 here, 12 there, 4 there. Some days I clear up 10+ retainers and still do not get a full stack. If this was not possible, I would have nothing ; ;



To sum up, if they want an 'easy/quick' fix for Wards today:
Increase retainer count to 3. (should be easy to do).
Decrease retainer inventory size to 100. (Should also be easy to do).
Limit one retainer per city's ward (Not sure how easy to do).


This would hopefully tie us over until they come up with the super-douper-awe-inspiring-amazingly-licious-AH-of-our-dreams system in 2.0