Fix to the problem with everyone gathering in Ul'dah

[Elexia]

People didn't congregate anywhere around Jeuno after ToAU unless it was to toss up a bazaar in the dirt mall, financial transactions are one piece of this puzzle, and habit's a bigger one.

Plus it's purely on the community. With the advent of Abyssea port Jeuno became the new hotness and because of such you have people shouting idiotic things and the Japanese players of most servers congregrated to the empty White Gate for peace lol.

Ul'dah is basically the hub city for now, once more towns/hamlets get more use is implemented, people will spread out more, but they don't now because people still idiotically only sell stuff in Ul'dah.

[Genz]

I guess nearly every players and every persons of the developpement team have already thought about it.

The answer is : can't do it in this version. Wait for 2.0.

(actually planned for v2, I think)

[Firon]

Its always gonna be that popular city people gonna run to no matter what you do.

[Buuul]

Either sync the markets of all the cities or just add like 10 more ward areas in Uldah. Just name them Extra Ward #1-#10. They can have a flat tax rate of 5% for all I care - but we need more. Locking people out of the economy is frustrating.

[ChiefCurrahee]

I think the only way to link the market wards would be to link them by search counter only.

I have a strong suspicion that the problem lies with wards being zones. If you made 1 giant ward zone you would still have the problem of not being able to place a bazaar due to over population of retainers.

ANother problem would be being in Grid, searching for a item which happens to be in Uldah, enter the correct ward and exit in Uldah. It would be abused for quick, free transportation.

So I think the only way to link wards would be to link them by search counter only. If that is a problem with the current client I have no idea. But probably is since they haven't implemented it from the get go.

I agree a global chat channel and linked search counters would go a long way to alleviating Uldahs congestion.

[Peptaru]

ANother problem would be being in Grid, searching for a item which happens to be in Uldah, enter the correct ward and exit in Uldah. It would be abused for quick, free transportation.

They could treat it like they did the chocobo circuit, it only let you exit to where you entered from, people did use it to trade with friends as a buffer area between cities, but i'm pretty okay with that. I could stay in one city and still trade/talk/hang out with friends in the CC. I'm sure they already have their plans set, I'll wait and see what happens.

[Riv]

They could treat it like they did the chocobo circuit, it only let you exit to where you entered from, people did use it to trade with friends as a buffer area between cities, but i'm pretty okay with that. I could stay in one city and still trade/talk/hang out with friends in the CC. I'm sure they already have their plans set, I'll wait and see what happens.

Best idea i've seen.

[Airget]

I think the only way to link the market wards would be to link them by search counter only.

I have a strong suspicion that the problem lies with wards being zones. If you made 1 giant ward zone you would still have the problem of not being able to place a bazaar due to over population of retainers.

ANother problem would be being in Grid, searching for a item which happens to be in Uldah, enter the correct ward and exit in Uldah. It would be abused for quick, free transportation.

So I think the only way to link wards would be to link them by search counter only. If that is a problem with the current client I have no idea. But probably is since they haven't implemented it from the get go.

I agree a global chat channel and linked search counters would go a long way to alleviating Uldahs congestion.

Well an idea does come to mind, the problem with a global chat is that that would create more stress then bunching up people in the same area. You gotta think of global chat as this, when a person shouts in ulda that's just one packet of data being sent to that area, However when you introduce the global chat, that one data has to make it's way to 2 other areas which are also in different zones, so not only does it have to pass into another zone, but it has to send the same data into that zone. It would most likely create to much stress for the server if it isn't done properly.

With the market ward I think what could work is if they added two hubs in each town where you could go to purchase items from, while you are unable to enter the wards from those hubs you would be able to purchase items from there. With that in mind though I would say it would only be fair to add something likea 1% surcharge on top of the surcharge alrdy. While it won't get people moving out of Ulda it would at least encourage people to place their retainers in other wards, and while you would have to manually check all 3 yourself since the searches wouldn't be linked, it's at least better then having to travel to town by airship only to find out there's nothing in the wards lol.

[Nexxus]

If i had an AH linked to others town, and airship cheaper (lets say 500 gils or free and less waiting time till he arrive/come) i would go to Gridania or Limsa-Lominsa.

Well, i would like some free TP others town atleast untill 2.0. I dont care about immersion actually, the game is a bit destroyed, lets give us something usefull to stop the overcrowd of Ul'dah.

[jax_gongora]

I like the idea of free tp to other towns