Fix to the problem with everyone gathering in Ul'dah

[Wolfie]

People spending on books and schools fuels an economy, it doesn't unbalance pricing. lol

Think again, the market for used text books features hundreds of completely underpriced books. Nobody needs them anymore, because new editions and volumes are out. College textbooks fuel the printing and college-textbook-writing economies, the same way skilling up stimulates gathering classes to farm low and mid level materials (for those that have figured that eay money trick, at least).

[darkstarpoet1]

People spending on books and schools fuels an economy, it doesn't unbalance pricing. lol

what happens when you sell used text books? do you sell them at new prices? no you sell it to keep from losing just as much as you can. if you buy a book for $40 and use it when you try to sell it you can either sell back to the bookstore for $2(the game npc) or sell it on ebay for $10(market wards). if someone wants to buy the book they do buy it, but at a much cheaper price than what a new book would cost so it does unbalance the prices.

[Peptaru]

and the bookstore sells it for 37 again instead of 40, just making regular consumers who think they're doin the smart thing looks like fools. the knowledge contained in the book and its usefulness are still the same as when it was printed, but we drive the price down? i'm goin to bed, i'm bored with this.

[darkstarpoet1]

and the bookstore sells it for 37 again instead of 40, just making regular consumers who think they're doin the smart thing looks like fools. the knowledge contained in the book and its usefulness are still the same as when it was printed, but we drive the price down? i'm goin to bed, i'm bored with this.

oh you mean exactly like the npc does in game? you get around 20 gil if you sell them a cotton yarn, but later when you go to buy one from them it's over 1200 gil. no matter how you try to turn it around the game economy and real life economy are more closely related than you think. you just don't want to see the similarities.

[MeeYow]

Didn't read all of the thread, but linking wards would solve half of the problem (and I think it already is being done), the other is people gather for shout groups for exp and general social stuff. Adding a (or several) non-linkshell, server-wide chat channels would alleviate this.

[Ayanami]

1. Improve the item search counter function to search every ward, in every city state.
2. Increase the strength in numbers bonus to 15% or 20% when a party is formed using the party search/recruit functions.
3. Enjoy.

There is no need for a global channel for shouts. The FFXIV community just needs to use the party search/recruit functions.

[Karleguarth]

Combining people's need for a global chat feature and the laziness for not using the Player/Party Search features:

Global LFG channel does not allow player input, and appears only when you place yourself into the Player Search, as "Seeking Party" status,
game filters out the party from the Party Search which suits the "Preferred Class" you placed in Player Search and display them on the channel, with a timestamp showing how long the recruit is going to last for.

This way, people crafting or gathering anywhere in the game world can simply click on their chat log tab and be able to know which party is available to them, if they contribute a tiny effort for the recruiters to increase the amount of Player flagging themselves as LFG. And there won't be a channel that players can flood with, making it hard to serve its purpose.

(Just a suggestion which hope SE dudes can take into consideration)

[GreyJorildyn]

If anyone's ever seen the <Join Party> feature Aion had (not sure if other games had it too), you'd understand why a LFG channel has a lot of benefit to the playerbase. Basically you could put your recruitment link in the LFP channel and someone could click on the <Join Party> and they could see who is in the party, what classes, and then a button for send tell to party leader, or just join if leader set it to free invite. Stuff like that is modern and assembles parties very quickly. We already have a feature (recruiting for party) that could be integrated into this. Too bad it's not accessible while you're crafting or gathering, which is what people may want to do while seeking/looking for party on a different class.

[Petdo]

It's suck that your shout cannot reach far side of ul'dah...it has limited range of hearing.
So that's why everyone just gather together in front of market and doing everything and cause the game very laggy.

[Asiaine]

Yes, it is odd that the range of shout is so very very short. And has such artifical boundry lines. When they said they were going to make it zone-less with no loading... well... they did not quite achieve it. There are 'soft' zones and although there is no 'loading' screen, there is plenty of time spent 'loading' all the people up!

But yes, if you spread shout to at least the same floor/level, that would help a lot. I can easily craft in a far away area rather than with 50 other people trying to listen in on parties being formed. Yet not contribute to the lag.

Good suggestion.