[Request] Merge Mercantile Houses

[Majidah]

Mercantile Houses were released last patch.
For those who haven't gotten around to using them yet, they basically give you access to search in the ward of any city from any city.

Here's the problem though.

Uldah's wards are up to the neck in stock and variety while the other two are always empty.

I propose they are merged into a single Mercantile House and that the search retrieves results from all three cities in a single window as to foment players to start placing their retainers outside uldah.

Like this post if you agree.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

We want this.
Yoshi wants this.
But it won't happen till 2.0 cause the servers can't handle it.

[Kenials]

We want this.
Yoshi wants this.
But it won't happen till 2.0 cause the servers can't handle it.

9.99 x 50 = 500 bucks from 50 of us. Now times that by 30 servers thats 15 grand a month they probabley lose. Not much money considering low poor ideas. Maybe it would be worth while to speed this up some before they lose alot of good players that pay each month. >< bout tired of npc my stuff just so i can go out and kill mobs for more loot. Id say your heading in the wrong direction if its going to take 2.0 to fix this issue. Id say alot of players are on D3 now hows there auction house going? I haven't tried it due to be a dedicated player to a game. And can i say wow. How many players are gone now? We are having problems with player population already on raids and stuff and having to shout for 2-3 peoples just to raid now ;/ I'd say the content is heading downhill. Going to try another game i guess til 2.0

Just my 2 cents ^^

[Holland]

I thought that your suggestion would be implemented in 2.0.

Right now what they can do with the servers so that appears you have access to all market wards is to actually transport the character to the market ward area of each city. As indicated in the patch notes, if you do a search for a player that entered the mercantile house of gridania while in uldah, the player shows he's in gridania.

[Majidah]

I thought that your suggestion would be implemented in 2.0.

Right now what they can do with the servers so that appears you have access to all market wards is to actually transport the character to the market ward area of each city. As indicated in the patch notes, if you do a search for a player that entered the mercantile house of gridania while in uldah, the player shows he's in gridania.

Really? Well that sucks!

I mean, its just a query grabbing strings from three wards, isn't it? It seems weird the servers can't handle a simple search.

I'm on the verge of considering to pay someone for his spot in the uldah wards...

they should implement a timeout on the retailers or something.

Most people just place a 999999999 gil item there and keep the spot forever.

[Zaaku]

Really? Well that sucks!

I mean, its just a query grabbing strings from three wards, isn't it? It seems weird the servers can't handle a simple search.

I'm on the verge of considering to pay someone for his spot in the uldah wards...

they should implement a timeout on the retailers or something.

Most people just place a 999999999 gil item there and keep the spot forever.

Don't bother. I have tried buying retainer spots and no one with a spot worth anything is willing to give them up.

Luckily I finally sneaked a hole in the wall in the Mason's ward so some of my fuggin electrum can sell without we renewing the note every 24/hrs

[Pyretta_Blaze]

It is the curse of poorly written code... I am actually surprised they gave us this much.

Hopefully they are taking all of this into consideration for 2.0.

[Holland]

It is the curse of poorly written code... I am actually surprised they gave us this much.

Hopefully they are taking all of this into consideration for 2.0.

My bet is that the physical form of the retainers is going away completely and switched to some sort of market. I hope the bidding nature of the FFXI AH is not what they have in mind.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

My bet is that the physical form of the retainers is going away completely and switched to some sort of market. I hope the bidding nature of the FFXI AH is not what they have in mind.

I don't really want the bidding part of an auction house... I prefer a market system where I can just see what is for sale, at what price, and buy it if I am willing to pay.

[Jinko]

I don't really want the bidding part of an auction house... I prefer a market system where I can just see what is for sale, at what price, and buy it if I am willing to pay.

Most modern MMO have AH's with both a bidding and buyout option for items.

I doubt this team will bother with adding a bidding option but there is a good chance we will get a better interface that rivals the likes of WoW's AH.

Actually Diablo 3's AH is a work of art, when you buy an item if the system finds it cheaper elsewhere it will refund the difference lol.

how about just having 1 house but 3 NPCs one for each nation in it to search from.

Also would be nice to have a bell in the inn rooms

Thats what her post said, they tried exactly that but the proceeder for buying item wouldn't allow them to do so.

Wat we have is massively better than when Yoshi took over so I think we should probably just be grateful and wait til 2.0 unless they find a better way to do it in the mean time.