[Request] Merge Mercantile Houses

[Dreamer]

I would personally rather solve the issue by enlarging the wards and requiring stalls, the end result being that players are forced to use the Grid and LL wards because the Ul'dah stalls are all taken.

[Galliano]

I would like to see this but I would also like to be able to search for +1 items as the search only shows the lowest prices, and if there are loads of the item the +1s are pushed off the list. Alternatively an option to change the price from high to low or to scroll through all the items would be fine.

[Azzi]

I have an idea, they have been able to add additional wards in the past (menders row). So I propose SE just add more wards to each city state. The reason no one wants to move their retainers to other cities is because they risk not being able to get back into Ul'dah's wards if they're not selling anything in the other cities. By adding more wards this alleviates the problem.

They could duplicate all the wards so for instance you'll have battlecraft row 1 and battlecraft row 2. Or they could even abolish the original names completely as it's not necessary anymore to have your retainer in a specific ward other than for the reduced surcharge. The names were made redundant when they implimented the search feature. So you could just have Ul'dah market ward 1 to 15 for example.

But until anything is changed I would like to suggest to players to sell all your HQ items in another city, lets say Gridania as there's more activity there these days with Hamlet defence. If everyone does this we'll not have a problem finding HQ items for sale and players selling HQ won't have the current problem of not getting in the top 20 of the item search feature.

[Lythan]

Like others have said, get rid of physical form retainers (clogging up areas), and just search from one merged window.

And YES, let us search for HQ separately from NQ!!!

[Toxsik]

I would like to see the Item search option added back to the main entrance to the wards like it was before as well.

[Kerwin]

Masamune server is maxed out on players. And every... single... ward.... is also maxed out in Uldah. I will never be able to get my retainers in there. Ever. Massive problem. I would rather be dealing with the old market system so long as it was all one market. Very frustrating. Very.

Edit: Retainer system should be abolished. Its not needed other than storage. Were is my classic FFXI auction house?

[Suneater]

I was a bit disappointed by this new feature because I thought it meant we'd be able to search all 3 nations at the same time. Today I'm still using the item search from within the wards to check prices and shop. It seems a bit of a useless feature unless they make it search all 3 cities because everyone is still in uldah as far as I can tell. If they can't make it search all cities because of remote purchasing, I think it would be better to remove that feature so that other wards get used more.

[Jinko]

I would like to see this but I would also like to be able to search for +1 items as the search only shows the lowest prices, and if there are loads of the item the +1s are pushed off the list. Alternatively an option to change the price from high to low or to scroll through all the items would be fine.

There is an easy solution to this, split the window to show 10 lowest NQ and 10 lowest HQ, its extremely simple and I'm surprised SE haven't done so yet.

In 2.0 NQ and HQ should be completely separate, so you can type Raptor leather +1 and it will find all the +1 raptor leather.

Like others have said, get rid of physical form retainers (clogging up areas), and just search from one merged window.

Agree with this also, there is no need for this convoluted design of having physical zombies standing in a static room, it takes up server memory and isn't as cool as it sounds.

[gahoo]

They could always just temporarily raise the tax in Ul'dah (or lower elsewhere) only to encourage movement. .

[Rukkirii]

Has the dev team considered kicking retainers that haven't sold anything in a week out of the wards to make room for new, active retainers? Or a similar alternative. *Pulls from Rukkirii's whiskers ;c*

But they did in 1.19!

[dev1181] Retainer bazaars in market areas are now subject to a time limit.

• Maximum duration: 7 days (168 hours, Earth time)
  * Those leasing stands are exempt from the above time limit.
• Updating bazaar information resets your duration to 7 days (168 hours, Earth time).
• Retainers who have exceeded the time limit will automatically return home.