I suggested this before but i revised it.

instead of having all the wards all over the city. I suggeste we have a market zone. An instanced zone that houses the different wards plus an open air market.

Similar to how the chocobo race staduim was. Maybe have this one signular market again similar to the chocobo stadium. And have the rooms be a tad bigger. Also have the stalls free of charge gridlocked so that no one is standing in random places all clumped together.

I think this idea will limit the ghost town issue where since no one is in other towns the wards are empty. and players must run to said populer town this was an issue in ffxi when jeuno became popular. And the town Ah's stop selling stuff.

This will also have a place for ppl to go afk in (the open air market) w/o crowding the town. And I feel it will also limit the amount of running around ppl will need to do.

Have the search be in the middle of the market.

Also the market zone can house an AH where ppl bid on items (not buy out right)