Quote Originally Posted by SXTC View Post
The issue with grand companies is that the door is treated "private" which means no one would be able to assist eachother when having low crafters and wanting to aquire something that is too expensive on the market.
The wardroom itself is private but that's a property of the instance not the portal. Workshops themselves are instanced. Adding a portal to them should be a trivial matter of adding it to an existing unused door near the GC which is something that can be done in their area editing tools (no programming required).

Of course not everything is simple and they had to develop a lot of infrastructure under a severe pressure so there's an excellent chance that shortcuts were taken. Would not surprise me in the least that the workshop features are deeply ingrained into the Housing Ward server code and unreachable from whichever servers run the starter cities. Or heck, so deeply embedded within the housing code that it would be easier to rewrite it than it would be to detangle it.