Quote Originally Posted by DaKitten View Post
Timed nodes could easily be saved to the character rather than instanced based, thus preventing the farming of them through multiple worlds/instances.
Most likely the issue with that is that it would potentially have to store data for every zone that exists in the character data and maybe adding that much extra character data is a problem for them somehow.
As for a retainer, could easily implement a menu that allows you to select the world your retainer is on and deposit things like you are "remote accessing." it from off-world.
They could probably create an external server to proxy the information to your home server and have a different UI if you are an offworlder so that it doesn't clash with their current code. SE rarely pays attention to anything that isn't the next patch though, unfortunately.