Market Wards Population Fix?

[Nabiri]

Well what i would like to say as a market wards improvement, is rightclick on seller in searcz, and ooptiopn to go stright to his ward, without gouing back and forth through menus ^&^

That's an interesting idea.

[Hippo]

How about simulating Internet shopping in FFXIV? You can access the "AH" anywhere (even out of town) but whatever you buy will only get delivered to your mob house. And if you buy from an AH outside of your own city, that item will take longer, maybe a few rl hours, to be delivered to your mob house

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Aya
honestly.... wtf. I'm not even talking about the uber leet gear. And not everyone is going to want to craft, And you do have to think of a long term fix. Not for the now. Gear that you can buy shouldn;t be hard to get. Why should buying gear be "hard" because you don't want it "handed to them" Its not even getting handed gear. You still got work to get gil. Who is to say the when ppl join they are always going to do levequests? I may not do them all the time even though I ask for the reset removal.

Aya not to be rude here, but honestly its ppl like you who make mmo fail. You so stuck in your elitist bubble. You can look past anything. Games are for fun, not a second job. If i do work to earn my gil. I should have to spend week or mnth looking for gear. And diablos was one of the high populated servers, I was on garuda, lakshmi when they merged and Asura. I also tried pheonix out. I had this issue since ps2 launch due to starting in windurst.

[Ayaka]

I'm not even talking about the uber leet gear.

Aya not to be rude here, but honestly its ppl like you who make mmo fail. You so stuck in your elitist bubble.

At starting cities there should be only uber leet gear, since as lolnoob you dont need anything else to level up. We miss here so many things to make this work, that we're missing the main point. Uldah is overpopulated because people at higher level don't have anywhere else to go. And since everyone is there the wards are really really crowded. Tbh i barely go to gridania, just when i have enough lnc or con marks to buy myself some needed skills. And to limsa i go just to get local leves for alchemy.

Since i started i bought gear, used it to level up, bought next gear and used my retainer to sell back that, it wasn't about the money, it was about being able to help others get that gear.

And no to be rude but oh my god, you're so funny. Elitist bubble lol. I'm also wondering how you get to talk about something you haven't seen since you don't even play and just make comparisons between what other people say about this and with FFXI.

Ok, enough with that, as constructive question: I believe people should be more attached to their homelands, i mean, more lore quests, and stuff to do in your own homeland. Bringing back the conquest will help too. Having NPCs depending on wich nation is 1st on conquest is a win-win. They should make people be busy in their own cities (i don't mean as a job or having to be there hours and hours), that would atract players to do things within their walls, such as use the market wards. Sorry to go out of you topic Nabiri but again i repeat i think they should get rid of this system and have an AH.

They need more cities just to split a bit more the people, but with things to do in the cities. Or else having another city will do nothing. The problem isn't the population at wards... the problem is the concentration of players. They shouldn't fix the wards to be all-in-one, imo. They should split us. Make us have a sense of belonging to somewhere, defend it and take pride of it.

How about simulating Internet shopping in FFXIV? You can access the "AH" anywhere (even out of town) but whatever you buy will only get delivered to your mob house. And if you buy from an AH outside of your own city, that item will take longer, maybe a few rl hours, to be delivered to your mob house

Btw i really really like this suggestion.

[Nabiri]

Right.. well if anyone has any ideas for fixing the market ward population, not an AH that doesn't exist, feel free to share them. XD
Also would be cool to hear if SE has any plans to improve this and the general population of PCs in the other towns as well.

Related thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-quot-problem.

Ghost towns = ghost wards ; ;

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Aya i said that because that is the bide you are giving off. You said gear shouldn't be handed to you, and half of what you claim about ffxi is wrong. Not all gear was sold in all nations. And not all gear was buyable from npc. And honestly ffxiv can have the same thing happen. It sorta already is. I didn't enjoy spending hours hunting gear in ffxi which turned into day and weeks and mnths. I shouted for gear alot. My LS's were always busy with events or parties, or didn't reply at all. And Just an AH don't help. Retainers wre put in so ppl who couldn't run their system 24/7 to have a bazaar up. My idea also had an AH in it that you can acess from this point.

Least i put up an idea though. Abd I think mine can work if given the chance. Gear buying shouldn't be a pain in the butt. But also it shouldn't be for the lazy. (AH = lazy) I just want it less time consuming in a sense but still keep it interactive. A global system is needed, if Ishgard is "jeuno" the home nations will die out.

[Jedgar]

So question what is linking the market wards going to do to make me, or anyone else, want to go to Limsa or Grid? As it stands now the only real reason to go to these other cities is because of Guild Support for crafting or for spending Guild Marks nothing else. Granted having quests and rep for each of the starting cities will decrease this some what but is it going to change the fact that there is going to be a central market where everyone eventually ends up? Even putting in a "Conquest" type system really won't help. And I for one have been against this as we're supposed to be preparing to repel the coming Garlean Empire invasion not attacking each other.

Now I know that I'm in a minority here but I like the wards the way they are now. Though the crashing and laggy-ness I could do without, but that just might be due to the fact that so many retainers are in one zone.

[Nabiri]

So question what is linking the market wards going to do to make me, or anyone else, want to go to Limsa or Grid? As it stands now the only real reason to go to these other cities is because of Guild Support for crafting or for spending Guild Marks nothing else. Granted having quests and rep for each of the starting cities will decrease this some what but is it going to change the fact that there is going to be a central market where everyone eventually ends up? Even putting in a "Conquest" type system really won't help. And I for one have been against this as we're supposed to be preparing to repel the coming Garlean Empire invasion not attacking each other.

Now I know that I'm in a minority here but I like the wards the way they are now. Though the crashing and laggy-ness I could do without, but that just might be due to the fact that so many retainers are in one zone.

Not everyone will want to move back, but there are some people who feel they need to move to Ul'dah (for many reasons) - just one of those being that the majority of retainers have moved to Ul'dah. People who want to stay in Ul'dah will stay there, but for the people who don't, this will help them. Not only people living in Limsa and Gridania, but those visiting for leves and such would have markets nearby that are actually populated. That doesn't sound like a bad thing to me. There are many other things that would need to be changed to repopulate Limsa and Gridania, but the market wards is one step in the right direction.