1st December Update : Findings/Changes

[Manako]

Crashing wards has been a problem since release. I guess most ppl just didn't notice it or care until more recently with the search making wards more useful. It is a huge annoyance and i don't understand why it hasn't been addressed or even acknowledged as a problem by SE yet.

Unless of course it is intentional. Maybe SE intentionally resets the wards every day or two to force people to go in there and reset their retainers to try and at least get people in there to keep shit available for sale.

The crashing has become more frequent, and its more common in some towns that others. Ul'dah crashes much more frequently.

[Drako]

so annoying, it crashes everyday on Kashuan.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

I've been noticing a lot of crashes too unless they're just empty wards.

[Cooleko]

I have been wondering the same thing, are wards crashing alot or are the wards just barren...

[Gulkeeva]

all but uldah is pretty much a barren ward area on my server

oh and wards do crash/retainers only stay for about 2-3 days, then have to be resummoned.

[Biggie]

all but uldah is pretty much a barren ward area on my server

oh and wards do crash/retainers only stay for about 2-3 days, then have to be resummoned.

2-3 days??? Mine doesn't even make it overnight on my server.

[Rivian]

Seems to vary between <1-3 days. I tend to log out in wards at the end of the night after setting up my retainer. If i log in the next day and it's empty, i know there's been a reset. Seems it also always starts me in a different ward than i logged out in upon logging in after a reset, and i'm unable to summon a retainer until moving to a different ward.

[jPuff]

Seems to vary between <1-3 days.

Also my experience. It might be somewhat more tolerable if the Red/Green status icons next to retainer names actually frigging updated automatically. I hate having to click both names to see if they summon and manually update the stupid status color. I like to keep one retainer unsummoned so I can trade at bells while the other one sells stuff, so every time I trade with my unsummoned one at a bell I have to go through the extra step of summoning the other one just to see if their retarded ass is still selling stuff. This will be an absolute TREASURE to manage when they let us have more than 2 retainers.