Market Area Improvements (04/16/2012)

[Croy]

This is the first I've heard of them "for sure" returning in 2.0. Personally, I hope Dalamud lands squarely on the Ul'dah market wards and wipes all those fuckers out.

Because of money? Just offer additional storage boxes or something -- no reason to tie them to an NPC.

I see no point for them in 2.0.

Its in the 2.0 PDF and has been mentioned several times on the forums by Yoshida himself.

What we know from Rep and the PDF of 2.0

"Complete redesign of markets into a system incorporating retainers and auction house elements. PDF
Ability to hire male miqo'te, female highland hyur, and female roegaedyn retainers. Rep
Market wards in each of the 3 main cities will be linked together via the market search UI. Rep"

Yoshida also made a comment in an interview about he finds the current ward's "look" with the retainer all stationary looking directly at you as something from a horror movie and wants a more 'welcoming' look for retainers which is why I made the comment about maybe a personal shop you can use for your retainer.

[miokomioko]

I think most of the people in this section of the forums need to go back and read the 2.0 documents. There's a ton of stuff in there that has not really been outright spoken about by devs/Yoshi.

[Spider-Dan]

Enough babysteps already, how brutal can it possibly be to create a system that pulls all three cities simultaneously and sorts on price in some kind of "shell"?

I consider it a minor miracle that they would even bother with this baby step in 1.x.

[Fievel]

I consider it a minor miracle that they would even bother with this baby step in 1.x.

Definitely agree, I'm happy to be getting any sort of improvement. Mainly because I wasn't expecting any of this until 2.0.

[Kurp]

A traditional AH plus something like a retainer in your personal housing (like PSU) might be cool. I'm not sure what you'd actually sell on the retainer other than shit you can't put on the AH for whatever reason like in XI. It would add some relevance to your housing though and lessen the desire to AFK bazaar.

[Corrderio]

I assume this means the item search will no longer be at the entrance...only at the mercantile npcs:

Hopefully, but form how the bit ffffff quoted, seems like you can search from the entrance as well. And since UD is the main place for players, I don't really see people using the NPCs if that's the case.

[Croy]

Hopefully, but form how the bit ffffff quoted, seems like you can search from the entrance as well. And since UD is the main place for players, I don't really see people using the NPCs if that's the case.

From what I got from the post is that there is a special instanced room much like the market wards or the merchant wards that you can enter from the traditional Market Ward entrance but you can get teleported to it at various NPC's around town. The big question is where do you get 'dumped' at when you try to exit, because if you still get put outside the wards entrance then some manner of server congestion is still going to be an issue.

[kisada]

curious, haven't played in a while. are current market wards and retainer menus still pretty laggy?

[Gokulo]

Anything UI related can still be called pretty laggy, so it depends on when did you experienced it last time
They did some improvements, but like said, it's still not "standard speed".

[Niiro]

It's still awful in comparison to any other game and, if not for promises of the 2.0 overhaul, completely unacceptable.

[Purrrfect]

And the more crap your retainer has the slower it is. Though once you start transferring things to your retainer, if you do them in succession as soon as the ui lets you it does go a little faster.