Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

[Elwynn]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

Instead of retainers we should be allowed slots within the market system to sell stuff.

Then, to buy stuff, you would need to go to the markets and open up a menu where stuff would be available to purchase through an interface.

In other words... an Auction House?

SE just needs to play FFXI, so they know where to improve in FFXIV.

Actually they could to play almost any MMO at all for that.

[Freelancer]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

Well the new semi-search function is handy to have.

There MUST BE atleast one item of the kind you're after at its appropriate ward (lets say iron spatha at battleward) now that you picked that item, any retainer that has it in any ward will be marked.

Though like I said there must be 1 in the appropriate ward or it won't show in search.

if lets say you want iron nails and at the ironmongers ward there arent any, you can set your retainer there and have it sell one, just so it appears in the search window.

Click on that, now your retainer in this ward and any other retainers that sell nails in any other ward will be marked.

Well... atleast its better than not having search at all...

[Balfree]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

In other words... an Auction House?

Actually they could to play almost any MMO at all for that.

Auction Houses are not Markets. In an auction you don't know the actual price of what you're buying, so you check the history and go with what you think it will cost.

On a market the price is displayed. I would welcome both systems.

If there's one thing I liked about WoW its their AH, that would be perfect.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

If there's one thing I liked about WoW...

JUDAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

JUDAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So you're just going to skip over Grizzlebeard, Aksannyi, DakAttack, Firewind . . . heck, this thread gives you a freaking list . . . and you head straight for the Portuguese.

Smells kinda racist, if you asked me.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

So you're just going to skip over Grizzlebeard, Aksannyi, DakAttack, Firewind . . . heck, this thread gives you a freaking list . . . and you head straight for the Portuguese.

Smells kinda racist, if you asked me.

Strong word. Racist. I love all god's creatures... just not the WoW.

Dont get me wrong, if WoW came out before FFXI, I'd be on the other side of this fence. I just like to hate on the people with greener pastures.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

You appear to have missed my point entirely. There are plenty of other WoW-lovers on this forum for you to hate, as I have listed for you in my previous post. My question is this: why single out Balfree in particular for making a favorable comment on one specific aspect of WoW? I then facetiously deduced that it must have been because you were racist against Portuguese.

Humor isn't funny any more when you have to take the time to explain it.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

Your fastidious inclusion of linked evidence swayed my perspective of your reaction to the negative spectrum.

I felt unjustly attacked, but upon your explination of your intentions, I can now circumvent my defensive posture and see the humor for it's intended worth.

I here-by vote to strike my original reaction from the record and move to replace it with the following.

"LoL"

[Aeni]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

Click on that, now your retainer in this ward and any other retainers that sell nails in any other ward will be marked.

The search was helpful to a degree but I'm finding it incomplete. It doesn't allow you to search for items outside of the "appropriate" wards. For example, I search for lightning shards in Crystallers Wards and then tried to see if I could expand the search in Tradescraft Ward (where before the patch that was the lower-tax zone to sell crystals in) and it only allowed me to search for tools. I was not pleased.

This is like taking a kid afflicted with Lou Gherig's and putting him into a one-wheel wheelchair. WTF was the point of that?

(Note: it never allowed me to "mark" anyone selling shards outside of that ward ... I tried it in Gridania and KNEW a retainer in Battlecraft had a lightning shard stack and that never got marked ... only 3 others in the Crystallers were marked)

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Oh and bug with repairing Garlond Goggles ... I attempted 3 times to repair this Rank 1 piece o' crap and failed all 3 times. Oddly enough, the graphical display shows that I SUCCEEDED but the log says that "You attempted to recover the repair mats but failed" followed by "You have failed to repair the (item)".

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

The search was helpful to a degree but I'm finding it incomplete. It doesn't allow you to search for items outside of the "appropriate" wards. For example, I search for lightning shards in Crystallers Wards and then tried to see if I could expand the search in Tradescraft Ward (where before the patch that was the lower-tax zone to sell crystals in) and it only allowed me to search for tools. I was not pleased.

I agree completely. I tried to do the same thing... searching outside the reccomended ward for wind shards for synthing.

It seems as though this system is almost forcing players to streamline their crafts to produce onthing ONE type of item so that EVERYTHING in their bazaar can be searched for. What about people like me who have a plethora of different sub-categories inside my bazaar? I'm going to see drastic price-drops from here on in. well played SE... thanks for making me lose money.

[Balfree]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

To me it looks like SE is simply making this feeble system a bit better to bear with since its the only way for people to trade right now, while they're secretly (as FUCKING always) working on a different system.

Its so damn cumbersome, I haven't even tried it and I can already tell it's going to feel like a job in itself just to buy stuff.

[Fliegar]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

It took me 3 hours to find a decently priced (read: Not a fucking ripoff) set of fist weapons for mid 20's. I happened to find it in the Armorcraft row on a Lalafel Retainer hidden behind 6 Mi'qote retainers wearing the new cleaveage-tastic coaties. I'm not sure whether to cheer for boobs, or cry because I wasted an hour.

[Aeni]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

It took me 3 hours to find a decently priced (read: Not a fucking ripoff) set of fist weapons for mid 20's. I happened to find it in the Armorcraft row on a Lalafel Retainer hidden behind 6 Mi'qote retainers wearing the new cleaveage-tastic coaties. I'm not sure whether to cheer for boobs, or cry because I wasted an hour.

I was awarded with that rare/ex moth-eaten coatie (the one you use to make a better version of what was awarded) and showed it off to friends and they were like ... those are like wearing bras with super lifts. lol

YG is still better for now so I suggest using it when possible.

[Freelancer]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

I just find the item in search or trigger it in search with my retainer then just check AAALLL the wards until I either find it or find a better deal.

Scored some 100g shards and such that way, but its a major time sink lol...

And I've gotten a moth raped coatee myself and almost didn't want to sell it because I looked pimpin' in it, even without the cleavage lol.

and.... HUZZAH FOR BEWBS!

[Aeni]

Re: Late-December Version Update (12/20/2010)

I just find the item in search or trigger it in search with my retainer then just check AAALLL the wards until I either find it or find a better deal.

That's the problem I've noticed ... even when there was an item in the search list and there were (3) available ... I usually found several retainers with the items and they were not starred. There's kinks to be worked out or somehow people are finding themselves being excluded from the system somehow...