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Originally Posted by Pokefan5

And I still don't understand the explanation they gave for that.

Opening a UI should be fully separate from anything else. The UI should be enough to store new glamours not the dresser object.

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A UI is just a user interface, it doesn't store anything. It's just presenting the output of a system. In the case of glamour chests in an inn room, it's the contents and configuration of a single user's glamoured items and plates. In the case of a glamour chest in a house, it's that system but for N users, reloaded every time any player enters and exits the instance.

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Originally Posted by Exmo

A UI is just a user interface, it doesn't store anything. It's just presenting the output of a system. In the case of glamour chests in an inn room, it's the contents and configuration of a single user's glamoured items and plates. In the case of a glamour chest in a house, it's that system but for N users, reloaded every time any player enters and exits the instance.

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Again, explain to me, why would the system be tied to anything but the UI?

How is it different to open the glamour dresser UI from the inn vs. player housing vs. the overworld?

In all 3 cases it should be a simple "Hey server? What's stored in my glamour dresser and what are my plates? I want to edit them!", "Cool, here's the changes I made, please save them for me!"

The dresser object existing should not matter. There should be no difference between wanting to know what's in my dresser while I'm in the inn room and while I'm not.

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Originally Posted by Pokefan5

Again, explain to me, why would the system be tied to anything but the UI?

How is it different to open the glamour dresser UI from the inn vs. player housing vs. the overworld?

In all 3 cases it should be a simple "Hey server? What's stored in my glamour dresser and what are my plates? I want to edit them!", "Cool, here's the changes I made, please save them for me!"

The dresser object existing should not matter. There should be no difference between wanting to know what's in my dresser while I'm in the inn room and while I'm not.

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With how horribly the game handles storage, my guess would be that opening a dresser in any space that can contain more than 1 player character will also load the dresser contents for everyone that can enter that space. Changing how the game handles storage would conceivably also allow them to add hundreds of inventory slots(since the game currently loads the inventories of the characters, their saddlebags, and their retainers at all times), but that would take time and money that could be spent on other games.

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Originally Posted by Daralii

With how horribly the game handles storage, my guess would be that opening a dresser in any space that can contain more than 1 player character will also load the dresser contents for everyone that can enter that space. Changing how the game handles storage would conceivably also allow them to add hundreds of inventory slots(since the game currently loads the inventories of the characters, their saddlebags, and their retainers at all times), but that would take time and money that could be spent on other games.

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I fear for what convoluted way they chose to implement the glamour dresser if it's not an on-demand check like the saddlebag used to be. (Used to because I know they changed it due to housing glitches using it)

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Originally Posted by Pokefan5

I fear for what convoluted way they chose to implement the glamour dresser if it's not an on-demand check like the saddlebag used to be. (Used to because I know they changed it due to housing glitches using it)

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I'm honestly very curious about how the dresser functions. With the weirdly long hang time whenever you interact with something related to outfits, which seems like it should be some very simple checks, the dresser probably transcended spaghetti code and became Gordian knot code.

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Originally Posted by Daralii

With how horribly the game handles storage,

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At one point, the game would reload your inventory, and the inventory info for all of your retainers, any time you changed zones. Even if the destination zone was one where you could not summon a retainer at all (Eg going into somewhere like Central Thanalan). The way that some things have been implemented in this game in the past is absolutely hilarious, so it wouldn't surprise me if the Glamour Dresser was loading far more data than it needs to, each time someone accesses it

Inventory, chocobo saddlebag, etc is saved locally to the client each time a change happens (you edit something, zone change, etc.) Then it syncs with the server on a pulsed timer, likely every 6-10 seconds. Glamour dresser probably does the same when it's present, but again, having that happen every time a user enters or exits a house, would probably break it.

Technical debt sucks.

I've given up watching her videos and the negative bias spin speaks volumes. Shes not objective in her views if she cant balance her opinions.

The next video of FF14 will also be negative, mark my words. She just miserable at this stage.

I stopped watching when she became just abusive, toxic, and borderline incoherent with her "critiques" (often ends up just being rants). She's been through a lot, and is obviously having issues handling it. Even at the best of times she's never been the most stable person, but lately it feels like she's lashing out at everything disproportionality.

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Originally Posted by Pokefan5

Again, explain to me, why would the system be tied to anything but the UI?

How is it different to open the glamour dresser UI from the inn vs. player housing vs. the overworld?

In all 3 cases it should be a simple "Hey server? What's stored in my glamour dresser and what are my plates? I want to edit them!", "Cool, here's the changes I made, please save them for me!"

The dresser object existing should not matter. There should be no difference between wanting to know what's in my dresser while I'm in the inn room and while I'm not.

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A UI is just a user interface, it doesn't store anything. It's just presenting the output of a system. In the case of glamour chests in an inn room, it's the contents and configuration of a single user's glamoured items and plates. In the case of a glamour chest in a house, it's that system but for N users, reloaded every time any player enters and exits the instance.