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I had an idea that could possibly help loading time a bit.
/hideaccessories
This command would tell your game client to not display accessories on any PC.
Could possibly set modes where it would display party members only or off while in towns.
I do like the fact that accessories are shown in general, it's just loading so many PCs bogs my machine down quite abit, espicaly in Ul'dah, and reducing the load times by anything would help me out.
Um...not sure where you got the idea that something such as accessories would slow things down.
I'm pretty sure it's not that at all. It has more to do with a really poorly designed resource server. That's why NPCs and shops load so slowly. They've been bandaging it since Yoshida took helm just to try to get us through. That is why they redoing the servers. It's all about database design and management. It's the root of programming evils...the only part that if you skimp on or don't invest proper time shows very clearly in the front end.
Hence the need to move away and into 2.0.
I know they aren't quiet the root of the problem but it seems something easily removed that wouldn't change the look of most players by much, and possibly have a small-decient return in processing power.
2 Earrings, a Necklace, and 2 Wristbands/rings per player times the 40 on screen... 200 more rendered objects that could be hidden without changing the look most players.