Glamour plates!

Hi Square enix, Yoshi-P

I would like to suggest that you enable glamour plates to be applied in open world as currently you can only apply or change glamour plates in major cities or cities that is a safe area. This can be difficult when you have multiple different glamours for the same sets. Currently glamour that is linked to glamour sets cannot be applied in the open world therefore making linked glamour practically useless. So please enable glamour change in open world in patch 6.0. I also suggest to disable glamour plating only during combat to avoid issues.

Thank you for taking the time to read my suggestion.

Regards
FF14 avid player

That would be lovely, but unfortunately it's not something we can expect without a full system overhaul.
There are technical problems preventing them from implementing something like this and iirc the reason is twofold

1.) The way glamour plates work is super unwieldy and they dont wanna give the game migraines juggling changes from plates in a busy area where people aren't doing simple things like shopping in Limsa or listening to someone /perform.

2.) Devs found out that if you're attacked while asking the game to read data from a glamour plate that leads to really weird issues were the game reads or writes the wrong data.
Other problems crop up if someone uses a macro that would change their glam during an attack and can change even sometimes rewrite what function your commands perform.

So they circumvented the problem by stopping players from interacting with glamour plates in combat possible areas, and this is also why they only let you edit plates in small instanced personal rooms like at the inn or in your grand company's squadron room.

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Originally Posted by ItMe

That would be lovely, but unfortunately it's not something we can expect without a full system overhaul.
There are technical problems preventing them from implementing something like this and iirc the reason is twofold

1.) The way glamour plates work is super unwieldy and they dont wanna give the game migraines juggling changes from plates in a busy area where people aren't doing simple things like shopping in Limsa or listening to someone /perform.

2.) Devs found out that if you're attacked while asking the game to read data from a glamour plate that leads to really weird issues were the game reads or writes the wrong data.
Other problems crop up if someone uses a macro that would change their glam during an attack and can change even sometimes rewrite what function your commands perform.

So they circumvented the problem by stopping players from interacting with glamour plates in combat possible areas, and this is also why they only let you edit plates in small instanced personal rooms like at the inn or in your grand company's squadron room.

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Y'know... that's all insane, and I completely believe it. This game's code is probably a Lovecraftian nightmare. But it's still a bad excuse, and that's still a bad fix for the problem.

Can't expect something like this without a full system overhaul? That's fine, the glamour system should be overhauled. It's pretty garbage right now, and I think they probably even know that.