Idea: Glamour Catalog

[Skivvy]

Yoshi touched on this a while back and agrees that it would be a nice feature, but with how often game saves char data, it would add a fair bit of data to each character as to what they've unlocked and haven't. He did say however that if need be, they may save the data on client side, but then that also runs into issues for ps3/4 players since their save data can only be so large.

Honest question here - how different can the character data usage be if people are storing 100 physical items in their retainers vs. storing 100 images of glamoured gear?

[Noxifer]

Honest question here - how different can the character data usage be if people are storing 100 physical items in their retainers vs. storing 100 images of glamoured gear?

Well, considering it wouldn't be either/or, it would be more ^^; Just because they shoved all their retainer-hogging glamour gear into the glamour log it doesn't mean they won't use the freed-up inventory space. It'd just mean they'd store something else in those slots instead -- gear they intend to use while levelling classes/jobs, crafting ingredients, non-key key items (like atma stones, zodiac glass, air current compass, gear upgrade items, beast tribe items for unfinished beast tribes, etc), non-currency currencies (tokens, oaknots), etc.

Of course, a lot of people who currently employ all 8 possible retainers merely to store glamour items would be able to stop renting a few of those... which is also probably something SE would be against *rolls eyes* Something that's highly reasonable, as they are a business trying to earn money/revenue, but still very annoying.

All that said, I'm very much for the introduction of some sort of glamour log -- or the possibility to store more kinds of items in the armoire. The latter would provide the same possible storage ease-up, since the armoire as far as I know only saves the item ID to the list of what stuff is there, instead of the whole array of item ID, dye, condition, spiritbond and materia that has to be saved for inventory slot items.

[Skivvy]

Well, considering it wouldn't be either/or, it would be more ^^; Just because they shoved all their retainer-hogging glamour gear into the glamour log it doesn't mean they won't use the freed-up inventory space. It'd just mean they'd store something else in those slots instead -- gear they intend to use while levelling classes/jobs, crafting ingredients, non-key key items (like atma stones, zodiac glass, air current compass, gear upgrade items, beast tribe items for unfinished beast tribes, etc), non-currency currencies (tokens, oaknots), etc.

Of course, a lot of people who currently employ all 8 possible retainers merely to store glamour items would be able to stop renting a few of those... which is also probably something SE would be against *rolls eyes* Something that's highly reasonable, as they are a business trying to earn money/revenue, but still very annoying.

All that said, I'm very much for the introduction of some sort of glamour log -- or the possibility to store more kinds of items in the armoire. The latter would provide the same possible storage ease-up, since the armoire as far as I know only saves the item ID to the list of what stuff is there, instead of the whole array of item ID, dye, condition, spiritbond and materia that has to be saved for inventory slot items.

Aaahh, that all makes perfect sense. Thank you for spelling that one out My simple mind was thinking of only the gear itself, swapping the physical for a glamour image, didn't take into account all of the other bits.

[Dotsusama]

Of course, a lot of people who currently employ all 8 possible retainers

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8??? retainers? Since when?

Also, to the point of storing glamour data versus storing item data. I don't code, but I would think it would drastically decrease the overall amount of data stored per character. With real items, they have to store soulbound status, damage, materia, dye, etc. Make it a simple glamour log entry and it would just be YES or NO to whether a character has access to a piece of gear to glamour.

Heck, I would be okay with cutting back on retainer / inventory tabs if it meant I had a glamour catalog on the summoning bell (or even the aesthetician bell!) just because I quite literally have a retainer filled to the max with two things: glamour and materia. I wouldn't stop paying for that extra retainer, because I like the ventures. I would just cram it full of crafting materials, or even BAIT for that fishing job I barely touch...

[xXRaineXx]

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8??? retainers? Since when?

You can get up to 6 additional retainers at the mog station now. 2+6=8