Quote Originally Posted by Claviusnex View Post
From what I can see all SE has done is create another CF like housing. This is another case of SE being good at developing stories but not knowing the first thing about software development (i.e. server limitations excuse for everything). SE needs to hire someone that has good knowledge of database design and implementation. While they're at it adding a few folks who know how to and aren't afraid of writing code would be good as well. If nothing else they could have taken the armoire and rewritten the way it works to support glamour and outfits. A bit restricting since the locations to use it are limited but not really any different than what they have proposed for 4.2.
I get the distinct impression there are old limits floating around due to bad decisions made in the 1.0 era that would be very expensive to fix today, and we're suffering through the consequences. Because "transfering data around" doesn't apply to this. There's no reason any glamour data except what you're currently wearing has to be available all the time. The server only needs it when you're actively trying to use the glamour log , and to tell you if you've already got a specific item's glamour or not. I don't need to be able to browse through all my hats halfway through Rabanastre.

We're not privy to how the backend is designed and how data is accessed. If we were, I suspect we'd cringe.