Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Just wondering though - what would be the actual difference between town and field areas that affects whether we can apply plates there? Is the system handling less information in town where we aren’t potentially engaging in fights? Not having to load information about HP/status???
It's partially that, and partially that by making things more inconvenient they reduce usage, thus reducing potential load, the only load they have to account for is people inside of cities.

This is sort of why the glamour dresser isn't easily accessible as well, by putting the glamour dresser in one of the most inconvenient places in the game (inn room) they drastically reduce the number of times people will be accessing it, and since inn rooms are low-resource rooms where you are unable to access some combat stuff it further reduces the load the servers have to deal with. If we had a glamour log as accessible as a crafting log, by just pressing a button anywhere anytime, the servers would probably implode.

When they feel like the initial rush for testing the system dies down they will add the housing furniture to make the dresser more accessible, but I'm not sure what they plan to do with plates, I find the system useless if you have to be confined to a lobby (town) to use it, and much more useless if it doesn't even cover half the amount of classes available.