Quote Originally Posted by Elamys View Post
They should have just expanded the armoire or given us a glamour log instead of this clunky dresser system.
A glamour catalog does not improve the data retrieval situation.

As of this post, there are 2,713 weapons; 628 tools; 6,913 visible armors (7735 armors minus 822 belts); and 2,428 accessories. Uncompressed, maintaining a record of all glamours would require 1.28 kB per character.

XIVCensus shows that at some point in June, there were 11.7 million characters. At 1.28 kB per character, just glamour catalog data would be about 15.0 GB.

Of course, storage space is probably not a real modern day issue. However, XIVCensus estimates about 0.6 million "active characters", based on Stormblood story progress (so not including potentially quite active characters who just haven't made it that far in the story yet, and maybe including characters who reached the specific milestone event in the story and then quit). If each of these half million or so characters accesses a 1.28 kB glamour log just once a week, it will require 730 MB of data retrieval and transfer, or roughly 2.9 GB of data retrieval and transfer per month. If they averaged one access per day, it would require 21.9 GB of data retrieval and transfer per month.

Now think about all the people who would want to access their glamour catalog multiple times in one hour.

If the devs don't think it's prudent to allow freedom of access to the little incomplete glamour dresser we have now, I wouldn't hold my breath for anything like a catalog.