Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
Appearance data is held on the item itself too.
Appearance data can also be held in glamour plates.

Stands to reason that a similar system can work for materia too then. Materia loadouts, created at the Materia melder NPC and applied in a similar manner to glamour plates.
Hmm... good point.
You may have just convinced me on this. Materia loadouts could be acheivable. Although melding materia is a gil sink and comes with a failure rate above a certain threshold. Would "Materia Plates" work if you had to pay gil to apply them and they could fail to apply?
I suppose you could just increase the costs of creating the plate in the first place. You'd probably have to make materia rarer too.

Still, I wouldnt really want them to merge all equipment types. Would be too much homogenisation.