Make gender locked items in Mog Station tradeable for their equivalent item

[Iscah]

Also stuff at the calamity salvager is tied to achievements, and since there is no achievement for buying gear from the mogstation the game does not "know" that you have it, and warns you against discarding it. they would need to create a system to track such things and currently this does not exist.

Yes and no. The idea of an achievement system to track Mog Station items would be excellent, and would allow them to be added to the salvager, but the gender trade-in is a separate system to the "repurchase discarded gear" one you're talking about.

For the items that permit it, you need the item in your inventory as "trade currency" for the equivalent. You hand it to the salvager and he gives you the equivalent item for the other gender. No achievements required, you just go from owning the female version of the item to the male version, or vice versa.

The problem is that this is only available for a certain number of older event items, and has not been updated in years. It's not even (just) about not letting you exchange the expensive items, because you can't trade newer 'cheap' ones either. Evidently it's a shift in policy, and I have no idea when it happened but I'd guess it coincided with the introduction of Mog Station.

There's honestly zero reason for any gear to be gender-locked at all. Want it to look different on the other gender? We have that tech already. Use a gender-neutral name on the item and bam, done, the Calamity Salvager can take a break.

As I said in the other thread, it does mean you don't have icons looking nothing like the female version of the gear. (eg. you'd have to remember the giant princess ballgown looks like the prince's tunic on the icon.) It's more user-friendly to have the icons actually resemble the item you're trying to spot in your inventory. Though obviously having the option to swap them if needed is also valuable - just not encountered "day-to-day" so much.

I also suspect it's for the purpose of padding out the list of items crafters have to make.