It's time to remove job restrictions on glamour...

[Raikai]

The only think I think should be restricted by now are Job-related sets, since they are the signature armor for them.

The rest? Go nuts... The silhouette have been diluted for quite a while now, like the above post is illustrating. A healer have a ton of ways to wear armor that resemble a fending set. I believe most of the armor sets level 30 and below are labeled "all classes", just to give another example.

[Endariel]

You absolutely do not know how coding works.

Where do you store your so called "image" items?

Let's say an id is an integer. Because there's no reason use a bigger type.
According to lodestone there are 25507 items in total (useless stuff including)

4 * 25207 = 100828 bytes which is 101 kb

Yoshi recently said they achieved 16 millions subscriptions be it active or not. I will be a generous god and raise it to 20 millions

100828 (bytes) * 20 000 000 = 2 016 560 megabytes which is rougly 2 terrabytes.
Obviously item id won't be the only thing you store plus you need some access info and yadayada so 10-15 terras.

Servers aren't in-house, they are hosted. Thus we will take the pricing of AWS DynamoDB



11 000$
Tha's basically 600 poeople buying fatter cat

If the price is too big of a burden, you can store the data client side, which will a few kilobytes at best

[Haruka_R]

[Eldevern]

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Well, to be fair, the problem is less the storage than the RAM and the processor speed. The coding and the data organization are really important.

If you know coding, you know this as well as me, the matter often end to be a match flexibility vs speed rather than a data storage problem. There are many things we need to think about before coding if we want to avoid (or limit) this kind of arbitrage .

[AlphaFox]

Said it before, will say again. I feel everything should be free except for the class specific armor. As in no Blackmage running around with the Summoner artifact. The only slight reason I can even imagine they prefer to keep it this way is because in a few updates or expansions we end up seeing the same gear again for different roles and colored slightly different. The "Job Identity" that I have heard is really a running joke at this point when you can have a Swimsuit glamour plate and apply it across the board to Tanks/DPS/Healers/Gatherers/Crafters. As for PvP, well that's why the name plate shows the class and not the name.

[Endariel]

Well, to be fair, the problem is less the storage than the RAM and the processor speed. The coding and the data organization are really important.

If you know coding, you know this as well as me, the matter often end to be a match flexibility vs speed rather than a data storage problem. There are many things we need to think about before coding if we want to avoid (or limit) this kind of arbitrage .

True, but I started from idea that they already have the machines, and just need expand the storage.
Indeed, upgrading servers will be more costly

[BAM4000]

Wasn't one of their first reasons for not doing universal glamours related to PvP reasons? which is silly because the names of the jobs are extremely bright and obvious floating above their heads anyway.

[Iscah]

The only slight reason I can even imagine they prefer to keep it this way is because in a few updates or expansions we end up seeing the same gear again for different roles and colored slightly different.

I don't think that's the reason. I know they do it, but they'll just as often recycle gearsets without switching the roles around.

I think they're doing more of it lately because they do realise people want access to these more generic-looking sets across multiple roles - but are still more likely to stick to the traditional classes where the associations are more clear, eg. the Lv79 dungeon gear reusing the WoD sets as-is, with its clear mage robes and armoured tanks/dragoons.

[Allcars]

Ideally, I want class restriction glamour removed, but if we can't do that can we at least do glamours for specific classes?
Example:
Crafters have a single set of gear generally that is used for all their craft classes because we have spent millions of gil making our crafted sets the best possible set there with materia. The problem is it looks the same for all the craft classes, sure we could re-glamour it each time we change to a specific class. Or The "SUGGESTION" would be to assign a specific glamour to a class so when we say become culinarian my culinary class glamour is applied to our crafting set. Say if I then change class to Blacksmith, my Blacksmith Glam is applied to my crafting set. So no matter what crafting class I am on I always look how I want.

[Iscah]

Or The "SUGGESTION" would be to assign a specific glamour to a class so when we say become culinarian my culinary class glamour is applied to our crafting set. Say if I then change class to Blacksmith, my Blacksmith Glam is applied to my crafting set. So no matter what crafting class I am on I always look how I want.

You can do that already by linking glamour plates to your gearsets, as long as you're okay with taking up as many plates as you want unique appearances.