Glamour restrictions: a hinderance to creativity

[Deveryn]

Pot, meet kettle.

Not at all. I never make claims to be an expert like ya'll do. I'm not looking through the lens of the end product, but how it comes together. Or are you trying to honestly tell me every clothing item the art team makes has stats set by the very artist that made it? If you would actually try to counter my point, please say more than this terse trite nonsense.

[Arzalis]

Not at all. I never make claims to be an expert like ya'll do. I'm not looking through the lens of the end product, but how it comes together. Or are you trying to honestly tell me every clothing item the art team makes has stats set by the very artist that made it? If you would actually try to counter my point, please say more than this terse trite nonsense.

All items in the game have an ID assigned to them, even the ones NPCs wear. They just reuse existing items in most cases. There's no "assigning stats" or whatever.

We can actually look up the items the NPCs are wearing by their id and data, and they often straight up wear conflicting items according to the item ids. They just ignore the restrictions by forcing them to wear it. NPCs aren't subject to the same rules players have. They don't even change gear, for starters.

[Darthgummibear]

Not at all. I never make claims to be an expert like ya'll do. I'm not looking through the lens of the end product, but how it comes together. Or are you trying to honestly tell me every clothing item the art team makes has stats set by the very artist that made it? If you would actually try to counter my point, please say more than this terse trite nonsense.

Yeah, your pretentious dismissal of everyone who happens to disagree with you is being purely objective.
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but I also feel if you just let someone glam any item of any job to anything, it would take away a big reason for people to lvl alt jobs.

On the contrary. If I could glam cross-job, I'd be inclined to level every job in the game.

[Treesus]

Yeah, your pretentious dismissal of everyone who happens to disagree with you is being purely objective.
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On the contrary. If I could glam cross-job, I'd be inclined to level every job in the game.

Thats exactly what I was saying, using cross job glaming as a reward for people who take the time to lvl alt jobs. I dont think just allowing everyone to cross job glam right off the bat is the best option, but putting it behind just having at least one of that type of job lvled to throw around glams from its set on anything else would be a great incentive to just get people to try other job groups. Plus it actually gives a better tangible reward for people who put in the effort then whatever that all lvl 90 jobs reward is.

[Flaws]

Thats exactly what I was saying, using cross job glaming as a reward for people who take the time to lvl alt jobs. I dont think just allowing everyone to cross job glam right off the bat is the best option, but putting it behind just having at least one of that type of job lvled to throw around glams from its set on anything else would be a great incentive to just get people to try other job groups. Plus it actually gives a better tangible reward for people who put in the effort then whatever that all lvl 90 jobs reward is.

That's what basically everyone has been asking for. Let us cross-glam every piece (except for AF gear) only after you've leveled the job for it to the level of the item. If you can put it on as the actual job then let us also glam it onto other jobs.

[Renato]

I've been playing this game and visiting this forum for around 7 years now and this has been a topic that has constantly been brought up. Back then when Yoshi was responding to it, the excuse originally was the fact that the game's dreaded "spaghetti code" was the cause of the exclusion of cross-class glams. Later more ridiculous reasons like, "I don't want players confusing the tank with a healer" or "I don't want tanks in bikinis" began to surface in some of the articles and interviews.

Later players began to specifically request this asking for non-AF gear to be cross-glamed. Instead the team opted to start creating skins like the lv60 Sky Pirate gear for all jobs stating that it was less work for the team or something like that.

At this point, I've given up honestly. I don't know what the true reason is for Yoshi being so insistent on not wanting to implement a feature like that but as I stated above, 7 years and this still hasn't happened and I don't see it being a thing...ever.

And don't get me wrong, as a glamor nut, I would absolutely LOVE a feature like this.