A Thought In Regards To The Glamor Unshackling

[Insidhe]

First off, as an amateur Fashion Fantasy player, I'm all for this unshackling. Long overdue if'n you ask me~! But with that unshackling comes an ever-present worry...glamor dresser space to put it all! Fortunately, I've thought on the subject a bit, and I've devised three things that might help remedy this.

(But before I begin: the Outfit Glamor system STILL does not cover the Sophist's set and the #55 set, which seems like a really weird oversight, since both sets are purely glam, and should probably be fixed!)

ONE: THE ARMOIRE
As-is, the Armoire is good, but weirdly limited in matters outside of stashing event and store items. Thus, I posit an expansion of its features, letting it be the place where ALL job-specific and relic stuff is placed. A quick-and-easy one-stop shop for all this stuff, be they replica or original.

TWO: PALADIN WEAPONS
As a PLD main, weapons and shields taking up separate slots annoys the bejeezus out of me. So, I would suggest usingthe Outfit Glamor system to, essentially, collapse all PLD weapons into a single slot(especially since we GET PLD weapons as a single item nowadays). This does mean that some of them(namely stuff from the early ARR days, which either has no matching weapon or no matching shield) may need to be slightly reworked, but I'd be all for that(especially the Ifrit, Titan, Garuda and Moggle Mog stuff).

THREE: OUTFIT GLAMOR EXPANSION
This neatly segues me into the other point: the Outfit Glamor system is fantastic for this sort of thing, but its use is...weirdly limited, but I also understand why the system doesn't cover gear with stats to it. Thus, I posit the following compromise: put an NPC in each Company hangout(which I'd be happy to come up with, should anyone want me to) that takes gearsets and, for a sum of Company Seals, exchanges them for statless, purely glam versions of themselves, and can also exchange thusly-glammed pieces back to statted pieces for the same sum.

[FuturePastNow]

I would wager that the most commonly used shield glam in the game by far is the Emperor's New Shield, and lots of Paladin players like being able to mix-and-match sword and shield, so to #2... no.

[SicariusSeven]

I know the answer is because of the old spaghetti code and console limitations back then. Still it would be nice to just find glamour, unlock it in a little book or something, and then never have to worry about it taking up inventory space. I love FF XIV to death but when you compare their glamour system to other MMOs, FF XIV feels so backwards.

[inhaledcorn]

I would wager that the most commonly used shield glam in the game by far is the Emperor's New Shield, and lots of Paladin players like being able to mix-and-match sword and shield, so to #2... no.

The glamour outfit system lets you store several items as a single slot, however, you can still wear individual pieces. This system would be great for GLD/PLD swords and shields.

[NegativeS]

Do the Glamour Catalogue! Like WoW has!

If you soulbind to a unique-model piece of gear, it gets added to a list of items usable in the dresser!

It's literally that simple! They are keeping the stupid restrictive system on purpose!

[Selsix]

Do the Glamour Catalogue! Like WoW has!

If you soulbind to a unique-model piece of gear, it gets added to a list of items usable in the dresser!

It's literally that simple! They are keeping the stupid restrictive system on purpose!

Saying they are keeping the current system "on purpose" isn't very fair, I feel. Now don't get me wrong I hate the current system too and constantly criticize the dev team, but it isn't like they consciously choose to keep the current system to spite us. Creating a catalog style system like WoW has requires development time and resources, resources they are currently choosing to spend else where. They HAVE acknowledged glamour systems need an update, and it's currently #2 on their priority list after some house furnishing fixes. The main question here is "will what they cook up for glam be as sensible as the catalog?" though.

[Jeeqbit]

They do have a catalogue for the mog station so they can of course do that for viewing purposes only.

Actually allowing you to own every single item is another thing entirely. That takes up HDD space, but they really can't use that argument as a large company and when you can simply make an alt or buy extra retainers.

Based on their recent, more detailed explanation, the issue is too many items being held in server memory. But given the glamour dresser has pages, they should simply load it by page number and that way have unlimited slots.

It would be ideal for all these different types of inventory and item storage to be merged but when you think about them enough on a technical level, they technically function differently and would be complicated to migrate. Nevertheless, it's not impossible to merge some of them if done very carefully.

[RedLolly]

First off, as an amateur Fashion Fantasy player, I'm all for this unshackling. Long overdue if'n you ask me~! But with that unshackling comes an ever-present worry...glamor dresser space to put it all! Fortunately, I've thought on the subject a bit, and I've devised three things that might help remedy this.

(But before I begin: the Outfit Glamor system STILL does not cover the Sophist's set and the #55 set, which seems like a really weird oversight, since both sets are purely glam, and should probably be fixed!)

ONE: THE ARMOIRE
As-is, the Armoire is good, but weirdly limited in matters outside of stashing event and store items. Thus, I posit an expansion of its features, letting it be the place where ALL job-specific and relic stuff is placed. A quick-and-easy one-stop shop for all this stuff, be they replica or original.

This should've been a thing ages ago. I still think it's bizarre only the ARR artifact sets are Armoire compatible (and not even their upgraded version that the game just hands to us now!)

[NegativeS]

Based on their recent, more detailed explanation, the issue is too many items being held in server memory. But given the glamour dresser has pages, they should simply load it by page number and that way have unlimited slots.

No reason to store every single item.

Store a singular list of every single item somewhere (like I'm sure they already have buried in the spaghetti somewhere), then server-side, assign to every character/service account an array of trues/falses that corresponds to those items. When a character soulbinds to an item, set that character's entry for that item in the array to 'true'. (Depending on how spicy they want to be this could be as small as bytes of additional storage load per service account)

When you open the Glamour Catalogue, fetch the existing list-of-every-item (which could be stored client side if you really don't want that extra bandwidth), then for every 'true' the character's array has, display that item as available to glamour.

No storage required.

[CCheshire]

I like to think they're going to expand the outfit glamourer system, but most of my dungeon gear is from non-leveling so they are incomplete sets and I really don't want to imagine how long it would be if I needed to farm each piece to fold them into 1 slot too.