Glamour Catalog seperate from Character Data

[Gokuhan]

I had this idea and figured I would put it out here, apologies if this has been suggested before.

Since our character data is already bloated and limiting what the devs can do, why not utilize a system similar to that of retainers? Retainer data is separate from our character data and accessed when we use the summoning bell (or search for an item) and isn't updated every 15 seconds like our character data (at least I assume it isn't). Considering this, it seems like using a retainer or aesthetician like function to access and use a glamour catalog would be a decent fix for this issue, though I know that some won't be happy with the way this would limit where this feature could be used. Thoughts?

[Kaisha]

If it ever were implemented it'd likely just use whatever the Armoire already does. Just a series of bit flags that's not written to as frequently as anything else. Just have the client read from it on request so it's not having to maintain/cache that data on the client somewhere.

A single kilobyte of data can hold 8,192 pieces of on/off switches for gear acquisition. Pretty sure that's enough to cover everything in the game as it stands.

If they want, they could just make glamor prisms be used to registering a piece of gear in a catalog so those don't become obsolete, rather than having it be an automated process like other MMOs.