Gear/Glamour Guide

[Zetsubou]

Basically, "Gear/Glamour Guide" is a collection of the gears' glamour for items that has no use for players that other than the glamours appearance.

A note about this is that when the player decide they want save the appearance of the item, they would have to "destroy" the item's image to be saved in the guide. As long the piece is "projectable".

The guide can be catagorized into the dungeon, raid, and Tomestone. Such as, First Coil (Allagan Sets), Dungeon (Plauge sets), or Tomestone (Ironworks). Also, this can be extended to Primal weapon collection such Hive weapons, Job/Augmented specific set and Accessories.

This would be beneficial to several aspects:
-This will allow the players to utilize the old content that players by running them to collect the equipment.
-Reduce the load on the servers by reducing the amount of existent items that people keep in armory/retainers just for glamour proposes.
-Utilize the previous Tombstones that has no real usages.


Personally, I would like to collect all the possible projectable items that I can mix around to come with different look, items from crafting/drops/stones and I would collect them. It might be possible to have achievements for the different completed categories like if I completed Coil sets/accessories, or if I completed all jobs sets or crafting sets. and Maybe throw in a little lore about the set when you complete all item/accessories from that set

EDIT: Certain restriction can added to control the items that be saved, such as if the item is upgradable and thus dyable you can save that type instead of the regular one.

[Colorful]

Yoshida already said no to this request, something along the lines of "If we had enough server space, we'd prefer to add more inventory"... But considering WoW, Wildstar, LoTRO(?) and DCUO can do it, I feel like he's being dishonest.

[Nuinn]

Yoshida already said no to this request, something along the lines of "If we had enough server space, we'd prefer to add more inventory"... But considering WoW, Wildstar, LoTRO(?) and DCUO can do it, I feel like he's being dishonest.

Perhaps not entirely dishonest but, maybe, just unable to handle this.... which I'm not really ruling out, seeing how they're unable to handle a normal housing system that's not convoluted (subwards really?). Also something many other MMOs, even the shabby f2p ones seem to have mastered a decade ago.

[Zetsubou]

Yoshida already said no to this request, something along the lines of "If we had enough server space, we'd prefer to add more inventory"... But considering WoW, Wildstar, LoTRO(?) and DCUO can do it, I feel like he's being dishonest.

Adding more inventory space, which is what people are asking, to allow people to collect item (just for glamour) isn't a viable solution to solve this kind of problem, gear collection.

What I'm suggesting to remove the item from your inventory completely in the case where you only want to keep this item for glamour reason, thus reducing the load on the item server, in exchange to a check list to acquire the glamour only from that item where you will never be able to equip the item and use it normally unless you go and acquire the item and use it normally.

[Colorful]

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I'm aware of what you're suggesting, but Yoshida's exact words were that this would take the same server space and strain as more inventory would. A glamour log was asked about in the recent Live Letter I believe.

Perhaps not entirely dishonest but, maybe, just unable to handle this.... which I'm not really ruling out, seeing how they're unable to handle a normal housing system that's not convoluted (subwards really?). Also something many other MMOs, even the shabby f2p ones seem to have mastered a decade ago.

I'd honestly hope his team isn't that incompetent, maybe it's an underlying problem from the competent team of 1.0 that they could never fix?

[Nuinn]

I'd honestly hope his team isn't that incompetent, maybe it's an underlying problem from the competent team of 1.0 that they could never fix?

Could be but, whatever the case, they still keep putting in some antiquated systems which often are of questionable design choice (9 currencies currently in the game, just off the top of my head).

There's one thing we can be sure of, though. Their servers/database can't handle stuff like more housing, FSH bait boxes and in this case a glamour log, which is what I'm perhaps most bothered with considering how big a bahemoth SE is, to be short on server space.

[ArcMoon]

Yoshida already said no to this request, something along the lines of "If we had enough server space, we'd prefer to add more inventory"... But considering WoW, Wildstar, LoTRO(?) and DCUO can do it, I feel like he's being dishonest.

LOTRO managed this pretty early on. Even Trion's little Trove came out the gate with such a system. I really don't understand their reluctance here. It would solve so many of our problems!