New glamour system please!

[Ultimatecalibur]

I never got the limitations problem... They claimed they'd rather just give us more inventory space than something like a Glamour Log, but... Wouldn't a Glamour Log store less data? I mean, all the gear currently stored on my retainer has various data attached to it; Stats, Spiritbond level, Durability, possibly stuff like Materia and Dyes, heck even Glamours, and of course the visual data for the gear... A Glamour Log, on the other hand, would just entail us taking some gear, burning it into the Log, and having ready access to that Glamour option. All that needs to be stored is the visual data in that case... Surely that is easier to work than extra inventory space?

That is incredibly naive understanding of how databases work.

First off, an empty variable contains as much data as a full variable. This means that a brand new empty character contains as much data as a maxed out character with a full inventory. An empty inventory is just full of blank/neutral data. The same is true for retainer inventories.

The creation of a "Glamour Log" would add a massive amount of new data to every character. Every character's data would need to include a yes/no variable for every single piece of gear included in the Glamour Log, even if the character never even uses it. That is somewhere around 6500 new variables and their database addresses for each character currently as of 3.1 and that number will only grow as more and more patches come out. That is increasing each character's data by a massive amount.