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    Quote Originally Posted by Nutz View Post
    I'd love to tell you that you're right about that because it seems so sensible, however, he explained exactly why that is not the case. It may seem to be poor implementation, and perhaps it is, but the implementation that they are using according to the dev post is an entire packet of hotbar images all loaded at once such that every conceivable icon that could be on a hotbar (and as such any recast animations) are all held in memory at once. He mentioned that there are some exceptions, presumably for icons that change (MNK's chakra perhaps) or for whatever reason don't need to be in memory and for which some display lag would be acceptable. Something that would be called every couple of seconds at least in battle doesn't qualify.
    But that's the thing, you don't have to do the replacement every time something is cast. You do the replacement in memory JUST the moment the setting is changed and then keep THAT in memory.

    Edit: Or worst case scenario, have it be one of those changes that applies on next restart. At least it would give us a usable alternative.
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    Last edited by Sicno; 02-26-2016 at 06:36 AM.
    Naoki Yoshida:
    ...Similarly, these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.
    Source: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/113554 at 1:14:22