What Would You Sacrifice for a Glamour Catalogue?

[Vexander]

Title asks the question. One of the big reasons we haven't received a Glamour Catalogue/Log is due to the high amounts of data that need to be stored for each individual playable character. The topic came up with some friends over Discord and I thought I'd bring it here to see what people think.

So, what would you Sacrifice to get a Glamour Catalogue?

a) The Hunting Log
b) The Sightseeing Log
c) The Fishing Guide
d) All of the Above
e) Something Else
f) None (Don't want a Glamour Catalogue)

[Stitches1974]

F. I see no reason for it. My personal opinion.

EDIT: I would rather see a new expanded hunt log though.

[Vexander]

Fair enough. Personally I wouldn't mind losing the Fishing Guide, it seems a bit superfluous. If they did something with the Hunting Log I'd want to keep it, but they haven't touched it since ARR. Having completed the Sightseeing Log (pain in the butt) I'm a bit torn on that one. On one hand, its something to do and if you really like looking at the world its great. On the other hand, it feels like, 90% of the people I know haven't done it and never intend to do it because of how tedious it can be (2.0 areas are a real pain in the butt).

[Aldora]

I would like them to implement it without having to sacrifice current systems for it. As the game evolves, so will the data that comes with it. In order to solve data related problems, they will have to come up with ways to store and retrieve information more efficiently. The new NA Datacenter and the changes made to the inventory system (to increase the inventory size for all players) is only but a step in that direction.

It will take some time, but theres still a chance they will implement such a system.

[MisterLucie]

Nothing should have to be sacrificed in order to have quality of life features. If they actually reinvested more of the profit they make off of this game back into it maybe we wouldn't keep continually running into the issue of "___ feature is too difficult to implement."

[Shougun]

I wonder if its just their experience with big data manipulation, because we've seen other MMOs (specifically western ones, with company backgrounds in multiplayer usually) that are able to handle massive amounts of data much easier. WS store 2,000 items at your house (that everyone gets), place 1,000 on the outside and 1,000 on the inside.. Many of these big western companies having a Glamour Catalogue, 4 slot dye system GW2, even the inventory numbers are not that crazy in comparison (although in WoW/GW2 you do have to earn that extra space - but for the most part is available in game and is a larger total number as well). So maybe it's just an issue of experience on how to make it happen? I'm already awful in comparison to them in programming lol, but I know that experience can mean a lot (and so when you get people used to high population highly frentic games perhaps that translates into teams used to playing with big numbers quickly?).

Although we'll see how big they make our inventory in SB, it might become impressive.

[Niqote]

Balmung.

I'm kidding!



...Or am I? *Dramatic Sting*

[Cylestea]

e) i will sacrifice many lalafels

[DarkDedede]

you forgot Verminion

no surprise there...

[CaptainLagbeard]

Hunting Log could probably go, unless they decide with Stormblood they want to update it.

Not sure how much data that takes up though...