Quote Originally Posted by GrizzlyTank View Post
For one inventory slot you need to store multiple integers for item id, tmog id, durability, materia, dye, quanity. Some of this might use short when on an item like materia and byte for dye you would still stand with 32+32+16*5+8+8 bits so 160 bits is needed for one inventory slot to hold a piece of equipement. While with a glamour log that same piece of equipment only need 1 bit to know that you have it. And even then you could tie an entire armor set if not an entire equipment tier to that one bit.
FFXI has a storage system that actually just uses that item data. You get a 'storage slip' item and trade it along with gear, and it takes the gear and the data is written to the slip itself (so if you drop it you lose everything).