Quote Originally Posted by Talraen View Post
Ah so the reality of how data works is an "excuse," I see. Uh, no. What you are actually proposing is literally impossible, because you don't appear to understand what you're proposing.

The specifics of the claims I was responding to notwithstanding, yes, there are ways they could make things more efficient. (Well, more than likely - I don't actually know enough about the system to be certain of that, but in as much as no system is perfectly optimized it's a very safe assumption.) They could, as you suggest, use your local storage to figure out where on the server the item you're accessing is most likely to be. That's not a bad idea for the reasons I laid out in my post; it's a bad idea for entirely different reasons which I addressed earlier in the thread. To sum up: it adds a lot of complexity for a small potential gain and a large potential loss. Loading everything up front is just a better idea for many reasons that myself and others have laid out in this thread. As Tridus and others have pointed out, the inefficiency here is the constant syncing, which you're not addressing at all.
What i understand from what you are saying is that cutting down on the inventory load upon that constant syncing you are speaking of (by reducing the amount of items that are part of it) wouldnt change anything , then remove medicines & food use 'inside" & make everyone naked, problem solved, while im going extremly far with my sarcasm & comment, no what im suggesting isnt impossible, that was shit design & it will stay shit design unless it get changed but you know...
Quote Originally Posted by Seig345 View Post
Personally, given the way the narrative seems to be leaning towards an eventual "confrontation" with the Garleans on their own turf (as well as probably some ultimate confrontation with the Ascians to foil their plot to bring their papa big dark bad back), I'd rather see them eventually wrap the story up and make a fresh start taking lessons learned from XIV than see them unintentionally break and twist the game we have now and potentially just make it worse in the process. With a fresh start there's at least a feeling of "breaking away" and the past can be left as it was instead of risking burning it down before sending it off.
keeping up with that type of mentality wont help it any