More GLAMOUR PLATES, please!

[Kanehon]

40 plates is the next logical step and would give some futureproofing if we are sparse and only want 1 plate per job, for every job.

21 Regular Combat Jobs
2 Limited Combat Jobs: BLU + Beastmaster (confirmed)
8 Disciples of Hand
3 Disciples of Land
= 34 Jobs total in Dawntrail.

If they continue at the pace of +2 Jobs per expansion (discounting potential Limited Jobs) this would give them ~6 years of futureproofing of additional jobs being released without running into any glamour plate issues whatsoever.

Doubling the glamour plates seems the most expectable thing they might do and they REALLY need to do this in my opinion - I am already trying to find "cross-over styles" between specific job types (like a dark knight glam that can be used for paladin as a dark paladin for example) to conserve glamour plate space as is.

Agreed. While I don't expect them to keep doing 2 jobs per expansion as I vaguely recall mentions of doing 1 in the future, 40 plates would future proof a whole lot more in that case.

I already have a single glam for all crafters, one for gatherers, and one for all my casters. Even though I wish I would be able to do individual, unique ones for each. Even crafters have class-exclusive glams that are so beautiful and cool, but don't get any use in practice for lack of space.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Ah, this ol' thread again, always nice to see it's still active. Still in full support of adding additional plates, as I commented about a year ago.

40 plates is the next logical step and would give some futureproofing if we are sparse and only want 1 plate per job, for every job.

21 Regular Combat Jobs
2 Limited Combat Jobs: BLU + Beastmaster (confirmed)
8 Disciples of Hand
3 Disciples of Land
= 34 Jobs total in Dawntrail.

If they continue at the pace of +2 Jobs per expansion (discounting potential Limited Jobs) this would give them ~6 years of futureproofing of additional jobs being released without running into any glamour plate issues whatsoever.

Doubling the glamour plates seems the most expectable thing they might do and they REALLY need to do this in my opinion - I am already trying to find "cross-over styles" between specific job types (like a dark knight glam that can be used for paladin as a dark paladin for example) to conserve glamour plate space as is.

They did mention more plates "are" coming... after they apparently solved the CPU utilization for housing items so more items can be displayed & placed. Frankly, I wish they had flipped the order here as glamour plates affect way more players while housing is... limited to players who own houses/apartments. But oh well.

[PaulusHamsteru]

Bump bump bump

[Krokov]

I think what is really funny, if you will, is that Final Fantasy XI gives players two hundred slots for possible style lock (their version of Glamour) and yet this one only has twenty for Glamour plates and that games' over twenty years old.

No i'm not saying we need two hundred of course but I think as someone has said forty should at least be possible.

[Kanehon]

I think what is really funny, if you will, is that Final Fantasy XI gives players two hundred slots for possible style lock (their version of Glamour) and yet this one only has twenty for Glamour plates and that games' over twenty years old.

No i'm not saying we need two hundred of course but I think as someone has said forty should at least be possible.

No no, 200 would be great, actually, just call it future-proofing lol

[Gokki]

Yeah, i stopped doing glamour because i can't make new plates. it's sad

[Rinoa_353]

This is one instance I wish we had WoW's glamour system so that we wouldn't even have to worry about storage space for glams.

[Icycrits]

Adding more plates solves nothing and just delays the inevitable. It's a bandaid on a gushing wound, because everyone here knows that realistically, they'll just add 7 more plates in 8.0 and call it a day for the next 2.5 years. And frankly, even if they added 40 more plates, it still wouldn't be enough for a lot of people.

For a game that puts so much of its reward space into glamour, what we have just isn't going to cut it and will never cut it. The entire system needs to be reworked and they need to allow us to make as many sets as we want, along with automatically saving every piece of gear that is bound to our character. We also need the new mobile game's dye system, where once you unlock a dye its usable forever which will circumvent a lot of the problems with the new set system they have started to implement in 7.1.

"Muh spaghetti code," no. Enough with the excuses. If OSRS, a tiny MMO by comparison by a niche developer in the UK can afford to hire an entire engine development team that works on the spaghetti code that game has from 2001, there is zero reason Square Enix can't do the same.

[PaulusHamsteru]

Adding more plates solves nothing and just delays the inevitable. It's a bandaid on a gushing wound, because everyone here knows that realistically, they'll just add 7 more plates in 8.0 and call it a day for the next 2.5 years. And frankly, even if they added 40 more plates, it still wouldn't be enough for a lot of people.

For a game that puts so much of its reward space into glamour, what we have just isn't going to cut it and will never cut it. The entire system needs to be reworked and they need to allow us to make as many sets as we want, along with automatically saving every piece of gear that is bound to our character. We also need the new mobile game's dye system, where once you unlock a dye its usable forever which will circumvent a lot of the problems with the new set system they have started to implement in 7.1.

"Muh spaghetti code," no. Enough with the excuses. If OSRS, a tiny MMO by comparison by a niche developer in the UK can afford to hire an entire engine development team that works on the spaghetti code that game has from 2001, there is zero reason Square Enix can't do the same.

This^^^.
I'm so tired of hearing the same excuses every single time. If the code is so problematic, maybe it's time to build a new engine from scratch.

[Miohazuki]

This^^^.
I'm so tired of hearing the same excuses every single time. If the code is so problematic, maybe it's time to build a new engine from scratch.

it isnt as much easy as you think it is