Glamour Set Appreciation Thread

[Fawkes]

Do you really have to take the whole set out of the dresser just to then put it back in as a set? That can't be real. There's gotta be like a button that just does it that I'm not seeing, right? Like I can right click and search and the game knows the other pieces are there in the dresser. Why would it not just do it?

[jadeharley]

Do you really have to take the whole set out of the dresser just to then put it back in as a set? That can't be real. There's gotta be like a button that just does it that I'm not seeing, right? Like I can right click and search and the game knows the other pieces are there in the dresser. Why would it not just do it?

Here's my guess: the glamour dresser stores an item id and 1/2 dye ids per slot. Assuming some sort of fixed-byte storage, I suspect the new system is built by treating an item set as a pseudo-item with an item ID and some flag value for stain in the DB. So inserting sets is roughly the same as inserting a single item, except with a different transaction.

As for why the system doesn't auto-collapse sets, it would probably be a fairly expensive operation in terms of item transactions to fully collapse everything. So they just accept the soft-rate limiting of letting us sort stuff. Plus for new items / new players it's not so much of a problem.