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I posted in ATS a few weeks back, but didn't have time to respond to this before the thread closed and have only now been able to catch an active ATS again.



So here's my response finally: Nope! Not all on its own at least that isn't the case. It's already plenty easy enough, in theory, to try on items we don't own. We can try them on in the market place or the shop previews or in invo search in the dress up page or in the avatar builder. The real problem is in FINDING items. So many items exist it is easy to forget about them, or remember them, but forget their name. There's a HUGE thread in avatar talk forum devoted to just the problem of trying to help people find items they remember, but forgot the name for. Tagging is still a work in progress for improving just having all the good, relevant tags added for when you remember an item exists, but that doesn't cover so well still forgetting about things even existing in the first place which means you don't have much of an idea to even go looking for them. We also have so many items that it's practically impossible to simply buy everything you currently or ever may want to use just so you could sort it for easier finding theoretically in these boxes. That's why I'd want to be able to box things in the avatar builder even if I don't own them AND why I'd want to box things in multiple boxes. I'm picturing using the boxes sort of like a personal collection of tags where the sorting/tagging system helps me find things in whatever way I personally find most useful, like in my above example where I may want a box full of shoes I like and a box full of certain blue items I like and one pair of shoes may also be blue, so I'd want to find it whether I was looking for shoes or blue items (or if I could look for an overlap of stuff, look up specifically things that appear in the shoe box and the blue box, that would be great too) and maybe it's an expensive item that I haven't been able to buy yet due to saving up for it or not being able to justify the expense until I find the perfect outfit for it or it's rare and I couldn't find a seller yet, so though I may want to find it later and don't want to just forget it exists, I don't own it yet. Also, as for the wish list, that currently has a 1000 item limit which is a lot of things to look through, but still not nearly enough compared to how many items are on Gaia to fit everything you could want on them that you haven't bought yet (seriously, I've burnt through multiple wish lists, totally full) and the wish lists don't display all the poses of an item either, just the default pose thumb nail, so it's easy to look at the list and forget about poses in the item that you liked or why you wanted something, what particular purpose you may have had in mind, like an item that's good for some cosplay or that has some useful layering or something.