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Fen does remember what I said correctly, although there is one thing an unlimited layering system like ours has trouble with: While our kind of system can put a layer anywhere you want, it gets really clumsy to let an item have more than two layers. A system that doesn't allow customized layering can give items as many layers as necessary and has direct control over how things stack together, so you can make sure the result looks good even if it's more work on the developers to do it. It's a tradeoff.

Edit: For example, we have to take really special care with things like weapons -- they might not layer right with certain kinds of gauntlets or cloaks no matter how the user organizes things. A system that doesn't allow the user to customize it can chop the parts up to make sure it always works right.