_Sixy_

Yeah, yeah...you guys got me on the roll/role. You're right. Must be awesome to never, ever mistype. Anyways...

1.Throwing out keywords like 'soft cap' and 'aggro cap' does not necessarily mean a given person is a good player. I'm not even saying this guy wasn't a good player. All I'm saying is lots of people throw around phrases like soft capped. As for bossing people around, maybe you didn't approve of my wording, so let's try this instead: When I'm on a team I try to not ignore the instructions of the leader and attempt to undermine his efforts by giving different instructions to the team. How's that?

2. How many times did we die on the previous run? We didn't. That's the thing. We replaced a scrapper with a tank and went at it again. If we had considered either the difficulty, the team makeup or team ability to be an issue, we'd have lowered difficulty and went at it with another tactic.

3. I'm aware of SR/'s lack of a taunt aura and I understand that in order to maintain mob aggro you need to continually swap targets (punchvoking). I saw the tank was SR/ (when he stated the softcapping business) and I was watching to see how that affected low level tanking. This is when I noticed that he was attacking 1, maybe 2 targets per mob. Holding aggro /=/ attacking 1 boss until it is dead. While focusing on a boss is great for most team efforts, a ST tank with no taunt aura needs to dish it out to everyone.

4. I never claimed to be IC. I don't roleplay. It's not my thing. I'm ok with roleplayers so long as the "playing" part comes before the "role" part.

5. So you are getting on my case because some of the teammates were playing both sides? With the responses I got in team chat, I'm genuinely surprised that they sent him tells saying anything. When you hear things like "Thank god he's gone" and "What was going through that guy's head?", I think its pretty normal to assume they aren't sending tells to that same person saying that they sympathize with him and the rest of the team is full of jerks.

6. Finally, IC is fine. Everyone has fun their own way. For some it's roleplaying, for others its powergaming and for me its just playing with friends. In 5 years of playing CoH, I've only had issues with a small handful of roleplayers and that was because their role had a negative impact on the team. There are roleplaying sg's, teams geared towards roleplaying and entire channels dedicated to finding like-minded peoples with similar interests. When it comes to non-RP/PuG groups...dialing it back a touch would be appreciated. Thankfully, most roleplayers already do this and I get a long fine with them.

Honestly, like someone mentioned earlier, slight misunderstandings in tone could have started it all. I don't think this tank is a bad guy. I think it's a personality clash and thats all there is to it. *shrug*

You started of the mission by joining the team and making demands. Anyone want to talk about rude? Let's talk about the way that you behaved. Generally speaking I don't boss other people around when I'm not the leader.

It was the leader's desire to fight through (as we had done in the SSA run previous to you joining us. Primarily the same team makeup. YOU were the glaring change in the lineup). We fought on the same difficulty and intended to employ the same tactic. It worked well without a tank, it should work even better with a tank, right? Wrong.

You claim to have been swapping targets and trying to maintain aggro, which would've been awesome if you had actually been doing any of this. You were hitting 1, maybe 2 targets at a time. Aggro cap doesn't mean you're simply standing in the middle of a large group of enemies. It means you are actually maintaining the aggro.

As for saying "sure! let's do it!" after the team leader said we were going to fight through, hahahahahah. ha. ha. He said we were going to fight through, at which point you said 'seriously, go find the piles'. If I remember correctly (and I can consult the chatlogs if you wish) you stated 3 seperate times to run off and find the piles. It was clearly stated that this was a steamroll run. You must've been pretty serious because you even went out of character for that one. That was when I grew irritated.

When I recruit for an STF or any TF in general I start with an open call. The first few people to respond have a spot. The remaining 3 spots or so exist to fill out the holes in the existing team. I'm never saying I always need an emp over a stormy or a fire blaster over a peacebringer. I will however exclude a character if it makes the team unbalanced. If I already have a thermal on the team and a handful of damage dealers, I'm excluding everything in search of debuffs. I'm not taking "uber" over average. I'm taking what will make the team more effective.

There are people that will take any character and there are people that are hyper specific about what they want. The fact of the matter is the leader is taking the initiative to form the task force and they can make their team however they please. If people take issue with how I (or anyone else) operate....if they are upset because I didn't want to take a petless mastermind along with me then....that person can make their own team and take whoever they want.

Personally, I think both extremes are silly. The hyper specific leaders just don't know enough to improvise and the people that take anyone aren't setting themselves up for success. The STF needs debuffs and damage. Everything after that is just gravy.

I kinda feel the need to reiterate this sentiment and like Civ said, we do have our own quiet little channel that we start the formation of all of our tf/sf's/raids in. Most of people people on the freedom forums are in my "like" column so if you have a free channel spot and wanna check us out, pm me (@sixy) and we'll get you an invite.

Drama is as drama does, so in an attempt to avoid more issues I'm just gonna go back to focusing on my thang. With having a set group of people that are mods in almost every global channel on a given server, there are bound to be issues.

Thanks for listening to my little rant earlier in the thread.

ditto.