Decorum

If you're referring to when I said that tanks don't have to be an aggro monkey, that's a different thing (meaning their sole purpose is to grab all the aggro all the time).

Because they wanted to? It's not a very good analogy, though. Too specific to powersets. It's more like asking why a blaster wouldn't take most of his ranged attacks (because they want to be a blapper).

This is City of Heroes. You have to go way, WAY out of your way to "gimp" anything. And not having taunt is "hilariously-gimped"? Have you even played with anyone that's good with the aggro without taunt? It's possible you have and didn't even notice. I'd have to contend that if you consider a tauntless tank "useless", then you don't know what you're talking about and you're suckered into the old WoW "Holy Trinity" mindset that hasn't been a part of CoH from day one.

I genuinely think it was a gesture of good faith. Jay probably got the tail done ahead of schedule (artists will do that when they get "sucked into" a project sometimes) and they threw a bone to those who would like it. I would HOPE that they realized that us handful of forumites might be helpful with suggestions, but we're not the playerbase by far and it probably didn't have that much effect on sales of this pack (a little, but not the kind of effect you'd want to see if you were being a "cynical marketer").

I want one of those for real life.

Oh, and I liked the idea. But you might be right. I know DC/Warners was trademark happy about EVERYTHING about Superman for a long time. I know it was a running gag at lots of other companies that they couldn't say "Up, up, and away!"

And it's entirely possible to make a wolf-man prior to this booster pack. Since when is "tail" a critical part of a wolf-man? I made a wolf-guy (long since deleted) my first week or so way back in 2006.

EDIT: Duh, sorry, I totally missed your point, didn't I? Um, nevermind. **blush**

I think the part you're missing is "if the devs happen to agree with it".

Game bugs and glitches aren't Jay and David's department. Nothing they do takes away from that.

Yeah, well, I'm sure they'd be happy to jump into their time-machines and fix that. **eyeroll**

It's not. It's one thing to think it's more efficient and another to insist that it always be. This game is far too flexible and, let's face it, easy to force that stuff.

Thinking you're one and building to be more like one are two different things. Scrankers, blastrollers, blappers, etc...all viable and useful, just in different ways then "expected".

Know yours, which isn't determining what someone else's is.

Here's my point. Your best work. Not to work at all.

Just because you're choosing to play it as a locked role doesn't mean others must.

Darwin disagrees. What works is all. What's best is bonus.

I thought about it, but figured it could wait for another 30-40 posts where the thread will really start to get stupid.

DRY RUB!!!!

It's always been my contention that the higher population servers tend to have a slightly higher percentage of jerks merely because jerks are drawn to higher populations (jerkitude loves a big audience). Still, as noted, plenty MORE nice people just from size, so you can dodge the jerks fairly easily (/ignore and look for new team).

More of a crowd actor in those, but I must say when I had my long hair, I made a damned fine Riff Raff.

This, more than any other single factor in the game (and there are more than several), drew me here and keeps me here.

Great post and happy anniversary!

What I'm seeing you type here is that instead of having the option to "gimp" them, you want them "gimped" automatically? Less options is fail, sorry.

The reason those players don't like you saying that is because it's baloney. Remember what game you're playing. ATs aren't locked into roles here and tanks don't have to be an aggro monkey.