W.I.G.G.A.S.

So even with the option to choose a smaller hitbox character with the same firepower you still choose a player model that's easier to hit?  I am very aware this seems ironic coming from someone who plays the MAX unit consistently.  I guess it boils down to a fun to hitbox ratio.

I would like the smaller hitbox on female avatars (which is realistic) if they continued the realism and allowed male avatars to do more melee damage, sprint longer, and carry heavier loads.

Allow me to recant a story:

Once upon a time, there was a game titled "GunZ: The Duel" which was a third person shooter with a higher mobilty system than most FPS games. This game had wallrunning, climbing, swords, and the ability to block bullets. Things were fine until glitches began to appear in the animation sets. These glitches allowed players to merge slashing and blocking while dashing into one singular move known as the "butterfly." While there were other glitches, none were as prominent at the butterfly.

Soon, the butterfly, like Tribes' Skiing, became an incorporated part of the game. Unfortunately, only the female model could perform the butterfly to its fullest potential, making male characters obsolete and almost impossible to play. During tournaments, it was almost 100% female characters played just because they gave that much of an edge.

This is close to the same reasoning as to why steroids aren't allowed in sports. There's still scepticism about steroids, and so some athletes do not wish to take them. However, they provide a very blatant advantage over other players, as witnessed by Lance Armstrong (who eventually had the ball to come out and admit it, but that's another story).

Bottom line is, giving traits and bonuses may work for racial attributes, but games will run afoul of the internet's feminist white-knighting VERY quickly if they try to have gender based bonuses. Even if they don't, it would skew the choices beyond personal preference and base it on just which is more useful. I know for sure a few extra grenades as a male would be more useful than a smaller hitbox from a female.

Now that I've officially made a wall of text...yeah...done now. Back to tax research.

Edited, sorry, lots of typing and I was bound to F up somewhere.

I've been doing tax returns all day.