Quote Originally Posted by Sole View Post
This is incredibly vague. Yes, innovation does happen when something goes against the "norm". But they become innovations because they improve some quality or value of something somehow. Take for example Ford making the production line a standard. That wasn't a society norm, but afterward it became one. Or take for example the founder of facebook or many tech founders, a lot of them dropped out of college to form companies. That isn't wasn't a norm but that kind of trend could become a norm for many technologically gifted people.

The point is that people do step out of society norms, but for that to become a trend it has to be something useful. It's like natural selection. So in a game if people are experimenting with builds, eventually some build will come out that's the best and most people will follow that one and maybe once in a while experiment with something different. People naturally want optimization, especially when not everyone has time to try new ways of doing things.

Having mostly auto-allotment makes things more streamlined while also ensuring that you don't get stuck with a whm who dumped all his stats into str just for funsies, thus making you lose 2 hours cause your party kept dying.
in all honesty the whm who dumped all his stats into str just for funsies, probably wont play the way you want with or without stats. At the end of the day you need to ask someone if they can handle a certain role, and if they can handle that role, who cares how they stat?

If they actually do let people set their role in search i think it will save a lot of people time. If you see a Con in search with a role set as attacker, and you dont believe in that you can just not invite him. Or at least you can ask them, we need a healer can you handle this role?