Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-667748-20130513104011/@comment-667748-20130608075904

It is part of my scheme of:

happypal wrote: It means you can display or hide entire columns at once, without changing the actual data. This is particularly interesting when you are copy pasting data around: EVERYONE uses the same format, regardless of displayed information.

The rationale is two fold:
 * 1) The fact that you may or may not want to display the data is just an "end-option", but doesn't remove the fact that the data is there. Just because you don't (or do) want to display it doesn't mean the data should be modified. The good part is that it only takes switching 1 parameter to change the display, and that's it.
 * 2) It gives all weapons/shields/bows the same format. This means were you to place different weapons in a same "WeaponCompareBox", the data fields would be correctly aligned.

...Also, it actually makes the template much easier that way. Not a real excuse, but it's a fact.

Also, you'll notice that bows are in the same category: They can't block, so all their fields are "-". Those aren't displayed, but the data is still there.