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Thread: Team Comments Kurt Stangl

Atteke
Tue May 25, 2004 2:31 am
#66

"This was probably the most unusual lesson learned. I was being interviewed for a dream job by a guy who I had mercilessly flamed on the boards." - Thunderheart





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Stryfermon
Tue May 25, 2004 3:35 am
#67

GJ, and a nice read.



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Akinoor
Tue May 25, 2004 4:42 am
#68

Great letter TH!



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DraxTIO
Tue May 25, 2004 5:34 am
#69



I kept on doing what it was I was doing, but in my early 30's I felt I wasn't happy.




LOL, wow, I don't think I could have said it better myself.


Great read TH. Gives a little bit of hope to the rest of us 30 year old geeks out there who have gotten a bit underwhelmed with their original career path.




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TK868
Tue May 25, 2004 5:51 am
#70

Yo TH,


I'm really interested in the server-side aspectof MMORPG's. Like those guys that design and fix the servers.Do youhave any idea of the type of skills I'd need to have to get a job like that?
Thanks
-TK868





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Have fun lads..this was a really great game once..
Horizonz
Tue May 25, 2004 8:55 am
#71

TH,

Did you go to school for anything? College ?



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JWing
Tue May 25, 2004 9:33 am
#72

Talk about a dream come true... Now If I can get my fiancee on the board long enough to read your post... she might understand me a lil better


/slaute





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JWing
Tue May 25, 2004 9:40 am
#73






Thunderheart wrote:





TheLateAnakinSolo wrote:

Hey, TH, I know it's a little off subject, but...


When can we expect TC2 to go up? You say that want our input, but we are kept in the dark about things... I think that it would be better for everyone if you would turn the light on. You would get our input (we don't want another crafting change) and it would make everything go over MUCH better. Well, in my view, it's just wasting everyone's time... what's the use in making a system that will be rejected? I think that you would know this best, as you were one of us once.



Anyways, back on the subject...


I've was here during beta, and still remember your end of beta presentation-slide show. (nice job by the way) It was great to see you get accepted as a new DEV...






When we open things up like that, we'll definately let you know. The Jedi testers were selected by login dates. Those that were steady, consistent testers on TC made the cut. Add them in with the folks who are already Jedi and that's a lot of people. If we open it up for more, I'll definately post about it.







ARC_Casper wrote:

Alot of great info TH. And you are right WHO you know is a big part of it too, i met some great guys in the xbox live beta and they work at activision now, and they told me to start as a QA and i can move up if i stick with it.


Your awnsers just pushed me over the top to go back and turn in the application =) thanks again.





Don't just put in an application - - go in and introduce yourself. Comb your hair and brush your teeth and go put your best foot forward!










Man, talk about combing hair...you have some time in that catagory..



SYBOOTH...A Zombie stole my PANTS !!
________________Jorras Thri v lvl 31 Imperial Medic

Virrago - (9/21/2006)
[Stating that the subpar smuggling system would be pushed to LIVE]
"...and to clarify.... It would require another publish (in other words not chapter 3)"
Smugglers History - Written by the DEV'sv Imperial Holo-ReportvMerchant ~ Talus -2310 36 -2164
JmboTJ
Tue May 25, 2004 10:18 am
#74






Thunderheart wrote:



Don't just put in an application - - go in and introduce yourself. Comb your hair and brush your teeth and go put your best foot forward!







what?? leave the house?? bathe? turn off the simpsons?? stop my SETA program from running??


please say these aren't prerequisites...


hahahhha





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DeQuosaek
Tue May 25, 2004 12:09 pm
#75






VempireAtDusk wrote:

that nice but when is TC2 up!!!

today?

tomorrow?

any info is better then none



Why does it matter? You will see a post when it goes up, so if you check back here a few times a day, you won't miss anything.





Some of my pet peeve bugs:
•Armorsmith protection layers were not converted with the CU.
•Ship Details window does not close when you click "Travel" resulting in the message "You have lost the target. Closing interface."

TheLateAnakinSolo
Tue May 25, 2004 2:08 pm
#76

Thx for answering TH, but I think that you took it the wrong direction...



The problem is not that thereisn't being enough testing done (far from in actually), but rather that we don't get to really help with the Designing process. If you posted info on what you were PLANNING to do, and we could give our input before you started creating it, things would turn out better. (aka, crafting revamp. Time and effort was taken to design a system that no one wanted anyways.) If you could tell us these things first, before you spent time doing it, I think that better systems would make the cut, rather then the ones that no one wants.



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TorvusMessorius
Tue May 25, 2004 4:18 pm
#77

Kurt get your hair cut





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Sha_Ja
Tue May 25, 2004 7:09 pm
#78

Hey TH great story after reading it, and being a geek of SWG, i couldn't help but think "wow..after all those professions, Applying to the devs finally unlocked his slot"


sorry i couldn't help myself lol



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