Greetings

[Safri]

Welcome

can I ask what S&B are doing, coz i remember before them saying they had long term plans to be involved in the game?

[Jobolob]

Just be sure to listen to the community, especially the guys with a lot of posts, we've been playing the game since 1999 so we kinda know what we are talking about most of the time. Especially me.

.... Posts doesnt mean anything.

Regardless changes and bug fixing take time. Which is fine, if you communicate well with us, you will be embraced. Communication has been a huge issue. We all know things take time to be done, and sometimes, it will run over schedule or you may enter problems with it. All we ask if that you communicate well with us, listen to what we think are important bugs and fix them accordingly.

As for actual changes to the game, that is something that will never ever make everyone happy. I like the proposed changes for next age, while some do not.

[Anri]

only the fact that spiritcreeper is here and talking atm gives me a bit of hope!

tumbs up!

[Mansoor]

are you joking?

Instead of having 2 full time developers we get a rookie who doesn't know the code and need to learn and so on. A part time worker who is gonna maintain utopia.

I really hope S&B just got fired for their poor job. Jesus, a rookie who needs a couple of weeks to get to know the code. Down prioritizing utopia = the end is getting even more near...bleh, what a moral kill! Yesterday got my hopes up that we will have 3 devs, now one.

No offense SC

[MorbidAngel]

Yes my main task is coding, but I will be managing cheaters, too.

Good, then please answer on our e-mail.

Also, post count means nothing really. The best uto players either have no acc here or have 100 posts max. I personally have 3k+ posts and I know nothing compared to one mod[tiv] or similar guys..

[KuhaN]

dammit shh!! rofl

[MorbidAngel]

I really don't want him to listen to VT2...

[Jobolob]

KuhaN's attempt at glory has been foiled.
Fail. :P

[Spiritcreeper]

Welcome.... We hope for the best from you.....

1) Why is it S&B can't spend as much time on uto?
2) Can you take a look and answer the questions posted here? http://forums.joltonline.com/showthread.php?t=606524

1) Other projects.
2) I don't know enough about the changes, as I wasn't involved in creating them, although I will ping Brian and ask him to take a look if possible.

are you joking?

Instead of having 2 full time developers we get a rookie who doesn't know the code and need to learn and so on. A part time worker who is gonna maintain utopia.

I really hope S&B just got fired for their poor job. Jesus, a rookie who needs a couple of weeks to get to know the code. Down prioritizing utopia = the end is getting even more near...bleh, what a moral kill! Yesterday got my hopes up that we will have 3 devs, now one.

No offense SC

Sorry but it's not exactly an easy thing to do to hire someone who already has intimate knowledge with a codebase. Sean and Brian wrote the code themselves and any person who joins the team is going to have to take some time to look at it.

I'm definitely not going to be the only developer. Sean and Brian still put work into the game, and a lot of their free time goes into it, but they brought me onto the team so that things can happen better and faster.

If they wanted to totally bring the priority of Utopia down, then they wouldn't have brought me on.

[Palem]

So let me get this straight.

First Mehul decides to sell Utopia because he lost interest.
Then OMAC tries their hand at handling Utopia and fails.
Then OMAC hands the game over to Frontsquare (S&B).
Now S&B can't handle the same, so they've called you in?
ROFL

Well I'm gonna warn you now. People are going to say that you suck at your job and just downright treat you quite terrible if you don't do you job in any kind of a respectable fashion.

That said, good luck. I hope you can do a better job than your predecessors.

[pmyraje]

I'm intrigued to know how much code constitutes a "large codebase".

Compared to programming new stuff bug fixing, especially in other people's code, is grim so you have my sympathy for the starting off period!

[shida]

yhea~~ we have one who speaks :)
welcome
i think just having someone who keeps in touch with the players is a boost for game.
the mods are great, but i think when things go wrong especially its nice to have someone post who actually can help with the situation.
wish you played the game though, its hard to explain the frustration if your not seeing it from a players standpoint. =)

[Spiritcreeper]

yhea~~ we have one who speaks :)
welcome
i think just having someone who keeps in touch with the players is a boost for game.
the mods are great, but i think when things go wrong especially its nice to have someone post who actually can help with the situation.
wish you played the game though, its hard to explain the frustration if your not seeing it from a players standpoint. =)

I totally understand, and I'm working hard to get used to it. :)

[MorbidAngel]

Are you gonna fix design of site anytime soon? That doesn't require any knowledge of game code afaik ;)

[MorbidAngel]

Also, thx for ignoring visitor message I left :p