Welcome Vhab!

[Ilaliya]

Get back to work, code monkey!


(Oh and, welcome to the slave pits)

We're going to need a bigger pit.

[BigT]

What have they done now...?!?

[haxi]

Bring back Drama on Atlantean.

[Tem0s]

Grats finally a brabander working at fc

[Aiken]

Grats on dingage

[Shareida]

Hehe, conga-rats.

Now, hurry it.

[Hardcore]

AOU: Given a chance, would you like to work full time on the AO development team or would you prefer developing new game?
Vhab: Probably the latter. I absolutely loved working on the team and I really wouldn’t mind doing it again; but as I’m still young I’d like to learn as much as I can and push the boundaries of technology. Working on AO wouldn’t let me do that.

Ha! I always knew you'd work with them fulltime wether you like it or not Grats on the programmer spot!

[Alternity]

I guess trox MPs are gonna rawk j00 sox now

[kesh]

I wonder if Funcom's strategy to leech the community of its preeminent members (even Silirrion will always be to me "the guy who wrote the Hollow Island guide on aovault, then became game director and said a new engine was coming soon when he knew it won't, just before leaving to another game") was a good long-term one? When you keep taking community developers instead of professionals, what's the community left with? Mastablasta?

[Vhab]

Grats finally a brabander working at fc

*high five*

Ha! I always knew you'd work with them fulltime wether you like it or not Grats on the programmer spot!

They're a tough bunch to turn down
Turns out I just belong here.

you keep taking community developers instead of professionals

If Funcom wouldn't hire me, I'd be working as a game programmer elsewhere.
Isn't it better I work on AO instead?

[Lliers]

Yay! Congratz!

*starts drafting wish list*

Looking forward to being able to load my Vhabot plug-ins directly in AO...

And while you're at it, can you make these annoying bugs go away when I run AO?

wine(2696,0x41002000) malloc: *** error for object 0x43f5820c: pointer being freed was not allocated
...
wine[2720] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
wine[2720] <Error>: unknown error code: invalid drawable

You don't suppose you could get AO to work in Mono, do you?

[Bash]

Congrats! Does this mean we might see that login screen of yours live?

[Wakizaka]

Congorats dudu.

You don't suppose you could get AO to work in Mono, do you?

Don't even suggest something so aweful. :P

[Xatgunner]

a brandander? yippy!
there ain't no better people on the world!

Best of luck V

[Mekh]

gratz!

[Phixalicious]

Grats Vhab!

Now hurry up and give us shinies in a timely manner so the rest of the team knows how it's done.

[Veev]

Everything I've seen you do has been very impressive. Congrats on the job, and hopefully this means good things for AO.

[Madgeneral]

Congrats and i agree FC should hire proffesionals not people who play the game.

[Lazy]

right. because professional game developers dont play games. and they definitely don't play this crappy game.

[Veev]

This is also a game that has amazing depth to it and really requires someone to play it for at least a year to have any kind of real idea what they're doing. They could hire people that are unfamiliar with it just to do art updates and whatnot, but anything that requires personal input from the developer wouldn't be in good hands with someone unfamiliar with the game.