He is back! He is back!

[Victor Sullivan]

Thanks guys for the kind words.

I missed being in blue and look forward to re-finding my feet and helping to make some awesome maps, again.


Happy mapping,
gimil

*Sexy*

Yay, now I can officially congratulate you!

-Sully

[danfrank]

welcome back gimil we missed you

[ironsij0287]

I thought qwert was banned from the Foundry? His words, not mine.

[DiM]

I thought qwert was banned from the Foundry? His words, not mine.

never take qwert's words literally. his english skills aren't that great and if he said he was banned then he probably meant he was driven out.
qwert is a difficult map but once you learn to work with him you discover he's a very dedicated map maker that takes his maps very seriously.

[natty dread]

Well DiM, you weren't here during the Pelo wars debacle...

"Taking maps seriously" doesn't, in my book, include abandoning a map in beta for 6 months, refusing to do a simple update to it that was asked to get the map out of beta, so that eventually a cartographer had to do the update for him just to get it out of beta...

[DiM]

Well DiM, you weren't here during the Pelo wars debacle...

"Taking maps seriously" doesn't, in my book, include abandoning a map in beta for 6 months, refusing to do a simple update to it that was asked to get the map out of beta, so that eventually a cartographer had to do the update for him just to get it out of beta...

qwert does take his maps very seriously and the amount of work he puts into research and accuracy is immense.
i don't know what happened during the pelo wars but i'm sure qwert had his reasons. he may have exaggerated reactions some times but in many cases he is right.
i just look at pelo wars map and compare it to atrocities like hive, gilgamesh or monsters and i understand qwert's frustration when he's asked to change minute details.

[thenobodies80]

DiM is right, maybe a day qwert could come back.

[Gillipig]

DiM is right, maybe a day qwert could come back.

I like all of qwert's maps especially Imperium Romanum!

[TaCktiX]

As I recall, the only thing that needed to be changed was a legend element, uninvolved with the accuracy of the map itself, and only regarding its clarity. It wasn't a case of anyone asking for him to compromise his map's look, it was just the straw that broke the camel's back as best I can tell.

[DiM]

it was just the straw that broke the camel's back as best I can tell.

precisely.

i'm pretty sure the people asking for the legend thing to be changed were right but qwert was probably fed up when he saw his map being constantly nitpicked while other maps which were obviously of a lower quality strolled through the foundry unstopped.
the saddest part is that this double standard still is very visible.

[MrBenn]

Thanks guys for the kind words.

I missed being in blue and look forward to re-finding my feet and helping to make some awesome maps, again.


Happy mapping,
gimil

Welcome back to the fold, old mucker

[Gilligan]

Welcome back gimil

qwert might come back if the map making process improves. i don't know about WM but i highly doubt he'd give up on MC to return to CC. i honestly see no reason why he would.

What is MC?

[thenobodies80]

Major Command, a Risk site run by mibi where you can find most of the old foundry crew. (the ones who were called here the elite )
A day they preferred to create their own club to make maps (privately) and play. I miss some of them (Incandenza, the.killing.44 to quote two names), some others not at all, specially after reading some things around. But nvm, I enjoyed the time spent with them all and there's no reason to force/ask people to stay in a place that don't like anymore.

[natty dread]

Major Command, a Risk site run by mibi where you can find most of the old foundry crew. (the ones who were called here the elite )
A day they preferred to create their own club to make maps (privately) and play. I miss some of them (Incandenza, the.killing.44 to quote two names), some others not at all, specially after reading some things around. But nvm, I enjoyed the time spent with them all and there's no reason to force/ask people to stay in a place that don't like anymore.

I for one think the foundry can do without the negative atmosphere created by some of them...