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He is back! He is back!

Postby thenobodies80 on Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:52 am

Hello Foundry Goers,

It's a great pleasure for me to announce the official return of one of the greatest Foundry contributors.
For some real life reasons he had to hang up his blue shoes for some time but his love for the Foundry had never turned off.

Today, he is finally ready to put on again his pair of blue shoes and give a hand to keep the things running smoothly.
He will take care of the maps during the Graphics development with RedBaron0 and isaiah40 (that like some of you have certainly noticed, is currently taking care the Drafting Room untill the return of Industrial Helix).

Anyway, without any further ado, I'm going to unveil that the latest addition to the group of Cartographers is.....

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the only...
the great....
the mythical.....


gimil!

Please, come here to say him welcome back!
Welcome back gimil, we missed you.
:)

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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby DiM on Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:58 am

i'm the first to congratulate him.

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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby phantomzero on Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:59 am

I'm the second! Glad to have you back around!
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby thenobodies80 on Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:59 am

Oh, I forgot a thing (that only some will understand), but "You look so good in blue". ;)
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby Tisha on Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:07 pm

thenobodies80 wrote:Oh, I forgot a thing (that only some will understand), but "You look so good in blue". ;)

he definitely does.
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby cairnswk on Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:25 pm

Welcome back in blue shoes gimil. :)
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby OliverFA on Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:37 pm

Nice to see you are back Gimil. Welcome! :D
Welcoming the long awaited Trench Warfare Setting (Previously Adjacent Attacks).

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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby natty dread on Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:24 pm

Congrats dim for being the first to congrats.

Oh, yeah, and congrats gimil.
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby Kabanellas on Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:39 pm

Welcome back Gimil!! =D> =D>
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby fumandomuerte on Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:57 pm

Wow, we have CairnsWK, Gimil and DiM back, too damn good to be true! Can I expect 2 other big comebacks (WidowMakers & qwert)?
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby zimmah on Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:28 pm

natty_dread wrote:Congrats dim for being the first to congrats.

Oh, yeah, and congrats gimil.


:lol: nothing to add to that
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby natty dread on Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:02 pm

fumandomuerte wrote: Can I expect 2 other big comebacks (WidowMakers & qwert)?


Umm, not likely. Qwert is all pissed at the foundry, because apparently people are just mean bastards who don't understand his godlike genius. WM is making maps for another, "elite" site which only accepts the "best" of mapmakers...
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby DiM on Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:35 pm

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.
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby luv2tri2 on Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:11 pm

who? never heard of him.
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby gimil on Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:34 pm

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,
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby Victor Sullivan on Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:29 am

gimil wrote: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

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Yay, now I can officially congratulate you! :D

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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby danfrank on Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:52 pm

welcome back gimil we missed you :P
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby ironsij0287 on Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:19 am

I thought qwert was banned from the Foundry? His words, not mine.
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby DiM on Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:19 am

ironsij0287 wrote: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.
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby natty dread on Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:28 am

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...
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby DiM on Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:45 am

natty_dread wrote: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.
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby thenobodies80 on Fri Aug 26, 2011 12:37 pm

DiM is right, maybe a day qwert could come back. ;)
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby Gillipig on Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:12 pm

thenobodies80 wrote:DiM is right, maybe a day qwert could come back. ;)

I like all of qwert's maps especially Imperium Romanum!
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby TaCktiX on Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:16 am

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.
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Re: He is back! He is back!

Postby DiM on Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:58 am

TaCktiX wrote: 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.
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