Friday with Means - February 4th, 2011 - Meetings and Setups

**Infinitynova** · Feb 5th, 2011, 06:42:46

When can I come see you guys I'm like 30 mins away from Montreal!

wtb open office day

**Niemandsland** · Feb 5th, 2011, 08:27:04

Originally Posted by lainbr

Means, I must aware you: My pet can now found a path toward you <3 /pet attack

If it doesn't get stuck between the desks...

**nitr0** · Feb 5th, 2011, 09:31:02

the big question is: with that perfect office equipment and setup - will there be a AO hotline?

honestly guys... u can't like that. glass and open spaces everywhere, noise, no privacy... that makes sick after a while (studies proved that ^^)
if we moved into an office like that my first step would be to put my profile online for job search =)

**Demoder** · Feb 5th, 2011, 09:59:03

Originally Posted by nitr0

the big question is: with that perfect office equipment and setup - will there be a AO hotline?

honestly guys... u can't like that. glass and open spaces everywhere, noise, no privacy... that makes sick after a while (studies proved that ^^)
if we moved into an office like that my first step would be to put my profile online for job search =)

The studies actually say that small groups of people work better in an open landscape, while large groups do not.
I do believe the AO team counts as a small group

On the other hand, it almost looks as if they ain't hermetically sealed within their own, private open landscape... Could this possibly be right!?

**Memphisraves** · Feb 5th, 2011, 10:50:06

Well, while all the parking garage comments look to be true from the pictures it sure does beat SOE's 3 story 10 grid cubicle layout. Where instead of cool Planetside and SWG posters, they have leadership and good employee guidelines everywhere. Was very depressing to witness when I was testing there, workspace really fuels motivation, hopefully you guys can ****e it up a bit instead of the Frankfurt am Main airport parking garage look :P.

**nitr0** · Feb 5th, 2011, 14:04:43

Originally Posted by Demoder

The studies actually say that small groups of people work better in an open landscape, while large groups do not.
I do believe the AO team counts as a small group

On the other hand, it almost looks as if they ain't hermetically sealed within their own, private open landscape... Could this possibly be right!?

the studies say, the more people in one open room - the higher the chance of depressions and burn out (resulting in way more sick days, then ppl working in rooms with 2 or 3 ppl)

**Colawrenn** · Feb 5th, 2011, 16:04:36

Originally Posted by Kintaii

we don't even have Mr. Squeaky shipped over yet.

I love the thought of someone opening up a shipping crate to find a giant rubber duck ominously peering out from teh shadows.
I will return with an image of this.*
*Artist representation.

Just throw loads of posters up and youll be fine. My uni room looked like a prison cell when I moved in, I moved my bed, covered the walls in posters/flyers and its awesome now.

**Neista** · Feb 5th, 2011, 18:00:23

Originally Posted by Means

The Adventurer document will be sent to the professionals and next week and hopefully be out to everyone else after some adjustment soon.

Why bother sending it to the professionals? just about every other prof document has been released to the cries of 'we suggested this, this and this but it looks like they ignored us' from said professionals...

Oh and btw, please dont keep ignoring reasonable questions about the engine when so many times you have promised to release trailers/teasers/etc and just not bothered...

**BigBubba** · Feb 5th, 2011, 18:27:48

Not the warmest looking work environment. Looks like it has more of a prison feel.

Eunucha
Inner Circle
Since 2001

**lainbr** · Feb 5th, 2011, 18:48:01

Originally Posted by Kintaii

That's probably why I drink so much, in all honesty - I'm from Mississippi, where your average summer day can easily be 99*F/37*C with 70%/80% humidity. It gets *muggy* up in there for real.

Thats hot!

Btw, where I live is 86ºFC/30ºC every single day >.> Including in "winter"

/cheers

Originally Posted by nitr0

honestly guys... u can't like that. glass and open spaces everywhere, noise, no privacy... that makes sick after a while (studies proved that ^^)
if we moved into an office like that my first step would be to put my profile online for job search =)

I disagree with u. I would love to work in a such open space.

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EDIT: Who is the poor human being that work side by side with Kitaii? xD

**nitr0** · Feb 5th, 2011, 19:14:06

Originally Posted by lainbr

I disagree with u. I would love to work in a such open space.

depends on work i guess, i am working as software developer... and every phone ring of others is one too much. u need to be concentrated, what u are definately not in a call center environment ^^

**Oliveerz** · Feb 5th, 2011, 19:35:51

No fapping in privacy for Means anymoar..

**animaly** · Feb 5th, 2011, 20:03:19

Originally Posted by Alternity

Come on! We both know it's the dog calling the shots when it comes to AO development!

That explains the rubber duck :P

**Superflare** · Feb 5th, 2011, 20:23:35

Originally Posted by Animaly

That explains the rubber duck :P

It`s a rubber somethin somethin, but it aint a duck

**Ekarona** · Feb 5th, 2011, 21:08:13

Originally Posted by lainbr

Thats hot!

Btw, where I live is 86ºC/30ºC every single day >.> Including in "winter"

/cheers

You live in sauna? 86C a long time can't be healthy...

**Absynth** · Feb 5th, 2011, 21:11:22

Originally Posted by Kintaii

That's probably why I drink so much, in all honesty - I'm from Mississippi, where your average summer day can easily be 99*F/37*C with 70%/80% humidity. It gets *muggy* up in there for real.

Apparently Montreal does somewhat the same - Very curious to see how it stacks up vs. back home. ;P

State or Ole Miss?

**SSK** · Feb 5th, 2011, 21:50:17

Originally Posted by lainbr

Btw, where I live is 86ºC/30ºC every single day >.> Including in "winter"

Sounds almost perfect. I hate all that snow and cold rains we have here in autumn/winter/spring

Originally Posted by Ekarona

You live in sauna? 86C a long time can't be healthy...

I'm sure he meant 86ºF, because there's no (known) life forms in 60ºC and above except few bacteria.

**lainbr** · Feb 5th, 2011, 22:20:15

Originally Posted by Ekarona

You live in sauna? 86C a long time can't be healthy...

Meh... mistype ftl \o/

**Kazeran** · Feb 6th, 2011, 00:04:03

Originally Posted by Neista

Why bother sending it to the professionals? just about every other prof document has been released to the cries of 'we suggested this, this and this but it looks like they ignored us' from said professionals...

Oh and btw, please dont keep ignoring reasonable questions about the engine when so many times you have promised to release trailers/teasers/etc and just not bothered...

Because we discuses amongst ourselves about it and things do get changed. What FC wants and what the proffs try to get are usually two different things thought. Whining about not getting it faster cause proffs get to see it first won't help anything though.

**perky** · Feb 6th, 2011, 00:04:09

Originally Posted by Kintaii

No I'm not - I'm a designer/writer. ;P Trust me, I am made acutely aware of this every time I actually *do* pick up Photoshop and try making a texture for the game, as Means (and previously Silirrion) love *reminding* me of the fact that I am not an artist. XD Looking at the picture I think that's a bottle of water, a bottle of orange juice, a bottle of cranberry juice, a bottle of Gatoraid, and a root beer from McDonald's.

In other words, we can soon expect tier 4 armor?

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