Joining the PS2 Team

[Adversary]

Congrats!

[Figment]

Sincere congrats Malorn, we may have different philosophies on life, but on PlanetSide I think we pretty much see eye to eye. If you ever feel like brainstorming on them there world conquest plans, feel free to poke me.

Originally Posted by Malorn

One of the coolest experiences for me will be knowing what its like to be on both sides of the eternal struggle - the diehard rabid fan, and the developer trying to make everyone happy and create a great game. A few months from now I might have some insights!

Now if only you knew what it's like to be on the side of European liberals!

[Malorn]

Originally Posted by Figment

Sincere congrats Malorn, we may have different philosophies on life, but on PlanetSide I think we pretty much see eye to eye. If you ever feel like brainstorming on them there world conquest plans, feel free to poke me.

Of course!

Now if only you knew what it's like to be on the side of European liberals!

Well I will get the California liberal perspective, so its a start.

[Captain1nsaneo]

Originally Posted by Malorn

Well I will get the California liberal perspective, so its a start.

European Liberals are the right wing. US Liberals are the left wing.

[bpostal]

Congrats Malorn! I was going to ask about the current resource system but I see it's been touched on. All I can ask of you is that you counter all of Matt Higby and T-Ray's NC and VS propaganda! Whisenhut's been fairly good at it thus far but we need more support!

[Malorn]

Originally Posted by bpostal

Congrats Malorn! I was going to ask about the current resource system but I see it's been touched on. All I can ask of you is that you counter all of Matt Higby and T-Ray's NC and VS propaganda! Whisenhut's been fairly good at it thus far but we need more support!

Ill do my best to be a unifying force!

[sylphaen]

Thanks for the nice long answer posts. It's nice to see you are still around a day after the big news.

[Stanis]

Congratulations.

Check nobody at SOE is related to Machiavelli. I assume that fairly soon your long and detailed public commentary will have to stop based on the devs CoC or NDA.

[Boomzor]

Ooooboy....



I hope you can carry the load

(and a big grats!)

[Malorn]

Originally Posted by Boomzor

Ooooboy....



I hope you can carry the load

(and a big grats!)

Wow haha, I'll try my best to live up to the expectations!

[Mechzz]

Well done Malorn, you're joining the team at an important time. Hopefully your sensible voice will be heard in the big pool that is the PS2 Dev team.

Oh, and I'm glad to see you're continuing the honoured tradition of SOE Devs posting anywhere except the official forums

My question is this (seeing as everyone seems to have a free question):

What are your thoughts on the need for dynamic population balancing?
Assuming you see the need for it, would you consider dynamic server balancing to be an option?
(i.e. as pops fall into the night, close servers as they depopulate and migrate players to consolidate numbers, then open them up again as pops rise)
Obviously toons need to be portable, but I don't think we've ever been told they won't be?

Anyway, congratulations and good luck!

[FortySe7en]

Originally Posted by Malorn

Wow haha, I'll try my best to live up to the expectations!

Don't you love going from being able to say whatever you want to having the options of PR yelling at you.

Better you than me :P

[Malorn]

Originally Posted by Stanis

Congratulations.

Check nobody at SOE is related to Machiavelli. I assume that fairly soon your long and detailed public commentary will have to stop based on the devs CoC or NDA.

Yeah, safe assumption, though I think time will slow it down more than anything else.

[Goku]

Grats Malorn! Awesome addition to the team!

[FortySe7en]

Malorn if you could convince them to drop KDR altogether, PS2 would be a completely different game. More fighting and less camping for kills.