Don't excommunicate me for this blasphemy

[Barshy]

Ok... please don't flame me or kill me or turn the MOO3 secret police on me...

I'm just totally curious. Ok, I'm one of those fans who really followed MOO3 development 2-3 years ago heavily, then totally stopped, then recently came back on to check things out.

And I'm just curious what happened to Alan Emrich... everyone talks like he didn't exist. I'm just curious as to what happened. I've combed the threads and I couldn't find anything on it, except a brief reference to some gaming magazine trying to spread gossip about what happened or something.

Anyway, I'm gonna buy the game regardless. Thanks for entertaining my question!

*ducks*

[H Tower]

/me acts clueless


oh wait! We made him moderate the civ3 forum, and his head exploded at all the naifs and trolls in the genreal forum



actually, i really have no idea

[SeanV]

Well Barshy I don't know the whole story behind it but basically Alan was dropped from the MOO3 project sometime last year. IG said that he had done a good job but he was no longer needed. Quite a few people believed that something much more sinister was afoot and there was a big stink both here and on the official forums. IG's PRD went through the roof and several other things happened (which no doubt other people have well documented.) But in the end everything quieted down... whether the doom-gloom people were right remains to be seen.

[Atragon]

Bets on him surfacing as the lead designer for another 5X game? with IFPs?

[SeanV]

Nope, no bets! (Stupid I am.)

But who knows... MOM2...

[vmxa1]

I seem to remember Alan posted a bit of a goodbye here. He could not be compleely open of course.

[MarkG]

search our news

http://apolyton.net/news/search.php

[moomin]

IG got tired and kicked him, all parties concerned showing an overabundance of white teeth in a display of false smiles and false cordiality that would've graced the Orion Senate. Amazing amount of corporate bullshetese fallout too.

[Grumbold]

Alan and others left the project in a bit of a shake up around April time. Unsurprisingly the departees all sounded a bit strained when saying their goodbyes to the forum.

[Sollos]

You know, I was going to post a question exactly like this one. Alan was an okay guy, and even replied in email to say he was glad I was a interested fan like a yr ago.

There must have been some heavy concept issues going on. Alan took the wrong side and bought it?

It probably had to do with streamlining the game and he pressed for more (not necessarily fun) detail?

[Grumbold]

If you've read the news links Markus points to, you'll see that there was a bit of a rift shortly before he was let go. Interestingly a lot of what he said about the way projects change was echoed in Rantz's recent Dev diary.

[Sarxis]

Alan Emrich never existed. (Feds come take Barshy away).

[vmxa1]

I just wish he would write a guide for Moo3 as the guide he made for Moo was the best guide I have ever seen. So much information was packed in there and a good tutorial mode was built in.

[Trifna]

www.orionsector.com may be the best source specialized on MOO. Didn't Alan chose to take some distance, to be able to do more what he wanted in personal life? Building a game may be very invasive on personal life I guess... But whattever the reason, I guess it's his decision

[moomin]

Actually, as the conspiracy theorists would have it, it wasn't his decision. Oh well, that's water under the bridge now. Well see soon enough what - if anything - of his legacy survived in Moo3.