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Michael Morlan

Media Producer and Project Manager

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Have you played any Chris Roberts games in the past?

Dave OpreskoEnvironment Technical Artist

I played Wing Commander 3, and it's been a while since that, but I remember I loved that game. It's been a long time since I've played it, but I just have fond memories of it. It had great gameplay, and it also had a great storyline, and I just love the cast of actors. I mean, Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, even Biff from Back to the Future, Tom Wilson was in it. Great game. I just love that game. I have fond memories of it, so getting to work here is great, because getting to work with Chris Roberts and getting to bring that magic back into Star Citizen, I just can't wait.

Michael MorlanVideo Producer, interviewer

It's about time, isn't it?

Dave OpreskoEnvironment Technical Artist

Yes, it is about time.

Wingman's Hangar›ep033 . August 9, 2013·
Published on this date.9 Aug 2013

You guys started something pretty cool for the game this week, the star map, the galaxy map. How's that coming?

Nate BlaisdellSenior Game Designer

It's pretty good. We've got over 100 systems mapped out on it. We're figuring out the layout, how we're going to position everything, but it's coming along. It's looking really good.

Michael MorlanInterviewer, Hangar guest segment

And we'll show that at some point in the future. We'll give you guys a look at that, but not yet. We're going to chronicle as we go, so we kind of show bit by bit as we're hanging out there.

Wingman's Hangar›ep016 . April 12, 2013·
Published on this date.12 Apr 2013
EpisodeStar systems

What will your role be at Cloud Imperium?

TL;DRMichael Morlan acts like a project manager, making sure the team has what it needs to stay unblocked and hit milestones, while Eric Peterson also notes Morlan will edit the broadcast into a teaser.

Michael MorlanMedia Producer and Project Manager

Well, as I mentioned earlier, my job is going to be making sure everybody on our team has everything they need in order to not get blocked with their particular tasks. Stay on task, make sure we hit our milestones. So I'm talking like a project manager right now. And that's kind of what Eric is having me do. Eric and I kind of stand back to back. He kind of is looking up and out and making sure that the way is clear ahead for us. And I'm the one looking down at it and making sure our team has everything they need.

Eric PetersonHost, head of the Austin studio

And not to mention Michael also, because the last six years he's been actually making feature films, which, we'll be taking the broadcast today and he'll be editing it down to a two to three minute teaser for the people that didn't get to see the Wingman's broadcast.

Wingman's Hangar›ep001 . December 21, 2012·
Published on this date.25 Jan 2013

When I first signed up, I made an account with the login name Lucifer, but I never got the confirmation email, so I made a new one, and that one worked. Would it be possible to switch the login name between the two, or at least move my pledge from one to the other, so I get Lucifer as both the login name and the nickname?asked by Lucifer

TL;DRSwapping the names is possibly doable if the user writes to Pete, who handles login issues; a forum-migration nickname fix is expected, probably in January.

Eric PetersonHost, head of the Austin studio

Possibly. What you'll need to do is send that in to Pete, who was just here, and he's the one who's handling all those things, the integration and those login issues. We've got some issues because as we're transferring the forum from one to the other, we're transferring away from WordPress. And WordPress allows you to have a nickname, a username, and an email, which is great. But vBulletin doesn't allow you to do that unless you put a mod in. Now, the problem is WordPress also has let multiple people have the same nickname. So we've got to sort that out. Some people are probably going to have to change their nickname on the forums, unfortunately. So we've got a solution coming. Just watch the boards for that. It'll probably be in January. We'll figure something out for you.

Michael MorlanMedia Producer and Project Manager

And as Pete mentioned when he was in here, if you've already written to him, you're queued up in his stack of emails. So don't feel like you need to keep writing to him. He'll get to you. It'll take a little while, but he's working it as fast and hard as he can.

Wingman's Hangar›ep001 . December 21, 2012·
Published on this date.25 Jan 2013

Do we have anything going on the economy side of the game yet?asked by Idleonious

Eric PetersonHost, head of the Austin studio

I mean, we know the basics of what the economy is going to look like, but no, we haven't started even building it. We've got a lot of things to work out on that side of things. And we're probably looking at maybe bringing an economist on to help us with that.

Michael MorlanMedia Producer and Project Manager

We were just having a discussion about the challenge of that. Much like the economy, when you analyze it, it's a bunch of chaos creating emergent behavior. We're looking at ways of using simple rules to iteratively process and create emergent behavior in the world. So that's a tricky subject. And how do we also manage things so that they serve fun gameplay and don't go completely out of control, and at the same time create a sense of chaos in the world that is natural and makes it feel like it's real.

Wingman's Hangar›ep001 . December 21, 2012·
Published on this date.25 Jan 2013
EpisodeEconomy

How will the bounty placing and retrieving work?asked by Administrator

TL;DRBounty details are far off until the economy is settled, but a bounty would go out over the comm link for hunters to accept, with everything subject to change.

Michael MorlanMedia Producer and Project Manager

That's a long way off to figuring that out. Let us figure out how the economy is going to land, then we'll start dealing with how people can interact.

Eric PetersonHost, head of the Austin studio

Well, I can answer a little bit of it. Once you do the bounty, it's going to be up in a certain area that will be a bounty for you, and it will go out over the main comm link. Whoever did the trade will be bounty linked, and the bounty hunters will be able to accept that mission to chase after you. It depends on PvE, where it'll be server managed, or PvP. Some PvP people are going to have bounties on them. They're going to be able to pay their way out of them. In the meantime, people can go steal from them.

Michael MorlanMedia Producer and Project Manager

So let me add a disclaimer to that: everything is subject to change. And I stole that directly from Red.com when they were building their cameras and using this kind of open source experience with their buyers.

Wingman's Hangar›ep001 . December 21, 2012·
Published on this date.25 Jan 2013

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