He got into an entanglement with a certain non-Sins Stardock employee.

Only they know for sure I think. Fair chance it was political, as it probably started in response to something on the JoeUser forums (I'm only guessing from what I know of their previous interactions).

Regardless its things like this that make me wish Stardock would segregate their political sites from gaming forums more, nothing good ever comes from it.

Apparently the argument, whatever it was about, was enough to make him quit the community for good, and decided that if he wasn't going to be here none of his work would be either. A rather selfish act to be sure, but its his stuff (well I had a few thing hosted on their, as did some others) on his site, its his to do with what he pleases.

Indeed. Its hard to cast blame without knowing the substance, but its rather unfortunate that an employee that had nothing to do with Sins in effect got rid of one of our most helpful members. He will be missed, but perhaps one day he'll come back.

Agreed.

Is Harpo staying?  I thought he wasn't happy with Rebellion being on Steam and was nothing keepin' up with the program....

Double bad loss, if that's the case...

I did see Darvin, Stant and Harpo raise issues. It would be difficult to replace them, but I know exactly how they feel.

I for one have never used Harpo's tools, so I don't really know how valuable they are or if they could be done by someone else (my guess is they are pretty damn good given the attention they have)....

Darvin has a pretty keen eye for game mechanics and balance issues...IIRC he made some good maps too...

I don't know much about Stant other than he has a reputation...

It'd be a shame to lose these people but if it happens it happens...someone else will just have to step up to the plate!

Damn son!  Nice thread....

I may one day have to get around to using that thing of Zombie's...don't know anything about eclipse but I'd gander it's probably better than the silly command prompt C++ thingies I use...

Lol...I rest my case.  These phrases do not sound anything like part of the idiot vocabulary.

Uh-hunh...I see who you are.

Search your feelings Sinperium, you know it to be true.

I was going for "You're a Developer!" or "You're not an idiot!", but you had to stick to the script. Oh well. Join me, and together we dispose Emperor Zombie and rule the modding forum as Master and begger... wait.

how do you knight someone with a lightsaber?

Not as eagerly as Obi Wan did when the guy with the death sentence on umpteen worlds rightfully told Luke he shouldn't be a tard and dismiss people. 

I'd rather hear from MyFist what the exact problem was, but pulling all your threads -which help the community and not the person he was pissed off with or by- isn't cool.  The community is a big supporter of all he's done and on the surface seems immature -and coming from me -DAMN!

Would seem better to say, screw you, I'm never dealing with "Muppet from Planet XIII", whoever they are, but I'm gonna stick by the modding community who have done more for SOASE than most devs.  I mean seriously, look at the volume of kick ass stuff the modding community has put out and personally, I'm a bit pissed that lots of mod ideas are going into Rebellion without even a "Thanks modders, you've inspired the lot of us to do better."

How'd I get pulled into this mess?

As the "Sins modding pioneer" watches quietly in the background.. Trying very hard not to say "I was modding sins while you were still in diapers".. oh wait, sins came out in 2008..

It is a damn shame. I dont know what happened, and i am not sure if i want to know. If Myfist0 wants to come back he will, or he will PM me with the reason why he wont.

TBH the steam hate is bordering on ridiculous now. I dont like steam, but i dont hate it ether. I wont say anymore about it.