08-11-2002 17:06									#1
	Dan Magaha is a real professionist ! Increase Your PM Length

I saw your comment on my post...are you a Fireaxis member?

If so I would like to express my best compliments because a programmer that participate in fans forum is the witness of a real professional way to work !!!

Go on in this way guy,we surelly will buy your future products ( CIV 4 ) with this kind of support !!!

Great man thanks about your infos...

Boomer

BTW I can finish my current game without lethal bombing,I can win either without it !!

Next game I'll use this feature !!!

	08-11-2002 17:25									#2
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LOL... yeah, he is of Firaxis, but Dan isn't a programmer. He's, I believe, their PR manager or something like that, and he's the webmaster of civ3.com

	08-11-2002 17:40									#3
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...but Firaxian programmers do post here from time to time. Look for Soren Johnson and Mike Breitkreutz, they are programmers.

	08-11-2002 17:47									#4
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Soren Johnson being the one who did an amazing AI all alone in 4 months .

	08-11-2002 21:51									#5
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You can't help but love newbies...

	08-11-2002 22:16									#6
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Dan is the marketing guy for Firaxis, Soren is the AI guy, and Mike is the beer editor guy.

	08-11-2002 22:51									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Solver LOL... yeah, he is of Firaxis, but Dan isn't a programmer. He's, I believe, their PR manager or something like that, and he's the webmaster of civ3.com

Not any more, actually -- I'm working here as an associate producer and civ3.com is handled by Infogrames now, just FYI...

Dan

PS, I've done some programming, but no one's ever confused me with a programmer once they saw my code

	09-11-2002 00:44									#8
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Mr. associate producer Professionist,
Would you care to comment on why the AI doesn't use the luxury slider? That really hurts its performance, and Soren doesn't seem to hang out with us here any more.

	09-11-2002 01:01									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS civ3.com is handled by Infogrames now

Is that why it has been uninformative and rarely updated for weeks and weeks? ....

OK, they've done a good update now, I know.

	09-11-2002 01:04									#10
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quote: Originally posted by alexman Mr. associate producer Professionist, Would you care to comment on why the AI doesn't use the luxury slider? That really hurts its performance, and Soren doesn't seem to hang out with us here any more.

Perhaps he`s off coding somewheres...for a new game, maybe?

	09-11-2002 01:09									#11
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quote: Originally posted by alexman Mr. associate producer Professionist, Would you care to comment on why the AI doesn't use the luxury slider? That really hurts its performance, and Soren doesn't seem to hang out with us here any more.

I really couldn't say.. even though I'm in production now, Civ is not the project on which I'm... productivizing (?)


Dan

	09-11-2002 01:11									#12
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And what might you be productifivizing?

	09-11-2002 01:37									#13
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Oh, how to be young and gullible again...

	09-11-2002 01:49									#14
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quote: Originally posted by CapTVK Oh, how to be young and gullible again...

Yeah Cap, being old and gullible must really suck.

	09-11-2002 03:15									#15
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quote: Originally posted by alexman Mr. associate producer Professionist, Would you care to comment on why the AI doesn't use the luxury slider? That really hurts its performance, and Soren doesn't seem to hang out with us here any more.

Soren just said on another thread that the lux slider was a potential trap and that is why it is not used. It is just to tricky.

	09-11-2002 19:27									#16
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Dan, just a thought, if you no longer handle civ3.com, you could become one of the Apolyton's regulars and post here like 40 times a day .

	11-11-2002 12:52									#17
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What excatly is an associated producer? Or a producer for that matter? Is it something similar to a Project leader/manager?

So long...

	11-11-2002 18:23									#18
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quote: Originally posted by The Pioneer What excatly is an associated producer? Or a producer for that matter? Is it something similar to a Project leader/manager? So long...

Hi Pioneer,

You're right, that's exactly what a producer is in this business. Usually each product has a producer who is ultimately responsible for it. A lot of the time this means stuff like doing plans in Microsoft Project and timetracking the team, but it also means things like helping with design docs, testing, etc.. -- basically it's a producer's job to make sure nothing "falls through the cracks" so to speak.

Dan

	11-11-2002 18:27									#19
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Okay I get it - this is a thread for bad English speakers

	11-11-2002 18:27									#20
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basically it's just a way for managers to know instantly who to fire when something goes wrong, so that they can safely say that they did something about the failure

	11-11-2002 19:10									#21
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associate producer = scapegoat?

	11-11-2002 19:13									#22
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when producers realise the... reality of their position, they ask for an associate producer to "help them"(=take the fall if needed)

	11-11-2002 19:54									#23
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG basically it's just a way for managers to know instantly who to fire when something goes wrong, so that they can safely say that they did something about the failure

So now who was the associate producer of the MP part of PTW?

	11-11-2002 20:02									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS Hi Pioneer, You're right, that's exactly what a producer is in this business. Usually each product has a producer who is ultimately responsible for it. A lot of the time this means stuff like doing plans in Microsoft Project and timetracking the team, but it also means things like helping with design docs, testing, etc.. -- basically it's a producer's job to make sure nothing "falls through the cracks" so to speak. Dan

I do something similar at work but my name is by no means as glamorous! I originally thought that the producers of a movie, game, etc. are people that put a project together from idea to finish and most importantly they also invested in financial terms!

Anyway, since I know you will be reading this Dan I'd like to say thank you for a great game.

So long...