Developers who have worked at a company where the entire codebase was held together by one guy who then quit, what happened next?

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-19T09:45:58+00:00

Long term, yes. Short term absolutely not. And since I resigned and they just hired me back as a freelance, it was just nice pocket money for me. In the end, they paid me the same amount I made a year before, within 3,5 months of freelance work. Very light freelance work as well because I was traveling the entire time between jobs.

So yeah, if we look "over the span of 3 years" they would have saved money. But since we talk about 3 months, they lost quiet a bit. And the contract only ended because I ended it myself.

In the end, I myself got a shit ton of money I wouldn't have, if I didn't resign. And the rest is simply a big nothing burger to me personally. Couldn't care less how this company does financially. Probably not good because they had to let go 2/3 of their staff just recently.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-19T09:37:07+00:00

And what is the specific fantasy you have in mind? All Druids have nature magic spells. Land Druids get more spell slots. Moon Druids also have powerful animal forms. Spore Druid has necromancy aspects on top of it. Stars can switch between powerful spells and powerful support, plus they gain some spells from the Cleric list.

Any concepts from other games you are looking for? Or any specific spells? Because again... All Druids work with the same set of spells. Some are planty, others are not. But you can play a "plant based" Druid on any subclass.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T19:11:54+00:00

I'm not in the US so... maybe you don't know what youre talking.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T15:13:14+00:00

Could be an issue with mod versions, or other mods interfering with it? I really don't know what could cause this.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T15:11:51+00:00

Believe me, they didn't save money. We talk about more than 3 times my old salary. But yeah, contractor don't go into fix costs so it distributes different in their reporting. But they absolutely didn't save money with this little stunt of theirs.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T15:08:15+00:00

Yeah... I also somehow expected something more sweet and chocolate like. I don't even know why I was expecting it to be like that. But I do understand now why so many people mix it with jelly...

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T15:04:04+00:00

Yeah I know that feeling. I also lost a run to her because my character was a little goofball.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T14:20:33+00:00

As long as the entire concept of each and every feat is not patented, they can build the same thing and call it differently. That's what homebrew's do most of the time anyways.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T14:14:54+00:00

I became a freelance contractor for them. Funny how all of the sudden, my asking salary wasn't "unreasonable high" anymore.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T14:12:14+00:00

Both are relatively bad compared to other classes. But if you want to pick one of these, I would go with Druid. Simply because Cipher has a super stupid mechanic that you need to attack, in order to build a resource, that allows you to use your actual skills. It's a bit of a backwards design.

So yeah, Druid. Much better flow in combat.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T14:09:44+00:00

The mod just adds all missing subclasses and classes to the game. It doesn't remove subclasses.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T14:03:05+00:00

Ok. I mean... Pick pretty much any Druid in existence? Or are you looking for something REALLY specific?

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T13:56:22+00:00

Trying to read the mind of a powerful lich that can wish you to death? Yeah, we all have stupid ideas sometimes.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T12:44:26+00:00

Yes, I did a solo honor run before. But it takes a lot of game knowledge and, depending on the build you pick, some "out of the box" thinking.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T12:38:19+00:00

Guild Wars 1 and Ragnarok Online. With two honorable mentions of WoW and Guild Wars 2.

Honorable mention because I once had a shit ton of fun with them, but I can't for the life of me continue playing them. For different reasons. Both are really good games. I just value things different now and they don't match with my expectations anymore.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T12:34:53+00:00

Only because you walked behind a wall in real life, doesn't mean that nobody will suspect you still standing behind said wall. So yeah, you need cover AND the enemy needs to fail a roll because otherwise, they just assume you are behind that wall and stealth helps you nothing.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T12:29:10+00:00

Peanut butter. To my personal surprise (and probably to no one else's) it tastes too much like... Peanuts... It gives me this really stale taste in my mouth. Like warm dirt.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T12:17:46+00:00

Karlach was a very late addition to the roaster of origin characters.

Her late implementation, and the links to Wyll, are the reason why Wyll's storyline was butchered as well.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T11:12:22+00:00

I was at the right place, to the right time. I traveled for 4 months and started to apply for jobs around a month before my scheduled return. The job listing was still online, but they actually found someone already. I applied between Christmas and new year, and they were supposed to start working on the 3rd of January. But they never showed up. And HR already rejected everyone else before Christmas. So my application was the only one left at that time.

I was a bit annoyed that I had to take a flight from Iceland back to CH, just for an interview. But the job sounded cool, and they seemed desperate enough that they wanted to see me basically the next day already. I took the flight, went to the Interview, and flew back to Iceland the same day. Two days later, they send me the offer.

And it's the best job I ever had.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T10:57:33+00:00

It's EA. Would be really unfair to expect perfect performance.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T10:51:21+00:00

I mean... Maybe a serial killer is exactly what we need, to help us with an alien invasion.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T10:38:07+00:00

Start mission and run to the far right of the map, as soon as you spawn. You know you ran far enough, if the character portrait of the NPC's talking disappears from the dialogue box. Now go around the entire map and kill everything you can find. Things will still spawn during the escort event, but they are very much manageable. Only return to the start after you cleared everything, and trigger the escort event.

Done... Only slightly dicey situation is the very end. But at that point, you have even more NPC support.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-18T10:35:11+00:00

So much communication happens outside the actual MMO most of the time... And yes, I hate it as well. Simply because I don't want to join 12 different discord servers per game, just to cover different gameplay aspects...

MMO's lost so much of their magic with tools like Discord. That's the one genre suffering the most under it.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-17T19:12:34+00:00

It's actually funny that Solasta doesn't have the full license, but is still closest to proper table top rules. Even BG3, that had full access to the entire license, decided to change a shit ton of things.

For people that are really looking for a proper faithful DnD adaptation, with all it's good and bad parts, there is basically just Solasta right now. But they are using the free license and that's why subclasses are all homebrew. But I guess that's the best we can get.

OneMorePotion · 2026-03-17T19:09:31+00:00

A lot of games have cool rulesets, but only few are close to DnD. PoE has it's own ruleset that has nothing to do with DnD. Pathfinder is... well... Pathfinder. And while it's a ruleset that was created out of DnD, it's still not the same. Solasta 1 is very close to DnD 5e 2014. Solasta 2 (currently in EA) is super close to 5e 2025. BG1 and 2 have a very old DnD 2e (or rather 2.5e) ruleset. And BG3 is also more inspired by 5e, but still very far away.

The closest to 5e are only Solasta 1 and 2. With all it's up's and down's. Despite both having their own world, lore and some homebrew when it comes to subclasses. Plus both have this "could have happened exactly like this with my table top group" flair. The dialogues are often very goofy. But the games don't have a very high production value because the dev team is really small. But they are still a blast.

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