User:Phexter

Welcome
I'm Jan, or phexter, whatever you prefer. I'm a 32 yr old geek hailing from Germany, Lower Saxony. I'm a huge fantasy and especially science fiction and cyperpunk fan. Currently my ingame lastname is Ealdriac although I am still undecided wether to change it to something different after the upcoming wipe of not.

Career
I worked as software engineer and later as a web designer, eventually starting working as freelancer for GUI and interface design mostly for web based applications for some years.

Hobbies
In my sparetime I enjoy playing MMORPGs and seldomly some strategic games like Supreme Commander. Besides that I do enjoy reading novels (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Wheel of Time, Works of Clive Barker, to name a few) quite alot, as well as programming useless stuff and/or experimenting/learning new programming languages like Ruby, C#, Python, Smalltalk.NET, etc. for the fun of it. Finally I sometimes do enjoy playing around with Photoshop and/or Illustrator and do something visually creative, also I can't claim to be very talented and thus I seldom come up with something really appealing ;) Once up a time I also enjoyed playing pen & paper Roleplaying Games like Dungeons & Dragons, Cyberpunk 2020, Earthdawn and many more, unfortunately for the last couple of years I wasn't able to find a group to play with.

MMORPG History
I've been playing and/or still play and at least another dozen I forgot about. I've been a beta tester for World of Warcraft, The Saga of Ryzom, Guildwars, Cabal Online, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar and a couple more nameless - korean - MMORPGs.
 * Ultima Online,
 * Anarchy Online,
 * Asheron's Call 2,
 * Star Wars Galaxies,
 * Shadowbane,
 * PlanetSide,
 * World of Warcraft,
 * Guildwars,
 * EverQuest,
 * EverQuest II,
 * Vanguard:Saga of Heroes,
 * City of Heroes/Villains,
 * Rappelz,
 * The Saga of Ryzom,
 * Cabal Online,
 * Auto Assault (trial),
 * Dungeons & Dragons: Stormreach,
 * The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar,

On Tabula Rasa
Concerning Tabula Rasa I am somewhat reserved. I had very high hopes of the game, but when I was able to hit beta I got somewhat disappointed. While there are alot of things I do really appreciate about the game, I fail - at least currently - to reckognize the truely new and refreshing elements so far. But then, I haven't been able to test as much as I wanted to and I made it to past 10+ only, yet. So there's plenty more to see for me. Last but not least, I still think Tabula Rasa is going to be a great game, don't misunderstand me ;)

About TaRapedia
Unfortunately I am not sure how much time I actually have in the near future, and therefore how much I actually can do on the wiki, but I try to do a little bit while I can. What I usually prefer to do is working on the basic infrastructure like for example Templates and Category organization and stuff like that to build a strong and extensible basis for the wiki. But before I even consider laying my hand on any template I first take my time trying to understand how the wiki has evolved already and meanwhile correct, extend, and add some content here and there.