StarCitizen:John Pritchett
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John "Zyrain" Pritchett was a Senior Physics Programmer in CIG Los Angeles. He worked at CIG from November 2013 to June 2018.<ref name="meetthedev">Meet the Devs: John PritchettTemplate:Trx</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">Template:Cite RSI</ref>
Work at CIG
He was the main contributor to the various spacecraft flight simulation components, including the StarCitizen:Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) and the StarCitizen:Gravlev.<ref>Template:Cite RSI</ref><ref>Calling All Devs - Everything Flight Control and More</ref> He had been working remotely from his house in Kansas City.
In 2018-06-29, he left CIG because CIG needed to bring IFCS in house, and he was not able to relocate to CIG Los Angeles nor Foundry 42 Manchester to continue to manage IFCS. The development of IFCS was handed over to StarCitizen:David Colson in F42 Manchester.<ref name="ReferenceA" /><ref>John Pritchett's comment on relocation on the Facebook group. Archived 2018-06-29 on Reddit</ref>
On 2018-07-01, two days after John left CIG, an anonymous review from a Senior Physics Programmer was posted on Glassdoor.<ref>Anonymous review on Glassdoor</ref> It was later confirmed by John on his Facebook that it was a fake review to impersonate him.<ref>Former Star Citizen dev refutes fake Glassdoor review made by troll on his behalf, massivelyop.com, July 5, 2018</ref><ref>FAKE NEWS - John Pritchett Speaks Out</ref>
Other works
He was the co-author of TradeWars 2002 series. He received an e-mail from someone in the TradeWars community saying that StarCitizen:Pete Mackay had mentioned the TW2002 as an influence for him in the development of the Star Citizen's economy. He looked into SC and found out it is a StarCitizen:Chris Roberts game, so he contacted Pete and applied for the physics programmer position.<ref name="meetthedev" />
Trivia
- He played Wing Commander during college and wanted to apply to StarCitizen:Origin Systems.<ref name="meetthedev" />
- His favorite movie is Star Wars.<ref name="meetthedev" />
- His favorite video game is Template:WP.<ref name="meetthedev"/>
- His favorite ship in Star Citizen is the StarCitizen:Constellation because it was the first big ship that he did with the team, and it was really impressive to him, that he got to work with StarCitizen:Ryan Church.<ref name="meetthedev"/> He was the first person to fly the Constellation in game.<ref name="meetthedev" />
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