StarCitizen:John Pritchett

John Pritchett on Meet the Devs in 2015-05-19

John "Zyrain" Pritchett was a Senior Physics Programmer in StarCitizen:CIG Los Angeles. He worked in CIG from November 2013<ref name="meetthedev">Meet the Devs: John Pritchett Template:Trx</ref> to June 2018.<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 or StarCitizen: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> In 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, https://massivelyop.com/, July 5, 2018</ref><ref>FAKE NEWS - John Pritchett Speaks Out</ref>

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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"/>
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"/>
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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"/>