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<blockquote data-quote="turkeygiant" data-source="post: 7655735" data-attributes="member: 6787083">I'm not sure why they have such a giant team developing this project? Seems huge for what they are designing.&quot;The Trapdoor team working on Morningstar consists of six senior-level developers, a creative director who leads both UX and visual design efforts, a web developer, a production artist, a data entry specialist, a content architect, two QA engineers, three support and social media staff, and a number of contract folks for specialized tasks. These are full-time employees dedicated to the project - far from a skeleton crew. Throw in a commercial-grade infrastructure - we have 9 dedicated Linux servers for the project - and a fully-stocked QA lab with scores of tablets, phones, etc. for testing, and you can quickly see how $425,000 is a real world target. Trapdoor is a commercial software development company, and this is how we approach large projects. We have already invested $1.2M in the project to date.&quot;They are already $1.2M into this project, and they want ANOTHER $425,000 just between now and April to finish it, I want to get paid on their salary scale!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="turkeygiant, post: 7655735, member: 6787083"] I'm not sure why they have such a giant team developing this project? Seems huge for what they are designing. "[COLOR=#0F2105][FONT=Helvetica Neue]The Trapdoor team working on Morningstar consists of six senior-level developers, a creative director who leads both UX and visual design efforts, a web developer, a production artist, a data entry specialist, a content architect, two QA engineers, three support and social media staff, and a number of contract folks for specialized tasks. These are full-time employees dedicated to the project - far from a skeleton crew. Throw in a commercial-grade infrastructure - we have 9 dedicated Linux servers for the project - and a fully-stocked QA lab with scores of tablets, phones, etc. for testing, and you can quickly see how $425,000 is a real world target. Trapdoor is a commercial software development company, and this is how we approach large projects. We have already invested $1.2M in the project to date." [/FONT][/COLOR]They are already $1.2M into this project, and they want ANOTHER $425,000 just between now and April to finish it, I want to get paid on their salary scale! [/QUOTE]

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