Darth Hater

Darth Hater currently has several open positions for those seeking to become a part of our team, get some potential exposure in the gaming industry, or just want to lend some time helping us follow Star Wars: The Old Republic. As we all have day jobs, all positions require a minimum 4-6 hour weekly commitment. We all work as a virtual team and use various web services to track time and the status of projects we work on, so you must have a reliable high speed internet connection as well as a working microphone. You must be at least 21 years old, and willing to sign and uphold confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.

Send an e-mail with the position you are applying for as the SUBJECT line to jobs@darthhater.com, and include the following information, as well as examples of your work to fulfill the description requirements:

• Full Name
• Official Forum Name
• Registered Darth Hater Name
• Time Zone
• Date of Birth
• Phone Number
• Email Address

We recently pushed an update to our DarthHaterDB with support for all of the new 1.1 data as well as a number of bug fixes. It contains the following fixes:

• Added 1.1 Data
• Added filters for items and spells changed in a patch
• Added the moddable color to moddable gear
• Fixed up the social ratings
• Added gender required to tooltips
• Fixed Range on spell tooltips
• Added resource cost to spell tooltips
• Fixed a bug when removing abilities from the skill calc
• Fixed the skill calc page title
• Fixed Dromund kaas map
• Added missing weapon types
• Added more crew mission drops
• Filter advanced class and companion choices on profile form
• Enabled users to submit corrections, Link on Comment form 

As part of our effort to make the Darth Hater DB the best database out there, we deployed a whole new slew of updates/upgrades to the code that should make the user experience a better and more enjoyable one. Along with those updates come a few new features that should be big ones for the community at large. 

• New Feature: Item Sets! We now have a list of item sets, and have properly included item set info in item tooltips. Example: http://db.darthhater.com/itemsets/
• New Feature: Users can now customize spell tooltips, for their level and stats. Ex: http://db.darthhater.com/abilities/910/death_from_above/
• Added skill requirements to item tooltips.
• Added armor rating to item mod tooltips. 
• Added a 'Back to Darth Hater' link on top of page.
• Added sub-types to recipes.
• Hid codex entries that were invalid and added missing ones.
• Added object map to the codex page.
• Added some missing NPCs.
• Added a moderator tool to set NPC locations.
• Added new item categories, and fixed modification and weapon category menus.
• Added support for diffs and tooltip history.
• Added a label for items that are not actually in the game yet.
• Fixed the ordering of skill trees.
• For objects that have maps, the map will now appear on the object detail page.
• Added crew mission rewards.
• Fixed item description and now have screenshot filters.

We hope you all find the update to your liking. Should you find any issues, feel free to let us know here.

Last month, Curse and Darth Hater launched a community participation contest meant to reward active and helpful Darth Hater DB users! Today we're happy to announce the winners!

 is LFM! We’re growing quickly and actively hiring for our Engineering, Sales, Content, IT and Marketing teams!

At Curse, you will have the opportunity to work with a young, growing team of passionate and talented individuals making a living doing what they love. Read on for a list of the available positions.

In our effort to make Darth Hater the number one destination for all things Star Wars: The Old Republic, we have recently added a new feature, our own Dev Tracker. With the inclusion of this new feature, users can see, filter, search, track and receive updates from the latest developer posts on the official forum without having to leave your home for SWTOR. Here are just a few of the many features you will find inside:

• Inclusion of Legacy Forums dating back to October 2008!
• Category filters
• RSS for all categories
• Text search
• Activity indicator
• Sort results by  Subject, Activity, Latest Post
• Incremental update times around 30 seconds for ALL SWTOR forums.

We invite you all to hammer at our new Dev Tracker and hope you find it to your liking. If you find it useful, tell a friend.

As early access continues and more people are getting to play Star Wars: The Old Republic, Curse has put together a couple videos to celebrate the approaching launch of the game. 

The first video introduces a contest that will award one lucky winner a copy of The Art and Making of Star Wars: The Old Republic. This 160-page hardcover book is filled with art from the game ranging from very early concept models to final versions that appear in the game. In addition to the wonderful visuals, the book contains some great insight into how BioWare got involved with the title, how Knights of the Old Republic influenced SWTOR and what it takes to become a writer for BioWare. Please visit the official sweepstakes page for full details and rules.

The second video follows Pico from Curse around a mysterious alien world as she asks its inhabitants whether they've pre-ordered SWTOR, their thoughts on the planet, and for their best Chewbacca impersonations.

Full videos after the jump.

Today the Darth Hater team applied several updates to our ever evolving database, including updates to the map system, quests, NPCs and user submitted content. Detailed information regarding what changed, as well as links to the relevant pages are after the jump.