Professor420

Professor420 was formerly a Civitates, Artifex, and Patrician, but resigned his rank when he lost hope with the current state of the Curia. He did receive the rank of Opifex during the Team Opifex awards, however. He has been repeatedly suspended for various activities, mostly for brief times only.

Modding Career

Prof was for two years the art director of the Fourth Age: Total War-modification, until he resigned his position in order to make his own next-generation video game; Blood & Iron. Development has now stopped, but tech demos can be downloaded from his site at [1].

After resigning from Fourth Age: Total War, Prof has created a series of Video Tutorials for modelling Rome: Total War units in 3DS Max.

Views on the Curia

Professor420 was in the past critical of former members of the Hexagon Council, and argued that more power should be given to the Curia. However, he has reversed his position due to the concurrent factors of a Curia that has proved incapable of governing and a Hex that is functional, efficient, and avoiding of politics. He has also proposed various fundamental structural changes to the Curia, such as opening it up to all members.

Return to Curia and Curator election

In early September of 2007, a bill was passed that ensured a Civitate could retake his rank even after resigning from it, at any time. When Professor420 attempted this a controversy ensued--some argued he was not eligible for Civitateship due to his past warnings, while others argued he should be allowed in regardless. Not long after, the Black Prince, who was the incumbent Curator, resigned. An Election was launched and Professor420 was one of the two Candidates who applied, his application can be found here. As the election ran its course, Professor420 was given a warning and was as a result brought before the CDeC. Just one day before the election was to end the CdeC passed judgement and he was suspended from citizenship for a week (see here). As a result he would technically not be able to immediately take office as Curator if he won the election. Due to various issues tBP was unsure of how to act and posted a thread here requesting clarification.

Shortly thereafter in an interesting decision by the incumbent curator, the vote was halted and Narses declared the winner. At that stage the vote was tied and various people had stated they had yet to vote. The halting of the vote was apparently due to the technicality that Professor420 may not have been able to fulfill some of the duties expected of the curator during the 5 days remaining of his suspension of rank. Debates continued as to whether or not Professer420 could be expected to do his Job as Curator. Cancellation of vote was subsequently vetoed by Staff, and Professer420 won the election for Curator 36:35 in his favor.

However, shortly after this Prof posted a thread in the Questions and Suggestion forum stating his displeasure about winning the Election the way he did. He stated actions of the previous Curator forced a Civitate that otherwise wouldn't of voted to do so. You can find the thread here

Over the time Professor was suspended from Citizenship, IMB39 acted as Emergency Curator. Shortly after his suspension ended, Professor resigned the position of Curator, as he was taking a break from TWC. In a controversial decision, Professor interpreted the Constitution to disqualify himself from the Rank, thereby making Narses the new Curator by default. Arguments immediately popped up as to whether this was Constitutional or not, as it is the Curator's job to interpret the Constitution, but what he did was also a Paradox of sorts. You can find the thread where Professor resigned here