User:The original Liz

I'm actually a middle aged dad, my pirate Liz is/was named after my middle daughter who liked to watch me sail. I decided to just keep playing the same character.

Many old players recognize Liz when they see her sailing Fugitive Fox, because that's the only shipname I ever used in POTCO and now in TLOPO-- and also because there was a period when I was among the better captains in SVS.

I'm a 35 year IT veteran (as well as a military vet) and much of my IT experience centered on software development. I was a programmer for the Army, UPS, and a highly regulated pharmaceutical laboratory. In two of those I rose to development manager. So I can get pretty critical at times about POTCO (and now TLOPO)'s approach. They are famed for bugs, which was unacceptable where I worked. In my worlds, deploying software was done at low usage times so as not to risk interfering with the users (players), there was always a requirement to be able to roll-back to a previous version if there were problems, and most of all regression testing was required (making sure your new changes don't cause other new bugs by testing everything else.)

So if you see me grousing about TLOPO bugs and crashes, that's where I'm coming from. Free or not, game or business, there's no reason not to approach your development and deployments with some orderliness and professionalism.

My POTCO guild was Honorable Ones and we prided ourselves in being kind and respectful. We were also pretty good at SVS. I remember Bo was the GL and Kate Daggerfury was one of our several long time teammates. Some old time players have been on TLOPO lately and remember me even though I don't remember them. Some say they remembered me once they saw my ship. (I recreated my old pirate to look the same way, same name for her and for my ship Fugitive Fox.)  I had a lot of gunners coming and going-- which doesn't help my memory problem when I meet old players here in TLOPO!

I tried TLOPO guild SVS Originals which was supposed to be just what it sounds like. However GL Raze was very needlessly rude to me and someone I brought into it, so now I'm a free agent. Not what I found to be a people friendly group. Also.. there were players in there that most certainly were not originals anyway.

I've been in TLOPO a few years, but haven't really been online all that much. My wife and I both work and still have 3 teens in the house, so I can't play as often as I wish. Which means I don't have all the level VI ships I want yet, either. TLOPO has been so unstable / buggy that whenever I made time to go pirating it was just extra frustrating to keep getting rcrashed. Here during pandemic it seems more stable, so crossing fingers.

Look me up. Just check the open ships doing looting; it'll be me driving Fugitive Fox trying to save up for the top level ships for SVS, just in case SVS becomes popular again. I will be needing a small crew of gunners proficient with thunder, because I like to drive fast. That's how I was among the best; few could catch us to sink us.