Community Spotlight: Danicia 
Flying Lab Software’s Theresa Pudenz has the opportunity to talk with this month’s Community Spotlight, Danicia, in order to get to know her a little better and find out about her plans for her future as a Pirates of the Burning Sea rising star! Here’s the scoop!
What is the meaning of life?
(giggle) 42
When did you start gaming?
Like… all gaming?
Yep! And after you started gaming, how did you get into MMORPGs?
I always played board & card games. I started playing AD&D in 1988. Played a variety of table tops, CCGs. My first video game was Doom. I played on god mode because I couldn’t figure it out. I sucked so badly at Doom. I didn’t play another video game until The Sims (Not counting the arcade games of the early 80’s. I rocked Tempest and Stargate. ) While searching for mods for The Sims, I stumbled across the beta for The Sims Online.
What do you like about being in the Pirates of the Burning Sea community?
My favorite part of being in the PotBS community is how respectful it is. The developers really care about their game, their company and importantly, the players.
Have you planned out what kind of character you’ll create?
Yes! I joined the SMZS in April 2005. I love the crafting and economy and I’m a role player so it seemed natural to have a merchant. A Dutch merchant. Since the Dutch are NPC in the game, we’ve chosen to sign up “French” but will be RP’ing Dutch. I can never spell it right. :)
What’s the SMZS?
St. Maarten’s Zeevaarders Syndicaat http://www.smzs.org/Company.html.
Do you have your character’s name thought out?
Danicia van Wieren, Italian/Dutch Merchant of DOOOOM.
What part of Pirates of the Burning Sea are you most looking forward to?
The crafting and economy. Much more so the economy than the crafting, actually. I’d like to see a fully developed player based economy.
Hence the Merchant of DOOOOM!
After this point of the interview, we started talking about girly things and gummy bears, so I’ll spare you all. We eventually got back on course on a topic that brings a smile to faces of people in the community and Flying Lab Software employees nearly every day. When asking Danicia what her favorite part of the Forums was, the first response was Editable Aether. Although she hasn’t edited Aether, Danicia has actually made the greatest contribution to this initiative by taking the picture we all know and love! Her photo of Aether has spread far and wide throughout the internet and Photoshop alike, where our users have crafted new, creative iterations of Aether. For the people who don’t know, you can find this area of the forums here.
Thank you so much Danicia—We love you!
