Promoting Anti-Cheat Culture is Everyone’s Responsibility.

Hello,

Starfighter General is Free To Play and I want to keep it that way for good. There is a chance malicious hackers could attack our server, clients and scam our players. If this becomes an issue, you need to make it so hackers lose more than they gain. Obviously player accounts found hacking proven by software will be banned. We have some flawless detectors and even will double check with game masters. Do not hack. Being able to say auto aim or auto dodge a few shots is nothing compared to the power you gain from a weeks worth of play, let alone years. Don’t lose years worth of playing honestly to throw it all away hacking, cheaters never win, not on Earth, not in the spirit realm. Be true to yourself.

Players are less willing to even TRY a hack in risk of getting banned. Let’s be clear, TRYING a hack, is USING a hack. If you TRY a cheat hack and get banned, you got banned because you USED a cheat hack. Do not even try it. Do not risk it. If you like a game or sport, you never cheat in it or it is no longer sporting. Some people use the “excuse”, they were just TRYING a hack, nah, that doesn’t fly. If you just wanted to see if you can get away with a cheat, and you get caught, you got caught cheating. Cheaters get banned. And everyone in the player base is happy, except yourself who gave in to evil selfish desires.

In addition to players being banned, hackers making new hacks will be sometimes caught in the process. If they are caught, hackers normally just VPN a new account and keep at it. The only thing that slows them is a pay wall or leveling wall. Part of discouraging cheat makers is having them lose more than they gain. I want to keep Starfighter General free to play always. But if we need to wack a mole these cheat makers, we may have to make new players pay to play. Old players with semi active accounts will not have to pay the fee, just new players to discourage hackers.

These two tactics of banning players and putting up a pay wall act together in tandem. Cheat hack makers realize it costs them money and a lot of work… And the players ain’t buying their cheat hacks it anyway because they’d rather honor the God of Love and Truth and enjoy a game. Once you take away all the rules, say everyone gets invulnerability, infinite resources and nothing is a challenge… It ceases to be fun. The reason you do not cheat goes further than it being the right thing or not. The reason you cheat is so you can enjoy your game or sport at all. Be moral. Be honest. Cultivate and encourage respect of rules in games.

Anti-Cheat is very important to me. I was #1 in the world at Starcraft in 1999, but quit because of the map hackers and win traders on Battle.net. The #2 guy went to Korea and won for 3 years straight. I would have loved to have had a chance to compete with him live for he never beat me online even once. Yet I was not aware of these tournaments for I thought Starcraft died because of the cheat hackers.

Cheat hackers have been ruining games for ages, and our gamer culture needs to be very oppositional against them. Some of these guys even send out spam emails pretending to be the company so they can get your password and take all your equipment and sell on ebay. Well I’m 100% for allowing you guys to sell on ebay! But I do not want evil slimeballs robbing little kids of their possessions. People used to go,”But it is just virtual items, it ain’t like real stealing.” If you’re selling on ebay then the stolen goods are of value and it is real stealing.

Look, I don’t mind if you buy or sell anything anywhere in game or out of game. My fellow devs are encouraging me to get my own crypto currency in game. We want to do lots of cool stuff for the community. If you want to make a living being a jerk pirate in game and sell people’s stuff you looted after you blew up their ships, go for, that is within the rules. If you cheat and have everyone blow up, make stuff on the server, or steal people’s accounts, this hurts other players and is not fair. We have a very aggressive anti-cheater stance, and this post is so players too understand they should take one too.

Cheaters never win. God sees all.

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Before Pinky and The Brain, The Parapalegic Mice Team existed, and I told everyone in my school for weeks in hopes someone knew someone at WB/Disney/HB to make a tv show of two mice taking over the world. Next Year Pinky and The Brain was out.

1) 10-1000x things rendered with new DOTS/ECS UNITY tech that unlocks more than just one core that most video games use: Parallel Processing done right.

2) Networking that pushes the envelope where no networking has gone before. People laugh at this like it is impossible to innovate, but I marketed it to Midway in 2003, and they laughed too. Meanwhile it was working in house as a Tekken style(3d fighter) MMO with part of what today is known as rollback code. Midway’s manager was mocking what is today’s standard thinking rollback and such was impossible. Infinite action players same zone, limit only by video card and other hardware, networking ain’t a limiting thing anymore.

3) Lore/Game Mechanics based on a custom TTRPG (Intergalactic Bounty Hunter) that most everyone liked more than any RPG. RPG rules are based on Wasteland from the Commodore 64 set in space. The space flight is the spiritual successor of 90s DOS Xwing vs Tiefighter hits that everyone was disappointed ended. I had to make my own RPG, Dungeons and Dragons armor not reducing damage did not sit well.

4) First MMO designed for late game. Everyone enjoys mmos until power capped and then get bored.
There is no power cap to begin with(just a log log logarithmic progression), but there are many many many other end game design elements to make it so want to keep playing end game! The grind is there, but better and more fun things are around too! You can build up a super big fleet and it get destroyed to pieces and you start over again. You have a power floor level that you can’t go below so you’re always building permanent power, but temporary spikes of power surges and galactic dominance for fleeting moments give a rush. The larger the fleet, the larger the fleeting moment.

5) Easter Eggs: Will contain literal Easter Eggs. You find an Easter Egg in a quest. Then you hide somewhere in space. Every day it isn’t found by another player, you get a daily reward that increases. When they find it, they get an instant reward! Then the egg comes back to you. Enjoy. Go find some place obscure in the game, space is big.

6) Space Dungeons: Competitive zones with different rules, find em, dominate em, and can you find the clues around space to find the one which will be dropping special event rewards?

7) Resource Trading like Elite, but also factory building like Factorio and Satisfactory. Your economy and drones can build stuff up, but make sure no pirate, NPC or player tries to sabotage your supply chain. There will be illegal substances like fictitious drugs and contraband weapons which you can profit from greatly, but you risk your cargo being scanned by a random and getting a bounty on your head.

8) PVP bounty system. Everyone can PVP at all times. Stakes are low if your ship explodes. If you get attacked without declaring aggressive mode or an opponent to duel, the aggressor gets a bounty on their head in accordance with the damage dealt to you. If this bounty gets high enough, and they get caught, they will be put in jail. When they log on for the next few hours or days, their character can play only in jail, and visitors come see him and such. Enjoy roleplaying being a prison inmate, or just use a different crew member on your account. Developing many crew members is a thing for when you fly capital ships.

9) Grand Space Opera-> 4x emperors around you trying to conquer the galaxy like Master of Orion on a 500 billionish system scale! They ain’t even players at first, just NPCs waging war. Who’s side will you choose? Will it be based on morality or space bucks? Ok soldier of fortune, what it will be? Do it for the money, until you realize money doesn’t mean anything living under a totalitarian empire.

10) Omnipotent roleplay: Earn your right into a a movie anime by great roleplay! Live game masters in about 6-12 months after the content updates roll through. We bias people with Founder’s RP tokens some and good manner role players who stay in character(we have chat logs and even game logs). This promotes good role play even when not live GMing. Who doesn’t want to bring their friends to a movie and surprise em with their own character in it? So stay in character for a better game! https://www.starfightergeneral.com/live-role-play/

Punky-Pulpy action, Levels, stats, skills, talents, items, fleet amassing, and great apocalyptic space plots, trippy Lewis Carrol level Mad Hatter humor along the way. It’s really weird to see how this synergizes from a game design standpoint. Players naturally want to level up and power up… That’s the twink min maxer in all of us. So when humor, plots, intrigue, or NPCs getting your blood boiling to action vs them happens, you get stoked, rewarded, happy and tossed off your axis. Then when resolved, you look back and get serious about powering up. The core of a RPG gamer is always powering up, it is something we can’t get rid of, but the core of a game designer is to get you out of a spreadsheet mindset temporarily… And then you appreciate both more. So tacky humor, along serious pulp action and serious leveling up game mechanics… It is like a symphony of fun.

Game made by a soul gamer out for the player’s best interest. 150,000 hours experience #1 in many online ladders world. I don’t care about money. I just want to play games and help the poor and sick. I want you to have faith in the spirit of love.

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