Leading target with lasers took 20 hours

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Bonus: A story about my video game play: I trained 10 hours a day for 2 full decades starting in 1980. People knew even in the arcades, I was not of this world. I didn’t like the movie “The Wizard” because it was not believable. People thought of a top notch video gamer as a kid was unbelievable, nah… What was unbelievable was him travelling in a bus to a tourney… None were around anywhere. I spent all of 1980-1989 practicing for a tourney and only the Nintendo World Championships come out. I was told I was the #1 score in Pittsburgh at 12 years old that didn’t use Turtle Tip. I wish records were around of that event, you can’t find em since Nintendo was embarrassed people abused Turtle Tip. Huge line for Mario 3. So I played other games. It was a glorious time though, played Contra 2. LOTS of fun games. The most fun, and still the most fun to this day in my book: River City Ransom. Combat was better NES, but River City Girls has a legit funny and very well done storyline. Also I rember Gargoyle Quest for Gameboy being awesome……………………………………………. Then eight more years, trying to make a MMORPG in my PNP RPG my friends said was more fun than D&D, Gurps, Paranoia, Vampire the Masquerade, GhostBusters, TMNT, you name it we played most of em, and they loved my game. I quit trying to make my game when UO came out, for I knew how MMORPG communities are fickle and they had better graphics. So I was #1 on ladder, no one wanted to mess with me, but before this tourney my opponent knew he was no match for me on a heads up fight, so he spygated like Patriots in football my builds. I should have expected 4 pool since he kept going on and on how he doesn’t expect to win, and more people than not on Battle.net knew I was the dominant favorite. He won that four pool. Then he won on my boss map, where I did DT drop + corsair air superiority. I was 72-0 that season on Dire Straights, but he had a spy know my build. He picked random on Dire, ended up as terran. Was in the last place I scouted, when my shuttle went home with DT, it got killed by missile turrets just going up on his fast expand. He literally was gifted the most perfect opener.

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.

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.

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.

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.