Super Zeros – Starfighter General

Rumor has it that the dimensional alignment afforded in The Prime Dimension allows for super powers. Other rumors say that super powers are allowed by spiritual forces. Other rumors say science fiction has become reality and allows for super powers. Other rumors are that you can buy a weasel in California if you ask in pet stores about their illegal ferret trading ring in the back.

Rumors are rumors, but super powers are real in Starfighter General… How do you acquire them? You need to find out if you even want them… Look at the famous super heroes of the Starfighter General universe.

Magnetic Arm Man:

Magnetic Arm Man is a dwarf of a man in stature who is an engineer. He lost his arm to a tragic incident with an automatic door with the safety locks he turned off. He read some manuals online how to make a cybernetic arm, but something went different.

His arm works functionally like a cybernetic arm, but as he gets angry, it gains more strength. Unfortunately as he gets angry, it also gains more magnetism. So if his opponent makes him upset enough, he may get so magnetized that he goes flying to the nearest street lamp, building or random vehicle and gets stuck there until he’s no longer angry. Unfortunately for Magnetic Arm Man, he has not learned anger management yet, so the act of getting stuck out of a fight makes him irate and cursing like a Scottsman.

Repetitive Action Man:

Repetitive Action Man has both a blessing and a curse. If he ever does one sequence of actions three times in a row, he starts doing them faster and faster until acted upon by an outside force significant enough to knock him out of it. So if he punches three times with his left arm, he will keep doing that until shoved. If he forgets to throw a jive step in his walking, after three steps, he’ll be walking accelerating to an incredible rate of speed(still walking) until he hits something.

Optic Nerve Man:

This guy is blessed with regenerating eyes and nerves of steel. In fact he has a very very long amount of optic nerve… So much that he can shoot his eyes out and entangle his enemies like a lasso. Then poor guy has a hard time knowing what is going on even though his optic nerves are impenetrable to attack.

So take it or leave it… Super powers sound great on paper, until you have the ability to fall through floors or turn your car invisible making your insurance agency start to ask questions… Do you want super powers at all at this point? Is it worth the risk?

PS: You have 30 character slots, some characters will permanently be changed in the course of the game, but major issues and such you don’t want to avoid with like Gibblet Lycanthrope will be flagged to only ever apply to one character unless you choose different in options( Game Master Plot Discretion).

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.