First Episode: Dimensional Disalignment

The dimensional portal is waxing, but the focus is not on the Prime Dimension yet. Billions of somewhat disconnected dimensions are coalescing towards the Prime. You can encounter phantom players intractable with strange phenomena and unpredictability. Enemies you encounter may not be seen in their dimension, and enemies in your dimension may be fighting against them without you knowing. Oddities and absurdities abound in the first release of Starfighter General. No one is certain what is going on in the flux that is the dimensional disalignment, but the progress is steady, marching steady, unstoppably towards a singular Prime Dimension.

The desire to acquire goods, power, resources and alliances is at an all time high now for this will set the stage for global peace, war, domination, uneasy rest or standoffs… He who controls the Prime Dimension controls all other dimensions, time, space and maybe even can explore realms outside the universe. Could mortal men peer into Heaven, Hell, and all the Salvador Dali absurdities in between? Would they remain mortal? This ultimate power cannot be conceded to anyone. It can not be trusted to anyone, or any group… especially considering every perceivable reality by which the Prime Dimension can reach can be reached by them. The emphasis for haste to control cannot be overstated, things beyond your worst night mares and best hopes and dreams are warring for control of all reality historically, rehistorically, prehistorically, and posthistorically. Will things ever be the same as they will be? Can things remain normal… Or will you find out that maybe in the depths of all possible realities, you’re not normal after all, or is normal just what people who have control are? Of things perceived and things fascinated, ones own reality when threatened by all other realities throws caution to the wind for there is no safety. Security is an illusion, even more so when the unknown threat is all threats you can imagine and beyond. The only way forward is to run and maybe gun from the hip with your best choices you can as things unknown unfold like unmet flowers of anomalies in the gardens of nebulae near and far.

First Episode: Dimensional Disalignment

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.