MMO beta Permanent Progression – Starfighter General

As I strip features to get the MMO out asap, I ran into a problem I recently solved:

The problem is this: How do I allow you guys as players to have permanence through this beta phase that rolls into the live game? I don’t like betas that take everything away from you and start over, we can do better.

The solution to allowing you permanence is this:

1) You keep everything in your character and items just like the normal game even out of beta.

2) The universe around you may change at any moment as a dimensional fluxing universe would, but your character and items stay the same.

3) The only exception is there is an exploitative or bug induced data corruption or near infinite resource error. Then we roll you back until this is fixed.

By having these three rules, we allow you to have confidence to retain your character and progression, yet I do not have analysis-paralysis in design of the game that levels and zones stay permanent. And it works with the lore since the dimensional alignment is causing cosmic forces to shift,

I have a friend helping me with UI as we close in on a very stripped down launch by which will be the foundation on which we can update our way to get in all the techs we describe here: https://www.starfightergeneral.com/my-books-2/

Our goal is to bring you a stripped down launch asap so you can start getting some MMO progression. This philosophy affords me to essentially roll out in stages, changing the universe willy nilly if I have to so I am doing more than planning up front… Your character’s progress is of our utmost concern tho, as evidenced by we want you to keep your beta progress to live release!

Read more announcements: https://steamcommunity.com/app/658480

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.