Designed For End Game Content : EASTER EGGS

Everything about Starfighter General is designed for the long haul of decades of play. I don’t want you bored. Level caps? Boring. We don’t have em, instead logarithmic leveling curves that have diminishing returns of power at higher levels. A dedication to role play encouraged by the best role players get placed to live game masters = designed for end game content. I have many more things designed for end game. So let us discuss Starfighter General Easter Eggs.

In Starfighter General, an Easter Egg is a hidden item you find in game called an Easter Egg. There are various colors. shapes, sizes and designs. Each one gives you a reward when you find it and it goes in your inventory. At any place in the game, you can remove it from your inventory to “HIDE THE EASTER EGG”. At this point, every day that passes, you will get an ever increasing daily reward according to the type of Easter Egg that was dropped. The longer the egg stays hidden, the bigger your daily reward. Once someone finds the Easter Egg, they get rewarded immediately in proportion to how long it stayed hidden. What they get rewarded depends on the type.

I shared this idea with RIOT MMORPG game designers on Linkedin, as we shared that modern MMOS must be designed for end game. No one wants to grind their way to a brick wall of nothing to do. I always let people use my ideas for free and no compensation. I want games better for all, money is just a by product of making a good game.

Update on the Foundation Patch I finished last week: Unity has a problem where it can’t compile standalones very well. So I’m 8 days and over 40 hours into this… I’m making some progress, but not done.

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.