Next two weeks prep to wiring in final MMO component.

Hello,

I’ve had multiplayer in Starfighter General already, works quite well. I need to hook it up for DOTS/ECS parallel programming. There’s some more things to consider too, so I’m easing into next patch carefully. What is nice is that lots of the updating of Unity/changing techs and organizing things takes incredibly long times of loading bars and Unity crashes that take waits. So it’s good for me to do other things as I prep, and the Tutorial Mission looks like fun to design.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe -Abraham Lincoln

I have a few story missions to make right out of the gate if time allows. What’s funny is that I actually code two versions of my same code base at the same time. Like I said, one is updating, getting ready incrementally for latest Unity techs, compiling to standalone issues, and all sorts of tech headaches new unstable Unity provides. I legit think it will take 2-4 days of changing options, running and relaunching Unity over and over to get stable. If you don’t believe me, I’ll live stream it later [This will turn into a link if I get a round to it].

The tutorial has me stoked to design storyline, it has some sci fi tropes/plots never seen. I want to spoil it here, but I’d be spoiling some of the best sci fi ever, can’t do that. While one version of Unity plods forward updating, the other I can code tutorials or clash things. It’s how you’d develop in a team of two, not stomping code another is working on, except I’m one person, working like I’m two inefficient devs, lol. This actually makes sense to someone out there, and sounds dumb, but is extremely high level.

I am going to make the tutorial story line as impactful emotionally as I can like Spielberg or Seinfeld would…. Start with the human side, get a bunch of funny/emotional, gut wrenching, impactful stuff… Then chain it all together. Anyone can write down a bunch of funny things that happen in their life and boom, they have The Hangover 9, but chaining them together ain’t much more work… The hard part is remembering to write all the funny/human/awesome stuff down. And when I came up with these ideas, I ran home to get working on em… Then I tripped off a step and wrenched my back, hooray, don’t have to go anyplace anyway.

NOW THAT THE EXCITING STUFF IS OVER, Here’s my boring TODO list:

1) Plenty of Ebay to get a little money to get gas and food.

2) help a friend turn an Adobe flash file to a .exe for Steam

3) Update my Brother printer driver . Update my Brother scanner driver. The IOT got hacked apparently. I think this is why M$ was talking about printer errors a few weeks back in updates. I’m just guessing there.

4) WOOO, while typing this, my first standalone with the new update and a patch is ready. Boring patch, bug fix, tech in, nothing new, but its a step!

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.