Patch VI out, News Ticker with graphics

The news ticker at the bottom will constantly be getting more news items every patch.

Now it displays a fun or funny AI with the news item, and there many pictures per news item, sometimes over 200 to choose from randomly! This is to not get ya bored, but maybe stoked to see the next fat dolphin, or the next derpy looking guy with coffee that fried his brain. Its fun, funny and I needed to put it in, but it was mainly just to get addressables tech working.

Long story short, Addressables has about 5-6 bug you have to work on to get em to work. UNITY says these bugs do not exist, but other users say they do. I’ve seen em(cost me 500 hours of development time this year literally), didn’t know if I could work around em, but now I know I can use these for the long haul.

Since Addressables tech in, it opens many doors for the future.

Next two patches, exciting stuff:

VII) BUY/SELL/ROB of space stations and other actions like DOCK/Hail/Scan/ETC

VIII) Full Scale multiplayer code in. I have the most advanced multiplayer code on Earth, been sitting since 2004. I tried to sell it to a 2d fighter and they said it was impossible, despite I actively playing it with friends in an inhouse 3d fighter world MMO. Now all the 2 fighters use the rollback component I codiscovered. Long story short, multiplayer battles in Starfighter General will be bigger than any space game ever, and action oriented combat as well. You could have everyone on Earth play in one action zone, and you’re limited only by GPU and other hardware… Let that sink in, you’re about to experience something no one ever has experienced ever and its just a boring core tech, not the awesome story, plot, game mechanics or live role play that can change ANYTHING In the game, like you’re truely living in a acive Space Opera.

Bonus: Don’t forget the best live role play will go in movies. So pick up a founder’s medallion or two while they’re still for sale because they’ll never be for sale ever again, and you can sell/trade them if you want: https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/658480/browse/?filter=all Any virtual goods purchase literally help me develop the game more effective as I do not struggle with day to day expenses and get more code in. If you like the game, or want the game to get better and have more than enough to get by, consider it. Founders Medallions, they can help your character get in the actual movie theater.

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.