Status – Starfighter General

Yo, I haven’t updated the dev work flow status lately. I want you to know I’ve been working hard, but trying to keep my health on the up and up. I want to make humanity as many games as I can before I pass on, and no sense in burning out twice as fast when it doesn’t even produce twice as much. Software engineering man, it’s its own trip. If you ain’t a software engineer, you’ll never know the depths. ;) Software engineering makes rocket science look like kids play, and video games are the most difficult while society thinks video games are literally kid’s play. Hah, anyway…

What I’ve been up to:

Chaining sounds together for encounters so that aliens can hail you is harder than it should be,but now that it’s done, it will be easy.

Databasing 500,000 2d images took a while, but it’s done. Now I can use em in for items/aliens/anomolies/etc.

I have been extra double checking the story missions to make sure they’re as cool as they can be. Unlike boring MMORPG story lines of other gaming companies, mine hits the feels. People I articulate it to say it sounds as good or better than peak Starwars/Startrek. And I am not inclined to disagree. I believe in a spirit of love that lives inside of us and has the power to do anything for real… This power of love can inspire us to do great things.

Items are mostly going to be things to sell, and some Ph@t L3vvt Caches to open later. Ph@t L3vvt Caches are always dated so you can get anything from that patch and a few/all after it. A great way to get legacy content or trade to people who desire legacy content… Aka this is a huge thing to mine today to prepare for the future.

Leveling got a bit less ambitious for this patch, but leveling will go beyond full ambitions as we start doing increasingly frequent patches.

Finally a big thing I want for the next patch is Base Bud 4000, a fun tough guy robot that sounds like he’s trying to get you to buy Monster Truck Rally tickets while he helps you build your base.

Looking past this patch to next patch:

Trade encounters
Social hello encounters
More Story missions
Radar
Targeting
Skills
Open Universe

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.