Story missions Story boarded – Starfighter General

Hello Starforgers,

I’m statically making the Solar System, aka Sol our Star system before I generally proc gen the galaxy the rest of the way.

I decided that since it is static, it can be the tutorial mission, but we don’t call it that since it sounds lame so we call it the embarking mission.

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The progression will be:

1) Unlock GOPHER tunnels around planet

2) Subwarp to go from planet to planet

3) Warp from system to system

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By outlining the missions, I can line it up with progression/patches.

Also the Satellite Trading Buildings should be designed to be relevant.

Before I made the satellite trading buildings, I had to man them with NPCS: So I have added the Memento NPC system: https://www.starfightergeneral.com/2023/05/its-not-ai-its-better-the-memento-npc-system/

NPCs that have personality, emotion in the heat of battle, stats, equipment and history is important for rolling their decision tree… I hope the Memento system ends up being almost like real people would interact sans good dialogue.

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The next thing I do is get to work on Client/Server:

1) Put in stations I want.

2) Items

3) leveling

4) Put in the first missions.

I have had tons of house work and it’s been so hot. I barely can get progress, but progress is being had, a non stop fight as I work really hard and fight vs diabetes and scrapin by in a place without water. I feel like I’m winning the battle, but it’s relentless fight. I am not funded like Star Citizen, Eve Online, Or Elite Dangerous, but I have techs and exciting storyline/game play that should easily have me overtake them when I get rollin. I gotta go help my mom with housework though today. So while I do that, in the back of my mind, I think I’ll figure out what first buy/sell/interact stations to make… After you get Ponk/Nametag, The Gopher tunnels to travel around Earth’s orbit will open in the patch after next. Okay I have a mountain top view of my next design, it’s time to finalize and code.

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.