It’s not AI, it’s better: The Memento NPC System

The Memento NPC system is a way of enemies to have personality and remember what you did, what they did, and combined with heat of the moment emotions – To make decisions. It literally has the ability with reasonable code to accurately simulate how people/aliens/animals would react, build trust, build grudges or mastermind plots against you or others. This system is copyrighted under the same copyright that ensures your code to not be stolen. I will not file a patent, they are not enforceable by little guys anyway, patents only help the big guys so small guys can’t compete(Yes, the system does the opposite of it’s intent).

Before I explain how to code the Memento System, here’s an examples other games:

Imagine Grand Theft Auto 3d. You’re running around punching people, some people randomly punch back, some people run away. Some people get confused and hit more before making a decision. Reactionary stuff players think is amusing, but that’s it, the end. With the Memento System, those NPCS that got hit will remember you punching them. The next time they see you they might call the cops, preemptively run before you get close, announce to others you’re a bad guy, or straight bring their own gang vs you. They remember you because you punched em and they have a Memento of your actions.

Red Dead Redemption might end up getting grudges like Hatfields vs McCoys.

Imagine killing a villager in Minecraft to steal their house and some to run away and come back to ambush you in your sleep.

That’s basic examples, but it gets very very deep, yet is very very simple.

MOB STATS
Personality sliders (Like Civilization rulers)
Heat of the moment emotions (anger, fear, panic)
History of events

When you roll what a NPC might do, it takes all things into consideration: Possible likely moves it may do, factored against Mob’s Intelligence, personality sliders relevant to the action, heat of the moment emotions favor X Y Z, and History of Events influence it too. You have the potential to properly simulate a NPC so well that you can’t tell it from a real person… Except it says the same catch phrases when it takes actions.

You have to have a pool of NPC on the server, and as they die of, roll up new ones, for you gotta pool them.

This is super cool, super next level, and everyone’s gotta do it in the future. Want to use the system? I’ll help ya out.

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.