Starfighter General
Virtual Goods are here. Treat it like crowdsourcing for now.
As it stands, I cannot compile my client to standalone due to some sort of UNITY technical difficulty. I have a fully functional MMO engine with multithreaded cores aka 10-1000 x as many things rendered as video games you're used to. Yet, I can't make a client patch yet.
I did make a server patch tho! It allows for you guys to buy virt goods if you want. I'm not gonna poor mouth you, but I will say I use money I get on Starfighter General to invest in Starfighter General for a better product. I never did a crowd sourcing. I never got funding. This is a one man MMO, and resources coming in help develop the game faster.
You can buy virtual goods here: https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/658480/browse/?filter=all
And not just Starfighter General!
You accelerate the future development of:
1) Fighter Fantasy Crystal, a MMO my white whale since 2003 of Kungfu, make your own moves. I've had prototypes before and they were cool. I want to make this in parallel with Starfighter General as soon as we get world editing and a universe being built out.
2) World War 2 & 1/2 : I know more about RTS than anyone I ever met or any known game designers, likely more than anyone on Earth now. I'm gonna make a physics based RTS with core balance mechanics in the best of RTS. Yet wacky things can happen in a physics based RTS. Like you could strap researched rockets to a motorcycle and hit a ramp, then take out an airship by collision and strange stuff like that. The faster Jeeps go, the more damage they do when they hit stuff... etc, phyics based RTS, designed for the reaction crowd and extreme hardcore RTS fans.
3) After Juilet: Started 2 years ago, I wanted to give 5 years of development of ideas of the ultimate Castlevania game. You are Romeo in the Underworld and you are still after Juleit. Health/food/light/sanity are your bars. LOOOOTS of cool stuff already in this one.
& more.
Unity's Editor has problems compiling a standalone
Since the MMO part can't launch like I wanted it last week, I'll provide an update to your base building early next week. I think I'll show power levels of ships so you know what to research, build, etc. I will also add virtual goods. Look for this update Wednesday or before.
Thank you,
Jim
News of upcoming MMO
If you want to be a galaxy forger, no matter your skill level. Email starfightergeneral (at) gmail.com for info. This is a huge opportunity even if you can't code or do art, 40 hours of work might mean you make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
For the next game update: We're just waiting on godot, I mean Unity.
Code updates:
1) disabled me accidentally publishing cheats to the live game
2) We enabled SSL for https for future tech.
3) Galaxy Explore is becoming almost interesting and will become a MMO soon
4) Welcome everyone who wants to be a galaxy forger, no matter your skill level. Email starfightergeneral (at) gmail.com for info. This is a huge opportunity even if you can't code or do art, 40 hours of work might mean you make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Apologies to the universe in advance, we're becoming a MMO very shortly
This is a MMO you'll never want to quit your entire life, and I'll try and avoid subscriptions and slimey stuff other companies do. NO DLC to pay for. All updates free. Server is never going down as maintenance is next to nothing. Other companies have multiplayer for 2 years to get your $$ and shut it down. We're NEVER closing doors, unless I die and my successor sucks. This is incentive for all of you Starfighter General players to be my body guard. :) In all seriousness though, pray for me. All great video games of the past involved prayer! Lets pray this one up so hard, it chills its way up to God's throne and pleases him.
Blank base raid bug fixed
So I did something dumb saving a variable in your userdata that should be initialized as 0 every time. Fixed it on server, no client dl needed.
We likely will be playing MMO in UNDER A MONTH! Get ready for awesome writing, absurdity, intense bounty hunting vs scum of the universe and awesome game mechanics! You have not yet begun to be entertained!
Last Stand renabled! Maybe 2-4 weeks left til MMO if chaos subsides.
Feature 1 readded: Last Stand
So Last Stand is fun. It is an alternative battlemode to base raiding. Basically it works like this:
1) You face a never ending stream of enemy ships.
2) Your entire fleet comes, not just Computron enabled guys.
3) It is about 30 x 30 ships now. I can optimize later to get 60x100 or 100x100, but MMO is higher on my priority.
4) It is very fun, aim for a high score. Obviously better ships in your fleet mean a higher average score. I miss high score games of old such as arcades and Atari2600 had. As much as Nintendo Entertainment System had revolutionary games in a revolutionary systems, sometimes it was possible to get infinite lives. Once you can get infinite lives, score becomes irrelevant.
5) It is a good mode to collect scrap, but you can't gain Xmatter.
6) Some small bugs in it, your golden ship is there, and I'm not sure if high score is enabled, but this stuff will be revisited after the MMO out.
Feature 2 Better base matching
There were issues with base elo matching to your fleet elo before resulting in new players playing slightly tougher than expected and old players raiding scrappy meager new bases. This has become a rarity now. More commonly, you get places against bases of your caliber. This means everyone advances at a greater rate and it is good for the game too!
Random Bug fixes
Future major plans: Become a MMO to compete with other great big space MMOs out there
Ty user Tiwaking!. I fixed the typewriter text for ya.
If anyone finds bugs and stuff I don't know about, I totally will try and get you some triderium.
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1) Thanks to Tiwaking!, I fixed typewriter text output to look nice.
2) Public Beta Region up->change PBR.dat
[Your Windows User]/AppData/LocalLow/James Sager Games/Starfighter/PBR.dat"
Change 1 to 2 to try PBR. Change 2 to 1 to go back.
This is probably generally useless for now until I tell you events happening. Might not even work some.
Data integrity is not promised on PBR, only the main server is your data preserved the best I can.
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We'll be world editing in a few days, building the galaxy.
Then the MMO might even be semi live in under a month!
MMO super live expected in three months, and upgrades as long as I live hopefully.
Once MMO in full swing, we'll have a ground exploration sequence with a First Person Shooter,
Character creation, and characters not currently used on your roster are crew members, skills, attributes, talent trees, special powers, etc etc.
Gonna be AWESOME! Stick around and tell your friends. Remember, refer a friend will give you a bunch of triderium to boost your base/ships
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User Tiwaking identified a bug. I fixed it and added new features too.
Bug fixes:
I) UI now clickable again (Thanks Tiwaking. I o u some triderium for helping find a bug.)
II) Restored 5 user accounts manually which got corrupted because I used all the space on the server with files that didn't need to be on it.
This is good because I am doing proper daily backups. :)
I know many small companies that don't do this properly.
If you still can't play, make a message on the boards.
III) Triderium voice less annoying. Triderium display 'more' correct.
IV) Misc bug fixes
Feature Upgrades:
a) Ships have proper names
b) Alerts and messages revised
c) Researching has lower tier pyramid style requirements of knowing relevant techs and such before getting to higher techs.
Tier 2 hybrids require both Tier 2 of their respective types.
T3 requires two hybrids with the subtype that you want to research T3
Say you want to research Agile, you need 2 of the following: agileassault,agileshield,agilebomber,agileram
T3hybrd requires three t3, 2 of which must be the T3 of their respective types.
T4 requires all t3 hybrids with the type you want. Say you wanted to research Agile, you'd need ALL: agileassault,agileshield,agilebomber,agileram
t4 hybrid requires all five t4 researched
t5 requires all t4 hybrids researched
t5 hybrid requires all t5 ships researched
Level 60 is the cap of research now, but in the future, we'll be using it, so it couldn't hurt to upgrade past 60.
That's all folks for the patch notes.
Here is some upcoming things in future patches:
(TO DO) a) Ship Power Levels can be read when building and reseaching too
(TODO) b) Galactic News Network GNN now broadcasts news items in anticipation for the MMO.
(TODO) c) When you target things in combat, a text read out about it appears
(TODO) d) BONUS: Random Events when raiding, like aliens to get bonus points, phenomena, all sorts of crazy stuff.
(TODO) e) Level display on Storedisplay of building
And of course, we're setting up for MMO dev. I just got side tracked with a bug fix, and I don't like to just fix a low priority bug. I like to add some features too for your fun! Woo, vijeo gamez! Stay with me, and this game will get AWESOMEIFIED over the years, maybe one of the best games of all time since no one knows design and development and what is fun like me. I keep seeing everyone screw up their AAA titles and I'm like, come on guys, you get paid to make those, have some pride and do it right. So I throw my hat in the ring, and it's about to get awesome...
Yo, Sorry server was down. It wasn't a server bug, memory got cramped.
It is awesome that all I needed to do was just stop gitlab and free up like 3 gig or something and it was not even serious server bug! We don't need gitlab on this server anyway. :)
Apologize for any inconvenience. I know how people like to play a lot. I need to add a system to gift triderium for apology sake in the future, lol. On the todo list. Now, I just hope you enjoy the game back up. We're rapidly beginning MMO phase.
Finally, targetting fixed
The old targetting system was like 11 dimensional math I had to do for each new ship or building I made.
The new targetting system is better, and has some small issues, but good for now until we make it better.
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What is really exciting is that this is the last major patch we had to do before starting on working on this unique MMO with TONS AND TONS of stuff, some of which no other MMO has such as:
1) Unlimited action players in the same zone allowed by networking, only 3d rendering is a bottleneck.
2) Fun Pulpy Criminals that you want to take out.
3) A 4x system, but you're not emperor, they're all bots. They war against each other, and you have to deal with the consequences and join who's side you like or is paying well. This is the beginning of a whole new style of game, where all the NPCS are interacting with each other and form companionships and get grudges etc.
4) On top of that, a Grand Space Opera driven by a LIVE GAME MASTER system. You can literally change the landscape permanently. You can have your name etched in the history of the Universe, or in Crime Logs. Etc etc. Live Game Master games NEVER EVER EVER get boring, unlike traditional MMOS that once you see everything, that's it, look for a new game or update. This game can last forever, and doesn't need new players every 10 years to keep going.
5) A first person shooter style game will be added sort of like Fall out with lots of skills.
6) Customize your player by choosing race (No avatar fun), and getting stats assigned. Later you can change characters, and the old ones you had still play along side you like crew! If I get fancy, maybe I can make it remember some of your character's mannerisms for faux role play sayings.
7) There is a talent tree that allows you to take all sorts of different paths to upgrade your character.
8) Unlimited leveling, but power ends up being a curve with diminishing returns so hard core players don't have too too much advantage on people who spend a couple hours each night.
9) Trading
10) Allegiance system so if you follow someone, they gain some experience when you do, and the expectation is that they help you with resources.
11) Phantom Enemies: Enemies only seen on your client, they are spirit fighters who only exist on your dimension. This helps so other players don't clear zones with nothing for you to shoot at.
12) Explore the ground of planets, literally to scale. You could spend years walking around Mars for instance.
So many many other things coming. The earliest will probably be 3 months from now. I'm actually looking for world builders on top of the guys who say they want to work. I find maybe 1/20 people who say they want to work actually work, so I could use many many people. Just leave a comment below if you want to help make Worlds for this game.