Game systems
Love, Death, and Robots
So, Starmourners. I bet you’re wondering what we’ve been up to since the beginning of January, right? Read on, because we’re gonna tell you! Since the turn of the year, implementing the playerbase’s hundreds of classlead suggestions have taken the bulk of January’s development time. It continues to be a focus for our lead coders,…
Read more...Looking Forward
The new year is here, and Starmourn feels more refined and grown up by the day. The game has advanced in leaps and bounds from its fledgling beginnings to something that we all feel truly proud of. Not bad, for something that’s barely a year old as of this writing! We hope that 2020 will…
Read more...Cosmpiercers: Fighting Each Other Ta-Deth
Cosmpiercers. These ancient sensor stations, created by the long-extinct Ta-Deth race, have been of interest to Y’saari researchers for years, to the point where the offered bounty for their capture and activation became a contentious divide among the factions. Recently, the Y’saari Archaeological Institute for the Study of Elder Races (YAISER), exposed the Cosmpiercer station…
Read more...A Terminally Cool November
October is over. The Congregation of T’rath has been chased back to the shadows – for now. It’s a new month, and the citizens of Starmourn have new things to pay attention to. For the development team, a new month means a new theme! Hey Starmourn, question for you: Who among you is mindlessly staring…
Read more...Starmourn: On the Horizon
Over the next month or two, you can expect big changes to come to the internet’s favorite science fiction text-based game. From roleplay events to PVP overhauls to new enhancements and talents to earn for play after level 75, we’re working hard to deliver new and better content to our playerbase. Keep reading to learn…
Read more...Starmourn Goes Back To School: Mixology, Multiclassing, and More!
This month, Starmourn invites you to sharpen your pencils and put your thinking caps on, because there’s a whole bunch of new things for you to cram into your brains. Get ready to read about new multiclassing options and tradeskills, along with a sneak peak about what’s coming later in the month! Multiclassing Starmourn has…
Read more...Pirate Refineries and Autofactories
In the depths of space, unauthorized refineries and autofactories have been sighted, all of them belonging to rogue organizations or independent space pirates. Courageous space adventurers can now engage with these pirate installations and lay waste to their manufacturing and harvesting efforts and be generously rewarded for their efforts. Attacking one of these locations will…
Read more...Music, Bands and Performance
The whole world is a stage… YOUR STAGE! You step up on the stage and the lights dim, a spotlight in the ceiling casting a cone of light on your frame. The audience quiets down. You focus for a few moments, gathering your wits and getting in the zone, relaxing your muscles as the song…
Read more...Planetary Exploration has landed!
Planetary exploration has been released, the latest feature in our big Economy Update. We are excited to tell you all about one of our newest and most wide-ranging updates, and give you a few reasons to log in and check it out today! With planetary exploration, you will roam the most remote corners of the…
Read more...Honors and Titles in Starmourn – and a quick note on the Economy Update!
Players of Starmourn, you like showing off, right? Of course you do. The month of June has been all about showing off, and we’re happy to announce we’ve introduced a whole bunch of new titles and honors that you can use to pimp your character. Last week, we introduced a plethora of new honors and…
Read more...Ship Weapon Updates
Tecton just posted up a preview of the upcoming updates to ship weapons, shields, and other space combat-related changes. Head over to the Starmourn forums to check them out.
Read more...Retirement on Starmourn is Now Open
Happy February! Are you ready for some exciting news? Starmourn is allowing the use of retirement credits one month early. Starmourn has been purring along for two and a half months and we feel as though things have settled to the point we can allow retirements into the sector. Starting immediately, Starmourn is open for…
Read more...An Update and Admin Commands
Update We continue to steadily move towards release. Currently, there’s a lot of usability work going on as internal playtesting finds things that are troublesome, frustrating, or confusing. For instance, the ship system needed some streamlining as it was pretty unwieldy. Frankly, it’s still a little unwieldy, due to the fact that it’s pretty complicated,…
Read more...Combat and Wetwiring
We just put up a new page on Combat and Wetwiring, with info that explains how wetwiring and “afflictions” work in Starmourn. Completely new system vs. any of our other games! Check it out and head over to the forums to talk about it and ask questions!
Read more...How does Scatterhome self-govern without a government?
I recently updated the Scatterhome page with a lot of info on how they self-govern without a formal ‘government.’ Here’s an OOC description, but there’s a long-ish history of how the system evolved from all-out-anarchy to self-governance without a permanent formal government on the Scatterhome page. While there’s no permanent government, the citizens of Starmourn…
Read more...Retirement and Starmourn
Those of you who are already players of one of our MUDs probably know what the retirement system is, but briefly, it’s a system whereby you can permanently retire a character and receive credits for some percentage of the value of the character and its stuff as calculated by us. You can then take those…
Read more...Cosmpiercers
I just put up a page on Cosmpiercers, which is the first of what will eventually be multiple ways for the player civilizations (Scatterhome, Song Dominion, Celestine Ascendancy) to compete via game mechanics with each other. Enjoy!
Read more...Learn about resource extraction!
Just put up the companion page to the recent Economy page. This one’s all about how you extract the raw resources that are then used to produce various goods. Read up here!
Read more...New page up all about the in-game economy
Go read all about resources, cargo, and autofactories to learn about how players are going to produce a whole range of goods!
Read more...Mindsim Personalities
As you may or may not already know, all characters in Starmourn have a ‘mindsim’ in their heads. This is basically your personal AI assistant. Of course, we don’t really need to have mindsims except in an RP sense, so what’s the point unless they have a little personality? Along with naming your mindsim, you’ll be able…
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