Space Fog Online

Gameplay Overview

World Zones:

• Safe Zone (Novice Zone)
  • A large station with infrastructure designed for novice players.
  • Features include a friendly environment, no damage, basic resources, and no player structures.
• No Loot Zone
  • Provides more resources and allows only public player structures.
  • No heavy/ship weapons and no loot.
• Monitored Zone
  • Offers all resources and permits player structures.
  • Features PvP and loot, with all harmful activities tracked, marking attackers as outlaws.
  • Hostile players/groups and their ships are visible on the map, with security NPCs present.
• Outer Zone
  • Contains all resources and player structures.
  • Allows unlimited PvP with full loot.
• Player Station/Clan Zone
  • Similar to the Monitored Zone but allows owners to specify friendly/hostile designations.
  • Friendly players receive tracking information about nearby ships/players.

Game Loop:

• Resource Harvesting
  • Activities include asteroid mining and fog recycling.
  • Resources can be sold on the market or at player station shops.
• Station/Ship Designing & Crafting
  • Players can design and craft stations and ships, sell ships and blueprints, and rent station infrastructure.
• Long Range Exploration
  • Players can sell resource location coordinates and offer various mapping services.
• Hauling/Protection Services
• Piracy
• Clan Wars, Territory Control, and Politics

Space Traveling and Movement:

• Ship Movement
  • Ships can move at a maximum speed of 150 m/s.
• Warp Portals
  • Ships can jump through warp portals using a special device to reach pre-marked points.
  • Warp portals require different resources based on ship mass and distance and are visible to other players.
• Player Travel
  • Players can travel on ships or use stationary teleportation devices.
• Object Dynamics
  • No gravity exists, and objects experience drag, losing initial velocity and stopping over time.
• Orientation
  • Without gravity, there is no up or down; players can walk on any surface regardless of orientation.

Stations:

• Station Creation
  • Players can create stations, maintaining a certain distance from other stations.
• Access Control
  • Station owners can limit access to closed rooms and infrastructure.
• Defense Systems
  • Owners can set up stationary guns to attack unfriendly robots or ships.
• Infrastructure Leasing
  • Owners can lease station infrastructure (storage, parking, refuel, shops, etc.) to others.
• Space Scanners
  • Stations provide scan data for surrounding space, displaying all ships on the scanner and allowing alert setups for unfriendly ships.
  • Scanner extenders can be built to expand the scanning area.
• Resource Requirements
  • Stations require resources for operation and maintaining safe areas.

Robots:

• Inventory and Customization
  • Robots have inventory and body slots for armor and décor.
• Body Parts
  • Robots can change body parts for special abilities.
• Death Mechanics
  • Upon death, the robot's head detaches and can move freely. The player has two options:
    • Teleport to a selected resurrection location.
    • Reattach Head to a stored robo-body, which can be kept on a ship or station.
• Robo-head and Robo-body
  • The robo-head detaches from the body upon death and is invulnerable.
  • Other robots can capture the robo-head but cannot store it in inventory. It can be locked in a closed room or bolted to a ship deck, necessitating teleportation to a resurrection point.

Ship Design & Blueprints:

• Ship Building
  • Players can build ships entirely in space.
• Blueprints
  • Ship blueprints are saved to the player database and can be printed at the station shipyard with the necessary resources.
• Captured Ships
  • Captured ships can be repaired to their blueprint state but cannot be copied.
• Blueprint Sales
  • Ship creators can sell or gift blueprints, with the option to limit the number of uses (e.g., a fighter blueprint with 10 authorized copies).
• Ship Core Device
  • The ship blueprint is stored in a special ship device (ship core). The ship owner can destroy the ship core item, turning the ship into garbage if the core is destroyed.