Maf: Starfleet Battles — How do players make money?

This story was written with the assistance of an AI writing program.

Players of Maf: Starfleet Battles have a variety of ways to make money.

First, you don’t have to play the game to make money.

1. Affiliate Marketing — You can make money as an affiliate without having to play the game. Simply create an affiliate account on our website, get your affiliate link and spread it around — social media, streaming services, text to friends, create a YouTube video, etc. Anytime someone downloads and pays for the game using your link, you will receive a percentage.

As a player, in addition to affiliate marketing, you can design, build and sell or lease almost everything in the game.

2. Create equipment for use by other players and sell that equipment or lease it to other players.

3. Design and manufacture ground vehicles and sell them.

4. Design, manufacture and sell spacecraft (civilian) and starships (military).

5. Create and sell armor for starships.

6. Design, create and sell personal armor to players.

7. Develop and sell hull paint schemes (livery) for spacecraft and starships.

8. Design, create and sell spacecraft and starship propulsion systems.

9. Design, manufacture and sell starship weapons.

10. Buy then resell land in the city of Kila Vas.

11. Build a building or space station and sell or lease space for offices, manufacturing, retailing or residential uses, etc.

12. Design, create and sell clothes, uniforms, boots and other personal gear to players.

13. Design, manufacture and sell body enhancements, (microchips, armored or steel bones, “tough skin,” painted skin and tattoos, enhanced eyes, enhanced hearing, clones, etc).

14. Design, manufacture and sell personal weapons.

15. Mine and sell ores and minerals.

16. Sell metals mined from ores and minerals.

17. Buy a Construction Company License and build buildings for other players.

18. Buy a Hotel License, design and build a hotel and rent rooms, office, convention space or host sports events, etc.

19. Buy a Restaurant License, design and build your restaurant, sell meals to other places or use the default option to receive income without having to design or build a restaurant.

20. Buy a Production and Sales License and design, mine or build any of the above or design, build and sell spacecraft.

21. Buy a Starship Construction Company License and build and sell spacecraft or starships to other players.

22. Buy an Engineering and Research Company License and research and sell or lease or use for yourself, new inventions, processes, manufacturing procedures, patents and better ways of doing things.

23. Buy a StarBuilder License and design, create and sell, l ease or use for yourself an unlimited number of Solar Systems. (You must build 4 Solar Systems before you can keep one for yourself. After that, for every 4 Solar Systems you develop you can keep one for yourself.) Numerous Licenses automatically come with a StarBuilder License.

24. Buy a Banking License and receive deposits from players. Lend 9 times the total amount of deposits to other players. Collect interest from your loans in U.S. dollars, British pounds or Euros. Withdraw interest at any time.

25. Buy a Casino License (must be 18 years old or older) and design and build your Casino, collect bets from other players. Withdraw Casino earnings at any time. ($1,000 plus 10% of earnings will be held by the game to ensure against chargebacks.)

26. Buy a Solar System License and develop the system, build cities and space stations, use it as base of operations to discover or conquer neighboring solar systems or sell or lease all or parts of the solar system, collect taxes or fees from other players mining or conducting activity in your solar system.

27. Buy a planet, moon or asteroid belt and develop it, mine it or sell or lease it to other players or collect taxes and/or fees from other players activity there.

28. Buy an existing building and sell it or rent or lease space to other players.

29. Design and sell personal shields and shielding.

30. Design and sell vehicle shields or shielding.

31. Design, create or manufacture then sell or lease invisibility devices for people or ships or ground vehicles, or camouflage, etc. (For every cloaking system, invisibility device or similar, you must create and sell or lease its opposite. i.e. anti-invisibility or anti-cloaking system or device specifically tuned to your system.)

32. Use your imagination. If there is something you want to build and try to sell or lease — Do it! Buy a Production and Sales License and design, create, sell or lease anything you can imagine (within game balance requirements). A Production and Sales License authorizes you to sell as much as you choose from as many things as you choose. Or, establish a separate company for each activity and sell different items for each company or sell the company to other players.

Market Exchange

Each starnation in Maf has its own central market where items may be bought or sold. Each city may have one or several exchanges. All of these are virtual while many may also have a physical presence on the planet.

The largest market in-game is the Helvatica Market where Everything in the game is automatically sold. List it for sale at any market in the game and your item will automatically list for sale in the Helvatica Market. Players may need to travel to you to pick up physical items if you don’t provide for those items to be located within the city of Kila Vas.