What Will Not Change

Page Purpose

This page exists to publicly clarify:

Which aspects of FireMatch Empire have been confirmed and will not be overturned by development progress, feedback changes, or implementation difficulty.

These points form the long-term stable core of FireMatch Empire,
and serve as the foundational premises for all subsequent system design, engineering implementation, and content expansion.

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I. Game Genre and Core Positioning (Frozen)

FireMatch Empire is explicitly positioned as:

A civilization evolution and construction simulation game

• Not a war game
• Not a competitive 4X game
• Not a strategy game centered on win/lose outcomes

The game focuses on:

• How civilizations form
• How civilizations expand
• How civilizations understand and record their own history

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II. Non-War, Non-Punitive Design Stance (Frozen)

The following positions have been confirmed and are no longer open for debate:

• The game does not treat war, combat, or armed conflict as a core driving force
• The game does not rely on failure, death, or harsh punishment as primary feedback mechanisms
• Civilizational progress does not require the elimination of others

Conflict still exists, but its sources are:

• Environment
• Distance
• Scale
• Structural complexity
• Long-term consequences of decisions

—not direct player-versus-player confrontation.

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III. Civilizational Subjectivity Principle (Frozen)

One of the core judgments of FireMatch Empire is:

The civilization is the subject; the player is not its judge.

Within this system:

• The player has decisive influence over the civilization’s development
• But how those actions are understood, recorded, and evaluated
  is not directly dictated by the player
• Instead, those judgments emerge from the FireMatch civilization itself
  through long-term operation and accumulated memory

The player is not the arbiter of history,
but the origin from which history unfolds.

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IV. Long-Term Goal and Design Orientation (Frozen)

The long-term goal of FireMatch Empire is not:

• Rapid content stacking
• Short-term stimulation
• Clear win/lose resolution

But rather:

To construct a civilization system capable of continuously recording its own history.

Civilizational value is expressed through:

• Being recorded
• Being understood
• Being revisited

—not through final score calculation.

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V. Core Gameplay Loop (Frozen)

The core gameplay loop of FireMatch Empire has been confirmed and will remain the long-term foundation:

Explore → Name → Resources → Cities → Construction → Population → Technology → Records → Explore Again

Within this loop:

• “Records” are not end-of-game summaries
• “History” is not a retrospective screen
• Civilizational memory feeds back into future understanding and choice

This is a world that leaves traces.

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VI. Player Identity Definition (Frozen)

The player in FireMatch Empire is explicitly defined as:

• The first awakened FireMatch
• The origin and progenitor of the civilization
• The only individual capable of initiating deliberate exploration

The player is neither:

• An abstract camera
• A god-view controller
• An administrator

Nor a detached “command issuer” stripped of existential presence.

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VII. Pure Wooden Civilization Path (Frozen)

FireMatch Empire explores a civilization path:

With wood as its long-term core material

• No metal
• No oil
• No coal
• No magic or unexplainable forces

This is not artificial difficulty,
but a complete, independent, and internally coherent civilizational route.

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VIII. Technology System Principles (Frozen)

The technology system of FireMatch Empire follows these immutable principles:

• Every technology derives from explicit prerequisite technologies
• No “leapfrog” or magical technologies
• No logical breaks or missing links

The system is confirmed to satisfy:

1. Reasonable era entry points
2. Internal coherence within each era
3. Convergent and meaningful era conclusions

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IX. Information Presentation Philosophy (Frozen)

The game consistently adheres to the following information principle:

Information is always sufficient; depth is always optional.

• Players are never overwhelmed
• All information remains traceable
• Depth of understanding is chosen by the player

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X. Scale and Long-Term Operation Premise (Frozen)

FireMatch Empire is explicitly designed to support:

• Long-term play
• Extremely large-scale civilizations
• Multi-city, multi-era operation

Scale itself is no longer treated as a design risk.

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Closing Note

The contents of this page:

• Do not constitute development promises
• Do not guarantee release dates
• Do not imply implementation order

They exist to confirm one thing:

That FireMatch Empire already knows what it does not want to become.

And that,
more than knowing what it wants to become,
is what truly matters.

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— FireMatch Studio