What changed

2026-09-17

• The next thing to do follows you from screen to screen instead of waiting on the station page.
• When you are on the right screen, the button you want is ringed.
• It is on by default until your first evening is done, and you can switch it off on the rail itself or on your account page.
• Switch it back on and it follows whichever story you are on — it waits quietly if you have finished them all.
• Nothing is blocked or gated by it. Turn it off and the game is exactly the game.

2026-09-16

• The page a stranger lands on now opens on Sol, with the pitch over it.
• It says how many pilots are flying and how many were active this month, beside the count of player ideas that have shipped and what they paid.
• The five origins are on it, with their faces — where you woke up, who claims that space, and what you have to your name.
• Nothing in the game changed. This is the door, not the room.

2026-09-15

• There is a Support button on the supporters page. Stripe handles the payment; Starlane never sees your card.
• One price, once — or monthly if you prefer it. Both buy exactly the same thing; there is no bigger version and there will not be one.
• Supporting buys nothing that affects the game. Careers, skills, licences and every outcome are credits and time only.
• Paying does not put your name on the credits page — that stays a separate choice on your account page, reversible for ever.

2026-09-15

• There is a supporters page at /supporters, readable signed in or not.
• Nobody is on it unless they said so. A control on your account page puts your callsign up or takes it down, both directions, for ever.
• Names are sized by how long somebody has supported, never by how much they gave.

2026-09-14

• The standings used to read 1 2 2 2 2 6. They now read 1 2 3 4 5 6.
• Tied on the number? Whoever got there first is above.
• Nothing about what the boards measure has changed, and none of it is buyable.