What changed

2026-09-09

• A system can have two places to mine. Seven of the twelve now do.
• Five things to mine where there were two — silicates, volatiles and helium join rubble and ice.
• Nobody is richer or poorer for it. A field pays what it paid; the best site beats the worst.
• And every hull has a portrait now, in the yard and on the ship you fly.

2026-09-09

• Your station page says who else is in dock. An empty berth says so too.
• Every system says who charted it first. Get somewhere before anybody else and your name is on it for good.
• The contracts board tells you when somebody took a job, rather than the posting simply vanishing.
• Nothing of this on the rim — no register of who is in dock, and the board there names nobody.
• The bar at the top now says when nothing is training, and the skills page says how long it has been empty.
• No streak, no login bonus, no penalty for being away. The hours were already gone; we had just never said so.

2026-09-09

• The countdown is in the browser tab — whichever wait finishes first — and it goes quiet the moment it lands.
• Your browser can tell you too, if you ask it to: one button under Account → Notifications.
• Per browser, not per account. Saying yes on your laptop says nothing about your phone.
• It only works while Starlane is open in a tab somewhere. Closing the browser is the next piece.

2026-09-09

• A new screen: your ledger. Every credit the game has paid you or charged you, newest first.
• And a line on your station page when something landed while you were away. It clears when you open the ledger.
• Nothing in it can be edited or deleted, by us or anyone. Your balance is the sum of the list.

2026-09-09

• Every system has its own picture. Dock anywhere and the page opens with the place itself.
• It is on the survey record too, so somewhere you have charted and left still reads as somewhere you have been.
• Nothing was pushed down to make room.
• Asked for twice on the board, and the second asking is what changed the answer.