Starlane is built in the open and mostly built from the signal board. Ideas from players are marked, with what shipping them paid.
The game tells you what it paid you
UA2
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.
Twelve systems that look like twelve places
UA1
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.
Take it from somebody else, and find out what that costs
U5b
2026-09-08
A new career: the Outlaw. Buy a Black Market Contact on the rim and a Raid screen opens at every station.
The fattest convoys are in the core, with the heaviest escorts. The rim is thin pickings.
Stolen cargo is hot — it sells at rim stations only, and at a cut.
You are charged for going, not for winning. Every raid costs standing whether or not you come back with anything.
Fall far enough with a faction and its stations stop selling to you. The lane is never closed — you can always leave.
A shift now holds you at the station: you cannot jump, mine, patrol or raid while one runs.
Your career has a story now, and a log to keep it in
U6b
2026-09-08
Three new storylines, one per career, each opening when you hold that career's first licence.
They ask for real work and say how much — five contracts, five hundred units, five bounties — and count everything you have ever done.
A new screen: your log. Every arc you are on, have finished, or have not opened, with what is in the way written out.
Nothing here is timed and nothing can be failed.
Somebody at the dock knows who you are
U6a
2026-09-08
The list on your station page is somebody talking now — whoever is at the station your origin started you in. Five origins, five people, and they do not say it the same way.
Two of the six steps pay. Not enough to skip either.
It is still not a tutorial. Nothing is locked behind it, and it disappears on its own.