What changed

2026-09-08

• Ore arrives every sixteen minutes rather than every twenty-four. An hour at a belt earns what it earned; you just wait less to see the first one.
• A belt holds half again as many units, so a worked-out rock is still three holds of work.
• Raw Ore is 47 credits and takes two of your hold instead of three. Everything you already held was converted — nobody is richer or poorer.
• Dock work pays about a tenth less. A first hull is about two hours on the dock rather than an hour and three quarters.

2026-09-08

• A mining run pays you as it goes — a unit at a time, at a pace your laser sets.
• Stopping keeps what you have cut. Only the uncut rock goes back; the fuel does not.
• If your hold fills mid-run the ore waits rather than being thrown away.
• Nothing about what mining pays has changed. This is about when it reaches you.

2026-09-07

• Jumping between systems now shows you the jump — stars streak past while the clock counts down.
• If your system is set to reduce motion, the starfield holds still. Nothing else about the flight changed.

2026-09-07

• Your service record now names your origin. It was the first permanent decision the game asked of you and then never appeared again.
• If you have been flying since before origins existed, it says so rather than inventing a history you did not have.

2026-09-07

• A rock's kind now decides what comes out of it. Ice gives Water Ice, two units for every one cut — bulky and cheap against dense and dear.
• The rare-earth rock is gone, remapped to rubble, which is what it was already giving you.
• Charting a system nobody has taken you to pays 120 credits, once, and the locals think a little better of you.
• The standing is the part worth collecting — no amount of credits can buy it.