What changed

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.

2026-09-07

• The signed-out front page says how many player ideas have shipped and what they were paid.
• Two numbers and nothing else. What you filed is still yours to see and nobody else's.
• Signing up, resending a verification link and asking for a password reset now have a limit of a few attempts an hour.

2026-09-07 · from the signal board · 2,500 paid

• The dock, the contracts board, the objectives and the yard were unusable on a phone — the fee and the button were off the edge. Every board is a stack of cards now.
• Nothing was hidden to make it fit.
• There is a first evening now: a six-step list on the station you wake up on, which knows what you have already done.
• It is a list, not a tutorial. Nothing is required, nothing is locked, and it disappears on its own.
• There are icons now, beside the words rather than instead of them.

2026-09-07 · from the signal board · 3,000 paid

• The belt is a field of six rocks now, each drawn where it sits and sized by what is left in it.
• They start unsurveyed. Clicking one tells you the ore, the grade and how much is in it — free, instant, and remembered.
• Surface and seam stopped being modes you choose. You pick a rock, and it happens to be one or the other.
• A rock runs out on its own and the rest of the field does not.
• Nothing on any field pays more than the belt used to. This is texture rather than a raise.

2026-09-06 · from the signal board · 4,000 paid

• A contract is a run of moments now — signing, loading, the approach, the handover — written for the cargo and the two stations it moves between.
• How much of it you get depends on your licence: two moments and no decisions, up to six and three.
• The decisions are real, and one answer is always something you can do with no skill, no standing and an empty tank.
• A question stops the delivery until you answer it. You can still fly, trade and mine — it is the contract that waits, not you.
• Two of the decisions move the fee on your own contract, up or down, and each says what it did.
• Every screen was rebuilt to one design, so learning one board teaches you the rest.
• A service that is down now says it is down, instead of rendering as an empty screen.