What changed
Starlane is built in the open and mostly built from the signal board. Ideas from players are marked, with what shipping them paid.
Objectives — something to check when you log in
U2c2026-09-06 · from the signal board · 5,000 paid
- Three things to do today and two for the week. They reset at midnight, and on Monday morning.
- Nothing to accept and nothing to tick — the bars have moved by the time you look.
- What you are asked for depends on what you can actually do.
- The rewards are small on purpose. The money in this game comes from flying.
Contracts — somebody else's freight, for a fee
U2b2026-09-06 · from the signal board · 5,000 paid
- Every station posts freight it wants moved: a named load to a named system, for a fee agreed before you leave.
- You buy the cargo yourself, so what you make is the fee less what the load cost you.
- The fee follows hold space and distance, not what the goods are worth.
- Boards are shared. Somebody else can take a posting out from under you.
- Arrive with the cargo and it pays, late or not. Hand one back at any time, from anywhere, for nothing.
The chart is a chart again
U2.92026-09-06 · from the signal board · 2,500 paid
- The star chart is a real graph now — drag, zoom, hover, and click a system to open it.
- It looks like a sky rather than a diagram, and it is flat: two systems twice as far apart on screen are twice as far apart in fuel.
- With JavaScript off you get the same chart as a picture, and the tables carry every fact.
- And this page — what changed, and what you are playing.
Extraction — belts, a laser, and something to come back to
U22026-09-06 · from the signal board · 5,000 paid
- Every system has an asteroid belt. With a Prospector's Permit and a laser you can work it, and the ore lands whether you are watching or not.
- A mining laser is a new refit, and most hulls have nowhere to put one.
- A belt is shared with every other pilot there and refills slowly. Somebody else can empty it before you arrive.
- Deep-Core works the seam under a stripped belt; the Refinery Ticket turns ore into alloys.
- You cannot jump, trade or use a yard while you are out at the rock.
The two-factor screen asks for one thing
U2.82026-09-06 · from the signal board · 2,500 paid
- Signing in with two-factor asks for the code and nothing else. It used to ask for your password a second time.
- Mistype the code and you stay on that screen instead of starting over.