What changed

2026-09-26

• Things that are happening now look like it. A thin line travels along the bottom of the bar at the top of the screen, the dot beside a warning or a waiting job breathes instead of sitting still, a dish turns inside the security badge at a station, and the market heading says — and shows — that its prices are live. A gas rig says the same while it is drawing, and stops when it is full.
• Nothing moves that is telling you something on its own. Freeze the whole screen and it still says exactly what it said: every moving thing has a word beside it.
• If your device is set to reduce motion, all of it stops. The security dish, the line, the dots, the warp outside the window on a jump — everything, in one rule rather than a list somebody has to remember to add to.
• There is a ceiling on it: five moving things on a screen at once, and one travelling line. That is now measured on every screen before a release, so this cannot quietly become a busy game.

2026-09-26

• Jobs is a new screen, and it answers a question nothing did: what have you got on. Every clock running on you — a jump, a shift, a draw, a smelt, a batch, an enquiry, a run — soonest first, and every haul you have signed for and not delivered, with how long you have and whether your hold already covers it.
• It works from inside a jump. The contracts board does not, because a board belongs to a station, so the half-hour you are between systems used to be the one time nothing could tell you what you were carrying.
• Record is a new screen too: the thirteen pages that are about you, in one place, with the numbers beside them — how many movements you have not read, how many warnings you have not answered. Opening it marks nothing read.
• On a phone the navigation moves to a bar along the bottom: Station, Jobs, Map, Ship, Record. Jobs carries a dot when something is waiting on you. The row at the top goes, because one nav is enough.
• Sign out has moved to your account page, next to “sign out everywhere else”.

2026-09-26

• A surveyed rock on the belt used to be a link that jumped you down the page to its row in the table. Now it opens the rock itself: the shape of it, the grade, the tier, how much room is left in your hold, and what is in it — with Work it and Drill it right there, each saying what it will take and what it will cost in fuel.
• Starting the run from in there closes it, because the belt behind it has become the run you just started. The ✕ in the corner is an ordinary link back to the belt, and Escape does the same thing.
• The table under the field still has its own buttons. Nothing you could do before is gone.
• On a phone it comes up from the bottom of the screen as a sheet, with room for a thumb on every control.

2026-09-26

• Fuel is a ring now, with the number inside it, so you can see how full the tank is without reading it. The hold is ten segments beside its figure. Both are on a desktop; on a phone they are the same numbers they always were, because a ring does not fit a phone row without pushing the game further down the screen.
• The top of every screen says who and where you are — your callsign, the system, and whether you have a hull under you.
• Your hull is up there too, and if it drops below 35% a line says so on whatever screen you are on. It is not a red alert: it is the state of your ship after a fight you already know about.
• One place now says a job is waiting on you, in words rather than a dot you had to know about. The bar that says your ship is out on a run is unchanged — those are two different things.

2026-09-26

• If somebody robs you while you are away, you find out. A red bar appears under the top of every screen with one sentence — who it was, where, and how much they took — and an Acknowledge button. It does not stop you doing anything: the page underneath works, and you can trade and fly with it showing.
• It stays until you acknowledge it. If more than one thing happened, you get the oldest first and the next one appears when you clear it, so nothing is skipped.
• There is a new page under Record called Alerts: everything that has happened to you, newest first, each line marked warning, caution, advisory or nominal. Opening it does not clear anything — only the button does.
• Being interdicted on a lane does not get a red bar, because it already has one: the bar that has always appeared when something is holding the lane. It is in the Alerts list all the same.