Roadmap

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Panel screen

You build your screen from eight panel types (map, sheet, table, chart, form, schedule, log and guide), like a trading terminal. Newcomers get ready-made arrangements. Panels of the same color show the same selection, and later you will be able to spread everything across several monitors.

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Ctrl+K and short codes

Ctrl+K finds anything, even with typos. Items, places and exchanges have optional short codes that are the same in every language, such as the chemical symbol for elements. Every panel has an address you can share or save.

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Density to taste

The screen can be comfortable for newcomers or compact for those who know the game. The overall size also adjusts in three steps.

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Live numbers

Stocks, balances and timers keep moving on screen all the time, without waiting for anything to refresh. Every forecast is marked as an estimate.

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The math behind every number

Hover over any number to see how it was worked out, step by step down to the last term. That includes the cost on arrival, with taxes and tariffs.

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Confirmation only when it matters

Costly actions only ask for confirmation above a limit, by value or by distance from the reference price. You set those limits.

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Alerts wherever you are

Alerts reach you through the in-game center, system notifications, Discord, email and your phone, Telegram included. You hear about it when something important happens to your company.

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Automatic rules

You can set up recurring orders, restocking of consumables, automatic sales and rules that act when a stock runs low or a price crosses a line. Automation is a premium feature and stops when premium runs out.

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In-game encyclopedia

Every item, building, recipe and rule will have an explanation inside the app, linked from wherever it shows up.

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Accessibility

From the start, no information depends on color alone, text and interface scale from 80% to 200%, and you can play entirely by keyboard, with an option to reduce motion. Screen reader support comes later.

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The size of the Milky Way

About 100 billion systems in a realistic barred spiral, with a bulge, a bar, arms and voids. Each neighborhood of stars takes shape when someone reaches it and stays recorded for good. There are no fixed regions: the only borders on the map are the ones nations draw.

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Stars as they are

The mix of stars is the real one: red dwarfs everywhere and big blue stars extremely rare. A star's type sets the light that reaches its planets, its flares, where the habitable zone lies and how rich in elements the system is.

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Real physics, few exceptions

Only humans, in a fictional galaxy, shortly after a one-way exodus with no contact with home. Real physics applies, plus the jump drive and a few costly exceptions such as shields.

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Planets with real environments

Gravity, temperature, pressure and atmosphere change what you can build and extract. The public map shows the astronomy, the environment and a rough hint of resources, nothing more. Food only grows on fertile planets.

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3D star map

A 3D map seen from above, with each star's height marked and the range of the selected ship drawn around it. Stars and planets are public. Fleets and markets only show up with presence or sensors.

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Systems with places

Each system has planets, moons, stations, belts and the jump point, linked by travel slower than light. Orbits are real, so distances inside a system change over each planet's year.

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Continuous time

There is no turn that updates the whole world at once. Everything happens at its own time, and the universe keeps going while you are away.

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Two clocks

If the server goes down, the universe clock pauses with it, and nobody loses a battle or a base because of it. After a limit of pauses in a row, battles carry on by the orders each side left in place. Real-life deadlines follow real time, and the screen always shows both clocks.

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Real fog of war

The server only sends what you are allowed to know, and every piece of information shows when it was seen. No modified program can reveal what you never observed.

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Ping does not matter

When several players go for the same thing at once, the game gathers every attempt made within about a second and holds a recorded draw.

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News travels at the speed of jumps

What happens far away reaches you late, something like one minute per jump of distance. Relays built by players make information instant inside their network.

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Natural phenomena

Rare astronomical objects and natural phenomena, with no characters behind them, are the only events the game creates by itself. Nature can change conditions in parts of the galaxy.

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One company per person

You have a single company, and it is your economic side of the game. The political side belongs to nations. Having more than one account is forbidden.

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Company identity

Your company has a name, a ticker of 3 to 5 letters, a logo assembled in a parts editor and the public name of its CEO. The account behind it stays hidden.

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Only you run your company

There are no delegated managers. Working with other players happens through contracts and nations.

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The neutral core

Everyone arrives in the same core, on the rim of the galaxy, and no nation can ever take it. If it fills up, the game opens a second core in an empty area. It only holds weak deposits, and the closer you get to the center, the richer and more dangerous space becomes.

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The ark

The ark ship that brought humanity here rests in the core as a landmark and a meeting point, with no function in play. At the Big Bang, landmarks like it are the only things already built. Everything else is built by players.

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The settler's quota

You start with a small base in the core, a cargo ship and basic materials. There is no money in the kit, because there is no universal currency to hand out.

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A base that feeds itself

The starter base makes the basics for itself: water, food, oxygen and fuel for the kit ship. Nothing is left over to sell, so trade starts with what you build next.

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Three months in the core

Your core base is a grant of about three months, always on a fertile world. When it ends, its buildings pack into a moving kit for your new home, in a nation's territory or out on the frontier.

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Newcomer protection

Players can attack each other anywhere, but new companies are protected for about 30 days. Protection ends early if you attack someone or leave the core.

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Starting over

A company that truly goes bankrupt can start over in the core with a smaller kit and short protection, and the wait to start over grows each time. Debts and contracts stay on record, and an unpaid debt keeps taking a share of the new company's revenue. Kit items cannot be sold for about 30 days.

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Vacation for your headquarters

Give 24 to 48 hours' notice and your headquarters freezes, protected, for a minimum period. It cannot start during an attack and does not cover sovereignty or exchanges run by others.

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Learning without NPCs

There are no tutorial characters. Everything is open from the start, with a guide of goals and the countdowns of your protection and your concession. Empty panels explain why they are empty.

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Bases on planets, moons and in orbit

You build on rocky planets, moons, gas giants or orbital stations. Each building takes a share of the base's area, with no grid to fiddle with, and the environment decides the construction materials. The base screen shows tables and an illustrated plan of the site.

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Base licenses

Every new base needs a license paid in goods, and each license costs more than the last. Free accounts have at most 3 bases, and premium has no ceiling.

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Land is scarce

Every planet has a limited area, set by its size and relief. In unclaimed space, whoever arrives first takes it.

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Prospecting in levels

Resources only show up through prospecting, in three levels: an orbital scan shows which ones exist, a probe measures their grades and drilling on a plot finds the exact deposit and its yield. Each level produces a dated report issued by the game, which can be sold and resold. A deposit is set on the first survey and never changes after that.

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Extraction that never runs out

No deposit ever runs dry. Each one has a yield factor from 1 to 100, and the average factor rises the farther you get from the core and the closer to the center of the galaxy. Asteroids and belts are mined by ships, with no base.

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Shared pools and concessions

Every deposit has a low-yield common pool open to everyone. Rich deposits become exclusive concessions, and whoever leaves one idle loses it.

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Hostile worlds pay more

The harsher the planet, the richer it is. A volcanic world can hold ore with a factor of 50 to 100, plus a bonus of three to four times on top. In return, every worker needs extra life support, and buildings need special materials.

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Flows and batches

Extraction, farming and consumption run nonstop, and factories work in batches from a queue. A production order takes 1 to 12 hours in common cases and up to about a day in complex ones.

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Construction sites

Building takes time on an open site. Anyone can deliver materials under contract, and the work stays vulnerable until it is finished.

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Realistic production chains

Real elements and materials, with about 150 to 300 items and 5 to 8 steps from ore to finished goods. Common basic and intermediate recipes are free for everyone, and advanced ones need research, a blueprint or a license. There are about 40 to 80 building types, each one for a process.

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The maker's mark

Final items, the ones that do not go into other products, carry the mark of the company that made them. Tariffs and embargoes never look at where something was made, only at the trader's citizenship, the place and the border.

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Nobody does it all alone

Basic materials are close at hand everywhere. Intermediate and advanced goods need inputs from three or more different environments.

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Workers in tiers

Laborers, technicians, engineers, scientists and more, each tier with greater needs. They arrive when the base has housing and their needs are met. They earn no wages, they only consume.

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Needs with substitutes

Food, water, clothing, health and comfort are categories, and any product in the category will do. Variety earns a bonus.

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Running out has consequences

Without food, water, oxygen or fuel, things get worse in steps, with warnings: efficiency and morale drop, then people die. A ship without fuel drifts.

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Wear and maintenance

Buildings, structures and ships wear out, and upkeep is paid with goods that get used up. That keeps factories busy for good.

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Growing costs more

Every extra base, colony or production line adds an administrative cost that grows faster than the company.

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Production planner

Inside the game you see the full recipe tree, the cost per unit and the profit per hour, and you can simulate a base before building anything. Community tools will be able to read the same data.

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Energy and byproducts

Every base runs its own power grid, with plants that depend on the environment, such as solar, wind, geothermal or nuclear, and thermal plants that burn bought fuel. Without power, production stops. Recipes leave byproducts and waste, which can be useful or cost money to dispose of.

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The game is only the referee

The game matches orders, carries out contracts, applies laws and keeps records. It never buys, sells, stores anyone's goods, carries, lends or defends.

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Wallet and ledger

Every company has a single wallet that works instantly anywhere. Every movement of money and goods is recorded for good, and nothing appears or vanishes without a trace.

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Offer board

Where nobody owns the place, such as the core and open space, there is a free board where offers become guaranteed contracts when someone accepts them. Free accounts keep 2 to 3 contracts at a time, and premium has no limit. In player stations and national territory, only the owners' structures apply.

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Player-built exchanges

Exchanges are modules that companies or nations install in stations, and the station owner charges rent for them. The game provides the order book, and the exchange owner sets the fees, what can be traded and what prices are quoted in: a national currency, the premium token or a standard commodity.

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Anonymous order book

Orders match all the time, and nobody sees names in the book. By default, only those with presence or sensors there can see the offers, but the owner can show them to the galaxy, to allies only or hide them. Price data can be sold.

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Order types

You can place limit orders with an expiry, protected market orders, automatic replenishment, stop orders and conditional orders.

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Buy from afar, sell on the spot

You can buy from any exchange you can see, and the goods wait in its warehouse. To sell, the goods must already be there.

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Trade in the core

Veterans with premium may keep stations and exchanges in the core, but never production bases. The game takes 30% of what those exchange owners collect out of circulation, so they earn less than a national exchange.

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Reference price

It is the average of real trades above a minimum size, weighted by volume and ignoring linked parties. Where there is no price, guarantees count in physical quantities.

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Contracts with collateral

Freight, purchase on credit and loans, guaranteed by the game. Money, tokens and goods are held in escrow, and structures and ships are bound to the contract: you can use them, but not sell or dismantle them.

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Ready-made contracts

There are templates for the most common deals: freight, purchase on credit, loans, forward delivery, recurring supply, rental and auctions. They are all built from the same pieces, such as deadline, guarantee and penalty, and any of them can be adjusted.

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An arbitrator of your choice

A contract can name an arbitrator, a company or a nation that charges a fee and, in a dispute, decides how the collateral is split. Without one, the courts of the nation where the contract is carried out decide.

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Debts are not forgotten

When the collateral does not cover a default, a share of everything the debtor earns afterwards goes to the creditor until the debt is paid, even after a fresh start. A nation's courts can make the penalty heavier.

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Bases and ships change hands

Bases, structures and ships can be transferred by contract, along with their workers and stock. To take over a base, you need a free base license. The newcomer concession and the moving kit cannot be sold.

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Gifts with no limit

Money, tokens and goods can be given to anyone, with no ceiling. Every gift is recorded.

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Verified balance sheet

When you ask, the game certifies your company's balance sheet, with its date and scope. You share it with whoever you want, such as a lender, a partner or a nation.

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Scams count, screens never lie

A deal closed inside the game stands, and I do not undo it. The screen, however, always shows the truth, and nations can treat fraud as a crime. Fraud outside the game, such as phishing or account theft, gets you banned.

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Market charts and history

I have not decided yet how detailed the market charts will be or how long price history is kept.

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Market rules

The game does not let you trade with yourself. Cornering a market, dumping stock and price wars are fair moves, and the screens always show the real terms.

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Modular ships

A ship is a hull plus modules, and every part is a produced item. Hulls come in size classes, with their own slots and role bonuses, and ship designs can be sold.

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Shipyards by size

Small and medium hulls come out of planetary shipyards, and launching costs more on heavy planets. Large hulls are only built in orbit, and capital ships only in orbital yards made for them.

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Crew and life support

Ships need crew drawn from your population, plus food, oxygen, fuel and habitat modules. Crew quality depends on the tier of the workers in each post, and that bonus is lost with the ship.

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Cargo by mass and volume

A hold fills up by weight or by space, whichever runs out first. Each hold takes only its own category, such as dry bulk, general cargo, liquid, pressurized gas or sensitive cargo. Bulk goods and fluids are measured continuously, and parts in whole units.

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Two fuels

Jump fuel to travel between systems and propellant to move inside them, both only from the production chain. Basic drives use hydrogen, refined in many places, and long-range drives use an advanced fuel made from rare inputs. Without fuel, the ship drifts.

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Jumps in three phases

The drive charges, the ship jumps instantly and then cools down, without vanishing from the map. The drive sets the range, cargo shortens it and jumps only go from one star to another, so a void wider than your range is a real barrier. A jump ends outside the gravity well, and the ship still flies in to the station, exposed on the way.

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Gravity has a price

Going up from a surface and back down costs propellant and time according to gravity and atmosphere. Launchers and space elevators lower that cost.

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Ports with rules

The station owner decides who may dock, the fees and the largest ship allowed, and national laws apply on top. Storing goods at someone else's station is free and unlimited. Loading and unloading take time according to the mass and the port's capacity, with no queue.

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Sensors and signatures

Detection comes in levels: presence, class, composition and cargo. Stealthy ships have a smaller signature and are harder to see.

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Freight between players

Post a freight job or take one, and the cargo, the deadline and the collateral go into a contract the game enforces. Jobs show up on a board seen by those in the origin system or a few jumps from it, and offering a job directly is also possible.

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Shipping lines

Those who need something moved post a request, and carriers offer routes with their capacity, schedule and price per ton. Every booking is a contract the game enforces.

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Routes and repeat runs

I want an automatic jump route planner, and ships that repeat a run on their own while you are offline.

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Groups, messages and channels

Groups and private messages, moderated public channels for each language and mail without attachments.

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News and player press

An automatic news feed that respects the fog of war, and newspapers written by players, with paid subscriptions. Moderation works by report.

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Reputation as a record

There is no single score. There is a public history of facts, such as contracts kept or broken, that anyone can read and judge.

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Against multiple accounts

Linked accounts are detected by device, network and payment, and a person reviews every case before any punishment. For now, there is no SMS check.

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Free forever

A free account has no time limit and lets you do a bit of everything, with tight limits: at most 3 bases and 2 to 3 open contracts on the offer board. New accounts get no premium trial. Premium comes from buying it, from the token or as a gift from a nation or another player.

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What premium adds

More bases, production lines, orders and contracts, plus automation and interface comfort. Building your own exchange or station, founding a nation and holding office require premium. There is a single plan, in blocks of 30, 90 or 365 days.

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Expired premium freezes

When premium runs out, whatever goes beyond the free account's limits freezes until you renew. Nothing is destroyed, and other players can still cancel their orders and collect their goods.