Correct! The formal name for that number is "Tracking" (and the unit is "virtual minutes"), and it should increase along with your tracking skill, but alas, doesn't (unimplemented feature/bug). Each time you use equipment that has cooldown value, this number decreases by that amount. Those "minutes" are "virtual" because it's not happening in real-time, unlike the actual cooldown. Hope that made sense. Sigh, we really need to write a proper manual.


Believe it or not, but it's a feature, not a bug. The idea behind it is that it allows you to compare prices "between" tabs (i.e. Iron Ore vs Iron Plate). Kinda weird, I agree.

Yikes! Thanks for reporting this, should be a quick fix.


The rules are pretty unclear, but the general rundown is:
- In GPD-protected sectors, only THX stations install marketplace terminals
- In unsafe sectors, outposts do not exist at all, so THXs are the stations to carry them
- In CONS-protected sectors, CONS outposts carry them, as that's their turf

Some stations might lack those terminals due to political and/or economic reasons.


Yeah, we're aware of that "blank ore" bug, which has been pretty elusive so far. I'll post an update as soon as we fix it. Thanks for brining the "can't jettison" issue, I'll update the post above.

It's 1, more ore. To get better minerals you'd have to get equipment that increases Mining or Prospecting skills, and no such equipment exists yet (but it will).

Some random news.

Some people have reported being thrown out of the game during some actions, but not losing session completely. This bug has been finally fixed, thank you all.

We are also receiving more and more reports regarding "blank" ore mining. We have seen that in action, so you can stop now, thank you. We're not quite sure where the bug lies yet (guessing something to do with rare random value) and we're currently investigating it. If this has happened to you, don't be alarmed too much, just jettison the thing. OR, if you wish, keep it on your ship and we'll replace it with something nicer later, once the bug is fixed keep mining and it will go away.

Also, referral collecting seems to be happening via TE and PTC sites. This is no good for us; we don't need such kind of traffic; please don't do it. This is going to be added to the rules as major (banable) offense. You've been warned! Currently working on blacklisting such sites.

Hello, RichTraff!

We decided to give your network a spin. After changing the "Zone" setting on both ads, they began to work.

(You should post a better explanation on how Zones/Keywords work, though)

One question, for a text ad, it says "BTC 0.000000 for 1000 impression" with the "Text Ads" zone. Is that right?

Nope, there are no country-based blocks. We employ some IP-info-gathering services, and those track botnets and malicious VPNs (and known public proxies), so there must be some reason.

In any case, we whitelist on case-by-case request, so feel free to send me that PM.

Update: OK, added you.

Hello, Ronnie666.

PM me your IP address. Also, do you have any idea why would your IP be blocked?

Rarely, pirates carry no loot at all. This really is rare, you'll see as you hunt more.

We'll add some jobs to make hunting worth your while even when there's no loot.

Not really, no. All-caps sectors have larger suns :)


Thank you! Fixed.


You'll have to trust me on this one. But we'll look into it.

Hello, masterbo2222.

1. No
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. No. They'll get cheaper, promise.

We're trying to treat repair as a precious resource which "money can't buy". As more battles commence (especially Squad vs Pirates and Squad vs Squad), the finer parts of the gameplay shall become more and more apparent. (hope that made sense, hm).

In other words, yeah, you can't repair yourself. But your friend can.


All good suggestions. Expect I'm not sure about crafting, as that would add a severe overhead, as the algorithm is tailored for single items; so that's a rather complicated change, but the rest of the ideas all make sense.


No, absolutely not! Woah, good catch! :) In fact, I checked and there are three sectors named Terebellum. Renaming them as we speak. I've also checked for other duplicates, and there were none! So that's rare occurrence too :) Can you tell me you in-game name? (possibly via PM)

Thanks for you comments, those are indeed helpful, and everyone is welcome to share their notes too!

The plan (not currently implemented) is to make some crafting give you zero points, if it's too easy for you. So you'll have to move to more difficult items. But giving more points is also an option, we're still evaluating the best approach.

Yes, crafting rockets is kinda pointless now, but we'll fix it, promise!

See below.

That is mostly the fault of adalso.com ad. They are the slowest. We'll simply stop serving those ads quite soon, they are not worth it.

Forum is coming along. But for the wiki, there's probably not going to be one. Players are free to start their own and document all the blueprints, etc, but we don't want that information to be part of the game (mystery factor).


There's actually NO skill cap at all, but realistically, you won't get far after level 30, because it will take you forever. When/if players reach that point in the game, this will probably be adjusted with more new challenges, that are hard, but give you the needed boost.


Yes, I can't wait too. The full potential, i.e. squad vs squad wars (with planet takeovers), always populated marketplace, etc has not yet been reached.

Hello, sportkiller.

Thanks for the enquery.

1) Right now, you can't. You can ask another player to do it (using the "Repair Ray") or you can wait till you explode and the NPCs will fully repair you.

2) Yup, you can't become "shipless" (because that might cause unsolvable problems, like not having enough satoshi to buy a new one  - and becoming stranded; we also don't want people to signup, sell their ships and cash out -- easy route for bots to drain the faucet). We will add an option to "trade in" a ship eventually, but it's not yet ready.

The ref. percentage for new signups has spiked to 75%, so we conclude the problem is finally resolved. We have also assigned about 100 players manually. Thanks for everyone reporting refs not working.

Note: due to the fact some refs were not assigned from the get-go, you may see a discrepancy between "Referral Paid" value and the sum of your referrals "Earned" values. This is unfortunate, but was not worth fixing; it will not happen again. The missed payments were about 100-200 satoshi per referrer, and were hopefully covered by the gifts we issued. Sorry for this hickup.

Not yet, but one day for certain ;)

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Everyone, we think we've fixed another major bug regarding referrals not properly registering. As before, we'll now go back to logs and try to manually assign as many as possible.

However, it would be hard for us to track all the refs. down due to the influx of all the new players. If you know some of your friends who have not registered as your referrals, please feel free to post them here, via PM, or via support e-mail.

As an apology, we're issuing a gift for each and every player ever registered in the game. Sorry for letting you down, hopefully it won't happen again.

To help us test, feel free to attempt registering a self-ref account or ask your friend for a quick signup (no obligations to play) -- you will not be banned. Thanks for understanding.

Update: gifts issued.

Update: please don't self-ref anymore, we see everything is fine.

Hello, Slavik88.

Thanks for your report!

1. As far as ref.links go, there's probably a bug somewhere in our code, or maybe your friend didn't use the link correctly? We had a problem with ref.links earlier, which we think was fixed. About 50% of our players are referrals, so it looks good. We would LOVE to delve deeper into it, but I fear there's not enough information as it is.

For the reference: your referrals should appear in the list as soon as they sign up, no other conditions (like e-mail verification of first withdrawal) needed.

If you can tell me your in-game name and the name of your friend (and if he doesn't mind), we can assign him to you.

If you (or someone else) can reproduce the bug, we'll definitely not issue a ban for multi-accounts/self-ref, but give you praise instead.

2. Trucker, as it's name implies, is good for trucking large amount of cargo from one place to another.

As for Mauler, that was an oversight on our part. Should've had either 3 equipment slots, either 1 extra cargo slot. That bug is now fixed, thank you! If you're wondering what is it good for, it's a mystery :) Easily solved if you examine different equipment at the store, though ;)

Oh. Yes, Faucetbox (and Paytoshi) are services that accumulate micro-payments and then send to your wallet as soon as you reach 100%. You can change the threshold value yourself.

Thanks for confirmation. Whelp, here you go, speedtuning.


I don't think I understand your question.

For future reference: wallet signing is not mandatory, it's a security measure for your own well-being (we recommend you do it). Either use something other than XAPO, either forget about it.

Hello, speedtuning.

Thanks for your report. I'm not actually sure how do you sign a Xapo wallet and if such feature is available on xapo.com at all (last time I tried using Xapo, I didn't see any message signing features, maybe I didn't look closely enough).

Perhaps someone from here can help us out?

(BTW, wallet signing is something lots of players have problem with. I guess that feature is not most popular among bitcoin users, altho I believe it's essential to master. We're preparing some guides to ease that process, but there are many different online wallets (and programs) and we can't possibly cover them all.)

Hello, thijsie90.

Thanks for your report. I've restored your engine (since it's "newbie" equipment, which should be permanently yours anyway), but please be more careful next time :)

And true, this situation shouldn't normally happen, thankfully (?) you're the first player to actually do this.


Yeah, not a bad idea at all. I'll make sure we add something to that effect.