Player guide · 22 pages

Official Guide

Everything you need to know about Big Bang Smugglers

The official guide to Big Bang Smugglers 2.0. Mechanics, real numbers, and the gates that actually stop you.

The game runs on turns: 250 every four hours, none carried over. If that’s new to you, start with Turns, Credits & Basics.

Every number here was read out of the shipped game. Each page lists the releases that changed it.

A note on level gates. Unlocks in this game are level-gated, and the gate numbers are set per season: every season pins its own ladder, so the same unlock sits at a different level on a short ladder than on a long one. This guide describes gates by where they sit in the ladder — early, mid, late — and the in-game unlock list always shows your season’s exact numbers.

Returning from 1.x? Almost nothing carried over. Prices are dynamic now, ships have hull, the disabled state is gone, reputation was replaced by faction standing, and the ship catalog went from 30 hulls to 45 plus six you can only earn. Start with Getting Started and What Changed From 1.x.

Start

Sign up, join a season, and learn what a turn actually buys you.

Getting StartedSign up, join a season, and spend your first 250 turns well Turns, Credits & BasicsThe turn cycle, buying turns, wallet versus bank, and streaks

Fly

Moving, warping, reading the map, and what's waiting in it.

Navigation & TravelMoving, warp, the Tesseract, wormholes, hazards and beacons The Galaxy & TerritoryRegions, territory, the three starports, and where PvP is legal Scanners, Cloaks & IntelStarNav tiers, active scans, cloaks, and paid intel NPCs & EncountersPirates, patrols, traders, named captains, and every way out

Trade

How prices move, what every port sells, and the contraband career.

Trading & the MarketHow prices are computed, taxes and fees, cost basis, and routes Ports & ServicesEvery port archetype, what it stocks, and which services it runs Smuggling & ContrabandThe fence, the premium sale, customs scans, and hidden holds

Fight

Combat, bounties, ordnance, and the hulls and upgrades that win.

CombatHow a fight resolves, hull versus shields, immunity, and fleets ShipsThree archetypes, three hull lines, five tiers, and the epics Upgrades, Drives & TechThe upgrade ladder, warp and StarNav, and the ten tech modules BountiesPosting, collecting, faction claims, and buying off your warrant Ordnance, Limpets & BeaconsMines, drones, turrets, trackers, and the things you leave behind

Build

Planets, starbases, and corporations that hold ground.

PlanetsClaiming, structures, storage, garrisons, raids and starbases Corporations & FleetsFounding, roles, the corp bank, policies, fleets and held ports

Compete

Factions, XP, missions, and what a season leaves behind.

Factions, Alignment & StandingThe two axes, how to earn them, and every gate they control ProgressionXP, levels, gates, roles, insignia, prestige and leaderboards Missions, Goals & StreaksDaily and season events, goal ladders, epics, and the streak clock SeasonsWhat a season is, what carries over, and how one ends

Numbers

Every constant on one page, and every term defined.

Formulas & NumbersEvery constant on one page, current season defaults GlossaryEvery term the game and this guide use, in one place