RELEASE NOTES 23 August 2026
B Big Bang Smugglers
Release 23 August 2026

v2.2.0 — The Premium Market Opens

The premium contraband market opens, battle recaps show real numbers, a trap-sector fix, and the Vanguardian founder insignia.

The smuggling career gets its missing half, and a rare cosmic dead end gets repaired.

Smuggling — the premium market opens

Contraband can finally be sold the way the career was designed:

  • Hot Cargo — at any port outside a fence sector, sell contraband at street premium. The trade screen quotes the real price per unit and the region’s customs detection risk before you commit; get caught and the goods are seized plus a fine.
  • Fence it flat — Black Market ports now have sell cards with real quoted prices. Flat rate, no scan, no questions.
  • Fixed: contraband cargo volume was counted wrong outside the black market, so your holds could read “free” while buys said “full.” Hold math is now honest everywhere — ship screen, trading, loot, and planet transfers.

Combat

The battle result screen now shows the real numbers: both ships’ fighters, shields, and torpedoes, each side’s losses, and combat power — for PvP and NPC fights alike. No more rows of zeros.

The galaxy

Fixed a world-generation defect where a rare rim sector could be entered but never left (one-way links in, no links out). The live galaxy has been repaired, every future galaxy is generated with a guaranteed route home, and if you were the pilot who found it — o7, your bug report fixed the universe.

Founders

The Vanguardian insignia arrives — a permanent founder honor that carries across every season, forever.

Under the hood

Game logs no longer store message content (privacy hardening), a dead notification-settings section was removed from the app, and build/deploy infrastructure was hardened.