The Feed tab is now Comms, and captains can finally talk.
Comms
- One tab for every conversation. Feed is now Comms, with channels inside it: Galaxy, Corp, Hails, and Leaderboards. Unread counts sit on each channel and a dot on the tab. They’re stored on the server, so they survive a reinstall and agree across devices.
- Your dispatches live in Galaxy. Customs seizures, attacks on you, bounties, limpets, and robberies now sit in the Galaxy timeline with a dot until you’ve seen them. World events never badge.
- Missions moved to the Ship tab, leftmost. Past Seasons is now a season selector on Leaderboards.
Galaxy posts
- Posting to the galaxy is free. The paid announcement is gone. Anyone at level 5 can post up to 280 characters straight from the Galaxy channel.
- Mentions. Write
@captainor@corpand the name lights up. Whoever you named gets an “@ you” chip and a badge until they open Comms. A corp mention reaches every member. Up to five names per post.
Hails
- Direct chat between captains. Open Hails, tap Hail, find a captain by name, and talk. Text only, one thread per pair per season, level 5 to start a thread, nothing to reply.
- Block. From any thread header. That captain’s hails and galaxy posts stop reaching you, in both directions. They’re not told.
Corporation chat
- A real channel. Pinned to the newest message, pull up for older history, the notice pinned at the top with an edit for officers, a green dot on crewmates who are online, and “N of M online” in the header. Joins, leaves, and discharges show inline.
- Messages land instantly instead of a couple of seconds later.
Fair play
- One spam gate for every chat surface: 3 messages per 10 seconds and 30 per 10 minutes, counted across corp chat, galaxy posts, and hails together. Go over and the game tells you how many seconds to wait. Links are blocked everywhere.
- Reports and moderation. Report any post with the flag, or any hail or corp message with a long press. Three reports hide a message automatically. Moderators can hide, restore, and silence a captain on every surface for an hour, a day, a week, or the season. Reading is never silenced.
Under the hood
- Old feed rows now age out after 30 days, except critical, season, and operator posts, and pinned items.
- Deleted or hidden messages vanish from connected clients immediately.
- The app opens one live connection instead of five.
- Console access is now role-based, and captain and corp names are screened on the way in, not just on rename.