Smuggling on Big Bang Smugglers

Smuggling & Contraband

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The catalog

Three contraband rows, each riding on a real commodity’s price and volume.

Contraband	Rides on	Fence buy price	Max per purchase	Sell multiplier	Risk
Illicit Organics	Organics (1 vol)	follows local organics	100	×2.0	low
Stolen Equipment	Equipment (2 vol)	follows local equipment	100	×2.0	medium
Black Tech	Equipment (2 vol)	follows local equipment, ×3+	100	×3.5	high

Fence prices follow the market (since v2.3.0). A Black Market’s buy price rides on the port’s own price for the underlying commodity, so the same Black Tech costs more where equipment is dear. The old flat shelf (30 / 40 / 150) is gone. Selling straight back to the same fence still turns a modest, safe profit; the big money is still in lawful space, at real risk.

v2.4.0 — Fixes From the Discord

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Every fix in this release started as a player report. Thanks to SauceLord Dulak and the plague for the clear write-ups.

Smuggling

Hidden compartments now protect your sales. Ships with hidden compartments used to hide cargo only from patrol scans; the risk of getting caught at a street sale was the same as any other hull. That risk is now cut by the compartment percentage. On The Phantom Manifest it drops 60%, so a Fed core sale goes from 22% to about 9%. The sell screen shows your real number.

Boosters

XP and Credit boosters now work. They only ever counted on mission rewards. XP boosters now apply to every source of experience. Credit boosters add 25% on top of your profit from trade and smuggling sales, and on loot, bounties, landmark caches, and mission, goal and streak rewards. They don’t apply to credits taken from other players.

Planets

Withdrawals use your real cargo capacity. Cargo compressors and hull cargo bonuses now count when pulling goods from planet storage, and the withdraw screen has a Max button.

Corporations

Accepting an invite actually joins you. Invites now work on every corporation, not just invite-only ones. Inviting a captain who has already asked to join approves them on the spot, and your membership shows immediately without signing out.
Declined requests say so. If a leader turns down your request, the corp list shows Declined instead of a permanent Pending, and Check Status no longer quietly files a new request.
Leaders now see new join requests as they arrive.

Interface

Long profiles can be closed again. Captain profiles opened from the leaderboard grew taller than the screen as honors piled up, and on web the Close button was unreachable. Every pop-up is now capped to the screen, scrolls inside, and keeps Close in view. Tapping outside or pressing back closes the ones that allow it.

Website

Live season standings. bigbangsmugglers.com now shows the current season’s status and standings, refreshed every four hours.

Under the hood

Cargo volume rules now come from the server in one place.
Housekeeping on the agent tooling in the repo.

v2.3.0 — You Asked, We Built It

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Most of this release came straight from the Discord. Thank you to everyone who reported, tested and argued about it.

Planets

Auto-collect. Each production cycle’s output now goes straight into your planet’s storage, up to its cap. No more flying around every cycle to press Collect. If a planet’s storage fills up, the planet screen and your “while you were away” summary tell you so.
Planet XP. Building structures now earns experience. The amount scales with the structure and the level you reach: a level-1 warehouse pays 60 XP, and a level-5 citadel pays 900. Colonizing pays 1 XP per worker.
Fixed: missions that asked you to upgrade a planet could never complete.
Fixed: leaving a season now releases your planets for others to claim.
Fixed: collecting right after a cycle boundary could skip a cycle’s production.

Mines

Each captain can now deploy up to 500 mines across the galaxy, up from 50.
Sectors where you own a planet allow 50 extra.

Smuggling rebalance

Market-priced contraband. Black Market prices now follow the local market instead of a flat rate. Selling back to the same fence earns a modest, safe profit. The big money is still in lawful space, at real risk.
100 per purchase. You can buy up to 100 units of any contraband type in one purchase.
Hidden compartments stay hidden. When a patrol catches you over your hidden allowance, it now takes only the overflow. The fine is based on what that cargo cost you.
NPC traders now charge more than a Black Market for contraband, never less.

Alignment

Jettison workers is live. Dump mining workers from your hold for −10 alignment each. It’s the fast road toward the pirate side.

Combat

Defenders loot. Beat someone who attacked you and you take a cut of their wallet. Banked credits stay safe.
Bounties pay both ways. If a wanted captain attacks you and loses, you collect their bounty.
No self-sieges. Corps can’t siege their own ports.
No sieges under immunity. Captains under immunity can’t siege ports or plant limpets.
Cloaks break when you act. Sieges, raids, Black Market deals, banking and ship purchases now drop your cloak.
Fixed: equipped hull plating was increasing hull damage instead of reducing it.
Fixed: mines could hit your replacement ship right after a fatal ambush.

Warps charge their full cost up front. If you’re stopped partway, the turns for the hops you didn’t fly come back.
Fixed: warp interrupts with no contact.
Fixed: arriving hidden after a wormhole jump while landed on a planet.
Warp exploration now counts toward missions and goals.

Fixes you reported

Corp bank. Deposits and withdrawals now show up instantly for the whole crew.
Tavern intel. Results no longer run off the screen.
Buying a ship. Hulls with bonus cargo space no longer destroy cargo that would have fit.
Prices you’re shown now match what you’re charged, including StarNav and drive faction discounts, trade fees, and the port price board.
Screens now show real numbers. Wormhole destinations are real, ambush recaps no longer invent “50% even odds”, and planet production rates are correct.
Corps. Rosters update live, and you no longer appear offline while connected.

Under the hood

Security hardening around docking and port services.
Console improvements: bulk bans, and version updates from the Broadcast desk.
Cleanup: idle, never-played seats now free themselves.
Many smaller consistency and race-condition fixes.

v2.2.0 — The Premium Market Opens

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000

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.

v1.23.0 — Events, Roles, End-game, and New Player Onboarding

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

v1.23.0 is the biggest content release since the game launched. Daily events, role specialization, prestige tiers, a full season end-game, and new-player onboarding are all live. An extensive bug-fix and balance pass ships alongside them — over 80 issues closed.

Daily Events

A live events system now runs inside every galaxy. Daily events generate automatically from a rotating template slate and are visible from the Events board on your Ship screen.

Smuggling on Big Bang Smugglers

Smuggling & Contraband

The catalog

v2.4.0 — Fixes From the Discord

Smuggling

Boosters

Planets

Corporations

Interface

Website

Under the hood

v2.3.0 — You Asked, We Built It

Planets

Mines

Smuggling rebalance

Alignment

Combat

Navigation

Fixes you reported

Under the hood

v2.2.0 — The Premium Market Opens

Smuggling — the premium market opens

Combat

v1.23.0 — Events, Roles, End-game, and New Player Onboarding

Daily Events