Shared space — online play on the frontier

The frontier is no longer empty. Sign in on the site and press Play: the game joins the shared space and the menu shows an ONLINE badge with your callsign.

You are not alone

• Other pilots appear in real time, each with a callsign and distance above the ship.
• The label colour tells you who you are dealing with:
  • blue — a neutral pilot;
  • orange — someone who has just attacked you;
  • red — wanted, or a “Frontier outlaw”;
  • green — your wing.
• System chat: press Enter, type a message and press Enter again. /w text messages your wing.
• Wings of up to four pilots: /invite CALLSIGN, then /accept, /decline or /leave.

A shared market and honest leaderboards

Station stock is now shared: your trades move prices for everyone. The server keeps credits, cargo, contracts and reputation, so leaderboards count online play only and cannot be faked.

Fighting together, and against each other

• Pirates ambushing one pilot are visible to everyone: anyone can help out and claim the bounty.
• You can attack anyone, but the law remembers:
  • Attacking a clean pilot costs a fine and reputation. A fine left unpaid for 10 minutes becomes a wanted status.
  • Destroying a clean pilot means a bounty on your head, notoriety and police. In high security they arrive within 20 seconds, in moderate within 60.
  • Self-defence is lawful: if someone attacks you (or your wing), fire back.
  • Bounty hunters collect bounties on wanted pilots, but no more than once an hour for the same victim.
  • Lawless Sable has no law at all.
• Newcomers are protected for their first 10 hours: around the stations of guarded systems, weapons do not fire at them.
• A destroyed ship leaves its cargo in containers for 5 minutes. Fly close to scoop them up.
• Closing the tab mid-fight will not save you: the ship stays in space for another 30 seconds.

More in the wiki article “PvP and the law between pilots”.

Solo is still here

Without an account the game works locally as before. Signed-in pilots can switch with the PLAY SOLO button in the game menu. Solo progress is separate from online progress and does not count toward leaderboards.