Slingshot Speeders v0.1.9 — dress rehearsal for Season Zero
We Have Been Cooking: v0.1.9 Public Test & Patch Notes
Play: https://slingshotspeeders.com/
v0.1.9 is a longer public test before we commit. Season Zero lands with v0.2.0. Everything you earn or buy in 0.1.9 is thrown away first.
Sign in and you get 10000 pax. Spend it. The FOUNDER'S PACK is 2000 pax on this build so you can fly Spear and the gold look. That pax price goes away with the wipe. After 0.2.0 the pack is real money, $10 to $250, same pack at every amount. Stripe, no slider. After Season Zero it cannot be bought again. You can give more later.
The wipe is complete. Wallets, PAX SHOP purchases, this pax pack, equipped cosmetics, boards, championship, Elo — none of it carries into Season Zero. Fly, break the shops, tell us what is wrong. Thank you for being in the test.
You will see the rest the first time you load Home.
The ships are painted hulls now, not the old Stock / Orb / Trident / Vanguard kit. You start in Brick. Halo is on the free shelf. Spear is the FOUNDER hull. The grey nozzle squares are gone; thrust still comes from those spots. Δv is a bar under the ship, green to red, so any shape can fly clean.
Two shops. They never mix.
- PAX SHOP is free. You fly, you earn pax, you buy a look. No real money on this shelf. Ever.
- PREMIUM SHOP is paid exclusives only. Right now that is the FOUNDER'S PACK. Pack pieces do not appear on the PAX SHOP. PAX pieces do not appear on PREMIUM.
More cosmetics will land over time. Free looks go on the PAX SHOP. Paid exclusives go on the PREMIUM SHOP. Same Stock ship on every board. Nothing you buy flies the ship for you.
FOUNDER'S PACK (PREMIUM SHOP)
One pack. Buying it — pax now, Stripe later — puts you in Spear with its Gold skin.
In the pack:
- Spear hull, plus Spear skins: Gold, Crimson, Unicorn, Anime
- Gold Glitter trail (main and/or RCS)
- Founder Gold trajectory line — dust and sparkle down the whole line; flying through it leaves a puff
- Founder Gold name — a traveling deep-gold shine on the boards, the profile chip, and the S chip. Not flat yellow. You can still equip a pax name color; the FOUNDER word stays Zector
Not in the pack: Halo and Halo skins. Brick Gold and Halo Gold live on the PAX SHOP.
Later PREMIUM pieces land here too, never on the free shelf.
SUPPORTERS in MENU lists FOUNDER names and the day they joined. Never how much they gave.
PAX SHOP (free shelf)
MENU → PAX SHOP. This is the free shelf. Buy with pax; buying equips. Pack exclusives are not listed here. Inventory is on Account. Public profiles show pax and what they own; only you can put it on the ship.
Hulls — Brick is the starter. Halo is the paid-with-pax ship.
Skins — grouped by hull. Brick: Oxide, Green, Red, Purple, Pink, Gold, Cosmic. Halo: Green, Red, Crimson, Gold, Cosmic, Rainbow. Inventory only lists skins that fit the hull you are flying. Switch hulls and a skin that does not fit drops to Stock.
Trails — one shelf. Wear a trail on the main engine, the RCS, or both (Gold main + Violet RCS is fine). Colors: Violet, Red, Blue, Orange, Green. Gold Glitter is the pack trail.
Trajectory lines — Violet, Red, Blue, Orange, Green. Founder Gold is the pack line.
Name fonts — Zector (stock), Manufacturing Consent, Alpha 54, Segment14. Equipping one updates the profile chip and the boards without a refresh.
Name colors — Cyan, Rose, Lime, Orange, Purple, Red, Blue. Founder Gold is the pack color.
Aura — Gold Dust, a pulsing spark ring around the hull. Separate from the line.
Emotes — including Alien. Press the emote key (Z by default). Watch tapes show them.
Owned pieces stay on the shelf marked OWNED. Cards are ship-art chips, cached after the first visit. Type-in fields use the How to play alphabet so you can see caps. Changing your display name updates the page in place.
The rehearsal boards
MENU has Season Zero so we can try championship, Elo, and EVENT on this build. They wipe with everything else. The real Season Zero is v0.2.0.
SCORE is mixed: time and total Δv spent, including after a refill. Burning a tank costs more than doubling your time. FAQ has the Reach example.
Schedule is gone. EVENT times sit on each map card.
Maps
- Slingshot is Hard now: gate, then capture. Two masses run left to right.
- Apollo is 3 laps, first on Hard, with a purple fuel body opposite the moon. Duality and Elevator are Hard with it.
- Trefoil is 2 laps. A win stays a win if you restart after.
- Click a body for relative orbit; the crash ring goes cyan.
- PATH strokes stay in MapMake. They do not draw under a moving mass in a race.
- Multi-lap maps show LAP up top.
Community Maps — a win lands on that map's board. PUBLISH is 400 pax after you win on it. No week wait.
Challenges
Today: the usual dailies, plus three online race wins, a Community Map win, and an Extreme map win.
This week (Monday 00:00 UTC): win an EVENT, call the EVENT winner, or fly someone else's Community Map three times.
Pax is for goals, new maps, and Forecasts — not grinding one map. Philosophy says so, and names James Masland and how the ship art is made.
MULTI and SPECTATE
Spectate now shows that pilot's name, thrust trail, and the hold ring counting down and going green. A 5 second hold lasts 5 seconds. Hold numbers are sharper.
Join a room that has been running a while and the moons stay in phase — other ships are not a few seconds behind the moon. The lobby card no longer says WAITING FOR PILOTS over the list. Results only list who raced.
VIEW is the still course with old trajectory lines. SPECTATE is the live race, and the ship you are watching stays on screen. The trajectory line stays up when you load in.
Afterburn (BURN / Shift) still doubles main thrust. The rear RCS lights with the bell. Same fuel. Phone BURN actually arms it now.
Phone and chrome
Flight taps sit at the bottom. SHIP / WORLD / FREE / HOME / RESET sit under MAIN. Stick and yaw scale separately; pads can be see-through. Ping / fps / version stay off until Settings.
MENU and your name sit together on Home and on the site. Sign in is top right; on a narrow phone the title drops under them. Connecting is top center. Tap away from YOUR NAME and it closes.
On Watch, HOME, the pilot name, Play Map, and SHARE tap. Camera chips sit on the replay bar.
Recent runs is a Home tab next to Community.
One kind of mass
Every gravity source in the sim is a body. It is static or it moves. It pulls or it pushes. That is the whole type. MapMake tools are STATIC PULL, STATIC PUSH, MOVING PULL, MOVING PUSH. Map titles can still say Planet & Moon — that is flavor. One vocabulary in the code means we can keep adding maps without a translation table. Philosophy says so.
Spend the 10000. Buy the pack with pax while that door is open. Then expect a blank slate when Season Zero starts on v0.2.0. Thanks for flying the test.
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