Dress up your profile: themes, auras, a live sky and a showcase
Earlier today your name started carrying its style into every list. The page that name links to still looked the same as everyone else's, so this update is for the profile itself.
What is new in the Exchange
The Trident Exchange has five new groups.
- Themes. Ten colour washes for the top of your profile: runway, dusk,
harbour, aurora and six more. A theme only tints the header area and one accent colour. Paragraphs keep the normal page colours, so nobody's profile gets harder to read, and every accent is checked to stay legible against the page.
- Entry effects. A short animation, two to three seconds, that plays when
someone else opens your page: contrails, gulls, aurora, approach lights, snow, rain or a sonar ping. It plays once per visit and never blocks a click. If you have reduced motion turned on in your system, it stays still. You can press preview on your own page to watch it.
- Auras. Radar sweep, sonar rings, a plane or a gull orbiting your crest,
a compass rose, a beacon. They draw behind or around the rank frame on your avatar, never on top of your photo, and only once you have a rank frame at all.
- Card finishes. A border style for your cards in the collection pages:
gold, holo, rivets, chart or carbon. The rarity ribbon stays as it was.
- Banners. A layer over your cover photo. The weather banner shows the
current sky over your home city.
Prices run from 10 to 50 Tridents, and a few themes and nameplates are sold for feathers instead, 150 to 400 🪶. That gives the soft currency a use outside boosters.
Feeders get their sky on the cover
If you run a receiver that has delivered data, the live banner is yours at no cost. ADS-B station owners get the sky version: small silhouettes of the aircraft your part of the network is hearing right now, drawn over your cover. AIS station owners get the water version with vessels. It appears in the Exchange the next time you open it.
The banner is drawn around the city your station page already names, within 60 km. It never shows your antenna's position, and it carries no registrations, callsigns or vessel names, only positions.
Home city
You can now set a home city from the Exchange. It is a city from our map list, never coordinates. By default the name stays hidden and the weather banner simply shows the sky; a toggle lets you print the name on your page.
Showcase
Your profile has a showcase slot for something you want people to see first: a moment, a catch, a station or a race track. The first slot is free. Two more cost 15 Tridents, and two after that cost 25. If a pinned moment goes private or a catch disappears, it drops out of the showcase on its own.
Gifts and the weekly pick
Any item that can be bought can also be sent to another player. You write a short note, and it arrives in their notification bell with your name. If they already own it, nothing is charged.
The Exchange also shows four featured items each week, picked by the calendar, so the shop changes a little every Monday.
To try something on before buying, the preview link on each row opens your own profile with the item applied. Only you see it.