Something to spend your Feathers on — three boosters for ship spotters
Feathers 🪶 have been piling up all day — every catch pays them, missions pay them, streaks pay them. But if your game is ships, there was nowhere to spend: the first boosters were built for aircraft scans and mission swaps. That gap closes now. Next to the album counter in the spotting HUD there's a new 🪶 button — the booster shop, three items, all for the vessel scope.
The three
📡 Recon boost — 100 🪶, 30 minutes. Your targeting reach stretches from 5 to 8 kilometres and locks build a third faster. The far-off silhouette you usually have to chase down first becomes catchable from where you are — and yes, the server honours the extended range, this isn't a cosmetic ring.
📖 Fast dossier — 75 🪶, 30 minutes. Normally a vessel's name resolves a third of the way into the lock and her size class later still. With the dossier boost the identity comes almost immediately — you know what you're holding in the reticle before you've committed to the catch. Made for picky collectors who break off locks that turn out to be yet another common coaster.
👁 Spotter's eye — 150 🪶, 15 minutes. The controversial one, priced and timed accordingly. While it runs, a small panel lists the three nearest rare-or-better vessels around you with a direction arrow and distance — which way to bank, not what to press. It estimates rarity from a ship's class and size, the same maths the cards use; the curated legends can still slip past it unflagged, which we think is fair. Legends should be found, not queried.
The rules didn't move
Same economy discipline as everything else today: purchases are capped per day, windows don't stack, none of it touches XP or the leaderboards, and — after today's explicit decision — ship spotting itself stays uncapped, forever. You never buy back access we took away, because nothing was taken. Feathers buy comfort around the hunt; the hunt is free.
If the balance drifts — if Spotter's eye starts writing the leaderboard — it's the first thing we pull. The daily purchase caps are the levers, and we'll be watching the collections to see how these change what people catch.
Earn today, spend today. The shop's under your album counter — go treat yourself to fifteen minutes of x-ray vision.