The shop gets things for your station, a week-long try-on and a monthly drop
The Trident Exchange hadn't had anything new in a while, and when we looked at who actually holds Tridents the reason was obvious. On 7 October, 21 of the 23 accounts with ten or more Tridents were people who run a receiver. Most of them rarely fly. And nearly everything in the shop was for the bird or the drone, so the people with coins had nothing to spend them on that they would ever see.
So this update is mostly for your station.
Dress your station
There's a new Station tab in the Exchange. It holds four kinds of items, 19 in total, and every one of them shows up where other people look at your receiver:
- Page themes colour the header of your station page and your row on the
station leaderboard.
- Map markers change how your station is drawn on the live network maps,
from a plain dot to a diamond, a star, a mast, a hexagon or a pulse.
- Card frames go around the picture people see when they paste a link to
your station into Discord, Telegram or X.
- Rose palettes recolour your reception rose.
Prices run from 10 to 40 Tridents. If you have a receiver, the Exchange now opens on this tab, and the eye button next to each item shows it on your own station page before you pay. Only you see that preview. A station with "Credit me" switched off doesn't show its owner's dress, for the same reason it doesn't show the owner's name.
Try anything for a week
Feathers have been piling up with little to spend them on. Now any Trident item on sale can be worn for seven days for its price times fifteen in Feathers: a 20-Trident frame costs 300 Feathers to try. It goes on right away. After a week it comes off by itself and whatever you wore before goes back on, and the bell tells you what keeping it would cost. Each item can be tried once. Buying it during the week makes it yours for good.
Things you keep cost Tridents and things that run out cost Feathers. A try-on runs out, so Feathers pay for it.
A monthly drop and a goal
New items will arrive at the start of each month. They carry a NEW mark for 30 days and sit in their own strip at the top of the Exchange. If you hold at least 10 Tridents or 300 Feathers, the bell will ring once when a drop lands. You can switch that off at the bottom of the Exchange.
You can also mark one Trident item as your goal. The Exchange shows how many Tridents are left. On /feed, the coins card adds an estimate: how many days of feeding that is at your own pace over the last four weeks. The number comes from what your receivers actually paid you, not from the rate table.
Sky pulse
One new booster for flying: Sky pulse, 100 Feathers for 30 minutes. While it runs, the flight HUD lists the nearest aircraft whose type our network has heard three airframes of or fewer in the past month, with distance and direction. It uses the same count that decides what goes into the rare-sky alert channels.
We planned three more boosters and dropped them after checking the data. Hangar history already shows everything we keep, for free. Past routes exist for 5 of the 16 aircraft anyone has in a hangar, and the hangar passport already shows them. And a "who will fly over in the next hour" forecast would need hour-by-hour records we don't collect.
Tell us in Discord which station items you'd like in next month's drop.