A short list for your first flight
When you take off in Skydex for the first time, the sky is full of things you can do, and almost none of them are obvious. You can catch real aircraft and ships, fly anywhere on Earth, race, save moments, listen to the radio. Most first flights end before any of that comes up.
So new pilots now get a small card with four items:
- Take off. Ticked the moment the card appears, because you already did.
- Spot an aircraft or a ship. Either one counts. What's easier to catch depends on where you are: a harbour is full of ships, an inland city has more planes overhead. The spotting coach that appears after a while explains how, step by step.
- Fly to another city. The world is real and it's big. If your sky is quiet, open the map and go where the traffic is. The card has a button for that.
- Pick your home city if you have an account, or sign in if you're flying as a guest. A home city gets you the daily line about what flew over it. Signing in keeps your catches.
On a desktop the card sits under your flight readout. On a phone it's a pill under the top bar; tap it to see the list.
When it shows and when it goes away
The card shows up after ten seconds of real flight, so you get a moment to look around first. It hides by itself while you're paused, zoomed in to spot something, racing, or in VR, and comes back afterwards.
It goes away for good when you finish all four items, when you close it with ✕, or after three sessions. Accounts older than a week never see it: if you've been flying with us for a while, you don't need it.
Progress is kept in your browser. If you fly as a guest and then sign in on the same browser, you keep your ticks.
No extra reward, on purpose
The card doesn't pay anything by itself. The spotting item closes the same starter mission that already gives you feathers on your first day, and we didn't want a list that people tick just for a payout. It's a map of what the game has, nothing more.
While a guest has the card on screen, the separate "sign in to keep your progress" pill stays quiet. One reminder is enough, and the card already has it as item four.
We count it
The card reports when it was shown, which items got ticked, and whether it was finished or closed. That's tied to your account or to an anonymous browser key, never to an address. If almost nobody finishes the third item, we'll change it. If spotting doesn't go up, the card isn't doing its job and we'll take it out.
New here? Take off and look for the card in the corner.