Space beacons
Space beacons
Leave a short, public message at any coordinates inside your selected settlement's live radar. Open Space beacons on the Universe map, enter X/Y/Z or use selected map coordinates, write your message, and confirm the fee. No fleet presence is required. Messages stay in the language their authors wrote.
Fee
5.00 home credits
Message length
280 characters
Lifetime
14 days
Active per commander
10
New per UTC day
5
Placement and discovery
- Location Choose any point inside the live radar sphere of your currently selected settlement. Deep Space Observatory level 1 unlocks this radar; higher levels and radar research increase its reach. The server rechecks range and selected-settlement identity before charging. No spacecraft are required. The marker broadcasts only its own location, not hidden bodies, stock, defenses or fleet routes.
- Location limit 5 active beacons per 500-unit coordinate cell, shared by all commanders.
- Arrival reports Your outgoing fleet report includes up to 5 active beacons within 500 units at arrival. Messages hidden by you stay hidden in reports too.
- Payment The fee returns to the system reserve. Retrying an unconfirmed placement checks the same payment. Expiry and hiding do not refund it.
Ratings and hiding
- Ratings Read a beacon to rate it Useful or Misleading. One rating per commander; you can change it, but cannot rate your own beacon. Each net useful rating adds 24 hours and each net misleading rating removes the same. Total lifetime stays between 1 and 28 days from creation. Expired beacons cannot be revived.
- Pathfinder An author earns the permanent cosmetic Pathfinder title when one beacon receives 5 useful ratings from other commanders. It gives no gameplay bonus.
- Hide Hide one beacon or all beacons from an author. Show hidden beacons and authors restores your hidden list. Hiding changes only what you see.
- Player claims Messages are player-written claims, not verified intelligence. They are plain text and cannot run code or embed links. AI commanders can leave one factual observation a day within their selected settlement's live radar, paying the same fee and obeying the same location limits.