Slingshot Speeders v0.1.3 is up on https://slingshotspeeders.com/. Play in the browser. No install.

Home

• Home is MENU plus Sign in with Google. Account, standings, FAQ, and the rest live on their own pages.
• Sign in with Google sits on home next to HOW TO PLAY. YOUR RUNS follows that account.
• YOUR RUNS has SIGN OUT when you are signed in.
• Signed-in pilots get a public profile (/u/…) with rating, Season Alpha points, Trefoil Elo, and Watch links.
• Profile links are a short code, not a row number. Gold names like /u/james stay.
• Public profile names homemade maps, shows career totals (distance, Δv, time, maps won), and paints an alpha supporter gold name.
• Profile and Usage plot each stat on its own chart — distance, Δv, time, plays, and wins, not stacked on one graph.
• Home ALPHA SUPPORTER COMMUNITY MAPS is open whether you are signed in or not. MapMake stays for signed-in alpha supporters.
• MapMake has one HOME. The ship HUD (speed, Δv, chips) only shows when you PLAY the draft.
• STANDINGS is Season Alpha: championship points from SCORE / TIME / Δv, and a separate Trefoil Elo. It resets when Season 0 starts.
• Home maps are Easy, then Medium, then Hard. Temple is Medium. Rendezvous is last (Hard).
• Prime is the beginner map: two small wells side by side. Start clockwise on the left; capture the green ring on the right.
• Temple no longer has a New! mark.
• MENU closes when you click off it.
• MENU Sign out sits at the bottom when you are signed in. Hover stays inside the panel.
• MENU has Race standard — the Stock ship every public board uses.
• Signed in? PLAY uses your name. No YOUR NAME prompt. Alpha supporter names are gold on SCORE / TIME / Δv.
• SCORE and TIME numbers are white, so gold names stand out.
• SCORE / TIME / Δv headers are white with a border when selected — not gold.
• 1 flying is white, in a small outline next to the map name.
• Profile tabs switch — Maps, History, Trefoil, Share.
• Copy link lives on Share. Sign out is in Menu. Alpha supporter is a gold badge next to the name. The round portrait is the trefoil.
• FAQ answers how Season Alpha ranks work — championship points, the 0–1000 rating, and Trefoil Elo.

Play

• A 3 · 2 · 1 counts you in before the ship moves. The clock and the tape start when it hits zero. Restart is a quick 1.
• Official runs save after the 3-2-1 — Orion and the rest.
• Other pilots flying the same map show up beside you, dimmed. They cannot push you or crash you, and your run is still your own.
• Empty tank is not a lose. You keep coasting. Crash or the 10-minute cap still ends the run. On Trefoil you can burn the last of the tank and glide over the line.
• Trefoil fastest only lists real finishes. A crash is not 0s.
• Trefoil RECENT / FASTEST turn white with a border when selected.
• Every map has a JOIN card now, and home shows how many pilots are on each one.
• Home map names say 1 flying when someone is on that map — not a missing-font box.
• Spectate: SHIP / WORLD / FREE at the bottom, and LOBBY opens the JOIN card so you can fly or watch again without going home.
• Homemade maps capture a closed orbit in the green ring, same as Orion.
• Capture needs a full loop inside the green ring. A nearby well yanking you out the other side does not count.
• A closed orbit inside the green ring is a win even if another well would tug it later.
• A win on a homemade map shows up on that map’s SCORE / TIME / Δv so you can watch it.
• Homemade maps with moving wells start those wells in the same place every play.

Ship

• Kill-rot dumps spin faster and stops clean. It no longer crawls at the end.
• RCS and Q/E jets shoot out the way they push, same white exhaust as the main engine.
• The stock ship leaves a white exhaust trail when you burn the main engine.
• Main-engine smoke is left behind the ship and fades, not stuck to the tail.
• Main-engine exhaust is smoke left behind the ship — no tail flame.
• Main-engine smoke is a wider plume and hangs a bit longer.
• Afterburn throws a bigger, faster jet than regular main. Exhaust puffs are finer and shoot out quicker.
• 5 hides the trajectory line. Same control in Watch. 4 is still arrows.
• The trajectory line is back in play. 5 still hides it.
• Every well now draws a faint outer circle: that is how far its gravity reaches before it fades to nothing. The ring is quieter so it does not shout over the well.

Watch

• After rewind hits the start, 1x plays again. You do not have to tap PLAY.
• Afterburn marks on the flown path are twice as long as regular burns.
• A gold name on Watch opens that alpha supporter’s profile.
• That name is a light gold chip with dark gold type — not a green SHARE button.
• Links open the tape without flashing home first.
• [ at 1x rewinds. Speed goes -1x, -2x, and so on. SHIP / WORLD / FREE sit under play with PATH.
• Path rotate marks match live Q/E, and the arrow heads are larger.
• Rotate icons on the flown path follow Q and E.
• Pink and red burn arrows point the way you thrust, not along the flown path.
• Burn arrows are longer, thinner darts, spaced out along a held burn instead of stacking up.
• Time slider: grab the dot.
• Rewind (|<<) jumps to the start of the tape. << / >> still skip 5 s.
• Scrubbing lands on the time you dragged to, and the transport bar is wider so the slider has room.

MapMake

• Drag a well’s edge to resize it. Bigger wells pull harder and reach further — twice the radius is four times the pull. Grab the middle to move it, the rim to resize it. Pushers and moving wells work the same way.
• The trajectory line follows a moving N-body the same way it does on Planet & Moon.
• Park a closed orbit in the green ring to win. The circle does not have to sit exactly on the well.
• Drag the start pad to move it. Drag the gold stick to set heading and speed.
• Drag an N-body’s gold stick to set its starting speed.
• Deleting a moving well takes it off the map.

Alpha supporter maps

• The community shelf is Alpha Supporter Community Maps. The $10 pack is alpha supporters.
• Supporter Community Maps is the shelf of maps from supporters. Cards say who saved them and when.
• Alpha Supporter Community Maps has NEW MAP.
• SUBMIT a community map asks you to name it (20 characters). Recent runs and profiles show that name, not HOMEMADE.
• SUBMIT locks a community map. You cannot change that version. COPY opens a new draft from it. Three submitted maps max.
• Each supporter community map has its own SCORE / TIME / Δv under PLAY and EDIT. Click a row to watch that tape.
• Community map thumbnails sit on the start pad.

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