VOID PROFIT Devlog #14: Manual, Rumors, Loans, Visuals and Release

30 October 2026

Hello.

A few more things before release. I’ve been watching people play the demo and working through the bits that keep causing confusion. Quite a few of them, as it turns out.

Manual

I’d hoped I wouldn’t have to add a full manual. It’s become abundantly clear that I need to.

The Operator Manual now has a lot more on trading, the manifest, jobs, rent and ship systems, with examples where they’re useful. You can search it, open it from the cockpit or use the help on each screen. The game pauses while you read and returns you to where you were. Hopefully a bit less guessing at what something means.

The Operator Manual explains a first trade, with searchable topics alongside the article

Rumors

You can ask contacts about trade rumors through Comms. Actual products and places, like a port with too much water sitting around or someone looking for a shipment.

Not everyone knows anything useful. Some just don’t want to tell you. Useful leads go into your notes, but a conversation is still a conversation. It isn’t a guaranteed price.

An Artheras contact shares a rumor about surplus water rations at Haldane Terminal 3

Loans

Aetrocor has found another way to get your money.

There’s a Bank Representative in Services now. Applying gives you three offers based on how you’re doing, including your cash, cargo and trading performance. Repayments come with rent, starting after the current rent cycle.

The idea is to help you afford a worthwhile load. You still have to make it pay.

Three loan offers from the Aetrocor Bank Representative

Visuals

The screen headers take up less room and the background is a little lighter. More space for the thing you actually opened the screen for.

Outside, there are some quiet patches of cloud with different colours and densities. Planets and stations also come into view more naturally on approach. Small changes, but space feels a bit less empty now.

Travel towards a station with subtle clouds and a more gradual approach

Release

VOID PROFIT is planned to release on Monday, November 2 at 20:30 UTC. That’s:

Monday, November 2

Pacific US / Canada — 12:30 PM PST
Mountain US / Canada — 1:30 PM MST
Central US / Canada — 2:30 PM CST
Eastern US / Canada — 3:30 PM EST
UK — 20:30 GMT
Central Europe — 21:30 CET
Eastern Europe — 22:30 EET
Moscow — 23:30 MSK

Tuesday, November 3

Perth — 04:30 AWST
Brisbane — 06:30 AEST
Adelaide — 07:00 ACDT
Sydney / Melbourne — 07:30 AEDT

Thanks to everyone who’s been playing the demo and telling me where it loses them. It’s helped quite a lot.