Pilots: Ascension

AFTERBURNER — the biggest update yet. • Flight Plan: objective chains guide you from first crank to the Jet Age and your first New Horizon — with an interactive First Solo onboarding. • The Transonic Program: a six-step flight-test arc that gates supersonic flight behind real feats, not just research. • Jet-era industry: jet fuel refining, new buildings, jobs, refinements, and behavioral records that reward how you fly. • Aerology forecast: see the next few days of weather and plan clear-window operations; storms and fog now shift production. • Route economics: payout, fuel burn, and live risk per route — make informed dispatch calls. • Daily Contracts: three fresh goals each day. No streaks, no penalties — just reasons to fly. • Prestige as ceremony: your New Horizon is now a proper Final Flight with a full run debrief and Founding Charters that make each run play differently. • Feel everything: ETAs on every cost, welcome-back Flight Debrief, record and era celebrations, instrument-panel gauges, and a smoother, juicier cockpit throughout. • Optional anonymous usage stats (off by default, opt-in) to help tune difficulty — no personal data, ever. Hotfixes from launch feedback: • Fixed a research deadlock that blocked the Orbital Age — Nuclear Flight is now reachable (thank you, r/incremental_games) • Big performance improvements for large fleets — smoother late game, less battery drain • Bulk controls: build ×10/×100/Max, bulk trades, and grouped fleet management with bulk scrap • Clearer Ace Point carryover math in the New Horizon ceremony