OUT TO THE BLACK

Out to the Black tracks three daily leaderboard categories. Each resets at 00:00 UTC every day. Winners are announced in our Discord community in three dedicated channels — one per category — every morning at 08:00 UTC, along with the player's name, faction, level, and the metric that earned them the top spot.

The three categories reward different playstyles. A fighter rules the Top Kill leaderboard; a strategist rules Biggest Score; a survivor rules Longest Survival. You can win all three in a single session if the stars align, but most days are one-category wins.

RED EMBED CATEGORY

Top Kill tracks the single largest player-on-player kill of the day, measured by the victim's score at the moment of death. Kill a level-50 hit-list target sitting at 50,000 score and you're on the leaderboard. Kill a brand-new pilot with 0 score and you're not.

The category rewards hunting up — taking down players bigger than you. A level-15 pilot who one-shots a level-40 hit-list target during a 3x gravity storm gets the day's Top Kill, even if a hundred other kills happened on the same day with bigger raw numbers from coordinated takedowns. What counts is the size of the single fish, not the volume of fishing.

How to compete:

• Hunt the hit-list target. That's by definition the biggest fish in the pond at any moment.
• Patrol around contested wormholes during 3x gravity storms — high-level pilots get pulled into vulnerable positions.
• Ambush mining pilots in their high-level circuits. A level-30 stripped of fuel and shield is no harder to kill than a level-5; only the payout is different.
• Coordinate with your faction's swarm to disable the target first; you land the killing blow.

The daily Top Kill is announced in Discord at 08:00 UTC each morning with a red embed featuring the killer's name, the victim's name, and the score size of the takedown.

CYAN EMBED CATEGORY

Biggest Score tracks the highest score reached in a single life that ended on the day. A "life" is the time between two consecutive respawns — from the moment you spawned to the moment you died. Whatever score you reached in that span, that's the entry.

This category rewards sustained play during a hot streak. A pilot who logs in, racks up six kills + a mining circuit + a hit-list takedown across forty minutes without dying, then finally falls to a 3x gravity storm, posts a score that's hard to match. A pilot who dies every five minutes never accumulates enough in one life to compete here, regardless of total daily score.

How to compete:

• Pick a faction with built-in defensive structure. Concordium home patrols protect you indirectly. Bone Collector swarms cover you constantly.
• Don't pick fights you can't easily win. Every fight is a chance to die and end your run.
• Mine during the hot streak. Mining contributes XP and score steadily without combat risk.
• Watch the event bar. Disengage during 3x gravity storms and Blood Moon Purges if you're carrying a high-score life.
• Don't get cocky in the late innings. The longer your life, the more is at stake when you finally die.

The daily Biggest Score is announced in Discord at 08:00 UTC with a cyan embed.

GREEN EMBED CATEGORY

Longest Survival tracks the longest single life of the day, measured in elapsed playtime. Spawn, fly for two and a half hours, die — that's two and a half hours on the board. Whether you scored well or barely scored at all is irrelevant. The clock is what counts.

This category rewards caution, positioning, and patience. Aggressive pilots rarely win it. The winner is usually someone who set up shop in a low-traffic corner of their faction's home sector and mined-and-patrolled at low risk for hours.

How to compete:

• Pick safe space. Outlaws cannot reasonably win this category. Bone Collectors usually win it because of the swarm coverage in their sector.
• Stat priority: Health, Shield, Fuel — all defensive. Skip Weapon Damage. You don't need to kill; you need to not die.
• Avoid combat. Mine on quiet asteroids. Refuel constantly. Stay above 50% shield and 50% fuel at all times.
• Use Run Away navigation mode. When even a single AI ship approaches, the autopilot retreats automatically.
• Beware the 3x gravity storm. Storms pull you into walls and wormholes whether you want it or not. Position in low-mass space when the storm is incoming.

The daily Longest Survival is announced in Discord at 08:00 UTC with a green embed.

The three daily highscore categories are separate from the global all-time leaderboard, which tracks total score across a player's entire history. Use this distinction to plan your sessions:

• Global all-time leaderboard. Accumulates forever. Rewards consistent play over weeks and months. Top of this leaderboard is the long-term goal.
• Daily category leaderboards. Reset every day at 00:00 UTC. Reward concentrated effort within a 24-hour window. Good for chasing specific records.

The in-game leaderboard panel shows the current standings for both. The "hit list" rotation (every 90 seconds, the top scorer becomes the bounty target) operates on the live current-life score, not the daily or all-time totals — so daily highscore-hunters often find themselves on the hit list during their hottest sessions, with every ship in the galaxy gunning for them.

Every morning at 08:00 UTC, the three daily winners are announced in our Discord server. Each category gets its own dedicated channel with its own embed style:

• Red embed — Top Kill of the day. Killer, victim, score size.
• Cyan embed — Biggest Score of the day. Pilot, faction, level, score.
• Green embed — Longest Survival of the day. Pilot, faction, level, duration.

If a category had no qualifying entries on a given day (rare but possible for Top Kill if no player-on-player kills happened, or for Biggest Score if no lives ended), the post still goes out with a "no data" message so each channel sees a daily heartbeat.

Join the Discord, watch the daily posts, and you'll start to recognize the names that show up regularly — the pilots who've turned highscore chasing into a craft.

• Combat & The Hit List — how to hunt the biggest target on the map
• Leveling & Stats — build choices for each highscore category
• Factions — which side wins which category most often
• Galaxy Events — the gravity storms and Blood Moon timing that shape daily runs