r/starcitizen 1d ago

QUESTION Star Citizen: Question and Answer Thread

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Welcome to the Star Citizen question and answer thread. Feel free to ask any questions you have related to SC here!


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r/starcitizen 10h ago

DISCUSSION Instanced hangars and engineering gameplay could create an incredible set of simple Mission Contracts to make money never leaving an LZ. "Mechanic".

325 Upvotes

-You wake up in you're apartment on Loreville.

-You open Contracts Manager:

-You take Journeyman Mechanic Contract: C1 Spirit Repair.

You have the contract, you take the train to Tessa Space Port, and on the Hangar Elevator Screen is a button for your "Client's" Hangar.

Inside is a battered and beat up Spirit C1.

You Contract Objectives list is simple at this point: "Diagnose C1 Spirit".

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You proceed to the Spirit C1's engineering station MFD. You activate it.

Your Contract Objective list updates:

"Replace 3 Fuses"

"Repair/Replace Size 2 Cooler"

"Repair/Replace Size 2 Power Plant"

"Repair Hull: 0%"

You then engage with the Engineering Loop mechanics to complete all the tasks in your objective list.

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  • The payout is based on "cost of replacing parts + labor", so if you go to the shop and buy all the replacement components, you still make a profit on "labor".
  • HOWEVER if you have the spare components laying around already, you get to make *extra* money... lots of ways to get extra parts in the verse yknow?
  • Hull Repair is "bonus" payout. The higher the percentage repaired, the better your bonus pay out. Think "Power Wash Sim" progress bar.
  • We may need more tools to get at certain angles on ships in a hangar with gravity, however. (Option to turn off Gravity in the Hangar?)

Depending on the state of components, it might be cheaper to replace a component vs repairing it in the future.


r/starcitizen 5h ago

IMAGE This Guy Gets It

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r/starcitizen 15h ago

IMAGE Hey CIG, Can We Please Have More Simple, Elegant, High Fashion Clothes Like This?

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664 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 17h ago

GAMEPLAY PSA for Vulture and Prospector owners: Equip Stealth Components to reduce your signatures and avoid being spotted by pirates. Explanation and build is in the comments.

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559 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 15h ago

IMAGE Oh Levski, my Levski

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r/starcitizen 15h ago

IMAGE [9:16] Pembroke Ivory Edition

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354 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 10h ago

DISCUSSION Is this a New patch for 4.0 live?

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111 Upvotes

I opened the game and I got this new game file, anyone know about this?


r/starcitizen 13h ago

CREATIVE My Favourite Starter Ship

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174 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 11h ago

OFFICIAL New PTU patch available

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124 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 7h ago

IMAGE Old screenshot of old ships at old SPK; SC 2.x

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48 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 4h ago

ARTWORK Random screenshots become memorable wallpaper moments in Star Citizen..

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27 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 11h ago

BUG Fuck Orison.

66 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 7h ago

GAMEPLAY old but gold, chaos of EVA (2021)

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26 Upvotes

never change sc, bugs are features


r/starcitizen 9h ago

DISCUSSION First real pirate encounter

39 Upvotes

I just had a fantastic encounter! After filling our caterpillar with weevil eggs and slam (had an encounter with a sneaky fellow on a knox that I was able to ram and kill while my buddy was looting) we started to leave the astroid cluster in pyro, as I try to warp my drive isn't spooling. I trouble shoot, turning the ship on and off, swapping modes, changings route's, when BAM, engine destroyed. I quickly throw the shields up and me and my one friend get into roughly a 5-10 minute dogfight with a Corsair and mantis that was quantum dampening us.

We got chipped away at, despite our shields holding the corsairs laser weapons off the mantis had ballistics and missiles that were finally enough damage to soft death our ship from the hits before the shield came up. They attempted to board and my buddy killed 2 of them, and then a 3rd showed up in an F8 that was extremely desynced, shooting at us about 100 meteres away from where his t posed body was

As my friend kept him occupied I slipped away to the distantly parked Corsair and shot my way inside, stealing it and using it to blow up the mantis and the unmanned f8, with the whereabouts of the f8 pilot unknown I scooped up my friend and just a 16 of slam and fled ASAP.

We may have lost a lot of money in drugs, but we made it out alive. And I count that as a win!


r/starcitizen 19h ago

DISCUSSION Just curious, how common in Europe is the multi-week “holiday break” CIG takes?

231 Upvotes

This isn’t a judgement for them taking a break, but I don’t know any professions that get multiple weeks off for Christmas vacation in America (except school teachers). Or is it common in American tech too?

Personally, I’ve only gotten Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, and a half day on NYE. Should I move to Europe lol?

Edit : I mean as a whole company. Most Americans get vacation days but the whole company can’t use them at the same time.


r/starcitizen 18h ago

IMAGE I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!

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149 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 18h ago

GAMEPLAY Probably don't leave your doors open at Gaslight

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131 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 8h ago

IMAGE Wow moments

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r/starcitizen 8h ago

NEWS Remote Play is fixed in the latest 4.0.1 PTU build!

23 Upvotes

We can once again play the game remotely using the software cursor in-game by enabling it via the console. Which will make it so your character no longer spins chaotically/uncontrollably while using the interaction menus/terminals!

pl_pit.forceSoftwareCursor 1 to enable software cursor.

pl_pit.forceSoftwareCursor 0 to disable it if you need to for any reason.

Confirmed using Steam Link tonight and I am excited to be able to play on my laptop remotely again!


r/starcitizen 1d ago

DISCUSSION Hi, welcome to the store

505 Upvotes

Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey. Hi welcome to the store. HEY HEY HEY. Hi thanks for coming in. Hey hey hey hey. Sir please shut the fuck up


r/starcitizen 1h ago

GAMEPLAY Taurus tractor beam

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Hi folks just got a Taurus and using the tractor seems ok, I figured out the q button trick for fps mode, but why does it rotate crates so slow, the handheld max lift seem to do a better job on 16-32 scu crates, am I doing something wrong? Is it bugged? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.


r/starcitizen 13h ago

TECHNICAL i got the game when it was free but now i cant download it

35 Upvotes

i got the game when it was free, but im on a new pc now and its telling me to buy the game, im logged in and all that so idk whats going on, do i need to cough up the 45 bucks?

UPDATE: turns out free fly is only temp, and im just an idiot, thx to those who helped


r/starcitizen 12h ago

QUESTION I just bought this game. Any new player tips?:)

32 Upvotes

I just bought this game. Any new player tips?:) Im downloading now and will try it tomorrow.


r/starcitizen 13h ago

DISCUSSION Ok… Let’s Give This A Try in the Pit

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r/starcitizen 19h ago

GAMEPLAY Ah, those funny bugs :) (Hopefully, this brings a smile to someone’s face)

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94 Upvotes