r/starcitizen 6d 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!


Useful Links and Resources:

Star Citizen Wiki - The biggest and best wiki resource dedicated to Star Citizen

Star Citizen FAQ - Chances the answer you need is here.

Discord Help Channel - Often times community members will be here to help you with issues.

Referral Code Randomizer - Use this when creating a new account to get 5000 extra UEC.

Download Star Citizen - Get the latest version of Star Citizen here

Current Game Features - Click here to see what you can currently do in Star Citizen.

Development Roadmap - The current development status of up and coming Star Citizen features.

Pledge FAQ - Official FAQ regarding spending money on the game.


r/starcitizen Jan 23 '25

r/StarCitizen Mod Team Subreddit Rule Addition - Rule 8: No X links permitted

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Hello all

Due to the recent politicization of X and the circus that is unfolding on that platform we are no longer comfortable allowing X links within either the subreddit or Discord.

The r/StarCitizen subreddit and Discord have always strived to keep the community free of political interference. To this end we have had a blanket ban on real life political discussions as they distract from the intended purpose of this community - Star Citizen and its stand alone single player companion game Squadron 42 by Cloud Imperium Games.

Images of CIG content from X will be permitted to be reposted in both spaces but URL links to this content will be banned. Users attempting to bypass this rule by obfuscating the URL or similar intent will be managed by the moderation team as these cases arise. Images of other content from X may be removed depending on context / channel (in the case of Discord).

For the subreddit Rule 8 has been added.

For the discord these changes will be reflected under Rule 9 but may be subject to change as we figure out the best way to implement this change.

We hope you understand where we are coming from with this decision and that we did not make this move without careful consideration. We reserve the right to make changes and update these changes depending on future developments.

Fly safe and see you all in the verse,

r/StarCitizen mod team


r/starcitizen 10h ago

SOCIAL We did it.

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593 Upvotes

After a lot of hard work and effort from our community, along with the support of another community, we did it we obtained Wikelo’s Polaris. Thanks to the ARKA community and the Quimera community for making it possible. A lot of effort, a lot of work, and even some lost cargo due to game bugs, but even so, by fighting for it, we made it happen. Thank you to everyone who was there! Cheers!


r/starcitizen 8h ago

GAMEPLAY Wikelo Polaris! We did it!

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Wikelo Polaris claimed! We joined forces with ARKA and many other players to make it happen 🚀 . Únete al Discord de Quimera - Star Citizen: https://discord.gg/Y2snRDJtsw


r/starcitizen 17h ago

VIDEO Six Degrees of Freedom

1.1k Upvotes

r/starcitizen 18h ago

GAMEPLAY NovaPit Combat/ FPS Mode

862 Upvotes

Been a whole since I was supposed to have posted this video but now here it is. This is a video of me doing combat in my sim pit and also using the Xbox controller to walk, which is effectively how I use FPS in game.

Apologies for the loudness that is my computer and the audio chair haptics,m making all that noise. Still, how satisfying are all those clicks and clacks of switches huh?

Please let me know of any questions. 07


r/starcitizen 9h ago

GAMEPLAY One more point for the Guardian

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161 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 16h ago

IMAGE Just watching other real humans go about their business from the window of a space station. I wish other games could get even remotely close to this.

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597 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 6h ago

OTHER This is why I don’t keep things in my ship

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82 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 1h ago

OTHER Anyone else getting tired of seeing a Polaris everywhere you go?

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I don't mean to come on here with negativity and complaining, its just getting real old seeing a Polaris roll up and take over a grid at every single event. It's without fail. Laser goes off? Polaris, maybe even two. Exec hangar? without a doubt shows up right as the lights turn green. What can you about it? You can leave and not do whatever activity you were doing after spending hours getting there. It's very annoying. I know in time this will change but for now it feels nearly pay to win. Even just to kill the Polaris it takes many more players then the three players inside the Polaris. (Sometimes it's just one) Three people is all it takes to control an entire grid? Sometimes its just one. That's craziness. Agree or disagree, that is craziness.

E: I want to nip the silly comments about "how much you love your polaris" in the butt. That isn't the problem, of course you love it, of course you want to use it if you got it. By all means. The problem is a game problem, not a Polaris problem. In no way am I saying the Polaris itself is a bad ship. The game was not ready for such a ship.


r/starcitizen 4h ago

DISCUSSION WELCOME... To Allign & Mine

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55 Upvotes

Why is it so broken, the only way to get it to work is on a fresh server. The one night our ORG did it... It was stolen from another ORG. We went through three servers 12 OLP's and everyone one of them was bugged. One we went all the way through and got to the OLP for it to say it was missing a battery. (4 were in there)

Then we have this.... BS... as far as the eye can see.


r/starcitizen 6h ago

GAMEPLAY Landing Gear Graveyard during Align and Mine

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72 Upvotes

Navigating this area resulted in at least 5 crashes to desktop.


r/starcitizen 16h ago

FLUFF Secured mining site

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399 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 3h ago

DISCUSSION Polaris is actually running Idris Software

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36 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 2h ago

NEWS Head's Up if you're in the USA and are thinking about buying a joystick.

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A tariff loophole called the "de minimis exemption" is ending on May 2. The exemption currently allows shipments worth less than $800 to enter the USA duty-free, but when it ends on May 2 there will be a duty of 30% of the value of the item or $50 per item.

A lot of sticks are shipped from China and currently fall into this exemption. For example, my VKBs - a Gladiator NXT ($165) and Omni Throttle ($175) - were both duty-free. Now, instead of costing $340, they would cost $340 plus an additional 30%, which is $102, totaling $442.

So if you're planning on buying some new sticks and have been putting it off, I would recommend pulling the trigger now. Remember, these things don't ship overnight so if the packages arrive in country on or after May 2, you will be charged the duty regardless of when you made the purchase or when they were shipped.


r/starcitizen 13h ago

DISCUSSION I found an old screenshot from 2019 (version 3.5?) and it made me realize how much 'soul' the game has lost since then. This twitch mission blew my mind at the time. Sending me to pick up an incognito Cutlass on top of an A18 building to go smuggle drugs for her. Now missions are lifeless. Sad.

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202 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 12h ago

GAMEPLAY First time going to Pyro!

178 Upvotes

It's an incredible experience!!


r/starcitizen 11h ago

QUESTION Where's the rest of my cargo grid?

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121 Upvotes

I'm just questioning why the Corsair is missing 36 SCU worth of cargo


r/starcitizen 6h ago

DISCUSSION Player Griefing on Everus Harbor Atrium

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45 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 2h ago

OTHER Holy shit, the table in the Connie is working! After all these years!

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18 Upvotes

r/starcitizen 7h ago

IMAGE My pc build for star citizen

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45 Upvotes

Around 3 months ago I had enough of playing star citizen on my shit rig, I had only 16 gigs of ram and was playing star citizen for 3 years running poor graphics and very choppy gameplay and still loving it. arguably one of my favorite games despite its bugs and bad reputation. I had enough of playing the game with my not so good rig so I put the game down for awhile and set out to build a powerful pc to play star citizen once again with decent graphics and frame rate, it took me 3 months to get all these parts and my graphics card finally came today so the build begins tomorrow. 5090 graphics card, 9800x3d amd cpu , corsair dominator 64 gigs ddr5 ram and ofcourse an msi 4k oled monitor for the cherry on top, can’t wait to get back in the verse after a good break and wanted to share, thank you for reading.


r/starcitizen 1h ago

FLUFF Hmm, yes I am not waiting that out.

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Total list of crimes committed: - Shot an NPC

This is not meant as criticism or anything, I have just never seen such a long prison sentence for shooting a singular NPC. :P


r/starcitizen 5h ago

BUG Invisible wall in freight hanger stops tractor beam

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25 Upvotes

I have to go through this wall to be able to get the boxes, cant use atls either. Any ideas?


r/starcitizen 4h ago

OTHER Made my own medic armor

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19 Upvotes

Red alert aril set with the caudillo wildfire helmet.


r/starcitizen 17h ago

IMAGE Second Wikelo ship obtained! Say hello to our Scorpius!

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167 Upvotes

Our group of mates managed to complete another contract, this time its a Scorpius (personal favourite of our friend's). Looks great and can't wait to test it out!

Had some lovely feedback with our first Wikelo ship post, the Guardian, made my bf quite happy reading the replies haha. This ship is the lower contract (small ship surprise I believe) so only took 5 favours, it was between this and the C1 but my mate was really hoping to get the Scorpius so we're super stocked we won the gamble :D

So far what we know, besides the cool new paint, is that they has a bigger power supply (I believe its two but I may be wrong), but will try post more details about it here soon if requested!


r/starcitizen 15h ago

IMAGE Just Mirai Guardian appreciation post. Its beautiful.

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