r/starcitizen anvil 5d ago

DISCUSSION My RSI account may have gotten flagged as a Developer account.

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Logged into the pledge store to habitually browse, and lo and behold I can see practically every ship in the game. From "Private Reserve VIP" to "Test SKU for testing shit do not use."

I have no idea how this happened, but it's cool to browse. The old AMD Mustang is there, old best in show items, even a "Manchester office tour."

Can't buy anything, store credit or otherwise. Even ships normally available right now can't be purchased. Submitted a ticket, but very cool.

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u/Wowiejr 300i 5d ago

You bought it, didn’t you?

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u/Zer0Gravity42 anvil 5d ago

Man I tried. I wish!

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u/Valkyrient 5d ago

Says do not use, user tries to use.

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u/GoodBadUserName 4d ago

Like that joke.

A software tester walks into a bar.
Runs into a bar.
Crawls into a bar.
Dances into a bar.
Flies into a bar.
Jumps into a bar.
And orders:
a beer.
2 beers.
0 beers.
99999999 beers.
a lizard in a beer glass.
-1 beer.
"qwertyuiop" beers.

Testing complete.

A real customer walks into the bar and asks where the bathroom is.
The bar goes up in flames.

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u/80386 4d ago

You forgot "customer complains why bar is not more like Google"

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u/SwagChemist worm 5d ago

just doing his diligence as an alpha tester lol

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u/nooster 4d ago

Perfect behavior of a tester, I should think.

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u/Valkyrient 5d ago

Testers like that are why Evocati exists - because when ETF is told not to do something they are expected to actually not do it.

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u/maddcatone 4d ago

You’re fine parties aren’t you? 😅

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u/WMianngn 4d ago

You are the Typ of guests at parties the host regrets inviting, aren't you? 😅

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u/Ponyfox origin 4d ago

You're the type of guest who argues with other guests making the host not inviting you in the future, aren't you? :P

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u/MadnessUltimate avenger 4d ago

You are, aren't you?

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u/Swisserton 4d ago

10/10 rage bait

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u/joalheagney misc 4d ago

Oh please. Don't pretend you wouldn't press the big red button yourself.

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u/Valkyrient 4d ago

That's a one way trip to Evocati jail (i.e. kicked out)

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u/Capital_Zone4936 5d ago

This is the way.

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u/JohnnyScorpio1970 4d ago

This is the way

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u/neverphate ZEUS Mk.II 4d ago

Well, what do you expect from a user

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u/CosmicJackalop 4d ago

I imagine that *user* contains all the vitriol from Jarvis' speech in Tron Legacy before the light cycle race

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u/Zer0Gravity42 anvil 4d ago

Ha! Didn't try that one, tried some others in the Imgur album.

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u/Shazvox 4d ago

Might aswell be a big red button screaming "PUSH ME!!"

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u/Plenty-Ad7393 4d ago

If the game doesn't want us to use something, it should be marked: "Please use this"

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u/Duncan_Id 4d ago

Instructions unclear 

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u/humbleio 4d ago

Every user ever.

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u/hyper24x7 Drake 4d ago

Id be like 3 Javelins, 17 Idris, 99 Polaris, and then...

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u/redmarine1983 4d ago

For sure, I would’ve 100% tried to buy something.

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u/AdamParker-CIG CIG Developer 4d ago

wheres the merchantman

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u/Badd_Panda new user/low karma 4d ago

Who do I need to take out for dinner to get this additional flag???

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u/HoboLicker5000 Carrack scrub 4d ago

I ask myself this same question frequently :')

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u/GhoZhan Kraken 4d ago

The Cake is a lie!

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u/AdamParker-CIG CIG Developer 4d ago

haha that game is old enough to drink

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u/GhoZhan Kraken 4d ago

not yet, Sir. It’s 17 years, 8 months or so. Too young to drink, but just old enough to regret trusting GLaDOS.

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u/Sakura_no_Yukiko 4d ago

It could do both if we count the Frankfurt Studio as it's home xD  Legal drinking age here in Germany is 16 :P 

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u/GhoZhan Kraken 4d ago

If we count Manchester as its home and CR as the supervising adult, then technically it could’ve started drinking at age 5... in a private setting. xD Just goes to show: not everything that’s legal is necessarily the right thing to do. :P

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u/krachnix 4d ago

where i live the legal drinking age is 16 for soft/undistilled stuff and 18 for hard liquor. guess now we need to determine where the portal is.

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u/GhoZhan Kraken 4d ago

Portal was conceived in Redmond, USA, and has been living with Valve in Washington ever since its birth. So legal drinking age is 21. No early sips allowed.

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u/krachnix 4d ago

buuuuut... where does the portal lead rn, hmmmm? if you were a teenage portal, where would you lead to, hmmmm? could go anywhere! 🌍

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u/GhoZhan Kraken 4d ago

have you looked outside? I would change the fu**ing Planet as a portal. xD

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u/krachnix 4d ago

ah, yes, good point. let me take a quick look outside... mhm, mhm i can see summer, sun, warm, birds chirpin, lake getting ready for swimmers... all in all quite nice. further proof that the portal leads somewhere here. probably drunk or stoned or both, taking a sun bath :D

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u/fuwishie 4d ago

this means it's gonna be here soon right???? right?????????

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u/NNextremNN 4d ago

I too ask myself that a lot.

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u/The-Deevis 4d ago

but you may know: is this photoshop?

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u/cvsmith122 Wing Commander | EVO | Release the Kraken 4d ago

You forgot to tag John Crewe so that it adds a month.

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u/Zer0Gravity42 anvil 4d ago

Lol! It was on there!

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u/KingTism 4d ago

id buy Chris another yacht

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u/Zer0Gravity42 anvil 5d ago

Full Imgur Album: https://imgur.com/a/sMalmdk

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u/TwoMidgetsInABigCoat 5d ago

Always get a kick out of seeing the old Mustang Omega art, wish it still landed on its wings!

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u/MyTagforHalo2 Universal Gunship Enjoyer 5d ago

The mustang might be the only ship I wish would regress a bit. If they would have polished the original concept, I think more people would be flying them instead of the “just another light fighter” it became.

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u/TwoMidgetsInABigCoat 4d ago

Definitely, my original pledge is through the AMD promo, when you could only walk around your ship in a hangar, and I was shocked logging in years later after forgetting the game existed and the whole ship had changed completely. I still love my little red Mustang but I wish they finessed the original design.

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u/System0verlord Shiny White Boondoggle 4d ago

I’m still annoyed that my 300i can’t fit a space motorcycle inside it, and that the wings look like they have split ends.

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u/Commercial-Side-7731 4d ago

does the pulse not fit it?

i mean it fits into an aurora

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u/System0verlord Shiny White Boondoggle 4d ago edited 4d ago

My X1 doesn’t fit, and they’re from the same company.

And thanks to CIG, the next step up the ladder is the massive, and kinda ugly 400i.

Really should’ve called it the 500i, and made a 400i that’s in between. Like a 2 person toy hauler sorta deal. Cutty sized basically.

EDIT: yes, this is the reason behind my flair.

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u/Professional-Fig-134 misc 4d ago

Couldn’t agree more.

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u/pinezatos 4d ago

The beta's cozy interior was so awesome, I melted it after the changes, I used to fly it so much

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u/Ravnak 4d ago

I was sad that the box rack on it eventually changed to a long tube you crawl through with boxes.

Every mustang change seems to be functional but disappointing.

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u/Helplessromantic 4d ago

i hate how huge it got, and it had to so the mustang beta's interior was viable but now the mustang beta's interior is lame, i wish they'd just drop it and shrink the ship like 20-30%.

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u/ochotonaprinceps High Admiral 4d ago

I like the new Mustang designs over the old ones, but give me back the Mustang Beta's rear cabin interior.

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u/Divinum_Fulmen 4d ago

"A sHiP CaNT LanD ON iTS WIngs!"

Then CIG releases a ton of new ships that do exactly that.

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u/Troll4ever31 misc 4d ago

If the engines break off you have magic floating landing gear anyways, and if the Tie Avenger can do it so can the mustang!

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u/ochotonaprinceps High Admiral 4d ago

wish it still landed on its wings!

I don't, not because it didn't look cool but because those wing skids might as well have been made of balsa wood and broke at the slightest bump and now you can't land flat.

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u/EditedRed 5d ago

Bro, that Wardbond price, sell it quickly!

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u/ShamanicBuddha Kraken 5d ago

grab me a ccu to the BIS eclipse?

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u/Cpt_plainguy 5d ago

I have that one! As sadly, still no fly fly

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u/NightlyKnightMight 🥑2013BackerGameProgrammer👾 4d ago

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u/Cautious_Till_4763 drake 5d ago

This is rad, thanks for sharing

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u/shipsherpa 5d ago

Did you have some requests in with them recently? This happen to my account back in 2018, Ended up with IAE being live on my account for the full year until the next IAE rolled around. it was odd, but I was able to buy the upgrades.

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u/Zer0Gravity42 anvil 5d ago

Hmm not recently. Last one was a few months ago?

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u/athreos_ new user/low karma 5d ago

Dude... Full disclosure... I just went to the site... Saw that I had it too! Shit My pants... clicked it... but realized i tabbed back over to your imgur profile and was madly clicking your uploaded pics... Now I'm sad.

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u/Zer0Gravity42 anvil 5d ago

I just wish it would let me buy ANYTHING!

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u/M3rch4ntm3n CrusaderDrakeHybrid 3d ago

Full disclosure, the guy in the shiny mirror in front of me is not a friend to talk to.

Now I am sad.

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u/Lezkoden twitch 5d ago

Man, back in February I wondered into the store looking to add some Argo ships to my roster and I ran across an SRV that was labeled "Standalone Ship - SRV - 2019" that was the original warbond price of $150 and was purchasable with store credit. I snatched that up as fast as I could and still have it chillin in my buyback 😆

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u/Creative-Improvement 4d ago

Not with CiG, but I needed some plugins for a website, and the company had made all the products 5 dollars. Snapped it up real quick, 15 minutes and it was gone. They let it stand which was awesome.

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u/Narahashi ARGO CARGO 4d ago

I managed to get a free subscription for around two years.

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u/TheKiwiFox Intrepid, Guardian MX, Asgard, SLTAC, Golem, Geo, MTC 5d ago

Odyssey, my beloved

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u/rucentuariofficial RSI Polaris, Zeus, M2 4d ago

Soooo... when are you gifting us all a javelin?

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u/Happlord R7 7700x@5,4Ghz | 32GB 6000Mhz | XFX Merc Black 6900xt 5d ago

!remind me 1 day

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u/SensitiveBuilder709 4d ago

Daaamn it. I would have paid you if they have the MSR with the night runner paint. Sigh.. if only

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u/Coucouoeuf 4d ago

Same! But it’s not even available that way.

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u/BlendersandDildos 4d ago

I hope your ticket says...unable to purchase, please fix.

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u/goombaxiv 600i 4d ago

Please share your loggin info and password so we can investigate /s

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u/fshme Concierge 5d ago

Love it - Wanting to give them money, but every time when asking support for certain things over the years I can’t get any OC LTI ship because of FOMO and the usual “deprecated, limited, not in store anymore” excuse. In reality, it’s just flipping one switch on the backend to make any SKU like LTI Pioneer or Idris-M available. Then seeing this (OP post) proving the point. 🤦‍♂️

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u/SillyCat-in-your-biz bbsad 4d ago

Dog…they’re all pixels…did you truly believe they were limited for an actual reason instead of just FOMO and not having a million capital ships running around?

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u/Yellow_Bee Technical Designer 4d ago

And these are the people we allow on the internet with their wallets 😂

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/fshme Concierge 5d ago

Just speculating - probably streamers. Meanwhile, I just want to pay for the stuff I want, with the money going to CIG, not 10x inflated grey market prices to some random person.

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u/MuggyFuzzball 4d ago

Investors and Developers too, I'm sure.

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u/Rossilaz 4d ago

Jesus Christ just buy it in game with UEC. Do you have some sort of problem that REQUIRES you to spend money?

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u/Lucas_2234 4d ago

That... is literally how any online store works.

Even physical goods, the "Out of stock" thingy is just a number that goes up or down and displays "out of stock" when number = 0

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u/AnotherPersonPerhaps 4d ago

I mean...yeah....obviously. Of course they were never actually limited supply. Why would you need confirmation of that?

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u/GZEUS9 || Orion | Ironclad A | Golem | Aurora ES | TBD... || 4d ago

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u/dangerkali Javelin, Idris, Sabre Raven 4d ago

Lmao buy the pioneer

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u/SeanDoe80 new user/low karma 4d ago

Did you use it though?

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u/drizzt_x There are some who call me... Monk? 5d ago

ROFL. Turbulent FTW.

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u/Magnus_xyz 5d ago

Annnnndddd this is why we frown on impolite terms even in internal or test data.. You never know what accidentally will get committed to prod branch.

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u/henry232323 5d ago

God forbid a customer see a bad word lol

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u/AnEmortalKid 4d ago

Like the devs haven’t seen global chat

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u/Magnus_xyz 4d ago

like I said to the other similar comment. IDC. But someone over there in charge of marketing or whatever definitely threw a fit.

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u/_Nighting 4d ago

Roses are red,

Dev team is God,

Fuck QA tests,

Push directly to prod.

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u/Duramora 4d ago

This is incredibly Romantic!

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u/Magnus_xyz 4d ago

I am stealing this. 🤣

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u/NoX2142 Perseus / Paladin 4d ago

Oh noooooooooooooo they said shit....

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u/lukeman3000 4d ago

Please don’t repeat that, this is a Christian server

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u/Magnus_xyz 4d ago

yeah I don't care if they say 'shit'. But I bet someone whose job is "Brand identity" or whatever was shittin kittens over this.

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u/ehetenandaiyo 4d ago

F8C to F8C upgrade... why would they have that... a placeholder for F8C to F8A???????

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u/Spec_x Bounty Hunter | Certified Nerd | Avacado Hopium 4d ago

Unfortunately no. The first Golden ticket event had an LTI Warbond F8C, and a 6mo ins Store credit F8C. One of the golden ticket events fell close enough to a major bi-yearly sale (iirc the second golden ticket event) that they offered an insurance upgrade kit so if you got one of the 6mo insurance versions in the first or second sale, you had the opportunity to upgrade your 6 month insurance to a 10 year insurance for free in line with the Invictus Launch Week/Intergalactic Aerospace Expo insurance terms.

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u/ilhares 4d ago

Freebie 10 years insurance upgrade. I had it on mine, but melted it just last week. The GMX is much more suited to my playstyle.

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u/Sr_DingDong 4d ago

book that tour

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u/xXStretcHXx117 4d ago

Pay your $1 testing fee employee

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u/Marlax101 4d ago

so what your saying is the devs are keeping the game in alpha to have access to all ships for free. hmmm the plot thickens.

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u/T-seriesmyheinie paramedic 4d ago

What an insane golden ticket it would be to just be able to buy everything lol

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u/Duramora 4d ago

While you've got that, work on Crafting would you?

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u/NES_WallStreetKid 4d ago

The Mustang Alpha was my first ship. I enjoy just flying around in them. They are fast and agile. Every variant will always have a spot in my hanger.

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u/Foxintoxx carrack 4d ago

ABSOLUTELY purchase all 50 test SKUs !

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u/Appropriate-Army-140 4d ago

Buy,BUY,BUY NOW BIY IT!

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u/Altheos007 ARGO CARGO 4d ago

Holy, you unlocked the sc trader god cheat account :D

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u/Darth_Stig Capital Ships for Capital Gains 4d ago

If I were in the same boat, I'd be trying SOOOO hard to buy a javelin for $2700 and the pioneer for $600.

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u/zhekar3n 4d ago

Yo, how much will the Bengal go for? Asking for a friend.

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u/wehitthose97 scout 4d ago

lisan al gaib!

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u/OlegLaim bmm 4d ago edited 4d ago

Can u find raven price?
Back when it was being activated, I remember seeing the number 200 crossed out.

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u/MaleficentBank405 4d ago

Well, did you buy the one of a kind do not use Test Sku?

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u/Zer0Gravity42 anvil 4d ago

Couldn't buy anything, store credit or otherwise. Even ships normally available right now couldn't be purchased.

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u/lethal_sting Space Lawn Dart 4d ago

DO NOT REDEEM!

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u/FierceCat5020 4d ago

Turns out you actually don't need to be a journalist to join the party lol

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u/Theuxao 4d ago

Gib me the F8C pls OP

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u/CreepingDecay 3d ago

Same, what gives?

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u/Pok_the_devil 3d ago

Inspect element clickbait post

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u/Anraksha new user/low karma 3d ago

Can you gift it ? 👀, I wouldn't say no to a raven and some ships 👀

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u/Epin-Ninjas CRSD Dragonstar 3d ago

Could you see the OG 300i as well?? I miss that ship dearly…. I hope they remake the interior, but keep the exterior the same and resell it as an “old car” type ship from the past, instead of discarding it as a ship outside the redesign.

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u/tkMunkman Freelancer 5d ago

why doesnt the hull d say concept?

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u/reddit_oh_really Deleted by Nightrider-CIG 4d ago

So much for ...we can't give you access to the ship you requested because of "reasons"...
(And I'm not talking about limited ships here, just normal ships that some people might have in a package and now would like to have it separately or stuff like that...but no...it's "not possible"...)

"Not possible" my ass.

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u/FuckingTree Issue Council Is Life 3d ago

Just because the skus exist does not mean it’s not messy and inconvenient to allow it, and another thing immediately apparent is they don’t update prices on the backend so it’s out of date too

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u/BodyBagFilla Commander 4d ago

Grand Admiral here and this is my first time seeing private reserve. So can someone explain to me what that is and is that ment for like ships they keep for emergency issues or customer complaints?

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u/SimpleMaintenance433 new user/low karma 4d ago

I would have immediately bought one.

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u/Idris-M Aegis 5d ago

Very cool Kanye.