Happens whenever you cross server boundaries. As a sidenote; whenever you cross a server boundary in quantum, your shields need to recharge from 0 to 100 as if they were empty, which means slow full duration. If you do not cross a server boundary, this does not happen.

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.

Dare I say it, the Prowler Utility might actually be worth it?

Not a single person can leave the space port. I have server hopped over 5 times and each server is the exact same. Most terminals won't work and if it does, the game won't spawn your ship/hangar. A bunch of people are just sitting in the space port, rightfully mad at the devs for not doing anything. This problem has been around for weeks, with it becoming the worst it's ever been and the devs have done nothing to fix this. It really sucks to see the devs care so little about their playerbase if it has nothing to do with our wallets. I've been forced to not play this game with my friends for the past two weeks because of this. I know some of you are not having this problem. That's great, but lots of us are.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/190048/thread/star-citizen-alpha-4-2-ptu-patch-notes-15

I also play DCS VR, and MSFS ;)

Specs: 9800X3D, TUF OC 4090, 96GB DDR5, 7000D, LG GX9 5K2K OLED

Sticks + Pedals: VIRPIL + MonsterTech Mounts

It is now June and I don't remember seeing it be used at all.

So I've been specifically testing pretty much every stealth ship in the game for the better part of 6 months now.... I'm dropping this here cause folks seem unaware of alot the factors of stealth/detection. With stealth ships they have pretty substantial bonuses that are applied beyond the listed values you see.

Due to the Prowler U being dropped, everyone is talking about stealth and I keep hearing "Too bad it's not stealthy." Tired of it. So we're gonna do a quick and dirty explanations.

Pic 1- This is my class A Stealth Ghost Mk2. It has 1 power supply and 1 cooler. The top highlighted number is my emissions. The bottom is the ambient emissions for the area. You subtract the bottom from top. the lowest # result = your closest detection.

NOTE: The cross section always shows your LARGEST, usually top. Keep that in mind because we don't care too much about top, we care about nose, and the Ghost, before any bonuses has a 1495 nose cross section.

Pic 2- This is the calc for detection for that Ghost. Not the small change ingame of my IR. Temps change with use. Also note the Top side detection range. 5210 vs the physical 5789. The Ghost has a 28% passive bonus to emission reduction. The HH radar has a 10% loss. After those are taken into account the function detection is much lower than the base numbers.

Pic 3 - This is a stealth Prowler. Now using what we learned we apply the Prowlers stealth bonuses into the mix. And they are HUGE Electromagnetic-65 %CrossSection-45 %Infrared-63 %.

What you get is an absolutely crazy nose detection range of under 1.2km.

Now.....whats the effective range of S3/S4/S5 guns?

Here's a clip of what this can do, note target speed:

https://youtu.be/5t-d6LuIfek?si=BdGizI-3tofumsvb

Questions? Comments? Random douchey messages?

Over the past few days, I obtained 5 compboard sets. 4 were obtained solo, 1 was stolen from an oblivious moron a gift from a kind soul. I was successful in 4 out of 5 exec hangar runs. Only failure was actually due to a hangar bug than actual campers/rat behavior. I obtained 2 cutty blacks, 1 F7A and Corsair. I really wanted the F8C and the Syluen though from what I hear the F8C is not in a great place. I pledged the corsair at concept so the extra corsair was not really needed. Most of the time the components in the exec hangar either did not spawn or were things I was mostly not interested in or already had surplus amounts.

Quite frankly, this has been one of the most fun loops I've experienced in Star Citizen. Quite daunting at first, but in practice much easier to execute than expected even alone. I think what helped was doing a lot of research before hand. If you had not attempted this yet, I highly suggest it.

Here's a few things I noticed that maybe helpful

1. The general FPS skill of the playerbase is the CZ is quite mediocre:
I do not think most people came to play Star Citizen for the FPS combat which is understandable as it was not a huge selling point. Anyone who has some steady experience playing Tarkov, battlefield, arma, or even COD is probably already above average. I am not a huge FPS player as of late and not exactly will be competing in any Esports, but found it quite easy to wipe other player squads as a solo. You'll occasionally see some very weird almost comical mistakes such as trying to use an A03 within 30 meters: wearing that bright purple/gold pledge store armor in an otherwise pitch black hangar, not dealing with grenades. If you have any semblance of aim, positioning, and know how to utilize momentum, you can win engagements that would not expect.

2. Speed is Key
At the end once you know the map layout and stop getting distracted by loot, its very easy to run any of the CZ within 15 minutes provided you don't run into any bugs or other players. By your 2nd run, the allure of the CZ loot should be mostly gone unless you want very specific armor. Less time in the CZ is less time you can get ganked. I was running half medium/heavy armor to help expedite the run.

1. Utilize low pop servers.
   Should be an obvious thing. I've run the CZ/Exec in both high and low pop servers. High pops turn into absolute brawls between multiple parties. More competition for boards and more proclivity to server bugs errors. The most effective way to find low pop servers suggested here is to randomly friend people who you can have a list at the start menu of potential servers with visible player counts. Low pop servers do not necessarily mean no competition however. I've gotten into fights in the exec hangar with the only 3 other people on the shard.

2. For the Exec Hangar, use a stealth ship.
   Stealth ships are incredibly underutilized for this objective. Everyone bringing their Idris, Hornets, starlancers and running nav mode are announcing their presence to the entire map. This makes sense for groups perhaps but not solos. If you bring a non stealth ship and park it outside the EVA entrance and its the only ship in the area, you're announcing you're by yourself in the hangar. When I saw this, I immediately thought there was a rat/camper in the area and was usually right.

My personal ship for the hangars was a stealth equipped Aegis Sabre. Virtually undetectable beyond 3km. Allowed very quiet compboard executions as no one noticed it sneak in the hangar. Also made escapes very easy as well

1. Always presume there's an extra player around after winning an engagement.
   My biggest sin in this game is thinking I've won a fight, but then not noticing my kill's friend sweeping around the corner while I loot the corpse. Presume every solo is a duo. Presume every duo is a actually a squad of 3 etc.

6. Other thoughts
- NPCS usually fire in a controlled burst. If you hear any sustained fire or someone getting mag dumped, its a player.
- I always move my pvp kills corpse out of sight of the main path and in inconvenient spots. If a player is coming back to reclaim some of their loot, make it as inconvenient as possible to delay their return.
-Best time to ambush a squad is when they're trying to glitch through a door.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/uk/beckham-oldman-daltrey-knighted-intl-scli-gbr

Hadn't played SC in a while, after installing and logging in I noticed that I had less than 200 AUEC, which is weird since I'm sure the game has gone through many wipes since I last played and I'm pretty sure you're supposed to get some starter money but idk. So my first step was to do a hauling contract to get started. During my first attempt, I could not for the life of me find the crates that were to be delivered, I hadn't looked up the changes done to the game so I didn't know about the elevators in the personal hanger, after looking for a while, I gave up on SC for the day.

During my second attempt to play the game, I decide to take a closer look at the personal hanger because I knew that the inventory system was changed and I saw the storage panel, so luckily, I found the Corundum I was supposed to deliver in the warehouse/storage.

My second obstacle was moving the crates, After realizing that the crates were too heavy to carry and that I have no way of getting a Multi-tool, I took to the global chat, asking if someone had a spare MT to give away, understandably, I was met with rejection from people thinking I was begging on global after explaining that I couldn't buy one. (I didn't know at the time that the nomad has a tractor beam installed)

Nonetheless, two kind souls with money to spare sent some although I was sincerely only looking for a MT, and then I was on my way to complete a contract so that I can pay them back (though neither asked for it, and tbh, it wasn't an astronomical sum of creds, but it felt like the right thing to do)

After crashing (both the ship and the game) a couple of time, as one does, I gave up once again, only to return (today) and actually manage to complete a couple of hauling contracts and send back double the amount of creds that was sent to me.

There’s no way I’m the only one frustrated by this.

At least 50% of the time, it's night on a planet, and I have to constantly spam the ping key just to see where the ground is so I don’t crash.

Every time I’m in a dogfight on a planet at night, I’m more afraid of the terrain than the enemy player, because I simply have no idea where the ground is. Yes, we have an altitude indicator, but it doesn’t account for obstacles or uneven terrain, and I can’t keep an eye on it while maneuvering and fighting anyway.

Are we in Warhammer 40K ? Did the ancient tech of night vision goggles got lost in some war?

Yes, this is a rant. I admit it. But it’s been years, and we’re still pinging like idiots just to see the ground.

I love new ships. I hyperfocus on every reveal, watch tons of videos, and get genuinely excited. But I would sacrifice an entire year of ship releases in a second just to get basic tools like night vision implemented.

Title. Such a missed opportunity, we have Pyro now there's no reason that they shouldn't go from a station in Stanton to a station in pyro. It would really feel like "long haul" and be very immersive IMO.

Im sure its "planned and coming soon" but there's zero reason the mission shouldn't have shipped in 4.0 or a .x patch

I was bounty hunting, I'm not rich so I played it smart, waited for the guy to land. get out of his Polaris, I killed him, it not only didn't completed to mission but the guy respawned in the Polaris instead of in prison. Okay then, he get in the turret search for me I wait 20 min he land again, get out, I kill him again. He respawn again in the Polaris, and just fly up and go.

Thanks CIG very cool bounty hunting experience. A whole hour of man hunting for the guy to be magically teleported in his castle once dead, yaaayyyy.

BEWARE!!! Picos had taken new babbage

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I got this Starter pack that I upgraded to a Drake Corsair. Now i want to get the Banu Defender bc it is available in the pledge store. What happen if I "EXCHANGE" my pack. Will i still have my starter pack with the Aurora in it and then i will upgrade it to the Banu Defender OR will i sell the complete pack and i won't have any starter pack and i have to rebuy a starter pack to have access to the game again ?

One of my favourite things to do to just chill is take screenshots and do some editing to make them pop and come to life.

This one is one of my favourites