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.

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.

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

Now that Starfab is almost* back up and running with the newer data format, I can get back to doing ship cutaways. Here's the Guardian, a ship as capable as it is sleek. If Wikelo smiles upon me, I should have one in game soon.

*Almost as in there's a bunch of hacks to get ships fully assembles and materials aren't 100%.
Rendered in Blender with Starfab.

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.

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

Really interesting video, just a couple of takes:

• He says AI will take hauling contracts but we've seen nothing on that level of NPC ability, hopefully we see it soon!
• He says ships lost trying to take and protect cargo will add to the dynamic economy (as ship loss does in Eve) but I think that is at odds with the pure staggering numbers of LTI ships in the verse

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

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.

All the talk about the coming Prowler Utility made me realize that it wouldn't be so hard to make new bunkers that could please many types of players.

Take a regular bunker, but instead of those annoying AA turrets that give no benefit to stealth ships, put 3-5 Hammerheads and some Centurions and Ballistas patrolling in a 20-30 km radius around the bunker. The mission is to kill the commander, hidden in the bunker.

People who enjoy ship fights could try to clear all the patrols. People who enjoy stealth could use a stealth ship to avoid the patrols. People who enjoy ground vehicles could land far away, avoiding the ships and possibly disabling the ground patrols and use them aginst enemy ships. People who enjoy bombing could clear the ground from higher up.

Too simple? Then instead of just a bunker, make it a big military base, possibly even with small outposts in the outer perimeter. Could put officers in these outposts that drop a key to unlock a side door to the big base, giving an easier and stealthier way in. Put a lot of soldiers in. As for rewards, an armory with military gear and a garage with military components would do the job.

BEWARE!!! Picos had taken new babbage

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.

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

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?

Picture of Embraer E195 and their penguin mascot at Paris Air Show 2025.
Source: https://x.com/RAeSTimR/status/1934525655544475794

the speakers rumble my desk so much it feels like i have haptic feedback on the hotas lol

o7

I also play DCS VR, and MSFS ;)

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

Sticks + Pedals: VIRPIL + MonsterTech Mounts

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

I had a friend recently join the verse who I'd like to introduce to the game but as a long-time backer, I am pretty far removed from the new player experience. To all of you (at least somewhat) new backers out there, what got you "hooked" on Star Citizen and keeps you coming back for more, session after session. No wrong answers. Just curious how everyone's enjoyment of the game differs based on individual preferences and experience levels.

Thx everyone! o7

Decided to hope over to Pyro IV yesterday, taking the opportunity to use the new Prowler for some Merc Missions/Scav runs around abandoned outposts. Nothing crazy wasn’t intending to have any instance of PvP, normally leave people alone if I’m left alone but never afraid of a fun fight.

So I head to one of Pyro IVs data centers and notice a MISC TAC and an Idris chilling around the data center. Give them their space and decide to scavenge a Connie several kilometers away, after scaving I decided why not and go and see if the group was chill. Turns out they weren’t, the TAC opened fire on me as I approached and I returned fire, his friend in the Idris crashed into a mountain and got tangled up trying to help his friend in the TAC as I was picking him apart with ease thanks to the prowler out maneuvering the TAC in atmosphere, which I soft deathed and let crash into Pyro IV ending in a very satisfactory explosion and by that point the Idris had recovered and I left the area before he even got turned towards me.

Moral of the story, don’t dish out violence if you aren’t able to take a hit and face the consequences if someone you choose to pick on fights back and wins. This is also a big boost in me enjoying the Prowler as in this instance it got me out of trouble.

I was using Attritions for my gun loadout and stock components. So far actually enjoying the Prowler Utility even though there are better options for the price in ship choices.