Star Citizen: Getting Started

1. That entirely depends on you. The base package comes with a starter ship. You can choose to either upgrade and/or buy additional ships before release (or even after), or earn your new ships in the game when it come.
2. The current build is a basic dog fight module against AI or players, and a racing module as well. There are no other released functions yet other than basic combat, flight model and general testing
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4. You'll be able to buy new ships in-game through the normal course of earning credits, however you decide that may be. There will be no ship rewards for completing missions (apart from maybe the single-player campaign game Squadron 42)
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So to start

Aurora MR AC starter $45 usd https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Packages/Aurora-MR-AC-Starter

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Mustang Alpha AC starter $45 https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Packages/Mustang-Alpha-AC-Starter

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Alternatively you can add a AC pass to any of the packages and play.


One important note is that none of these have LTI . So I would suggest if you really want to jump in get a starter package and then get the reliant . The reliant is a concept ship can comes with LTI(life time insurance). You'd be out about $100 but then you could upgrade the reliant in the future to any ship you want through the ccu upgrades. So if you did want a big ship like a freelancer or constellation you can get it with LTI.


2) Really buggy. Its still in rough shape , you can play the game and have fun but its still very buggy

3) its just dog fighting in what amounts to large arenas right now

4)in the future when the PU comes out then yes , you can earn newer ships. Right now no

5)its just dog fighting

6)its up to you. You can play for $45 bucks and you should get more than enough enjoyment from it. the First person shooter alpha should be starting soon , it should have been in April but it was postponed. I'm betting it will hit around E3. I believe you'd have to pay an extra $5 to alpha test it when it hits. The packages today only come with beta acess , alpha access per module is $5 for new packages.