Here is the "demo" part of the Twitchstream that was live today, showing Alpha 3.0 stuff.

game looks gorgeous as fuck

The Gamescom explorer packs they currently have up are an amazing savings! Don't miss them if your looking to get the game, or if you have some ship you want to get lti on.

You save $135 with the UEE Explorer's Pack, and $200 with the Mega-Explorer's Pack, and that's not including the price of the rovers and snub craft that come with the connie and carrack (About another $100-$200 value)

UEE Package: $495
$20 worth of UEC
$15 SQ-42 Pack
$15 SC Pack
$350 Carrack (Comes with Rover and Snub)
$195 Terrapin
$35 Dragonfly
Total Worth: $630 (Plus Rover and Snub)

Megapack: $895
$20 Worth of UEC
$15 SQ-42 pack
$15 SC Pacl
$350 Carrack (Plus Rover and Snub)
$195 Terrapin
$35 Dragonfly
$125 Freelancer DUR
$275 Constellation Aquila (Plus Rover and Snub)
$65 315P
Total Value: $1095 (Plus 2 Rovers and 2 Snub Fighters)

remember the game is still only $40 ish to buy and we have loads of ships in the guild to share out
dont get scared of all the big $ figures its not needed

how long are these good for? poke me on ts if it's a short turn around.

Monday, August 29th.

In honor of Gamescom 2016 and our focus on exploring procedural planets, we are bringing back a host of exploration and exploration support ships for a limited time! From the nimble ORIGIN 315p to the complex Anvil Carrack, a whole host of explorers (and even a rover!) are available now. These ships and packages will be available until Monday, August 29th.

It is a nice bargain and gives you a heck of a fleet to start with if you haven't gotten in yet, HOWEVER as Instrument put it, you only need the $45 dollar package to get into the game and have a starter ship, and we have several hundred empty seats to crew as is.

....BUT if your one of the several of us who do have a dozen ships or more, by melting a few ships (such as the Carrack I already had) and them buying that package, They essentially gave me an additional package and $200 dollars in store credit for FREE!!

When a package has several ships like this one does, you can individually upgrade the ships (known as CCU) to another one when its available. In my case I melted my Carrack and Hull E, bought the package, and immediately got my Carrack back via the package. And now I have 2 ships in the package I don't want. and can use towards other ships when they are available (such as using the $275 Constellation towards getting my Hull-E back.)

Here is the FULL info (not just the demo) - talks about what is coming in 3.0 (the bits BEFORE the demo).

I ended up melting my Carrack and 890 to get the Mega pack. Turned the 315 into a 325 and my DUR into a Connie Taurus.

Nice Zhou!

Definitely a cool bundle of ships!

I am still happy with the two accounts worth of ships I have that all have LTI. The only ship that may see the scrap heap is the Vanguard on the good guy account.

At least they are spending the money everyone through at them to make pretty updates to the pay to be an Alpha tester. I am still really looking forward to having SQ42 by 1Q17 as the first real "live" (read that as gains made are not rolled back/wiped) element from CIG ahead of the "live" PU being ready by 4Q17.

@Tasorin Indeed - I know they mentioned revealing details about SQ42 at CitzenCon during Gamescom. I will be there in person this time - so should be very exciting!

If they can get SQ42 out by 1Q17 (or even better before the end of 2016) that will be AWESOME! Gives people something to play with until the "live" PU later that year.

And no concerns for "wipes' as what you earn from SQ42 is "Citizenship" and not credits or ships. So you can launch this stand alone that feeds the PU at any time you want ahead of the PU being actually live without all the crying about having an early start.

Correct - all that you will "earn" from SQ42 is "Citizenship", likely will just be attached to your ID on the website. I am certain the engine/etc is going to use your account login for security and updateing/etc.



What is happening in Star Citizen over the next year or so - will certainly be wiped, as it is still Alpha and not "early release". There will be BETA and maybe at a certain point, a final WIPE before it goes "live" and "persistent".

Tax, come on man.

This isn't my first time in the pool.

/Captain Obvious

No doubt Captain Obvious!

I was just trying to help folks that may have questions about Squadron 42 vs Star Citizen. I talk to people all the time that have no idea about Squadron 42 or what it even is. Which is kind of strange to me, but it is probably because it isn't getting enough "media coverage".

In reality - it will be the "same" game engine as Star Citizen running locally - but it will definitely tie into the RSI website/etc for patching/updating/account info.