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Reported launcher API issues.

It is being suggested that killing the launcher process and starting it again may fix some of the problems.

CIG have been looking into it and possibility resolved.

Free Fly expected.

The current economy in the PU such that it is, is currently over saturated with aUEC. Many players appear to have billions as a result of extremely high value trades of rare or difficult to acquire items, and duplication methods.

Some players are randomly and frequently finding themselves being donated hundreds of millions of aUEC by others that have to reduce their wallets due to game breaking bugs caused by an integer math error, which prevents using station services such as repair, refuel, and running refinery jobs.

CIG apparently are aware of this, and have suggested that a wipe would be necessary, but presumably after the duplication exploit has been fixed.

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If a player starts at, or their last known location is their Home Residence, they will load into their Persistent Hangar. At other locations, the expectation is that the player will awake in a hab at that location, or in a medical bed if the player had died prior to disconnecting.

Some ships have a bed that offers the ability to "bed-log", which allows the player to load in on their ship, provided that they own that ship, it is in space or landed, both outside of an Landing Zone. The prompt for this is given when laying down in the bed, holding F.

It is possible however due to a bugs that this option is not available, incorrectly marked as being in a landing zone, in active combat, or if the F prompt is not accessible due to bad placement or in some cases depending on the character model or equiped armor are in the way.

CIG have announce their intention to allow bed-logging in any ship regardless of whether it has a bed or not, but would have consequences.

The intention of Character Repair is to help in situations when a player is stuck in the world and needs to be moved to their home location. This is all it does, and can be found to use on the RSI website.

Unfortunately Character Repair will not help you in 90% of cases of problems, ship and item losses.

It is unlikely to help with connection issues, other than being stuck connected to a shard in that it has the possibility of kicking connections.

Although it may mention Character Reset on the page, it is not possible to reset your character account.

With every new patch it is unfortunately very likely that some ships and items may become lost, beyond the expected consumables and refinery jobs that happens every patch.

You can try to file a ticket with CIG, but if it is not a pledged item, it is highly unlikely there will be any support or possibility to recover it.

Issues related to ship, component and other items are still under investigation and not resolved, in addition to no official word on why this keeps happening, and seemingly at random.

Items lost as a result of normal play or bugs that are either pledged or account bound will be returned in the next patch.

Not fixed as of 4.3

Rewards for subscribers, such as ships and flair are released in two waves.

The first is typically the first Tuesday of the month, the second roughly a week later. This which would be the deadline to subscribe to qualify for that month.

The cut-off point for the current subscription month is the 13th.

What rewards are made available are not known ahead of time.

Subscription does not provide access to the game.

Most of the issues in Star Citizen are server or game logic related and as such cannot be fixed by reinstalling the game, or your entire operating system.

This assumes in good faith that there is nothing technically wrong with the system you are running the game on.

Please avoid turning your PC inside out to get around a bug.

There has been no confirmed Long-term Persistence wipe scheduled at this time, despite rumours.

CIG have said they expect that one may be needed in the future, but have not specified when.

An LTP wipe is expected to reset all persistence data: progress, ships and items. Pledged ships, items including account bound rewards will not be affected.

If a wipe is announced, it will come with six weeks notice, based on the previous.

The last recorded LTP wipe was December 2024 for 4.0 Preview.

Patch updates currently carry a risk of randomly lost ships and items due to LTP bugs, as well as items that are regularly removed such as consumables. This is unrelated to a wipe.

Losing ability to move and interact after chatting is a commonly reported issue.

To fix this press ENTER then ESC twice while chat is visible.

This bug appears to be related to the chat window stealing focus and preventing inputs.

Marked as possibly fixed in 4.6.

Player lists in shards are incomplete or fail to display entirely, remains an issue with no known fix.

‍‍At present it seems to take up to 15 minutes to release your player from connection to a shard before you can join another.

In some cases it seems to take significantly longer, as some players have reported being locked out for days.

There is no fix for this except for waiting, and trying again.‍‍

Character Repair has no provable affect on fixing this, but it does not hurt to try.

These can happen frequently and at random, and seem to be related to player activity.

As servers are now meshed and localised around each of the planets of Stanton and Pyro, and major stations in Pyro, if a server error occurs it will be limited to the area it happened.

For instance, if a server error happens around Crusader, those not around it are unaffected.

The server errors themselves should resolve quickly within a couple of minutes, however can take significantly longer.

It has been seen that recovery from a server errors will always happen, unless an error indicates that it couldn't.

A very common issue that prevents access to the LIVE PU is the result of either not having, or accidentally melting Game Package with a pledged ship from the store.

A Game Package is required to play the game outside of occasional Free Fly events.

It should be possible to use the Buy Back option, or another will need to be purchased to access the game again.

It may be necessary to completely log out first.

The service responsible for keeping your progress and inventory including ships and items.

It is currently a known and long standing issue that in-game assets can disappear between patches. This is under investigation.

It is advised to ensure that your ships are stored properly, and not make any in-game ship purchases only a few hours before a patch.

Any pledged ships or items lost should be investigated via request with Customer Services.

Pledge or otherwise account bound items commonly return next patch.

Sometimes the game fails to load or report an error.

This is generally due to the game matchmaking assuming your affinity to one shard and trying to connect you, regardless of the one you chose and failing to do so.

It seems to be generally avoided by joining an online friend if any is available, and not trusting the 'BEST' server option.

If you are stuck in this infirinite loading situation, kill the game client and wait up to 15 minutes and then retry to join on another shard or friend as soon as the game allows.

Character Repair may work as it can potentially kick you from the game, but may not work immediately or at all.