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There’s more than one way to make some star-bucks in Star Citizen

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If you want to explore the cosmos, it’s going to cost you some bucks. And expendable test pilots, but don’t tell their future widows that. And you’ll need plenty of cash to get around the galaxy in Star Citizen, which now has another new feature in play. So 10-4 good buddy, keep an eye out for smokies and lets hustle some freight across galactic lines!

You’ll be able to haul freight across Star Citizen, earning an in-game income. That cargo can be anything, according to the Star Citizen team, from carbonated beverages to guns, coffee and what I presume would be obscene amounts of very weird galactic pornography. Maybe. The big twist here however, comes in the form of being able to actually examine your cargo, manipulating it like evidence from an LA Noire sequel that will never be.

Players will be able to use the “Grabby Hands” system to spot an object, pick it up and look at it. I have no idea why this makes me excited, but that’s what tens of millions of dollars will buy you. Still, there are thousands and thousands of objects in the game, far too many for the dev team to animate actions for. So it’ll be up to the in-game intelligence to fill in any gaps. “Make no mistake, this is more than just a system for picking up and putting down objects,” the Star Citizen blog post explained.

With this process in place, we don’t need to create a unique animation for every single object in the universe; the game adapts to interact with what you’re doing, the way you want!

This all leads back to the cargo portion of the game, as players will need to load and unload crates of the stuff while using loader suits. “Using the [cargo] manifest,” the post read, “you can activate and deactivate locking plates (to jettison cargo), set orders for arranging cargo and see the effect that all of your items are having on your center of mass (unlike previous games, your ships’ performance will be tied to the mass and volume of what you decide to load aboard her!)”.

Five new ships were also unveiled for the game, the MISC Hull series of freighters that range from the small freight Hull-A to the gigantic Hull-E. Which might stand for Hull-E sh** when you see how big that particular ship is.

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As usual, you can buy the ship with in-game credits, or with actual money. Around $60-$550 of real world money that is, depending on what size freighter you’re after. None of those ships are playable yet, but you can at least inspect your spacecraft in the hangar module mode.

Last Updated: April 28, 2015

66 Comments

  1. “obscene amounts of very weird galactic pornography”
    DELIVER TO: (address redacted due to security reasons)
    ATT: D BONTHUYS
    SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: HANDLE WITH GLOVES

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    • The D

      April 28, 2015 at 14:07

      Maybe when you’re older I’ll show some of it to you.

      Reply

      • Pariah

        April 28, 2015 at 14:08

        Said the tombstone on Admiral’s grave.

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      • Blood Emperor Trevor

        April 28, 2015 at 14:09

        Like this?

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        • Pariah

          April 28, 2015 at 14:11

          That’s more along Umar’s tastes, isn’t it? O_o

          Reply

          • Blood Emperor Trevor

            April 28, 2015 at 14:13

            You mean the one on the right?

          • Pariah

            April 28, 2015 at 14:15

            Both. Tentacles + hot girls is the norm for H isn’t it? (I stand to correction here)

        • Admiral Chief

          April 28, 2015 at 14:11

          No way am I refreshing, no way!

          Reply

          • Pariah

            April 28, 2015 at 14:12

            It’s not Avo, you’ll be fine. You’ve seen much, MUCH worse.

        • ReaperOfSquirrels

          April 28, 2015 at 14:23

          Chode and Six!

          Reply

      • Admiral Chief

        April 28, 2015 at 14:11

        *quaffs obscene amounts of youth potion

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  2. Pariah

    April 28, 2015 at 14:06

    $550 for a f*&^ing in-game ship? No. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?

    Why is nobody calling these guys out for a pure and simple pay to win model? “But you can earn it in game.” Yeah, with hundreds of hours of play. Or you can whip out your credit card and get it in 5 minutes. That’s pay to win.

    F#$% Star Citizen.

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    • Uberutang

      April 28, 2015 at 14:14

      because a $40 ship can totally tank a $500 ship?

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      • Pariah

        April 28, 2015 at 14:17

        The fact that you can buy anything more than starter ships is just stupid. You want to trade? Cool, that kid with $550 to spare will outpace you from the get-go. Oh, you want to be successful too? Pay $550 into the recepticle, and we’ll provide you with your insta-win ship. Because without it, you don’t stand a chance.

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        • Spathi

          April 28, 2015 at 14:24

          You can only buy ships with real money until release date. From then on, only in game cash. Also, not all people that will eventually play this game will start playing on day 1, or put in the same amount of hours, therefore there will always be people with better or larger ships, no matter what.

          In the persistent universe, there will be no “winning”. You play the game at your own pace, with your own goals.

          Lastly, what Ubertang said is 100% spot on!.

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          • Hammersteyn

            April 28, 2015 at 14:25

            What about a $15 000 ship?

          • Lord Chaos

            April 28, 2015 at 14:26

            That’s not a ship, it’s a bloody planet.
            Or Death-star if you are so inclined. 😛

          • Hammersteyn

            April 28, 2015 at 14:28

            O wait that’s for more than one ship. A lot more

          • Pariah

            April 28, 2015 at 14:29

            Ok, I’m not disputing the eventuality of inequality based on hours played. What I’m in utter awe over is how on day 1, people with large pockets will get a clear and rather large advantage over people who buy retail on day 1. Or even backers who don’t have $550 to utterly waste on some digital content…

            From starting to consider this game, to not willing to support this bullshit – I’ve gone full circle.

          • Spathi

            April 28, 2015 at 14:30

            But isn’t it more fun being the underdog and knowing that you stole/destroyed someone’s $500 real money ship, and that they suck at life? 😛

          • Hammersteyn

            April 28, 2015 at 14:32

            Only if it involves people younger than 18. yes I’m a bad man

          • Lord Chaos

            April 28, 2015 at 14:33

            Like taking candy from a baby.

          • Pariah

            April 28, 2015 at 14:34

            What would babies be doing with strippers anyway?

          • Pariah

            April 28, 2015 at 14:34

            Nope. It’d be far more satisfying stealing it from someone who worked for it. Why? Because that $550 spender will just move on, but the person who’d dedicated 300 hours to getting that ship will live forever in despair.

            However, that is still beside the point. This situation shouldn’t exist, at all, in any game.

          • Lord Chaos

            April 28, 2015 at 14:36

            Tell you what… I’ll “obtain” one of these early and gift it to you so you can space truck all my other “obtained” things.

          • Pariah

            April 28, 2015 at 14:37

            I won’t be buying the game. Rather send me the $550. I really do need a new graphics card.

          • Lord Chaos

            April 28, 2015 at 14:39

            No way I’ll be paying that for digital content, would rather get a new GPU myself.
            Won’t stop me from trying to steal one though

          • Skoobaz

            April 28, 2015 at 15:11

            Steal a few then. Feel free to send me a new GPU too! Titan much?

          • Spathi

            April 28, 2015 at 14:38

            So, by your own accord, it is so much more satisfying if you worked for the ship than buying it with real world money?

            Anyway, I get what you are saying. Thing is, the other people and their ships really doesn’t have to have any influence on how you plan to play the game, or your own enjoyment thereof. The “advantage” that you are talking about really isn’t an “advantage” when there is no set goal in the game.

          • Kromas,powered by windows 10.

            April 28, 2015 at 14:50

            The real advantage is lifetime insurance and even they admitted it is not really that much of an advantage.

        • Lord Chaos

          April 28, 2015 at 14:24

          Or… Scout a kiddy with one of these and no protection and steal it…

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        • Hyper1

          April 29, 2015 at 07:17

          the real question is do you really think the dude who has a hull E will be able to afford to fill it with cargo on day one? probably not, its gonna take a huge investment of credits just to get one of these stocked and flying, in the same time that person who owns this giant shit can ship one load someone with a smaller ship could have ferried 10 smaller more valuable cargo loads and made the same if not more money.

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      • Brady miaau

        April 28, 2015 at 14:44

        So for nearly (4/5th to 5/6ths) the price of one AAA game, for an in-game object, I can trash another, way more expensive in-game object? I do not understand.

        If this game is as popular as it seems, I think future historians will mark its release date as the start of the next major global depression. Marked by virtual, electronic use only money being worth more than regular, buy my food, money.

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    • Ranting Raptor

      April 28, 2015 at 20:39

      Everyone is too busy hating on the idea of optional paid for mods to care about virtual goods that cost more than a console

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      • Pariah

        April 28, 2015 at 21:45

        The idea is fantastic, their execution/implementation was terrible. It even caused a few modders to actually quit modding. Google it.

        Anyway. You don’t care. You approve of it, so whatever, keep pointing it out on every article. Because passive aggressive behaviour is awesome.

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        • Ranting Raptor

          April 29, 2015 at 02:49

          Yay

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    • Bernie LeVeque

      April 30, 2015 at 05:04

      This warning comes with that $550 ship you seem to think is an “I win button.” It will take a massive amount of capital and a small private army to successfully operate that $550 ship. That really does not fit the pay-2-win concept.

      WARNING: While the Hull E has a massive cargo capacity on paper, it is also a major target for pirates and raiders. Hull E are typically used in safe sector trade routes and are operated as part of a larger fleet. Additionally, getting ‘geared up’ to operate a Hull E at full capacity will require a significant investment in terms of credits: a single load of cargo typically has more value than the ship itself. In short, Hull E operation is not for the feint of heart!

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  3. Lord Chaos

    April 28, 2015 at 14:08

    Woohoo!! Space porn.

    Wait… what?

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    • Admiral Chief

      April 28, 2015 at 14:12

      …busted

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  4. Blood Emperor Trevor

    April 28, 2015 at 14:13

    It’s not a new feature, freight hauling has been part of the plan for a while. You also can’t see these in the hanger yet, this is just concept. I don’t see the appeal in space trucking though.

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    • The D

      April 28, 2015 at 14:16

      It’s so that you can try out the other new game feature, which is stuffing pornography in the space-cubbyhole.

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      • Admiral Chief

        April 28, 2015 at 14:17

        • Pariah

          April 28, 2015 at 14:18

          Uh. Wha… ?!?!? O_O

          Ped… Something, I forget the word, comes to mind. O_O

          You are one strange, disturbed little man. O_O

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          • Admiral Chief

            April 28, 2015 at 14:19

            Was actually referring to pooping :/

          • Pariah

            April 28, 2015 at 14:20

            Almost as disturbing, though not quite as deplorable.

            I’m still O_O though.

          • Admiral Chief

            April 28, 2015 at 14:20

            When I think of what the D get’s up to, my stomach feels funny

          • Pariah

            April 28, 2015 at 14:21

            That I understand. Completely.

          • Skoobaz

            April 28, 2015 at 14:39

            LOL. The hauler of disposable diapers. I will b needing one of those shortly. Poo-Wee!

          • Admiral Chief

            April 28, 2015 at 14:44

            Becoming a father?

          • Skoobaz

            April 28, 2015 at 15:14

            Yebo yes. T-2 months and counting! Little boy on the way

      • Blood Emperor Trevor

        April 28, 2015 at 14:19

        I knew my 315p was missing something for those long, lonely journeys.

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  5. Hammersteyn

    April 28, 2015 at 14:18

    This might be the first time a PC gamer pays more for a game than he did for his entire PC

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  6. Pariah

    April 28, 2015 at 14:38

    On a further note (different point) $550 is a new graphics card. Or Xbox one or PS4.

    No.

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  7. Ghost In The Rift

    April 28, 2015 at 14:43

    If its true that in Mass Effect:Next you can fly your own ship, land it and get into the Mako and get out of it on a distant planet, then Star Citizen not gonna be that impressive though.

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    • Admiral Chief

      April 28, 2015 at 14:44

      Only if the landscape is better than that horrible mountains in ME1

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      • Kromas,powered by windows 10.

        April 28, 2015 at 14:52

        Hey I did some awesome tricks in my Mako that would have had Tony Hawk in tears thanks to those endless mountains!

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      • Skoobaz

        April 28, 2015 at 14:52

        Agg, they weren’t so bad once you got to the top!

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    • Kromas,powered by windows 10.

      April 28, 2015 at 15:01

      Just and FYI. Rumour is all will be revealed come E3 as they already have a near RTM version ready.

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  8. Kromas,powered by windows 10.

    April 28, 2015 at 14:44

    “Hull-E sh** when you see how big that particular ship is” Cute. Let me introduce you to my Cargo Freighter.

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    • Admiral Chief

      April 28, 2015 at 14:45

      Your cargo freighter? Now is that any way to speak of your mrs?

      Reply

      • Kromas,powered by windows 10.

        April 28, 2015 at 14:49

        My mrs does not talk back to me … well until windows 10 then she will be as annoying as Siri with hopefully the voice she had in Halo.

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        • Skoobaz

          April 28, 2015 at 14:51

          Dude, sounds like Microsoft is paying you!

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          • Kromas,powered by windows 10.

            April 28, 2015 at 14:55

            Nah. I use both MS and Linux but as I am getting older I am appreciating the ease of use that windows gives me. Okay I am too lazy to waste time with other OSes. Also I really liked windows 8 and the performance boost you get in 10 for gaming is awesome.

            On second thought maybe MS should pay me. 🙂

  9. peter decosta

    April 28, 2015 at 18:13

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