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Back in 4.8, I lived in Stanton.

In 4.9, I've lived in Pyro...

I think for 4.10, I'm moving to Nyx.

Is it worth it? I've loved running contested and Hangars (and frankly still have to run Hangars quite a bit) but I'm thinking about moving to Nyx for 4.10.

Change things up.

Questions:

• If you're going to live in Nyx, which station should you set as home? I do intend to run content in both Stanton and Pyro still, seems downright sadistic that they keep the jump portals so far from one another.
• Is it actually worth leaving Pyro (I've enjoyed Pyro) for Nyx?
• What will replace Contested and Hangars there?

Thanks in advance!

Yesterday, I was playing and decided to do a regular old Contested run, this time in Ruin station.

So I went to Ruin, and kitted up and got two of the three keycards and noticed that the timed door was opened before getting the third.

I went through the timed door, and into the vault, picked up the comp boards, and started loading up the components, and I did something I don't usually do.

I started looking at the guns.

I knew already that Ruin is a great source for pulverizer LMGs, and P8s. You can also get those good shotguns there.

What I didn't know, is that nearly every gun that spawns in that vault, that has an optic, is a nightvision optic.

I did not know that.

I picked up one gun, and through sheer chance, hit the shift key. Immediately, it lit up.

It was my first night vision optic that I've ever found.

I was happy as shit, but thought that it must have been a 1 in 200 chance or something. But I did go around looking at the other guns, and decided to see if I could get any other cool attachments from them.

So I picked up another gun, and hit shift, and again, it lit up.

So I picked up another.

I left Ruin with FOUR night vision optics. FOUR.

I then checked my inventory there. I've run Ruin's contested zone a lot recently.

I found a bunch of more of them. I'd been picking them up, not realizing what they are, and storing them. I have a shit ton of night vision optics. They apparently aren't that rare.

I'm sure many of you know this, but I didn't know this, and I'm sure some of you will be happy to learn this. If you want night vision optics, they aren't that hard to get.

Now if I could only find a thermal optic, I'd be set.

Hi guys, I was wondering if there was any news or leaks about the merchantman recently.

Just want to see how many of us believe in a 2026 release of SQ42.

And frankly this topic hasn't been talked about much. It deserves to be discussed. This is the biggest CIG related news in 2026 if true right? Why aren't we talking about more? Why hasn't more been released?

Following the disastrous SCL and the flood of high-profile creator coverage, funding data shows a clear downward trend for August. In August 2025, CIG had brought in $9.28M; as of August 17, 2026, that number sits at just $3.77M—projecting roughly a -25% delta by EOM. We may be seeing the start of players actively voting with their wallets. thoughts?

Source:
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/sycend/viz/StarCitizenFundingDashboard/IncomeView

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This is not a post I wanted to make.

I've been planning something for a while. I've been running contested and hangars, and trying to get an F7A MkII. I have many sets of compboards. I've become experienced with every one of the contested zones.

I've been planning on getting that F7A MkII, and then doing a huge review of Contested and Hangars... along with a guide. The Guide is now mostly written... every section except Hangars.

But I can't finish with Hangars...

Because Hangars, are tough.

Hangars is really tough content.

Contested

So you can run contested solo, and while you will find PVP there, its not every time you run it.

If you're an average player like I am, you'll win 1v1 fights about 50% of the time, and 1v2s maybe 15% of the time if you get the drop on the two guys. I've been running Contested, solo and with a friend, and I've amassed a large horde of compboards.

I have enough compboards to almost certainly get an F7A, ya know... statistically.

But then I ran Hangars.

Hangars

Hangars is not at all like Contested.

The first time I ran Hangars, we got lucky, there was no one there, and I was able to get a Scorpius. I wrote a review for that Scorpius here, and I want to say that I'm a bit happier with it now than I was initially. Its a nice ship.

Anyway, I ran it once and got the Scorpius, and the next time I tried to run it my buddy took his compboards, and I cleared (checked to ensure that no one was in there hiding) Hangars. I didn't clear Hangars well enough though.

You see the way Hangars works is really simple. There's a large EVA room that you go through and put the boards in. Putting the boards in is buggy, and takes between 3 and 10 minutes depending on how buggy it is for you. The room itself is intentionally designed to be complex, large and... offer poor visibility. Its pretty easy for someone to hide in there.

So the plan was for one of us to clear it while the other hangs back, and only once we're sure its cleared, do we bring the guy with the compboards in. I cleared it, and fucked up. Despite me checking the room, someone was there. He was a sneaky bastard. When my buddy inserted all the compboards and ran through the red door to get the ship, the sneaky bastard dropped down behind him and killed him. I fired and hit him a few times, but he reached cover, and managed to medpen while I was still running forward towards him in the open, and he gunned me down.

We lost the boards - and the ship.

We did it again, using the same strategy. I went and cleared the hangar, and he came in behind me. Well, I cleared the hangar alright, but he came in through a side entrance and two guys killed him before he made it to the main hangar. I tried to recover the boards, and they got me too.

We lost a second set of boards - and another ship.

We were 1 for 3... we got a ship one time and lost two sets of compboards. I've still got plenty of sets of compboards, but every time we go to run it since them, we leave the boards and wind up just PVPing. Hangars is always camped, and its often camped by rather large groups.

I think... at this point, that I need a bigger group to do this. I think that instead of a 2 man, I need a four man crew to properly do Hangars without losing an excessive amount of comp-boards and ships.

Hangars, is tough.

Does this experience match yours? Are you regularly running hangars either solo or as a duo and finding success? Do we just need to "git gud"?

I find myself in PvP against a lot of hornets and smaller fighters lately. I’m wondering what the best upgrade from stock Cf-557 Galdreen and rhino repeaters are. I am thinking a ballistic cannon like a deadbolt and a laser cannon like m6a but the firing rate is so slow maybe Gatlings are more effective.

This is something that doesn't affect me personally, so I generally don't care about it, but the idea came to me recently.

CIG has been selling large ships - FOR YEARS. For years CIG has been selling ships that don't work, or at the very least aren't optimized for solo play.

They've been doing this, with a promise, and the promise, is NPC crew and blades.

And NPC Crew and Blades... are no where on the horizon.

Now again, I didn't fork over 10 or more times the industry standard cost for a game to CIG for such a large ship. I don't own a Hammerhead, or Redeemer, or Valkyrie. My personal gameplay enjoyment isn't entirely screwed by CIG.

But if it had happened to me, I'd be pissed.

Because they've been saying NPC crew and Blades is coming for the last 10 years. And it just hasn't happened.

And it shouldn't even be hard to implement.

Here's how you implement a T0 NPC crew:

• When you pull your ship from storage, its already got crew on it. They're not moving around, they're sitting in seats already.
• As long as you don't attack them, they just kind of sit there, manning turrets or whatever.
• If you attack them, they mutiny, pull pistols and try to kill you.
• If you don't attack them. They sit there until the ship gets stored.
• If the ship gets abandoned, they leave the moment the ship gets "BRICKED" while you aren't looking, which is probably pretty quickly in most cases.

There, a really simple T0 NPC crew implementation that would take next to nothing for CIG to do.

Again, I don't own a Hammerhead. I don't own a Reclaimer, or a Hurricane. I did recently get a Scorpius from Executive Hangars, but that's the closest thing I have to a multicrew ship. I never bothered to buy gimped ships from CIG knowing that they aren't planning on making the ships useful in any way any time soon.

But so many people have.

And I don't see any outrage about this, at all.

And it blows my mind.

Hi fellow citizens! Reading this you might think I’m the millionth citizen that got banned and is crying on the subreddit for an unban, I’m not so don’t worry about that :p

However, I did read about some people that got banned by EAC and read in the comments that EAC keeps a log, so I wonder if there are other people in my situation.

I have just over 2000 dollars in starcitizen which is a lot for me but I really like the game so, what can you do. This is however not the point of the post but I wanted to point it out so people can empathise why I would be afraid of losing my account.

In the past I have written bots or other software that automises games or perform other actions that involve reading the game memory, I thought (and still think?) this doesn’t matter since this is just a hobby, only used on offline-games and as far as I know none of these games use EAC since they’re offline and strictly single player. There is however one game I circumvented EAC, I’ve never gotten banned for this and always ran the game in offline mode and this game is Elden Ring. I did this because I have a wide-screen monitor and wanted to play the game on more than 60 fps. Again, never banned but at that time I believe I did use software to get around EAC since this would also flag you for a ban. I know this could happen for Elden Ring if you forgot to run it in offline mode but, I didn’t care since I didn’t want to go multiplayer anyway and if you got banned it was only for the multiplayer part (which, again, I didn’t care for). As far as I know I never got banned anyway though.

I do want to ask the question if you or players you know got banned for this? I still run windows 10 and have not done a system wipe in ages since I never needed it. However, know I’m afraid if some of that software is still somewhere on my pc and if I might get banned for it. I have 3 TB filled of storage and all these activities happened over the years (haven’t played Elden Ring in 3 for example) so it would be nearly impossible to scrub my pc clean of everything.

Tl;dr can you get banned from star citizen if you have ever tampered with EAC in the past?

If so I will just do a clean installation, thanks for your help in advance!!