Added to 4.8 is the ability to insure your ship loadout.

It is necessary to re-insure a ship after any changes are made.

Ships do not need to be stored before they are insured.

You can expect to see 'bricked' duplicates of ships from other locations that need to be scrapped to be removed, using the Local option.

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Known issues:

potentially losing ship paints after an insured claim.

inability to restock missiles if the ship was insured without any stocked. Ensure they are restocked before insuring.

Regularly fails to load contents.

Seems to falsely report available backspace capacity.

Delays in updating equipped items, and moving items around.

Inventory Kiosk may fail to show items that are stored, but only visible via Cargo Terminal, or reappear with subsequent access to it.

Randomly reloads after some interactions.

Double clicking to equip items can be unpredictable and in some cases lose items or attach them to incorrect parents.

Not fixed as of 4.8.2. Confirmed under investigation.

aUEC trade limits are now limited, reported to be currently at 20 mil.

CRAFTING

RediMake Item Fabricator is available from the following locations:
Kel-to on Orison, Stratus mall Cloudview platform Crusader, Stanton
Kel-to - Aspire Grand, New Babbage, Microtech, Stanton
Dumper's Depot, Area 18 ArcCorp, Stanton
Tammany & Sons Lorville, Hurston, Stanton
or on L1 station Refineries.

It is not available from Kel-to's in spaceport lobbies.

It is apparently possible to break the crafter when dismantling some items.

The Drake Clipper does not have a working crafting station as of 4.7

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BLUEPRINTS

Can be obtained through doing missions.

You can see where each one can be obtained via SCMDB.NET

The only way to see what BPs you have is via the Item Crafter.

CIG have said that BPs will become physicalised as datapads.

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In the Freight Elevator kiosk at your Home Hangar there should be a Claim Mode option top right, that is said to allow recovery of lost items that were pledged.

This should present you with a list of all of the items that have been pledged, though currently only seems to show paints (livery) and ship modules and weapons.

Items recovered though this should be added to inventory, but the duplicate item should be 'bricked'.

It may be disabled at first, presumably while it loads entitlements.

This is only for items that have been pledged, not purchased in game.

CIG has stated that there will be no Citizencon (in person, or digital) this year. This is very likely related to the target release of Squadron 42, still for this year.

However Nyx planets, Siege of Orison, Municipal Works expected this year.

With the introduction of Engineering gameplay in 4.5 there are some issues and inconsistencies that need to be addressed.

Powering down ships now is considered a 'Power Plant Failure' and can prevent doors from working/opening, in some cases difficult or impossible to enter.

Single seat ships such as fighters seem to be unaffected.

Not fixed as of 4.6.

APPROACH THE JUMP POINT IN NAV MODE
As you get closer you should see the green flashing alignment rings that look like ( ). Stop at the last ring. Avoid travelling too fast so that you don't bounce off the gate.
Your ship should start to 'tune' with the jump point. Once completed it should prompt you to activate the gate if it is not open. If it asks to be activated, tap LMB once to send a pulse to open it.
Then your ship should be checked to meet requirements such as if you have enough fuel.
Once open, or if open already, your ship will be taken inside automatically.
You are required to pilot your ship through the tunnel, avoiding the walls and pillars. Hitting these too many times could fail the jump and you will fall out into the same system.

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IF YOU DO NOT SEE THE ALIGNMENT RINGS
This is one of a few reasons that you cannot use the gate. This is either that your rader is powered off, you are missing a Jump Module, or not in NAV mode.
If you are not sure if there is a Jump Module (sometimes called Jump Drive - this is not your Quantum Drive) you can check your ship Diagnostics MFD. If it is missing you can land at the nearby Gateway station to buy and fit another for the size of your ship. The likely reason it is missing is that you previously changed your Quantum Drive and the Jump Module became 'detached'.

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ARRIVING IN THE SAME SYSTEM AFTER SUCCESSFUL JUMP — POTENTIALLY FIXED AS OF 4.9
This continues to be a server authority bug that seems to refuse connections or being rejected by the server you are trying to move to, for the target system. This seems to be worse on high-pop shards, or during a free-fly. It may be possible to try the jump again, or use another jump point to go around the long way.

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A new issue related to immediately losing available fuel is being seen, it is still possible to complete a jump, and if the jump is good, still travel to the nearby station to refuel.

Community member MrKraken has put together a variant localisation patch that updates mission strings to indicate if certain missions drop blueprints, and what they may be.

This is completely safe, and approved by CIG, and highly recommended.

STARSTRINGS

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Additionally, the Star Citizen Mission Database website lists various information about blueprints, which missions drop them and what materials are needed to craft the items.

SCMDB

Citizen GraeWulf has a tool for tracking projects for anyone working towards more involved Wikelo rewards.

‍WIKELO PROJECTS

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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 until 20:00 UTC on the 14th.

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

Subscription does not provide access to the game.

New to 4.6 is LAMP, also known as night vision in ships.

It is activated in your ship MFD or with Right ALT + L

It is not in all ships, most small ships and some indutrials with more to come later.

According to a recent post from John Crewe, the priority was on ships that had less complications related to how they were originally made. More ships are coming but may be a while yet.

Requesting undocking in a large ship such as Polaris or Idris from a station sometimes fails, despite ATC responding in the affirmative.

This is likely because you have an active hangar for another ship and ATC believes you are requesting clearance for that, not the ship you are physically in, trying to undock.

It may be necessary to wait for the hangar request to time out, auto-store the ships and reposition you, to try again.

Not fixed as of 4.6

It is possible to be caught in a situation where Reposition Player fails to put you somewhere useful. This should be immediate but you can be locked in this state, unable to more or interact.

If this happens you can try Alt+H (which changes your helmet stow state) to fix it.

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.

Available ammo for first person weapons fail to correctly report until inventory is opened.

It has been found that this happens if pressing [esc] to exit interacting with lootboxes, rather than pressing [I].

Not fixed as of 4.0.2

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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