【重要消息】周年庆典特卖

daxtou

Greetings Citizens,


As you know, November 26, 2013 marks the end of Lifetime Insurance (“LTI”) availability for Original and Veteran backers. We made lower-cost LTI packages available as a reward for the group of backers who made Star Citizen possible in the initial campaign, which culminated with the close of a grace period on November 26, 2012.

To celebrate our first year in operation, over the next week leading up to the 26th we will be offering each of the “limited edition” ships and packages once again for a limited time, so that anyone who would like to pick one up can do so. To give everyone a shot to catch the ship they’re interested in, we are going to announce the schedule in advance today. Ships and packages will be available for 24 hours (midnight to midnight PST.)


As a special thank you to everyone that has got us this far, including our growing contingent of New backers, Limited ships will include LTI for everyone! However they will only be available at the original prices for early backers (Original and Veteran) to keep in the spirit of our original promise to make sure that the earliest backers would have a benefit over later backers.

The Super Hornet is not being offered now, as it was available very recently.

Monday, November 18 – ORIGIN M50
Tuesday, November 19 – ORIGIN 350R & Lightspeed Package
Wednesday, November 20 – Drake Caterpillar
Thursday, November 21 – RSI Aurora LX
Friday, November 22 – Anvil Gladiator & Aegis Retaliator (running through the weekend)
Monday, November 25 – MISC Starfarer

On November 26th, we will start the second year off with a bang! Chris Roberts and the Star Citizen team will host a four-hour livestream starting at 11 AM PST which will feature the latest news and information, plus a chance to get your questions answered! We will also unveil the first details on the next assortment of ships, as we did at the first livestream! Like the original group, these ships will be offered for sale on special occasions… including some which will be purchasable for the first time on the 26th! There will also be a limited number of LTI Idris-P corvettes available for sale to all users, offered in four allotments throughout the day to allow Citizens around the world a chance at purchasing these rare ships.

Please be reminded that all these sales are to fund the development of the game and make the universe bigger and richer. We don’t care about making profits for public shareholders. We just care about making the Best Damn Space Sim Ever and you generous support has already allowed us to go way beyond what we thought would be possible upon initial release!


FAQ

In advance of the sale, we would like to take a moment and address several topics which have come up in the community:

How important is lifetime insurance?

Once again, we would like to be absolutely clear that LTI is a convenience but not a game-altering addition. All ships come with insurance and the coverage between LTI and Standard Hull Insurance (SHI) is exactly the same. The only difference is that you have to renew SHI with in game credits once the policy has reached its end (which varies right now between 3 months and a year on the current packages available for sale). With LTI there is no end date on the policy. The cost and frequency of renewing a SHI policy will be on a similar magnitude to renewing car insurance and assuming you complete some missions or trade runs in Star Citizen you should have plenty of in game funds available to cover this cost. In fact, newer players who purchased packages directly instead of going through a grey market service to get LTI are better off, as they have been receiving the various stretch goal rewards given to backers.


Will the Freelancer and/or Constellation variants be available?

We have also had a lot of requests for information on the Constellation and Freelancer. Variants for these ships will not be available for the 26th, but we will offer hull upgrades in the store when they are. If you purchase a Constellation or Freelancer with LTI today you can upgrade it to one of the special variants later while keeping LTI. We aren’t ready to announce what the variants will be, but can confirm that the design team is focusing on three more Freelancer variants and two additional Constellations.

Why are you offering the limited ships again?


Although we have offered the limited ships for sale half a dozen times at this point, the subject continues to be raised on the forums. We are aware that the original Kickstarter page states that these ships would not be sold again. Had we the ability to edit this page, we would add the following information: We made a mistake! The concept was that for the ships with a specified inventory (Scythe and Idris-M), we were only ever going to sell that quantity – hence the never sell it again wording, but the other ships that were not quantity limited were meant to be limited in that we would have them for sale for limited durations, so they would be a scarce commodity. Unfortunately our wording did not communicate this and the impression on our original post was that everything offered for limited sale would not be sold again. We subsequently corrected this to clarify that we were really talking about the ships that were offered with finite quantities but the issue has continued to be raised. This is our official stance on this so please bookmark this post for future forum debate! :)


Beyond this our fan base has grown exponentially, and we are inundated with users who want to start the game as a tanker captain or a racer or a pirate. While we owe a great debt to our original backers, we would like everyone to experience the Star Citizen universe the way they would prefer. As a result we will continue to offer some “limited” ships during special occasions. Note that any ship with a finite quantity once the last is sold there will be no more.

Will you be offering the Vanduul Scythe or Idris-M again?


Both of these sales took place “in universe,” the result of the UEE capturing a Vanduul carrier and then selling off an allotment of surplus Idris corvettes. These were unique events which allowed us to offer ships which would not ordinarily be available for sale. You will be able to upgrade your Idris-P to military specifications using kits available in the finished game.

Why are you changing your plans and offering LTI for everyone with these limited ship purchases?

We’re not happy with how the “grey market” for Star Citizen ships has evolved. A limited number of users have hoarded rare ships and sold them for a premium to backers who discovered the game later on. Every day, the CS department receives more reports of users scammed while trying to purchase limited ships in this fashion. The idea behind LTI is to reward early supporters, not to give anyone a way to mistreat other Citizens. We’ve made this call to reinforce that the end-of-the-year sale is intended to reward everyone, not give particular users a chance to stockpile valuable ships for future resale. A New backer will have to pay more for a limited ship with LTI than an Original Backer or Veteran backer. This way the Original Backers and Veteran backers still get a reward for believing early but New backers will have an opportunity to pick up some special ships with LTI and not be forced into the grey market.


Why don’t you offer LTI on the base ships for New backers?

We promised that our early backers would get the benefit of LTI over later backers. On the other hand there are almost twice as many new backers as early backers and some of them are upset that they didn’t have the opportunity to obtain LTI by backing early. Offering LTI on the limited ships at a higher priced for New backers seems the best compromise. We feel that if we extended this to the standard ships it would be too much, but our early backers would be ok with the New backers having the opportunity to obtain LTI (at a slightly higher price) on the more expensive and rarer ships as it gives them a nice benefit and helps make the game better by raising more funds.

各位公民，你们好：

也许大家都已经知道了，11月26号是最后的LTI（终生保险）截止日。为了庆祝这个周年庆典，我们决定把已经不再出售的限量版的船只再一次（最后一次）拿来特卖

作为特殊的感谢，这次即将特卖的所有东西都会面向所有人提供LTI！！

另外本次特卖是以24小时为单位

下面是特卖的日程安排
Monday, November 18 – ORIGIN M50
Tuesday, November 19 – ORIGIN 350R & Lightspeed Package
Wednesday, November 20 – Drake Caterpillar
Thursday, November 21 – RSI Aurora LX
Friday, November 22 – Anvil Gladiator & Aegis Retaliator (running through the weekend)
Monday, November 25 – MISC Starfarer


-十一月18日，星期一：ORIGIN M50

-十一月19日，星期二：ORIGIN 350R和光速包（350r的package）

-十一月20日，星期三：DRAKE 毛毛虫

-十一月21日，星期四：极光LX

-十一月22日，星期五：ANVIL 角斗士&AEGIS 复仇者（整个周末的特卖）

-十一月25日，星期一： MISC Starfarer


另外在十一月26日，会举行第二年开始庆典！
CR会在上午11点PST进行直播，有很多最新的细致的消息
同时在直播期间会有LTI的伊德里斯P进行限量出售


感谢大家的支持。。。。。。（翻译累了）


FAQ



Q:LTI有多重要？

A：LTI会很方便但是没有也不是什么大事儿，总的来说当你在游戏内做任务或者blablbla，会获得足够的钱去购买限时保险（SHI），而且LTI回合SHI有相同的运作机制


Q:Freelancer 和Constellation的variants的消息？

A：他们不会再11.26之前出现，但是目前已知至少有3种FL的variants以及2种constellation的variant



Q:为什么你们再次拿出来卖这些限量？

A：为了感谢大家长久以来的支持以及提供给新人一个获得限量版的机会


Q：Vanduul Scythe会卖么？

A：不会应为vanduul的出售是一个历史事件（UEE抓捕了一条vanduul的航母），所以300条vanduul就是所有了，不好意思~

Q:为什么你们会改变想法再次出售LTI？

A：很多新人通过Grey market（黑市）获得无法获得的LTI，所以我们愿意提供给新人一个机会来获得LTI pkg

Q：为什么不给基础船型提供LTI？

A：因为这是老玩家的福利~~~>_>





好了以上就是所有内容，翻译的比较快，所以有什么疏漏还请指出，多谢啦~~

ccyew

感謝~~~~看來外星船艦只能等26號當天了.....不知道搶不搶的到

alexlaza

哈哈，深度时空也能看见你！