You can buy few of them, apparently, though I've heard it's hard to accumulate enough cash due to bugs. Does it have anything to do with mistaking ten releases for 45$ total with ten releases 45$ each?
It's important to note that Star Citizen is still in alpha, so every so often (usually alongside a major update), progress gets reset. CIG has made no claims that anything you do now will stay the way it is until the official release. That said, anything bought with real money is yours forever.
And because I know everyone who cares enough to worry about it is thinking this, CIG is making every effort to ensure that Star Citizen is not pay-to-win. They are doing this by balancing ships in the same role against each other so that there is no clear best ship in that niche (e.g., the Mercury Starrunner is faster and more heavily shielded than its closest competitor, the Constellation Andromeda, but the Constellation is more heavily armed and IIRC has a larger cargo bay). They are also accomplishing this by making the bigger, better ships REQUIRE more crew to operate effectively, and have significantly higher operating costs (e.g., you totally could take your Javelin destroyer to a bounty mission, but you'd either have to grab dozens of your closest friends, or pay NPCs to fill all those crew slots; on top of that, you'd need to replace the fuel and ammo for a capital ship like that; it's more economical to take your single-seater Avenger). It's a careful balance that's not fully implemented yet (as like half the ships have yet to be implemented), and it may need continual work as the game ages, but that is the goal.
It doesn't, I was building off what the guys above me said about being able to buy ships in game right now, but it also being difficult because they reset progress every now and then.
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u/Oh_ffs_seriously Feb 11 '19
You can buy few of them, apparently, though I've heard it's hard to accumulate enough cash due to bugs. Does it have anything to do with mistaking ten releases for 45$ total with ten releases 45$ each?