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=New player guide= This guide is written with the intention of answering all the questions new players will have, in the likely order that they will be asked.

Ideally, new players will be able to follow it as they progress through their journey in-game, akin to a virtual guide.

Links to external guides will also be included below, as well as a link to CIG’s official ‘Guide’ program, which matches a personal guide with new players.

Through all these resources, players will be equipped with the knowledge to act confidently and independently in any role they choose in-game.

Main menu
The main menu provides access to the Persistent Universe, Star Marine and Arena Commander.

On the right hand side is the Spectrum friend interface, which shows all friends (online and offline) and allows you to add new friends. Below this is the notifications panel, which displays a log of all received notifications, even those received in-game. Invitations can be accepted or declined within this interface.

On the bottom left hand corner you can access [options] and quit the game.

Joining a server in the Persistent Universe
To join the Persistent Universe, select the 'Universe' tab on the top left hand corner. The first time you do this, you will be taken to the character customisation interface.

Once you have created your character, you will be returned to the Universe section. In here you can select your starting location from one of the four major planets, or Port Olisar.

This location is where you will first spawn in the game, however whenever you travel to a new location that has spawning capability, your spawn location will change.

From this point onwards, when you select the 'Universe' section from the main menu, you will only have one join option listed under 'Space Ports', which is Stanton. When you select this option you will be placed in the last spawnable location you visited in-game, or in the last ship bed you logged out in.

Basic on-foot controls
First up, we will run through some basic controls below, which will allow you to navigate around the locations in the game on-foot.

Star Citizen uses a tactile interface that requires the player to 'mouse-over' UI elements which appear as holograms in-game, these UI elements are used to interact with objects in the world.

For example, if you wished to interact with a button in-game, you would hold the interact key (default F), move the circular icon that appears on screen over the button, then press Mouse 1 to confirm the interaction.

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Default bindings

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Spawning your ship and taking off
Reaching your departure location

Now you have spawned in to the Persistent Universe, you'll likely be wanting to spawn your ship, regardless of which location you spawn at, you will need to access a fleet management terminal.

If you spawned on one of the major planets, it will be located in the starport. If you spawned in a space station, it will be located in some central location.

An example of a fleet management terminal.

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Navigating to the fleet management terminal at each location can be tricky the first time, as such there are a number of short videos below which provide a walkthrough for each major location, as well as space stations.

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Spawning your ship via the fleet management terminal

The fleet management terminal interface lists all ships you have available, including details on cargo space and role, as well as their current status and location. On the far right side of each ship's row will be the current available action, as this is the first time we have spawned a ship, the 'Retrieve' option will be available. Selecting this will spawn the ship and provide a hangar/pad number which we can follow to reach it.

Once we have the pad/hangar number for our spawned ship, we can access it via the pad/hangar elevators. These will be located in the same area as the fleet management terminal.

Once in the elevator, interact with the elevator button and select the hangar/pad number that was given by the fleet management terminal. Once you arrive at your ship's hangar pad, it is time to take off.

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Basic ship controls
Now we are ready to take off in our ship of choice, we need to understand some basic controls for flight. Below are some of the important keybindings to memorise which will allow you to navigate your ship around the locations in-game.

Default bindings

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Settings and controls
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Joining a friend's server
Once you have friends added to your contact list, an option to join their server will become available when you select 'Stanton System' under 'Space Ports' in the 'Universe' menu.

To join on friends, select 'Join Friends' on the bottom right of the window that appears. However you can only join on friends if their server is not full.

Joining a server with a party
Once a party has been created with one or more people (friends or otherwise), the party leader can execute a party launch by joining a server.

Any party members that are on the main menu at the time of the party launch will be automatically put into the same server as the party leader.

Any members of the party that are in other servers at the time of the party launch will get an invitation to join the party launch. Warning: Accepting this invite will imediately log you out of your current server, and into the same server as the party leader.

As such, the best method of doing a party launch is to have all party members on the main menu at the time of the launch.

- Friends - Parties - Groups - Text chat channels - Voice chat channels

Game mechanics
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Retrieve - Spawns the ship from storage onto a pad/hangar, then provides the number of the pad/hangar it has been spawned on so that it can be accessed.

Store - After a ship is landed on a pad/hangar, this can be used to store it inside the station or starport. Items such as purchased cargo or mined resources, as well as any physical items within the ship such as boxes, will all be stored with the ship. These items will be available the next time you retrieve the ship, unless the ship is claimed.

Claim - This issues an insurance claim on the ship, removing it from wherever it is in the game world and putting it on a timer which locks out spawning until completed. A ship cannot be retrieved whilst the claim timer is in progress, however the claim timer can be expedited for an aUEC cost. Any items within the ship, including purchased cargo, mined resources or physical objects such as boxes will be lost forever.

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In-game interface
Homescreen= Personal details Commlink= Vehicle loadout manager=
 * Vitals monitoring
 * External atmosphere
 * Vehicle status
 * Tracked mission status
 * Suit status
 * Chat channels (and members)
 * Friends list
 * Pending invitations
 * Manager:
 * Connect to audio for channel
 * Send text to visor
 * Channel text color
 * VOIP send and receive volume

Equipment manager=
 * Vehicle components editor
 * Misc. (missiles)
 * Propulsion
 * Systems
 * Coolers
 * Power plants
 * Shield generators
 * Weapons
 * Primary & secondary weapons
 * Missile racks

Skyline=
 * Personal (player) equipment manager
 * Clothing
 * Undersuit
 * Weapons
 * Armor
 * Utility
 * Grenades
 * Medical consumables
 * Oxygen consumables
 * Utility items
 * Technology
 * Mobiglass

mo.TRADER=
 * Map
 * Routing

Contracts manager=
 * Player > player aUEC transactions

Liveworks AR=
 * Available missions
 * General
 * Delivery
 * Search
 * Service Beacons
 * Investigation
 * Bounty Hunter
 * Mercenary
 * ECN
 * Maintenance
 * Personal
 * Delivery
 * Maintenace
 * Security
 * Appointments
 * Accepted missions
 * Mission history
 * Player beacons

Vehicle maintenance services= Journal=
 * Allows editing of ship components
 * Repair
 * Restock
 * Refuel Hydrogen
 * Refuel Quantum
 * Jurisdiction messages
 * Personal communications