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May 6th 2013
Greetings Citizens,
It goes without saying that we were blown away by the response to the Aurora sale. In just one week, we raised over $700,000 for Star Citizen’s development and gained thousands of new supporters! We hope you all enjoyed the extra material released last week… there’s more to come! Today we’d like to clarify a few more issues and provide some information requested after last week’s poll.Early backers, defined as everyone who bought a package before November 26th 2012, will be able to continue buying ships with LTI at the new site. These ships can be gifted to others and the LTI will transfer for that individual ship. This will not allow the person receiving the LTI ship to buy additional LTI packages. Early backers will be able to continue purchasing additional LTI ships until November 26th, 2013. After the new site is live unless you are an early backer, all ships will be sold with the standard insurance package that comes with the individual ship in the finished game.
The new site will have a different method for handling upgrades and pledge customization. The current upgrade system is being replaced with a more robust system that allows you to ‘reclaim’ unused ships and items for credit. Rather than being limited to ‘upgrades’ only, your money can go to any package, including addons, rather than just the ‘next level.’ We mention this now because LTI will no longer carry over in the upgrade process; an LTI Aurora cannot be changed to an LTI Constellation after the new site launches. The new site will display the LTI status of each ship on your account, so there will be no confusion.