Black Gear Rooks Forum - Recent Posts https://blackgearrooks.com/community/ Black Gear Rooks Discussion Board en-US Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:57:48 +0000 wpForo 60 Star Citizen Freefly Starter Guide https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/star-citizen-freeflier-starter-guide/#post-15 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:40:24 +0000 Write an article pointed at new players coming in for a free fly to give them a leg up with knowledge to help them success.  This can be more of an index of guides that will help someone get started but should have some meat and potatoes to it to act as glue for all the sub-references.  This is an article style which we could publish a revised copy of each time there is a freefly so readers feel confident it is fresh information.

This should be a simple guide that covers the various phases starting with actually installing the game.  We'll probably want to draft ANOTHER article that covers why the game needs to be installed on an SSD and maybe eventually draft ANOTHER article that covers some of the common issues that pop up with the RSI Launcher and installing the game and workarounds for those issues.

We'll want to create and reference articles on configuring the game:

An article on choosing the best starting city for the individual.. basically an overview on each starter city with pros and cons.

Reference our article on Dynamic Shader Compilation and why the game runs like crap during the first 30 minutes.

An overview of the various gameplay professions.  We'll also want a link to a future article that covers each "profession" in depth.

StarHunter drops this copypasta on reddit that has a TON of great references:  https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/17gz5l0/joining_sc_for_the_first_time/k6komnm/?context=3

List of subarticles which we need to create:

  • Account Creation, referral, and game Installation guide
  • Common Installation Issues and Errors and their workarounds
  • Configuring in-game graphics settings for best performance
  • Mapping a Gamepad
  • Mapping a HOSAS/HOTAS
  • Why you should really map your own controls for your new flight sticks
  • How to get into your ship and take off - Drafted: https://blackgearrooks.com/?p=564
  • How to land - Drafted: https://blackgearrooks.com/?p=570
  • How to use quantum travel - Draft started: https://blackgearrooks.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=429&action=edit
  • How to quantum travel with multiple ships
  • Overview of various "starter" professions
    • Cargo Trading
    • Delivery Missions
    • Bunker Missions
    • Space Flight Bounty Missions
    • FPS Bounty Missions
    • Combat Service Beacons
    • Illegal Monitor removal missions
    • Ship Mining
    • Hand Mining
    • Salvaging
  • Selecting the starter game package that's right for you
  • Ship fitting guide
  • FPS Gear Guide and why you shouldn't get attached to your gear
  • How to get rid of crimestat
  • So you went to prison.  Now what?

List of completed subarticles:

]]> Yuka https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/star-citizen-freeflier-starter-guide/#post-15 Community Recommended System Specifications for Star Citizen https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/community-recommended-system-specifications-for-star-citizen/#post-14 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:36:06 +0000 Write an article about the community's recommended system specs for SC.

tenpoundfortytwo has the following videos which are easily referenced.  He's an SME on this stuff:

  • The REAL Minimum Spec 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=550rzhRN49k
  • How Many Frames do you Really Need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIiuDzJ1Bh4

Prefer to not get too deep into picking parts specifically because then we get into some mud pit where some extra clingy reader might be like, "But BGRs recommended this specific GPU!!!!111111."

]]> Yuka https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/community-recommended-system-specifications-for-star-citizen/#post-14 RE: Explaining why the first 30 minutes runs bad due to shaders compiling https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/explaining-why-the-first-30-minutes-runs-bad-due-to-shaders-compiling/#post-13 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:20:19 +0000 Drafted: https://blackgearrooks.com/?p=162&preview=true

Needs review from others here.

]]> Yuka https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/explaining-why-the-first-30-minutes-runs-bad-due-to-shaders-compiling/#post-13 RE: Explaining why the first 30 minutes runs bad due to shaders compiling https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/explaining-why-the-first-30-minutes-runs-bad-due-to-shaders-compiling/#post-12 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:51:34 +0000 I started writing this.  It is in drafts.

A couple video references:

 

The REAL minimum spec 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=550rzhRN49k

How many Frames do you really need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIiuDzJ1Bh4

]]> Yuka https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/explaining-why-the-first-30-minutes-runs-bad-due-to-shaders-compiling/#post-12 Solid References and Compilation https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/solid-references-and-compilation/#post-11 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:50:29 +0000 Share any solid sources of "community approved" information here and I'll add it to the list:

 

  • StarHunter - (https://www.reddit.com/user/starhunter_) - This guy basically writes up copypasta replies to common questions asked on the SC Subreddit.  He's VERY reference heavy in his copypastas.. which we can use to reference our own articles.
]]> Yuka https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/solid-references-and-compilation/#post-11 RE: Explaining why the first 30 minutes runs bad due to shaders compiling https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/explaining-why-the-first-30-minutes-runs-bad-due-to-shaders-compiling/#post-10 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:22:05 +0000 Your first 30 minutes in Star Citizen

]]> Hoot https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/explaining-why-the-first-30-minutes-runs-bad-due-to-shaders-compiling/#post-10 Wordpress and You https://blackgearrooks.com/community/how-to-articles/wordpress-and-you/#post-9 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:21:17 +0000 Wordpress is cool.. Did you know that Wordpress runs the most websites on the Internet?  It's immensely popular.  It makes creating a website easy by reducing the actual web coding knowledge required so you can focus on creating content.  We run wordpress here - this site is run on wordpress.

Wordpress Taxonomy

  • Post:  A post is a news article.  Something stamped in time that flows with time.  We generate posts and the newest ones go to the front of the site.  When we post another new post, that is at the top of the front page and bumps all the older posts down one.  Great for periodicals or for an article that gives information from a period in time such as an article titled "Star Citizen Alpha 3.21 patch review".
  • Page: A static page that ignores time.  These should be written to stand the test of time and may be kept up-to-date.  These do not show up in our news feed like posts do.  They are instead hard linked to information pages such as our recruitment page.  We often apply links in menus for these.  If we do not set up a link to a page, it technically exists but nobody can browse to it.
  • Category: A post is given one or more categories.  Think of categories like the table of contents in a book and the post is a subsection in that item in the table of contents.  A user can browse a category to see what posts are in each category.
  • Tags:  A post can have several tags applied to it.  These should be topics or mentions such as "Anvil Carrack".  If categories are the table of contents, tags are more like entries in the index at the end of a non-fiction book.. where it lists pages where each item in the index is discussed.  A user can browse a tag to see what articles have that tag.

More to come.

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