Referral program (2024)

The Star Citizen Referral program rewards players that referrer new people to the Star Citizen project. Anyone registering with a player's personal code will automatically get 5.000 UEC, those prospects become a recruit once they purchase a Game package and spend at least 40 USD on the Pledge Store. At that point the player that referred them earns a Recruitment Point which progresses them towards the next referral reward.^[1]

The standard rewards are always available and are a part of the ongoing referral iniative and also work together with time-limited rewards and/or special incentive events.

Rank	Required RP		Rewards
Recruiter	1		Badger and Badges The Klaus & Werner CF-227 Badger Repeater and a series of United Empire of Earth badges; 36th Fighter Wing Sq. Badge, 78th Squadron (Thundering Thorshu) Sq. Badge, 214th Bravo Flight (Black Crows) Sq. Badge and the 35th Aggressor "No Quarter Given" Sq. Badge.
Private	3		Gimbals and Guns Two Flashfire Systems S2 Gimbal Mounts and two Klaus & Werner CF-117 Bulldog Repeaters.
Corporal	5		Surf and Turf A Greycat Industrial PTV with lifetime insurance and a referral specific Fish Tank with a fish school to place in your hangar.
Sergeant	10		Gladius and Gold An Aegis Dynamics Gladius with lifetime insurance and a Takuetsu Starships Gold Display Case with 5 golden ship models of the Aurora, Hornet, Constellation, Freelancer and Avenger respectively, which can be placed in your hangar.
Lieutenant	25		Arena Commander Racing Package 15.000 UEC and the Origin Jumpworks 350r, M50 and the Consolidated Outland Mustang Gamma are permanently available in Arena Commander
Captain	42		Arena Commander Combat Package 30.000 UEC and the Drake Interplanetary Cutlass Black, Anvil Aerospace F7C Hornet, Aegis Dynamics Avenger and the Roberts Space Industries Aurora LN are premanently available in Arena Commander
Major	75		Speed Racer The Musashi Industrial and Starflight Concern Razor with lifetime insurance
Lt. Colonel	100		Dog Fighter The Esperia Blade (replica) with lifetime insurance.
Colonel	200		Ready for Battle The Esperia Glaive (replica) with lifetime insurance.
Brigadier General	500		Anvil Ship Package The Anvil Aerospace Terrapin and Hurricane, both with lifetime insurance.
Major General	1042		Million Mile High Club Accces Access to in-game facility, the Million Mile High Club.
Lt. General	2017		Star Crossing The Aegis Dynamics Javelin with lifetime insurance.

These time limited rewards are only available in specific time frames to celebrate an event and incentive the player. The referred player must become a 'recruit' by buying their game package while the event is active, regardless of when they created their account.

Special Incentive Events

During these events a special reward is offered outside of the standard referral rewards. Most of the it is a ship or similar that will be given to both the new player and the player that referred them.

Promotion Start	Promotion End	Event	Required RP		Rewards
2019-10-28	2019-11-05	Alpha 3.7.0	1		The Kruger Intergalactic P-52 Merlin[2]
2020-04-29	2020-05-11	Alpha 3.9.0	1		A Greycat Industrial PTV with lifetime insurance.[3]
2020-09-09	2020-09-24	Ship Showdown 2020	1		The Kruger Intergalactic P-52 Merlin with lifetime insurance.[4]
2020-12-17	2021-01-11	Alpha 3.12.0	1		The Drake Interplanetary Dragonfly with lifetime insurance.[5]
2021-04-22	2021-05-17	Alpha 3.13.0	1		Roberts Space Industries Aurora ES with lifetime insurance.[6]
2021-08-06	2021-08-31	Alpha 3.14.0	1		Drake Interplanetary Dragonfly with lifetime insurance and the coalfire paint scheme.[7]
2021-11-01	2021-11-30	Alpha 3.15.0	1		Argo Astronautics MPUV-1C with lifetime insurance.[8]
2022-02-17	2022-02-28	Alpha 3.16.1	1		Quirinus Tech Artimex Lodestone Armor. Gemini A03 Lodestone Sniper Rifle[9]
2022-09-08	2022-09-18	Ship Showdown 2022	1		Consolidated Outland HoverQuad with lifetime insurance.[10]
2022-12-08	2023-01-09	Luminalia 2952	1		Argo Astronautics MPUV-1C with lifetime insurance.[11]
2023-04-13	2023-05-02	Alpha 3.18.0	1		The Kruger Intergalactic P-52 Merlin with lifetime insurance.[12]
2023-07-06	2023-07-31	Alpha 3.19.1	1		Greycat Industrial STV with lifetime insurance and Electric Green paint[13]
2023-10-19	2023-10-30	Alpha 3.21.0	1		Consolidated Outland HoverQuad with lifetime Insurance and Copperhead paint[14]

RSI 2017 Referral Contest

The RSI 2017 referral contest was announced on April 20st of 2017 and ran until August 8th of 2017, the goal of the contest was to get as many recruitment points as possible. The first person that would reach 2942 recruitment points during the contest period would receive a free trip to Gamescom 2017. Next to that at the end of the contest the person that was at the top of the referral leaderboard recieved an Idris-M frigate. The person that won the free Gamescom trip was unable to receive the Idris-M reward.

Both of those rewards were based on lifetime recruitment points, which included all recruitment points from before the contest till the end of the contest.

This contest was also the 15th birthday of 'Sally', the star of the Star Kitten lineup which is featured on the first two reward tiers.^[15]

Required RP		Rewards
1		A Sally Star kitten tee
10		The Drake Interplanetary Dragonfly Star Kitten edition with lifetime insurance.
Leaderbord Top Spot		An Aegis Dynamics Idris-M with lifetime insurance.
2942 Lifetime		Free trip to Gamescom 2017 including event ticket, airfare and hotel stay for one person.