About this site

Who runs this site

My name is Jean Bertier. I'm a Star Citizen player, and I've been a backer since the Kickstarter campaign of 2012 — the original one, when the game was a pitch video and a promise. I write everything published here myself, under my own name, and the legal notice at the foot of every page carries my address and registration number. If a page is wrong, there's no ambiguity about who to hold responsible for it.

I'm not a journalist, a studio insider, or an industry commentator. I'm a player who has been around this project long enough to have watched most of the misinformation about it pile up.

My history with Star Citizen

I backed the campaign in 2012 and I've followed development continuously ever since — the hangar module, the first flyable ships, the arena modes, and every alpha build of the persistent universe that has shipped since. That isn't a boast. Mostly it means I've spent a great many evenings reading patch notes.

Along the way I've done the two unglamorous things any invested backer ends up doing. I file bug reports through the Issue Council, Cloud Imperium's official reporting tool, where players submit reproducible issues and confirm each other's findings so the developers can triage them. And I take part in community feedback on the PTU, the public test environment where a patch gets stress-tested before it reaches the live servers.

Neither of those makes me an authority on anything. They are contributions any dedicated backer can make, and thousands do. What they've given me is a habit: check a claim against an actual build before repeating it. Most of what I know about this game comes from testing something, being wrong about it, and then looking it up properly.

I also spend a fair amount of time answering questions from new players — which package to buy, why the launcher is misbehaving, what happens to their money in a wipe. The same handful of questions comes up over and over, which is a reliable sign that they're badly answered elsewhere. That's most of the reason this site exists.

Why this site exists

The RSI signup form has a field labelled Referral Code. It sits near the bottom, it's optional, and it is very easy to skip. What almost nobody realises in that moment is that the field closes: a code can be attached while the account is created or during the 24 hours that follow, and after that the option is gone permanently. Plenty of players discover the referral program a week into playing, and by then there is nothing to be done about it.

The second problem is that a lot of what's online is simply out of date. When Cloud Imperium overhauled the referral program in July 2025, the new-account bonus went from 5,000 UEC to 50,000. A large share of the guides, videos and forum threads still ranking today were written before that change and still quote 5,000. They aren't lying; they're old, and nobody goes back to re-record a three-year-old video.

So this site does one narrow thing: explain the referral program accurately, in plain language, and keep it current. When the rules change, I change the pages.

How I make something out of this

This is the part most referral sites leave vague, so let me be direct about it.

When you create an RSI account with my referral code, I earn a recruitment point once you've bought a game package and spent at least $40 on the RSI store. Points accumulate toward a published ladder of rewards: cosmetic items and flair at the low tiers, hangar decorations further up, and flyable ships at the high thresholds, starting with the Gladius at 42 recruits. That's my incentive, and it's the honest reason this site was built rather than left as a forum post.

Here is what that arrangement does not do:

• It costs you nothing. What you pay Cloud Imperium is identical with my code, with someone else's code, or with no code at all. A referral code is not a discount and never has been.
• It doesn't change what you receive. The 50,000 UEC bonus is the same with any valid referral code. Mine isn't bigger, better or special in any way.
• It isn't exclusive. Any valid code works, and there are plenty of them in circulation. If you'd rather use a friend's code, use your friend's — that's genuinely the better outcome, and every guide on this site works exactly the same either way.

I'd rather you knew all of that up front than found it out later and wondered what else I'd left unsaid.

What this site is not

It's independent. It has no connection to Cloud Imperium Games or Roberts Space Industries. I don't work for them, I'm not sponsored by them, and nothing here has been reviewed or approved by anyone at the company. Everything on these pages is one player's reading of public information.

It sells nothing. There's no shop, no account trading, no paid membership, no checkout of any kind. Purchases happen on the official RSI store, where they belong.

It collects nothing. No account to create, no newsletter, no form to fill in. If you email me, I have your email address, and that is the whole extent of it.

Checking what I tell you

Don't take my word for any of this. The referral program terms, the current bonus amount and the store prices all live on robertsspaceindustries.com, and the Star Citizen Wiki is a solid community reference for game mechanics and patch history. Where those sources disagree with a page here, they're right and I'm out of date.

If you spot an error, tell me. I'd rather correct a page than defend it, and a precise correction is worth more to me than a compliment.

Checking that the code you were shown is the code you'll get

Here's a habit worth picking up, on any referral site including this one. A prefilled signup link carries the code inside the web address itself, in the form ?referral=STAR-XXXX-XXXX. So there are always two codes in play on a referral page: the one printed in the text you're reading, and the one riding along in the link you're about to click. Usually they match. They don't have to, and the page itself won't tell you which case you're in.

Two checks settle it, and together they take about ten seconds:

• Read the end of the link. Hover over the signup button and look at the address your browser previews in the corner of the window — or right-click, copy the link address, and paste it somewhere you can read it. Whatever follows ?referral= is the code that will actually travel with you.
• Read the field on the RSI form. This is the check that counts. Once the official signup page opens, the Referral Code box is already filled in. Read it before you submit and compare it, character by character, to the code you meant to use. It's a plain text field, so you can correct it right there.

This is worth doing carefully on a page built around a specific content creator. There, the name printed in the text and the code sitting in the link are two independent things, and only the second one reaches the form — nothing on screen tells you whether they agree until you read the address. If you're signing up specifically to support a streamer, a YouTuber or an org, take the code from their own channels — the video description, the pinned post, their Discord — and check it against the RSI field yourself rather than trusting a third-party page to carry it for you.

The same test applies here, and I'd rather you ran it than took my word for it. The code on this site is STAR-ZNPK-SXPZ, and every signup link on every page ends in ?referral=STAR-ZNPK-SXPZ — the same code in the text and in the address. Hover over a button and see for yourself. And it bears repeating that there's nothing exclusive about it: any valid code gives the same 50,000 UEC, so if a friend has already given you theirs, use your friend's.

Contact

Email: contact@star-citizen-referral-code.fr — I reply within 24 hours. Questions from new players are welcome, including the ones you think are too basic. Those are usually the ones the official documentation handles worst.