Roberts Space Industries announced that they have another free fly event taking place between November 24th and December 5th in celebration of the weekend CitizenCon event taking place in Manchester, U.K. The event will allow gamers to fly more than 100 different ships and their variants for a week and a half.

The way they have it setup is that each day for the duration of the event there will be different sets of ships made available to fly for free from each of the in-game manufacturers. This way you’ll be able to play-test the different ship types across each of the flyable categories, including freighters, frigates, fighters, carriers, and the luxury ships.

This also comes after the alpha 3.7 update, which launched back in mid-October. They had a free fly week at the start of November to get people interested in the game, and now they’re having a second event to get even more people to play. The big difference this time around is that every single ship will be flyable and not just a handful.

So you’ll get to see if the game handles the way you like or if there are any ships that fit your play-style or expectations. Flexcreator has a solid video of what the dogfighting is like following the physics overhaul in alpha 3.7.

But there’s a lot more to the game than just dogfighting in space against other players and NPCs… there’s also an entire ecosystem that evolves and breathes beyond the cockpit of each and every ship.

You can take part in bounty hunting missions, where you attempt to bring players and NPCs with bad reputations to task; or you can be a trader, making bank by buying low and selling high across the galaxy by utilizing the commodity feature. Perhaps you would prefer to make your living as a smuggler? Stealing cargo from other merchants and selling them on the black market will earn you a heated rep with the space enforcers but you’ll earn a lot of credits that way, too.

Alternatively, you can be a space miner, taking apart asteroids or hunting for rare ore and mineral inside procedurally generated caves on distant planets. Another pastime that many players have taken up in the game is as a scavenger – scanning for desolate wrecks or crashed ships and then pilfering them of any useful parts to either upgrade your own ship or sell to the vendors.

Alternatively, you can be like Fulguro Geek and spend your time wading through the commercial districts of the fanciful sci-fi universe, touring the ins and outs of being a citizen of the stars.

If you were interested in play-testing Star Citizen, or you were one of those people still claiming it’s a “scam”, you can check it out for yourself (assuming you aren’t on welfare or playing on a potato) by visiting the official Roberts Space Industries website.