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One thing to keep in mind about the "$40-$45 is all you need" statements that litter almost every Star Citizen thread is that the math doesn't really work out.
As per CIG, you have around 2.5 million paying accounts (with many of them being alts). 2.5 M. * $45 gives us $112.5 M, so just 14% of their revenue.
It's clear that they will put the overwhelming majority of their resources into something that gives them 86% of their revenues; milking whales, selling JPEGs and power creep cash items (with the vast majority of the older cash shop items being either outright non-functional or abandoned).
All you need to do is follow the money.
For me, I followed the development for about 1-2 years before buying into a starter package. Then, I didn't spend anything else until I was confident that they would continue to deliver updates (about a year later).
I've continued to fund them here and there over the years when I feel like they've released some good content, but that's because I'm comfortable supporting them.
No one actually needs to do that. With $45 you can just go out and do some FPS missions where, at the end, you're rewarded with some of the higher end ships (Contested Zone gameplay).
Even easier is that you can just hijack an NPC/abandoned ship and, as long as you store it in your hangar at the end of each session, you can keep on using it for anything.
There's really no need to actually pay for anything beyond the initial starter ship because almost everything else is earnable/hijackable in-game.
It's ok to admit you bought into a scam..