New Player Features

New Player Features are the starter rewards, temporary benefits, and beginner help a player receives when joining CIT.

New player quick facts

Fact	Value	Notes
Starting money	`$150,000` cash and `$5,000` bank	New Civilian players also get an extra `$50,000`.
Starting drugs	`15` hits of each drug	Use `F4` to manage drugs.
Help messages	Shown on screen	Use `/shownewplayerhelp` to show translated new player help.
Hour label	`1H` to `15H`	Used for new players.
Job warp	`/jobs`	Under `20` hours, it warps to the Employment Office.
Police warp	`/lspd`	Under `20` hours, it warps to LSPD.
Rapid Transport	`/rt`	Available while under `15` hours.
Tutorial	`Backspace`	New players can skip the tutorial.

Starter Benefits

When a new player joins CIT, they receive:

starting cash
bank money
starter drugs
vehicle access information
temporary VIP benefits
temporary Rapid Transport access
new player hours labels
on screen help messages

Starting rewards

New players start with:

$150,000 cash
$5,000 in the bank
15 hits of each drug

New Civilian players also get:

an extra $50,000

This means a new Civilian player starts with:

$200,000 cash

White vehicle markers

All players can use visible white vehicle markers to get vehicles that cost $5,000.

This is not a new player only benefit.

Temporary VIP benefits

New players keep:

VIP benefits until they reach 10 hours of playtime

Temporary Rapid Transport access

New players can use:

/rt while they are under 15 hours of playtime

New player hours label

New players show an hours played label above their head.

These labels appear as:

1H
2H
3H
and so on up to 15H

On screen help messages

New players get:

on screen help messages

These are beginner tips, such as telling you to press J to open chat.

They can be turned off in:

/settings

Benefit Notes

New player hours labels are used from 1H to 15H.
VIP benefits end at 10 hours of playtime.
/rt access ends at 15 hours of playtime.

Related notes

Players cannot enter interiors for 10 seconds after being hurt.
Players cannot enter interiors if recently hurt.
CITPhone Event Times can show civilian triple XP and store robbery reset times.
The /novels lookup as starting CIT Novels without changing Novels facts.
New players start with a Faggio and Moonbeam in F2.
GPS waypoint distance text includes an ETA based on current speed.
Zooming in on a job blip on F11 shows the job name.
/novels starts the CIT Novels interface.
Novels can be played alone or with other players.
CIT Novels GUI shows novel, genre, type, and chapter count.
To play CIT Novels with other players, create or join a queue with other players.
Select a novel, choose a chapter, then click Play.
Turn off /mplayer music and phone radio, and hide chat with /showchat for best experience.
CITPhone Browser app lookup and /bind F3 browse bind.

Early warps and story content

Players with less than 20 hours of playtime can use:

/jobs to warp to the employment office
/lspd to warp to LSPD

New players can also try CIT Novels through:

/novels