No Dilith at RA-Upper, or VA? And no Dilith Prices for T5s?

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Ok, so I'm confused. I tried to skirt around the dilithium shenanigans earlier in the week by accepting my promotions, but just flying my LtCmdr ship all the way through to RA. Once the discount tokens were put in place, I picked up my Sov without spending much more than 20k.

Cool. So after FINALLY having more than 4 weapons, I was through RA-Lower in a flash. I was told that no Dilithium is granted for RA-Upper anymore (unlike on Holo where you get a token for another T4 ship), so I've held off on finishing that promotion. Nothing is given out for VA either, and although the T5 ships ARE listed, their Dilithium prices are messed up and not showing (they're stuck in "Loading...").

Is this intentional? Do you just not get any additional dilithium after hitting RA, and then are expected to pay C-Store points for the T5s? Because that doesn't fit in with the reinterpretation of how ships are supposed to be given out at all. In this case, players regardless of subscrpition status really ARE missing out on some great ships, that we all previously had access to before F2P.

Bug, I hope?

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I believe your interpretation is correct at least in the sense that T5 ships are to be C-store purchases only. You are supposed to be able to "get around" that "having to pay real-life money" issue by trading dilithium you have amassed in-game for C-store points on the exchange, but I believe this is not yet implemented on tribble. Thus, T5 ships correctly and by design have no innate dilithium value associated with them.

The "loading" text is probably an oversight/bug/incomplete implementation on tribble.