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43,470,000 dilithium to complete R&D? ?

eeh19eeh19 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited July 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
£1500 is this really a micro transaction?...cos thats how much it will cost if you buy all the dill to speed up all of the R&D projects to lv 20....thats 271687 zen to get 43470000 dill

hell i could buy a car for this or a high end pc or every star trek episode on bluray

btw if you dont speed this up it will take you 554 days to complete

and yes before you all kick off i know you can earn dill ingame and that there is a dill "weekend" coming
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Don't use zen...
    Don't look silly... Don't call it the "Z-Store/Zen Store"...
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  • wilbor2wilbor2 Member Posts: 1,684 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Thats why most people wont bother with its just way to much
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  • havokreignhavokreign Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    You have to buy that dili too. At 8k refined per day, even with 6 characters, you're looking at 917 days to refine 44 million dili.
  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    A brilliant idea...

    Try crafting to leveling...

    You don't need to max it out on day one...
    Chive on and prosper, eh?

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  • xiaoping88xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Our resident Geko said in the last TrekRadio interview that everything Cryptic does is based on metrics.
    So yeah. The only way to show them that RnD sucks is to complete and utterly ignore its existence.
    Of course that will just mean they never touch on it again, instead of improving it. But so be it. Let it be forgotten and never talk about it again.
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  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Guess either people not spend the money to advance it (which we all know impatient people will anyways), or it will stay this way until they decide to change it.

    The best I can say, is not spend any money, and they will find it needs improving, but people are always to impatient, and they know it, so they will make money off of those people for as long as possible.
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  • opak1opak1 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    You don't need to spend money on it but it does take way too long to complete. 2 years to master it? It only took me a month or two to max out my reps.

    There has to be a happy median somewhere. I would say 6 mos to 15 and then a year to max it all would be acceptable.

    If they aren't going to let us run more than one research at a time then possibly reduce the research time to 10 hours instead of 20, or double the xp for the project at 20.

    The only thing I see it being good for is gearing my alts as they level now.
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    eeh19 wrote: »
    £1500 is this really a micro transaction?...cos thats how much it will cost if you buy all the dill to speed up all of the R&D projects to lv 20....thats 271687 zen to get 43470000 dill

    hell i could buy a car for this or a high end pc or every star trek episode on bluray

    btw if you dont speed this up it will take you 554 days to complete

    and yes before you all kick off i know you can earn dill ingame and that there is a dill "weekend" coming

    is it so much of an issue to waste time on getting it up the old fashioned way? seriously what is it with people who want things instant instead of waiting for it? get off your horse, you dont have to waste your pocket change to do it, and you can get dil in game anyways to limit the damage as you stated yourself.
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  • policestate76policestate76 Member Posts: 1,424 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    shadowwraith77 wrote: »
    Guess either people not spend the money to advance it (which we all know impatient people will anyways), or it will stay this way until they decide to change it.

    The best I can say, is not spend any money, and they will find it needs improving, but people are always to impatient, and they know it, so they will make money off of those people for as long as possible.

    This. There will be always people who will waste a fortune no matter what. The new crafting system is another grind, period. People who want to finish it sooner will need to actually craft items at the same time they do the 20 h exp project and waste dilithium to wipe the cooldown. As always impatient people will find other ways to gather even more dilithium for the matter, and of course zen here is important, and they will use it. In the end, it is all about $, is always the same story. Cryptic can be really bad improving the game and making dumb changes, but when we talk about generating $, they are experts.
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