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rinkster
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So, dilithium is clearly on peoples minds a lot at the moment, what with upgrading costs and the sudden influx of threads on the subject.
While I have yet to see a compelling argument for raising the dilithium refining cap, I can see how in one regard its becoming a bigger issue.
Small fleets that have been diligent and patient are hitting that T3 mark more and more often.
T4 for small groups is possible, if a serious slog, but T5 looks near impossible.
Its not so much the fleet marks or other inputs, its the dilithium.
Big fleets have pretty much been maxed out for two seasons now. Thats one reason for the current state of the dilithium market, the lack of dilithium sinks.
Many of them have been extremely generous with invitations to their facilities, in order for others to gain access to these higher tier goodies.
I would like to suggest a way of throwing small fleets an occasional bone, purely in dilithium terms.
What I would like to see is, every two or three months, we get a weekend event.
During this event, all donations to fleet projects using dilithium get doubled.
Thus, if I donate 5k dilithium to something during the event, I fill 10k of the input bar. I still get 5k FC.
This would be a very targetted boost to the fortumes of small fleets.
The only advantage gained is towards filling up fleet dilithium bars.
It also only rewards generosity with a bit more generosity.
Pretty hard to freeload off it.
So, what do you think.....
....sound like a viable way to give small fleets amodest boost, while also giving those who feel the dilithium pinch a way to leverage their fleet donations a bit.
While I have yet to see a compelling argument for raising the dilithium refining cap, I can see how in one regard its becoming a bigger issue.
Small fleets that have been diligent and patient are hitting that T3 mark more and more often.
T4 for small groups is possible, if a serious slog, but T5 looks near impossible.
Its not so much the fleet marks or other inputs, its the dilithium.
Big fleets have pretty much been maxed out for two seasons now. Thats one reason for the current state of the dilithium market, the lack of dilithium sinks.
Many of them have been extremely generous with invitations to their facilities, in order for others to gain access to these higher tier goodies.
I would like to suggest a way of throwing small fleets an occasional bone, purely in dilithium terms.
What I would like to see is, every two or three months, we get a weekend event.
During this event, all donations to fleet projects using dilithium get doubled.
Thus, if I donate 5k dilithium to something during the event, I fill 10k of the input bar. I still get 5k FC.
This would be a very targetted boost to the fortumes of small fleets.
The only advantage gained is towards filling up fleet dilithium bars.
It also only rewards generosity with a bit more generosity.
Pretty hard to freeload off it.
So, what do you think.....
....sound like a viable way to give small fleets amodest boost, while also giving those who feel the dilithium pinch a way to leverage their fleet donations a bit.
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The generosity of bigger fleets has one limitation, ships.
I would suggest that a T3 shipyard, even with five or six active contributors, is achievable inside six months or so.
However, T4 and T5 are progressively more daunting.
Thus, I would like to suggest that a T3 shipyard be the gateway to all fleet ships, with a caveat.
There would still be a point to upgrading ones own shipyard past T3.
Because, ships currently available only at T4 would be buildable at T3 but at a higher cost.
I would suggest 20k FC and another FSM for each tier off.
Thus a currently designated T4 ship would be buildable at T3, but it would cost 40k FC and require 5 FSM.
A T5 ship, built at T3, would cost 60k FC and 6 FSM.
In as similar position here.
My approach, given the nature of my fleet is a scant handful of regulars and a few more handfuls of very casuals, is to try to get people to use things like the dilithium or marks events to capture a single milestone.
Perhaps Spire Tier 2, that sort of thing.
Its very slow going, but progress is made.
However, just a little break on dilithium on an event basis could be a serious boost to fleets like mine.
And without distorting the entire dilithium economy.
Not sure I agree with the shipyard thing, though I don't think I'd say no to something like that either.
Fair enough on the shipyard, though all it would do is sell a few more FSM and let people stay in their own fleets to get access to higher ranked ships.
Given we are talking FT5 ships, and T6 is mere weeks away, FT6 sometime after that, FT5 wont be the top of the line for long.
If big fleets want cheaper gear, let them pay in personnel costs. Simple.
Example 5 person fleet - full price gear 10 - 2% reduction 20 5% reduction 50 10% reduction
5 pays 10000 per project 10 pays 20000 per project 20 pays 50000 per project
Problem with that approach is that you would have to back track just too much.
As a previous poster noted, the current system is weighted around 25 or so active players.
That is the reality we have to operate within.
Additionally, it is the reality a large number of people have operated under on their way to maxed out fleets.
Any solution to the woes of small fleets like your and mine, must also honour the very real work put in by people in bigger fleets.
My system doesn't negate their work, just makes them responsible in real time for not just recruiting because they need a body, but because they are willing to make a genuine investment into their fleet mates.
Tldr : Smaller the fleet the cheaper the upgrades the more expensive the fleet gear, the larger the fleet the more expensive the upgrades and the cheaper the gear while the total in the fleet pay overall less individually, and each capacity discount must be purchased.
I stop reading after this.. :P
Aww, then you missed some good stuff.
Gave away a Recluse.
Sadly the code will have expired by now.