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Increased assig. cooldown on "Turn In Contraband" assignments from 4 hours to 20 hours. Good or Bad?
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Increased assig. cooldown on "Turn In Contraband" assignments from 4 hours to 20 hours. Good or Bad?
Increased assig. cooldown on "Turn In Contraband" assignments from 4 hours to 20 hours. Good or Bad? 185 votes
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Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Are they going to eventually drop the other shoe and make Contraband Turn-in not subject to the Dilithium Bonuses as well to 'make the turn in valuable all year around'?
I am thinking that the timing of this is in anticipation of a near future Temporal Recruitment Dilithium Week.
It all really comes back to, who cares if we get more Unrefined Dilithium because there is still that 8k - 9k daily refinement limit.
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That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Something needed to be done, but in my opinion this is not a step in the right direction.
Refine cap doesn't even matter when someone has 20 - 40 alts contraband farming.
8000x40 = 320 000 refined dil per day
Dil Exchange @ 450 Dil per Zen =
711 Zen per day for these leeches.
All that dil you refined can be placed on the dil/Zen Ex and then consolidated to one character.
Refine cap has nothing to do with it.
Personally, I'm elated that they're finally shutting down these serial contraband farmers.
They're destroying the exchange rate for regular, non exploitative players.
Sorry but they should've done this years ago.
So, once again, Cryptic takes away from the player. They probably will NOT increase the rewards or adjust the RNG to compensate for yet another "feature" nerfed on the players behalf.
In regards to not enough Dil Sinks.. Fleet projects are still held back due to an unwillingness to contribute Dil. I do have to admit though, 800K - 2.2mil dil for a project is just obscene..
tyvm..
The exchange rate wasn't obliterated until they added in the Admiralty system, which gives copious amounts of dilithium to everyone, thus devaluing it.
The people doing the most harm to the dilithium exchange are those who bot/game the exchange, not people who just throw their stuff up there and are done with it. Limiting the amount of Zen you can buy with dilithium (per account, per day) would go much further to do what they're apparently trying to do.
Truly a good change.
Fair points. Especially agree with your "Limit the refinement cap PER ACCOUNT" But it wasn't admiralty alone that inflated the market, even before admiralty, probably around the time of DR, things were starting to spiral out of control.
Good points though, something to consider.
Edit: I would also note that the tsunami of powercreep they've been releasing since DR, has had just as much of an impact on the Dil/Zen exchange as admiralty. If not more.
Account wide refinement cap would have influenced such farmers - the increased timer of contraband mission would not.
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Well, that's a whole other thing.
I'm saying that there should be a hard cap on the amount of Zen one can purchase through the exchange per account, per day. Maybe 5000? Because there seriously shouldn't be any reason to buy that much Zen with dilithium in one day, unless one is constantly buying/selling (and/or hoarding), therefore manipulating the exchange rate.
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Because those contraband farmers, the "serial" ones, are doing only that, only contraband, with 40 KDF alts.
It takes no time to set the contraband assignments.
One can easily cycle through 40+ in a matter of 1 min per alt.
40 mins 3-4 times a day.
Done deal
The ones who don't exploit the system in this very precise way wont be affected, especially if they only log on once per day.
I'm talking about the ones who are doing only Contraband 3-4 times a day.
Those are the problem players, and are probably linked to 3rd party GoldSeller sites.
If you only do it once a day, you wont even notice it.
But I do agree Account wide refinement cap is another way to go about it. Actually I wish they would implement both measures to really put the breaks on these 3rd party Leeches.
That would be brakes? I don't think breaking leechers is a good idea
Good job on this cryptic. Time to start making dil harder to get.
In the end they'll just substitute the "lost" contraband by prisoner missions. It'll take them a bit longer, but the contraband nerf will not drastically cut the supply from serial farmers.
He explained why and it boils down to this; Why farm while you can work for the same amount of hours and then buy some in-game currency that way? You'll probably get more worth out of your time, probably also less monotonous. Therefor, you'll have more fun and get what you want when you want it.
On the plus side, you get to support your favorite game.