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Dilth processing limits have outlived their purpose.
fatherrock
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Lets agree on one point from the start, all dilth earned will be processed sooner or later.
so in the end, if players earn 1 million dilth on so and so day (just picked a number)
it adds 1 million refined dilth to the system. We keep processing it.
They had the limit (originally) to smooth out the market and prevent spikes.
great for new game, limited player base.
NOW
F2P with HUGE player base.
The limit is no longer useful, the absolute size of the player base will smooth out spikes.
ELIMINATE the dilth restriction, and you will have a spike for about 3 days.....yea
then it will be back to normal, and players will be happier to eliminate
pointless exercise of dilth refinement.
Time to streamline the system
so in the end, if players earn 1 million dilth on so and so day (just picked a number)
it adds 1 million refined dilth to the system. We keep processing it.
They had the limit (originally) to smooth out the market and prevent spikes.
great for new game, limited player base.
NOW
F2P with HUGE player base.
The limit is no longer useful, the absolute size of the player base will smooth out spikes.
ELIMINATE the dilth restriction, and you will have a spike for about 3 days.....yea
then it will be back to normal, and players will be happier to eliminate
pointless exercise of dilth refinement.
Time to streamline the system
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You really wanna kill the dil exchange don't you?
500/1 forever. That's assuming any Zen seller will ever put anything up at that point. The big fish tend to sit on millions of unrefined dil as it is. They will never have a reason to sell Zen to get more right away because they will never use it all.
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I would explain why this is a bad idea... but it's been done hundreds of times, just click in one of the 3 dozen other threads asking for this exact same thing.
Whats making the exchange go to ridiculous numbers right now is the amount of people farming dilithium religiously on like 50 alts, bypassing the limits to get unholy amounts of dill way too fast.
if there was a 50-100k accountwide daily refine limit it would probably help without harming the causal player.
Might get away with something closer to 25k on rough estimate.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
Not really. That would devastate anyone with alts. Sometimes I don't want to play an alt for a few days. Sometimes I don't touch an alt for nearly a year and then pick it up again as a favorite character later.
Just implement a reasonably high cap on how much the account can refine a day. 25-50k dill per account a day should do it.
the game demands you spend multiple characters worth of dill just to upgrade things. your suggestion is extreme and would impact the game in very negative ways.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
Wrong. I have untold millions of unrefined Dilithium. At 8k a day, it will take me more than 6 years to refine (and that is assuming I wouldn't make more in the meantime). Ergo, it won't happen. Like ever. As it stands, my current unrefined Dilithium wealth is as good as absolutel useless (save for the 8k I can draw from it per day).
This is a shame, if I actually spent time on my other characters the ore I'd earn would be spread out and refined quicker.
So, I'm on-board with an account refinement limit, even if it's only 24-32k (3-4 characters worth). It would be more convienient for players who focus on one character at a time. And if the limit were high enough (but not too high) it wouldn't hurt alt-o-holics either.
I would like to say it would not solve the issue of hardcore dilithium farmers since they could just create alt accounts and bypass the limits, just as they do now with the creation of alt characters. So it wouldn't be a perfect fix.
It would not be wise to remove the limit entirely, unless dilithium rewards across the board were pummeled with the ole nerf bat to offset the massive influx of dilithium into the economy. Most players would not approve of that.
The refinement limit is there slow down the purchase of Zen with it, and indirectly to make those not patient enough to wait a few days/weeks to accumulate dil with the daily refine to open the old wallet and make a Zen purchase.
Dil transferring combined with contraband was the biggest and simplest way to create a lot of dil. While targeting contraband did help I say there is more to be done. Flat out removing dil moving is heavy handed and should be saved as the nuclear option but there should be talk and change about the other half of what led us to near 500 dil exchange.
You're annoyingly right, Mr. Ferengi.
Still, the current system is a bit of a robbery, subsidiarily rather misleading, as those untold millions of Dilithium I just told you about are effectively out of reach for ever. They din't actually steal it from me, but made access to it gated, so I'll never ever see it. Long since used to that, so I'm not at all upset about it (if ppl thought that perhaps). But it would be nice if they found a way for us to actually use all our Dilithium one day.
You kidding? CONTRABAND? that thing no one bothers with? as if changing that does anything.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
Why did the dil exchange take a hit after the patch where it got nerfed?
OP: There isn't a magic zen fairy who stocks the exchange you know. Once supply runs out that's it. No more.
That would kill the EC barons overnight. TRIBBLE it, I say go for it. Two birds with one stone.
there is that vulcan in SFA that gives you a doff mission to refine 1k worth of Dil every 48 hours for some veterans, though.
though honestly i wouldn't mind automatic refinement of Dil, also.. kinda help those with little to no time to log on but also have a stockpile of Dil just waiting to be refined across their account.
but that's just me.
*Shrugs* Just tossing in an idea.